This music is off, isn't it?

I think they wanted something utterly at odds with Wells' conventional American picket-fence life, so they went ultra-exotic with the music, and the cast - a big gimpy German who frantically twists his nipple and gets off on annoying Wells 'I raise the price and you get pissed off!', Dino Velvet is a sleazy Swede, all sorts of brown and black porn employees. It's a nice twist to have Machine turn out to be another picket-fencer like Wells.

I liked the music, very unique and strangely creepy.

You have to look at it more psychologically and the psycho-logic behind it is that the music is foreign because the world the protagonist was traversing was foreign, very tribal and old, like the subconscious animal nature of the human being.

I found out it's actually Moroccian

"Unicorn, mermaid, vampire,sorceress! No name you'd give her would surprise me i love whom i love"

Really random and distracting, I agree

Yeah I thought it was off too.
I liked it, it would probably have been great in Babel.
But Hollywood scenes in 8mm??

It was chosen because it's "foreign", "weird", like the underground porn scene?
I'm not from North Africa or even Arab, but I could tell that it was from the Maghreb region so it wasn't that foreign.

The sound editing was just awful, period.
Too loud and inappropriate music.

It would have been better with Trent Reznor's influence