The Continuing Adventures
As we shake off the remains of Winter, the film is again taking the highest priority. In the last few days we have coordinated press packets and business plans. A few more people have volunteered to log the raw footage of the film and the duping and digitizing of all remaining master tapes (230 hours of footage!) is still ahead of us.
The Sundance deadline for completion is an ambitious one. To get off on the right foot, we have dug further into our own pockets to purchase a bigger hardrive for more space and a bigger monitor to manage the size of the project with additional screen real estate.
New producer Alexandra Lee has come on board to further guide us through the funding wilderness. Lee is a tremendous asset, having worked around Boston for numerous organizations who need support. For questions on investment, you can reach out to her here.
As we expected, elements and characters in our movie continue to thrive after the cameras have turned off. BPitch Control keeps pushing the link between genres — Modeselektor’s new Boogy Bytes 3 mix is out now. Kompakt, as a friend recently said, “can do no wrong, it’s like Warp back in 92.” Robert Henke, aka Monolake, is performing Layering Buddha live at Mutek (have fun, guys!), the Wighnomy Brothers is putting out a compilation of their amazing remixes June 5th (Depeche Mode! Nitzer Ebb! Underworld!) and so on.
While here in the U.S., DJ Spinoza is throwing a 24-hour party (!), Thunderdome continued blazing its (literally) underground path with installment #5, unlockedgroove’s Six Million Dollar Dan is relaunching his band as Electric Laser People, writer and DJ Philip Sherburne is rocking parties everywhere these days and so on.
Which is not to say that the film hinges on the success of these characters (and others featured), but the film is about a network of characters, not the acceptance of electronic music. Still, it’s nice to see them still moving forward.
Meanwhile, we’ve put the trailer on yet another social networking site, imeem:
Here it is also on MySpace, iFilm, Virb and of course YouTube and Google. Feel free to add them to your blog, MySpace, Facebook or whatever else is out there. Every little bit helps (if you don’t have a preference, the quality of Virb is outstanding).
Here are some tunes to keep you moving. The first, from our beloved Wighnomy Brothers, who recently re-entered the production world, with a remix of Norway’s finest, as featured on their second volume of remixes:
Royksopp - “Beautiful Day Without You (Wighnomy’s Und Robag’s Spekkfakkel Remix)”
The brothers (a/k/a Gabor Schablitzki (a/k/a Robag Wruhme) & Sören Bodner) continue to produce new remixes as well, like this stereophonic wonder for U.S. label Ghostly International:
Lusine - “The Stop (Robag Wruhme Remix)”
The third MP3 comes from Apparat, a taste from his new CD Walls. Apparat makes an appearance in the film as Ellen Allien’s music-making partner and friend to BPitch Control. Their Orchestra of Bubbles CD is one of the classics of the genre. “Fractales Pt. 1″ takes I.D.M. music to new places:
See you on the Internet.