The website Aquarium Drunkard is a beautifully written treasure trove of a website for music. It’s an mp3 blog with real soul.
They just posted a little piece about one of my all time favourite films Repo Man directed by Alex Cox, complete with a free mp3 from the soundtrack.
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The idea of rescoring classic cinema is becoming increasingly common but I missed this. In 2008 Pixies main man Black Francis rescored the 1920s German expressionist classic The Golem: How He Came Into The World. Now there’s a gorgeous new book documenting the process, with music and image from the performance and the rescored film. [...]
Holographic Drumkit and Turntables, I think someone has been watching too much Futurama
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I don’t think we need to go on about just how much we love The Take-Away Shows here at Directors Notes and since discovering it we’re always on the look out for new Music Vodcasts. Well early this morning, still hazy from sleep, I stumbled upon Dirty Laundry, an online video series that interviews bands [...]
Miranda July did it first. She stole a song I really wanted to use in one of my films. I mean really wanted to use Spiritualized’s cover of The Troggs’ Anyway That You Want Me which sound-tracked the wonderful Me And You And Everyone We Know. Now Noah Baumbach has done it. Anyone who knows me [...]
Creative double-act Duckeye have created a mesmerizing video for French Musicians The Fitzcarraldo Sessions, using a fascinating combination of hands on creative skills and After Effects trickery.
“Everything in the video was either filmed or drawn, then edited using After Effects and projected into a tank of water into which we poured ink, milk and powder [...]
If you’re into Music, love short films and regularly visit Directors Notes, then it’s more than likely you’ve seen (or at least heard of) the fantastic Take Away Shows. Well just to make me love them even more, co founder Vincent Moon and Editor Nathanaël Le Scouarnec have now made a live film for one [...]
Not content with starring in the most controversial film of the year, actress and daughter of famous French actor/singer Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte Gainsbourg has teamed up with Beck to release her 3rd music album. If the music is as strange and innovative as the video, it could well be one of the albums of next year.
Definite contender [...]
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Set a film to the sounds of the never far from my recent playlist Boards of Canada and you run the risk of provoking hatred if you fail to do the track justice or lavish praise if you pull off a seamless marriage of sound and vision. Place created [...]