Tag: documentary
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Apache and the birth of hip hop
Good excerpt from Sample This! a documentary charting the history behind Incredible Bongo Band’s Apache. It might seem strange to only focus on one record, but there aren’t many record in hip hop as fundamental and used and abused as Apache (and important to founding at least 3 of the 4 elements and the invention…
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Planned Obsolescence
Planned obsolescence does exist and is an evil that is hid in jargon such as optimum lifespan and product cycle…but certainly some products are designed to break. John had one of those iPods with the dodgy battery, and yes it failed just over year of constant use when I borrowed it – eventually started leaking…
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Are We Not Men? Devo Documentary
I really want to see this documentary on Devo – part funded by Kickstarter. Devo are a band that really hasn’t had it’s due, nor has the influence really been that understood – especially from the political side. Glad this documentary covers as much the politics of the era from Kent State onwards, as I…
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Fleetwood Mac – Rosebud
Fleetwood Mac tends to be seen as the antithesis of punk, new age, floaty, AOR rockers. This belies the fact that not only did they come from very raw blues, they could actually rock out like the best of them, and even the ‘floaty’ songs were very different live. Even a happy ‘Mac seemed quite…
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Never Forget: How to Survive A Plague
In the Oscars there’s a interesting nomination hidden away – the AIDS documentary ‘How to Survive A Plague’ by David France. Covering the period where governments worldwide were dismissing it as a ‘gay’ problem and not really bothered about what happens to them (very wrong on both counts; like other epidemics these things don’t self…
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I Dream of Wires: Chris Carter
One for the geeks and Throbbing Gristle fans out there is this excerpt from a documentary on modular synths interviewing Chris Carter. A nice look at the technological history of TG and what he’s upto now…as with New Order’s early electronic music until the rise of the cheap mass-market MIDI synth you had to get…