Amid this familiar pop culture was a strong shade of artistic brilliance weaving its way through this era, one darker, stranger and infinitely more mysterious. A filmmaker named David Lynch quietly entered our suburban lounge rooms through the weekly television series Twin Peaks. Every episode felt unlike anything we had seen before: mystery without easy answers, beauty entangled with terror, and a dreamlike world where nothing was quite what it seemed.

Hans Zimmer was a member of The Buggles. He would later go on to become one of the most influential film composers of modern cinema, earning multiple awards, including Academy Awards for The Lion King (1994) and Dune (2021). What distinguishes Zimmer is his fearlessness, his willingness to push boundaries in service of emotional truth.