Expected Delays
My goodness, this blog is inactive far too long. Expect that to change.
A new trailer is on the way, Director/Producer Amy Grill has managed to recontextualize our movie in a grand 5-minute stunner. Google video on the way.
We’ve had a very busy February, and we knew it would be. Events like Thunderdome 3, featuring the sounds of Trouble n Bass, to Boston talents Hearthrob going to Montreal [gallery here] it was busy. Not to mention that Johnny Love of Guns n Bombs played in town last week [gallery here], we DJed a roller rink [gallery] and so on.
You get the idea.
It’s all collaboration and networking, in every way possible. Electronic music lends itself very well to networking and from the movie to the promo to the music — sharing is caring.
Recommended blog Home Taping points this out a lot.
The music, with remixes and reedits and so on, is all about a collaboration. Sometimes merely aesthetic collaboration. Like this new track from the excellent disco-erotique duo In Flagranti:
In Flagranti - “Intergalatic Bubblegum” [128 kbps]
Which spins Amii Stewart at about 33. Here’s the 12″ remix version, with some really nice freestyle edits:
Amii Stewart - “Knock on Wood (12″ Remix)”
Lots of questions being raised these days within the industry about sampling, fair use and freedom of expression. The remix culture, the culture of electronic music in general, is starting to transform an artform. Most everything we’ll do in the coming months has to do with these questions and others.
This Thursday check out DJ Die Young, Baltimoroder and David Day at Make It New (DJ Rob Hall cancelled, sorry!), Pan Am with a one-off this Friday at the Enormous Room.
Electronic music has always had its heart in the avant-garde… since Edison.
And one more MP3. A rare 12″ rip from Jean-Michel Jarre, an early avant/electro combination:
Jean-Michel Jarre - “Exquinoxe 4 (12″ mix)”
Fully re-styled and re-tooled trailer teaser in the days ahead.