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Most of Electro lovers are still angry about genres : Electro-Clash & Electro-House stole the name & the sense of the original “ELECTRO”. To be honest, i haven’t got any problems with those illegitimate children, my only one regret about Electro music is its unofficial separation with its wife the Techno music.
I really missed the time when productions represented the hybrid combination called “ElectroTechno” (more relevant via the sounds than denomination), the finest masterpieces were clearly produced & played during this period (1982-2002). Currently 80% of the producers who did the 2 styles wouldn’t to be ranked in ‘Electro’ boxes and claimed only the greatly esteemed ‘Techno’ word & affiliation. Since the beginning of 00′s, according to my point of view, i feel like the Underground Electro scene doesn’t seem to get over this divorce and keep trying to survive in the shadow (repeating sometimes the same old formula while forgetting some of the main ingredients …therefore boring the devoted listeners). In addition, the new Straight Electro producers seem a bit close-minded, not very interested by any other type of music and especially not by their “ex-soulmate” the TECHNO that stays always very rich in musicality. Therefore the “modern” Electro music is often poor & not universal…
However I’m not saying Electro music is dead, good exceptions make my day every day. But I’m pretty sure if Electro was still connected with Techno, ELECTRO/TECHNO will be on the front jiggling the floors & the minds. (To be realistic, this gathering isn’t going to happen again because Techno music lives well in its own way)
Anyway, i don’t really want to conclude on something negative or positive, i just wished to share my opinion

…and now let’s the music take control with this masterpiece for remind the (unforgettable) powerful connection :

AUX 88 – Electro Techno

Taken from the classic “Electrotechno” 12″ released on Direct Beat – 1996

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CRIME & CITY SOLUTION - The Adversary

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PATTY SMITH & FRED SMITH – It takes time

Taken from the beautiful “Until the end of world (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” released on Warner Bros. Records – 1991

Set in 1999, a woman has a car accident with some bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the bank money to a drop in Paris. On the way she runs into another fugitive from the law, an American who is being chased by the CIA. The charges are false, he claims. They want to confiscate a device his dad invented which allows anyone to record their dreams and vision…

A GREAT cyberpunk road movie to watch and re-watch
More on the official website

This is not the most sexiest part of music however it’s well in a studio where some ideas become a tune. Many music lovers would like to enter into the studios of their favorite producers to know how they produce, on which machines,…
On this video, the Netherlands based electro producer LEGOWELT presents his home studio with his great synthetizor collection : “Eclectic Cooking with LEGOWELT“. A nice video concept produced by the Dutch weblog Electro.nl

More episodes on Electro.nl

“CLOSER” 2004 a film directed by Mike NICHOLS [Scene between Nathalie PORTMAN & Clive OWN]

A correct quality of video taken from the intergalactic scientists show :

DOPPLEREFFEKT in Paris – The 10/10/10
For the “Record Makers 10th Anniversary” [At Point Ephemère]

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Monologue Taken from the film called the “25 Hours” directed by SPIKE LEE. Starring EDWARD NORTON 2002

…Gizmo on keyboard! [1984]

The first film of the two graffiti writers : DEMS & SOZYONE from the ULTRA BOYS crew is online!
Currently is not a classical documentary but rather a street trip who features some wicked & funny environments (before during and after the bombing). The graffiti pieces are not the main subject, this film can be launched like a black book like a puzzle of aesthics moments. “VLTRAJE STEALING WALLS” is a combo of art, violence, trip, language, street, concept…

Beautiful to watch, hard to get :

“VLTRAJE STEALING WALLS”
Executive producers: VltraBoys International an VLTRA/ MTN Picture ©2010
Directed by DEMS [Spain] and SOZYONE [Belgium]. 13min – Black & White
BTW the Tag technique to bomb hidden at 10:40 “Chapter 7″ in the video is simply the craziness!

More Graffiti production on the websites of DEMS and SOZYONE

Dear Santa Claus,
I urge you to send me the “Dave Smith Instrument – Mopho Keyboard”.This nice monophonic keyboard designed by the famous “Dave Smith” (the guy who did all those classic keyboard in the 70′s-80′s) is a pure beast. It’s totaly analog and with all the controllers you’ll be able to replicate a large palette of basses from sub-basses that’ll shake your walls from the most agressive “TB-303″ acid basses. Hey Santa, it’s been a while I’ve been waitin for you but I’ll forget you if you send me this nice toy…
Have a glimpse:

The new TRON LEGACY trailer can be seen almost everywhere now. I got a few words I need to share with you about this movie. If we’re talking strictly about the incredible motorcycles battles scene, I agree that the TRON LEGACY might better but this new wannabe remake revolution is a true insult to the original classic TRON (1982) and what this movie represented for the post future culture.
Maybe I’m wrong for judging before watching the actual movie but I can suggest 98 reasons to skip this sequel movie. I’m not closed-minded about the evolution concept and about remaining up-to-date but I just prefer the timeless truth. I’m truly deep into CYBERPUNK films and I just dont like when this culture is not well respected! Consequently, I can’t understand how a human can pretend to make a better remake than the original TRON… Was he listening to the BLACK EYES PISS while makin it? (Ouch… better that stronger it was during the unconvinced third album of DAFT PUNK’s ghosts producers who have also composed the film score…) And why the first producer STEVEN LISBERGER and some old actors even contributed? Money don’t redeem oneself. The first film had cost roughly 17 millions dollars.. and was supposed to stay a classic with its own toughts and a fresh old school flavor! The second movie had cost 330 millions!… And adults might not retain a lot about this one. (of course, it will be better than those 2009 shitty “V” serie remakes… Make-up remover, please! Just another original and genious creator who had hallucinated…)
The only positive way to remake TRON would be to watch the first edition with interactive 3D glasses (But finally it won’t be the first to release it in 3D… Might because CAMERON created the legacy effects…)
The second point is mostly to remind the kids which movie is the “bionic” mother of MATRIX. Some people said technology effect is better than ever: more clean, more dark, more realistic..

One of my point is the first TRON was made in 1980 (relased in 1982), the vectorial design came out like a real art evolution.
They did all those graphics with the basic tools of the past (again we were in 1980). The technology restriction created the style. (It was the first film with full digital scene.) In fact, I need to remind that the computer mouse was officially released in 1983 (with the first APPLE LISA)… Yes, they did all the effects whith scripts with the help of one ONLY the keyboard!!!! That’s a reason why the design was so geometrical, it really was a true performance. We need to pay hommage to the old (sadly) underestimate executive designers who contributed to the original TRON. All my respect goes to the creative designer, the real mast of SCI FI illustrators : SYD MEAD, MOEBIUS, PETER LOYD who created a poetic digital environment and an abstract aesthetic very different about the reality of impulsive 80′s life.
This thoughtfull scenario and this amazing film had a real sense in this time, those oldschool designs are still an inspiration for many artists today. Nowadays, we can see the 8 Bit and basic vector design reminiscing everywhere, it’s very nostalgic. We can also mention the last advancements in video games: it’s just becoming to real, we can hardly see the virtual aspect anymore. So, my question is: How this remake can pretend to represent the difference between those two environmentals since we can hardly distinguish the differences between the over-over retouching 00′s reality and the more realistic digital world?
Even worse, How a film release in 2010′s can pretend to warning us about the dangers of too computer intelligence and computer control when those machines are still in activity since 1983? (Date of the first popular computer and the access to internet)…
It’s seems too late, don’t they know that we’re attacked everyday by GOOGLE itself? Reboot, let’s just say that TRON LEGACY looks like a bad child with no future.

In fact, sad to say that but it seems like the SCI FI movies era is over, now their warnings about machine post-attacks have just become hasbeen! In 2010′s, the only interesting films discussing about post-future is “DYSTOPIA”. This approach is much more about remake someone life on the rest livable world after a major damage (nature / energy / technology / human…). So we can accept a MAD MAX 4 but we want films with new raw subject up to date…(considered by scientists and sociologues not like the puritan acknowledged AVATAR movie)
Please don’t touch and remake anymore to the SCI FI classics. Keep V, TRON, FANTOMAS! & co in theirs times…You can re watch the past but we had to make the present like the future will be.

KAWSE_3000

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