Month: March 2011
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The First Lady of Sampling Is Gone
Loleatta Holloway died yesterday – you may not know her by name, but you almost certainly know here voice – her Love Sensation acapella kicked off this whole sampling shebang as a major commercial force with a bang with 1989’s biggest selling UK single Ride on Time by Black Box. A masterpiece in sample reconstruction,…
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The grandaddy of VJing – Len Lye
Years ago I bemoaned the lack of the amazing animator and grandaddy of all VJIng and music video animation on DVD, getting a response from Roger Horrocks that the Len Lye Foundation and the New Zealand Film Archive were working on it…well several years later it slips out unbeknown to me on Re:Voir, and you…
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Bootie London makes a comeback – and yes I’m playing!
Put April 22nd in the diary, because Bootie is coming back to London, and not only are The Kleptones, A+D from the States, DJ Payroll, and João Brasil over from Brazil DJing but I’m dusting off my DJing shoes (?) as yours truly as an opening set (Instamatic). And not only is it a birthday…
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It still never gets boring…Vader & I
Redubbing Star Wars, you’d think after years of this I would have gotten bored but from Cantina Lego to the Americano mashup to the Blaxploitation version, it never gets boring – and the latest is Star Wars vs Withnail & I – a movie that *SHOCK HORROR* I’ve never seen, but I’ve never had to…
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A Man and His Music
Remember this? And 3 years later his Record-Rama music archive is still not sold…
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More amazing nature – make an IMAX movie in your basement
There is no 3D in that clip at all – that’s just manipulated images taken by Cassini probe in After Effects in a eye watering 5600 pixel resolution! Stephen van Vuuren is making an IMAX resolution film called ‘Outside In‘ using these photographs at home – and as someone who uses AE CS5 which on…