Month: March 2015
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Picture Box (extended)
In the dusty archives they’ve finally found the original extended footage of the Picture Box intro. Are you ready for the truth? (via Soundhog) P.S. Sean Reynard? Turns out to be the same Sean I went to art school with checking some of the other footage that certainly sounds like the same one doing the…
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Films of Chris Marker
“Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments… Only later do they become memorable by the scars they leave.” I seem to be late to this particular plane – almost 50 years late…but if it wasn’t for La Jetée appearing in a ‘Best 25 Time Travel Films’ – and being 26 minutes I’d have not checked it…
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Four Women – for International Women’s Day
A belated entry – I heard Nina Simone on the radio for Women’s Day, Missippi Goddam the Carnegie version which I know word for word and sang along tears in my eyes. (Notable change: in the original the line ‘You’re gonna die like flies’ – one of the strongest expressions of righteous anger I’ve heard…
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Captain January
On a Zombi 2 / Fabio Frizzi / video nasty soundtrack kick at the moment, and found this from Captain January, using footage of Dr Menard from Zombie/Zombi 2/Zombie Flesh Eaters and about 500 Million other titles . Love the looped, woozy, mashup/cutup disorientating feel of this. You might be reminded of Board of Canada,…
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Slaves and the NME Award Tour
Talking of the NME Awards, I had a great one* I knew Wytches and Fat White Family were ace, heavier in form this time around, it was comical watching ver kids try to mosh to sludge ‘surf doom’ as some hack calls it, but discovery of the night was Slaves. Initially I was unsure, but…
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New Chromatics
After an excellent NME Awards it’s great to hear some new music that gives me hope…it’s been a bit of a dry spell recently. And here’s a new release free from the Chromatics, which bodes well for their upcoming Dear Tommy album. (via Pitchfork) And checking Johnny Jewel’s Soundcloud, I find another song called Just…