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The Radiohead song " Idioteque ", from its 2000 album Kid A, features a prominent sample from Lansky's computer tape piece " Mild und Leise " ( 1973 ).

The sample, four looping chords taken from a few seconds of Lansky's piece, provides the entire harmony for the song.

The name " Mild und Leise " comes from the opening lines of Liebestod, the climatic ending of Richard Wagner's opera " Tristan und Isolde " s. Lansky has written an essay about Radiohead that appears in The Music and Art of Radiohead, as well as online.