With The Quantum Of Solace coming out this weekend, it’s a good time to take a look back at the electronica side of James Bond music.

Here are ten of the most interesting electronica takes on James Bond:

Duran Duran’s View To A Kill

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Where else to start but with Duran Duran’s View To A Kill?

The James Bond series may have bottomed out in the eighties, but at least Duran Duran had a hit with the theme song. Just don’t think too much about the lyrics.

The World Is Not Enough By Garbage

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Shirley Manson made the most of her chance to take on James Bond, with not just a killer theme, but a convincing performance as a killer fembot.

James Bond 007 – Die Another Day ( Madonna )

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A lot of people hated Madonna’s AutoTune’d theme for Die Another Day, but it’s the most electronic Bond theme ever.

It worked well with the awesome credits sequence, above, and Madonna was at her peak in her version of the video, below:

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This short music video for Play Dead by Bjork and David Arnold features 240 still photos joined together in two different ways to produce timelapses of the rotation of the night sky around the pole over a 7 hour period.

Shot at the Stockport Observatory, to the North of Adelaide, SA, home to the Astronomical Society of South Australia.