Schlitze
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Filth 8/10 - I saw this six weeks ago and forgot to review it. Pretty impressed with it actually. it begins as an all out comedy and for the first half hour i was like 'WTF this looks like a light hearted romp' but then as the darkness descends the comedy and serious elements clash, creating something pretty unique. As Chris Morris once said 'It's the like the bizarre euphoria at the end of an hours vomiting'
The Bling Ring 3/10 - More candy floss bullshit from Sophia Coppolla. A film about a bunch of useless spoilt brats made by one. Papa seriously gotta consider cutting her allowance.
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12 Years A Slave - 9/10
The narrative is solely from the POV of the slave Solomen Northup....a gentleman and a talented musician who is ruthlessly drugged and kidnapped and taken away from his life and brought into the slave trade. There are some vicious bastards in the form of Paul Dano and Michael Fassbender, animalistic beasts who some might question how they became as vicious as they did. We're left to assume they are simply a product of their time. Cumberbatch, (one of only two white men with a shred of humanity) buys Northup at auction near the start of the film before moving him on due to Northup's fighting nature. Cumberbatch's character is a lone figure, he can see the wrongs but is scared shitless of doing anything about it and afraid of the callous nature/backlash of his contemporaries. Perhaps most directors would have gone for a voiceover due to the non linear structure but it works well the way it is, with the swelling music fading in and out. The performances of the cast (the long uninterupted takes) plus the amazing production design are pretty mind blowing. They've done a magnificent job of bring this era to life, it just looks real.
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Not heard of Greenaway doing anything for years. I thought he'd fell off the radar. This film seems to have passed many by. I'm gonna seek it out. Anyway, had a look on his twitter and he's still doing some crazy shit https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=frWdUQGeY9o
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Sean, you said earlier in the thread that you sold your Marin bike. I hope you eventually get round to getting another set of wheels and get back in the saddle. What do you think your going to get? Incidently, theres some famous mountain bike trails i was at a couple of years ago, near the scotland/england border, it's called http://7stanesmountainbiking.com/Ae'>Ae Forest
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As far as Cronenberg goes Crash was OK and his sons recent film Antiviral has followed the body shock heritage even if the concept was totally ridiculous in a good way.
Interesting, Crash was the one film i thought of when I watched Antiviral. Antiviral takes an idea and pushes it to it's most ridiculously extreme and if you can get over that hurdle then you'll enjoy the film, if you don't you will really struggle to even pay attention.
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What created the idea for known(1)? Sounds like a work in progress that went in another direction.
Don't tell me you got distracted watching Knowing starring Nic Cage.
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Rob, where is your Planet 69 t-shirt? Sounds like Sean has been taking care of his (washing at 40 degrees with fabric softener, letting it dry naturally in the cooling breeze).
Where's yours?
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When you guys are on tour do you ever get to an unfamiliar venue, look around the place and have any concerns about how good it's gonna be? or do you put all your faith in the organisers to get the right venue? or get pissed off at a venue change at towns you've played in previous years? I saw you in glasgow 2005 and 2008 which were at the Art school (organised by Numbers i think), great venue, and the sound was massive. Then in 2010 at Sub Club, still a great gig, but a much smaller venue, more intimate and more subdued atmosphere (lots of chin strokers there that night / monday night, in comparison to Art School where the crowd can get a bit mental down the front {chanting ''one more tune'' i recall, lol}). I guess if i was on tour and had played a couple of gigs in a great venue, and was ready to go back there a coupla years later only to be told ''we're moving you somewhere less epic, you'll have to turn the volume down a bit, it's a monday night'' i'd be a bit pissed off. Any grumbles about that kind of thing?
i way preferred the art school gigs but that stuff's beyond our control really
it's as much in the interests of a promoter to put on a decent night as it is ours
the monday night thing was just cos of us being on tour, we have to play somewhere on monday, glasgow got the short straw that time soz
I actually turned up late to that sub club gig thinking u guys were playing later, as you never usually started at the art school before midnight. Walked in about 11.40 and went to get a drink at the bar, my mate was like ''i think thats ae started already'' i was like ''no way, thats Rob Hall, ae don't start till after midnight''. my mates like ''i think thats them on just now''. I pushed my way through the darkness to find it was indeed ae mixin it up there. I'm still annoyed i missed that lovely screechy track at the start. Anyway, went back to the bar finished my drink and then went and enjoyed the rest of the gig.
It was only during Rob Hall's set i pondered ''Why the hell was Sean wearing, Rob's Planet 69 T-shirt?''
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When you guys are on tour do you ever get to an unfamiliar venue, look around the place and have any concerns about how good it's gonna be? or do you put all your faith in the organisers to get the right venue? or get pissed off at a venue change at towns you've played in previous years? I saw you in glasgow 2005 and 2008 which were at the Art school (organised by Numbers i think), great venue, and the sound was massive. Then in 2010 at Sub Club, still a great gig, but a much smaller venue, more intimate and more subdued atmosphere (lots of chin strokers there that night / monday night, in comparison to Art School where the crowd can get a bit mental down the front {chanting ''one more tune'' i recall, lol}). I guess if i was on tour and had played a couple of gigs in a great venue, and was ready to go back there a coupla years later only to be told ''we're moving you somewhere less epic, you'll have to turn the volume down a bit, it's a monday night'' i'd be a bit pissed off. Any grumbles about that kind of thing?
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nick cage and joaquin phoenix wearing leather pants go after a motley crew of tawdry pornographers who ended up offing a girl for a rich prick holed up somewhere in pennsylvania. it's also got a lard ass named machine that loves to listen to aphex twin at high volume after his mom goes to church.
Pay attention to Cage's mock outrage when he is watching the snuff film. He is clearly enjoying the murder, but lays it on thick with the fist biting and the "'omg, this is soooo awful, i can barely bring myself to watch, i'm going to bite my fist to portray my frustration at being unable to intervene with what I am seeing''. Either that or he overacts the scene terribly. He goes on a mission to find the girl, out of guilt at his own perversity. Also, note the attempt to portray Machine as just an average joe who got mixed up with wrong crowd. And Phoenix as an innocent victim of circumstance.
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Word up, Ae. I recently found a few of your old radio mixes on my old Compaq desktop PC (XFM, Breezeblock and Solid Steel), it was great to hear them again (big chunks of Wendy Carlos and Hafler Trio on that Breezeblock Mix :-D). I know you guys do the massive webcast marathons but does it work differently for the radio output? does the station come to you and you post them a CD of a half hour mix? And are you inundated with requests for this type of stuff in the lead up to an album release?
yeah sometimes its like that for outside radio programmers, we get quite busy with requests when we announce a new record.
In the lead up to Draft being released you did a mix for Radio 3: Mixing it and a mix for Mary Anne Hobbs. The Radio 3 mix was full of bombastic dance beats which almost left the presenters speechless, while the Radio 1 mix was more cultured/refined. It was almost as if the two CD's had got mixed up in the mail and went to different areas in the BBC. I thought that was a nice touch :-D
cheers
yeah we thought a show called mixing it should get a mix where we're really 'mixing it'
and MAH i mean, yeah playing dockstader and wendy carlos on a usually trendy show just made sense somehow
I bloody knew it :-D Thanks for confirming that, Sean
I recall a robocop sample at the end of it. It was too much for the presenters
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Hello Gents.
Was wondering about the soundtrack work. I know you can't talk about current things in development (or not) but I did want to know if there were any films you wish you could have scored, or how you would have approached the scoring of certain genre films (say Blade Runner, or Alien for example)
Thanks!
kind of hard for me to separate the existing soundtracks from the films, to me blade runner would be shit without vangelis
and i know he doesn't rate it but i reckon the alien music is some of the best stuff goldsmith did
so i dunno, 'what they did' basically
Best Goldsmith tune is The Omen, but best soundtrack as a whole is Alien. They played the soothing tracks nicely in Alien,Even during tense scenes.
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Obel, I think it's only fitting that you now photoshop a speck of mud onto mike p in your avatar. in honor of sean's victory.
It depends on how good his Obel's photoshopping skills are. If he makes the brown the wrong shade it could be misconstrued as scat.
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Don't you guys still get hassled by neighbours telling you to keep the sound down? All my flats I've lived in I've had knocks at the door, and it has always been as the Autechre as the antagonist.
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Word up, Ae. I recently found a few of your old radio mixes on my old Compaq desktop PC (XFM, Breezeblock and Solid Steel), it was great to hear them again (big chunks of Wendy Carlos and Hafler Trio on that Breezeblock Mix :-D). I know you guys do the massive webcast marathons but does it work differently for the radio output? does the station come to you and you post them a CD of a half hour mix? And are you inundated with requests for this type of stuff in the lead up to an album release?
yeah sometimes its like that for outside radio programmers, we get quite busy with requests when we announce a new record.
In the lead up to Draft being released you did a mix for Radio 3: Mixing it and a mix for Mary Anne Hobbs. The Radio 3 mix was full of bombastic dance beats which almost left the presenters speechless, while the Radio 1 mix was more cultured/refined. It was almost as if the two CD's had got mixed up in the mail and went to different areas in the BBC. I thought that was a nice touch :-D
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Word up, Ae. I recently found a few of your old radio mixes on my old Compaq desktop PC (XFM, Breezeblock and Solid Steel), it was great to hear them again (big chunks of Wendy Carlos and Hafler Trio on that Breezeblock Mix :-D). I know you guys do the massive webcast marathons but does it work differently for the radio output? does the station come to you and you post them a CD of a half hour mix? And are you inundated with requests for this type of stuff in the lead up to an album release?
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ol dirty, gza or rza?
anyone better then rakim, if so, who?
I'd love some insight into your role in the design process of the last few album identities that tdr had the pleasure of making basic shapes for.
gza obviously
they're not basic shapes, you're seeing it wrong
I think he hears the music wrong too. He likes really mellow stuff.
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So Side Effects is basically Goatse's anus.
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Spring Breakers - 8.5/10
Perhaps the most devilish of satires since In The Loop. It's up there with Starship Troopers. Franco rocks.
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Sorry dad. Can I please come home?
You're too far gone.
I'm cringing hard seeing you back here under the circumstances.
Just go.
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Do you remember asking me "watmm? What's watmm?" When we did a phoner interview in 2008 just before Quaristice release. And here we are now... :) you also personally made my day back at the time by stating that you'd listened to some of our old tunes - Rubens 'bank holiday'. Pure magic. We talked about Ruth from Krush who worked for Sound control in Sheffield... I was interviewing you for sound controls mag at the time. Anyway... Latest EP is your most polished since Envane or Anvil Vapre. Top marks for still slinging massive left hooks.
Pipe down child. you're getting very excited. You left here for too long to make amends.
Jump off the bandwagon.
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They taught themselves with tape deck edititing
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sorry if this has already been asked (still reading the thread but wanted to get this question out!)..
Can you shed some light on the composition process for Oversteps? It almost seems as though the main melodies/chord progressions were composed traditionally with a generative process used to add flourishes to the existing melodic content—is there any truth behind this? It's also quite a strange album in your discography since it doesn't seem to share a similarity to anything before or after (besides Move of Ten, but I consider that and Oversteps to be a package deal); are there any plans to re-visit this sound or build upon it?
most of it's markov chain stuff done in max, with conditionals forcing scales and harmonies
we still have those sequencers but we developed them a fair amount since, they're not as trad as they were then
Geek alert
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Ae, i must ask....Orange Five or Santa Cruz Blur?
What TV series are you watching at moment?
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Bates Motel - Just finished watching series 1 tonight. Pretty good shit. It fills in the backstory with what was going on with Norman and his protective mother living in the modern era. It was delightfully unpredictable with some of the sub plots. And Vera Farmiga is great actress. Gotta wait about a year now for series 2 :-(