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CSLSX – Keep On Shining

Digby Woods — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:09:48 +0000

It may be raining, but we keep on shining.

Skinemax

Digby Woods — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:53:45 +0000

Skinemax is Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes. It’s long form entertainment for short attention spans. An hour long VJ odyssey, it will move your body and warp your mind.

A nostalgic look back at a half remembered childhood growing up in the 80s and early 90s, Skinemax takes a close look at the culture of that era. The images that motivated, delighted, and terrified us on the silver screen, set to propulsive modern music that pines for a simpler time.

Tracklist:

Com Truise – Norkuy
Depakote – Tummler
Martial Canterel – For Us
Fulgeance – Glamoure
Daedelus – Penny Loafers
Teebs – Why Like This
Laurel Halo – Embassy
Games – Strawberry Skies
d’Eon – Transparency
FOE – A Handsome Stranger Called Death (Com Truise Remix)
Games – Shadows In Bloom
White Car – No Better
Gatekeeper – Forgotten
The Hasbeens – You And Me
Ford & Lopatin – Emergency Room
Rainbow Arabia – Mechanical
oOoOO – Burnout Eyess
VHS Head – Motions
Outer Limits Recordings – Plastik Child

Download higher quality MP3 here:
http://www.percussionlab.com/sets/smash_tv/skinemax_video_mix

Many more DJ Mixes here:
http://www.percussionlab.com/sets?list=tag&tag=sparkle%20motion

Blog: http://supersmashtv.tumblr.com/
Twitter: @supersmashtv

Test Pressing – A Random Function #1

Michael Kucyk — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:48:40 +0000

Good to see regular contributions are rolling in over here. The Blackmail now returns to my list of daily visits alongside London based Test Pressing. Run by Paul Byrne, who produces music and DJs under the alias of Apiento, the multi-faceted Test Pressing documents the past, present and future of Balearic culture. It’s expansive offering covers everything from scanned magazine articles from 70/80/90s music bibles, features on record sleeve designers Jean-Paul Goude, Barney Bubbles and Andy Warhol, taped BBC6 transmissions, audio documentaries, reports on new balearic inclined releases and a growing archive of mixtapes contributed by the world’s finest. There’s certainly something in there for everyone and don’t be overwhelmed if you’ve come in late – Paul has just launched a pdf compendium of site highlights including chats with Compass Point Allstar Wally Badarou and former Cafe Del Mar DJ Phil Mison as well as photos spreads of Factory’s Hacienda and Keith Haring visiting The Le Mans 24 Hour in 1984. Load it on your ipad and find a nice tree to spend the afternoon under!

Two Films About Hands

Millie Stein — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:55:05 +0000

Two films from the late 60s, both about hands. The first is dancer and choreographer Yvonne Rainer’s Hand Movie (1966). I am going to post more about Yvonne Rainer soon. Apart from being a real tough guy, she is singular and prolific and performing at Dia:Beacon again next month. The second is Richard Serra’s Hand Catching Lead (1968). You can hear Serra talking more about metal here.

Tom Sachs shares his studio rules for colour usage

Joseph Allen Shea — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:40:36 +0000

Process. So fascinating to me.

I love peering into a way a studio works and seeing how people organise themselves. It’s a true image of a human. Relationships between the artists, but also the artists and their tools.

This is a great film that depicts this, but is also a humourous artwork in itself.

The Selby also made a film on Tom Sachs.

Hello Dad

Oliver Georgiou — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:01:39 +0000

“I’m in jail, I’m gonna stay here. I like it here. I like it, yeah, throw away the key…” Infections rantings of Was (Not Was) American eclectic pop group that first rung in my eyes one night sometime in the mid 90′s while watching MTV’s Liquid Television on SBS. This fantastic film project was animated by Christoph Simon in 1987 during his time at the infamous Animation programme at London’s Royal College of Art.

The animation itself has a kind of paint on film feel but there are definitely some pastels involved so I’m not quite sure how it was executed, despite that like so many other things on that show it embossed itself in my mind. I was very pleased to see “Hello Dad” on the program for The Melbourne International Animation Festival earlier this year.

Christoph Simon seems to be a hard person to find info on but I do know he also created at least two other clips that were shown on Liquid Television, “What Up Dog” and “Earth to Doris” both also animated to music by Was (Not Was).

HERE for “Hello Dad, I’m In Jail”
HERE for “What Up Dog”
HERE for “Earth to Doris”