The vocals sway between Beck and Buck 65, moving from the philosophy of art to observations of love." The Dreamer became a feature album on FBi Radio (NSW), Three D Radio (SA), 3PBS (Vic) and Edge Radio (Tas) and the song "Everybody Needs Somebody" was put up on the Triple J website for exclusive download. In 2004 as The New Pollutants, Speed composed and produced a new soundtrack to the silent film "Metropolis" with Hopprich and premiered it at the 2005 Adelaide Film Festival. The live performance also featured actor/singer Astrid Pill as vocalist and musician Zoe Barry as cellist. The soundtrack has been described as "an infectious and unique approach ranging from Germanic trip hop and lo-fi electronica to unforgettable classical and breathtaking cinematica." Metropolis has subsequently performed at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), as a part of the 2006 Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival and at the 2006 Perth Revelations Film Festival. In 2010, it was performed at the Sydney Opera House and was also played at the 2011 Mona Foma Festival in Tasmania. Since then, a newly updated score is being composed to the 2010 restoration version which has an extra 30 minutes of footage originally thought lost. The updated score was premiered at the 2011 Adelaide Film Festival   In 2005, Speed composed for the first of many collaborations with The People's Republic of Animation (PRA) in a series called "Errorism: A Comedy of Terrors". He received the Best Original Score award at the 2006 St Kilda Film Festival for the animated short "Carnivore Reflux", a film that was also a 2006 Tropfest finalist. In 2007 Speed composed for the animated short music-film "Sweet and Sour" which premiered at both the Adelaide Film Festival and the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2007 and has since won multiple awards and played at numerous international film festivals. He composed music for the winning 2008 Tropfest Supershort Series film "Safer In A Wild World", which was also chosen for official competition in the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France. In 2009, Speed composed the music for "The Cat Piano" which features Nick Cave as narrator  and in 2010 won an APRA/AGSC Award for his work on The PRA's children's series Itty Bitty Ditties. Speed composed for the 2008 Tropfest finalist film "Glass" and the 2011 Tropfest Finalist "The Maestro". He did the feature film "The Tumbler", which premiered at the 2008 Perth Revelations Film Festival, and was selected for the 2008 São Paulo International Film Festival  and has scored feature documentaries "A Northern Town" in 2008, which was nominated for a Dendy Award at the 2008 Sydney Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Documentary at the 2008 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, and "The Snowman" in 2010, which won the Australian Documentary Prize  and was nominated for an AFI Award.