Tracklist: 01. Intro: Scanner - Untitled 02. Beaumont Hannant - Utuba 03. Richard H. Kirk - Reality Net 04. Speedy J - Symmetry 05. Mark Franklin - Release To The System (Beaumont Hannant Remix) 06. Autechre - Basscadet
The documentary film "Feiern" presents people whose nights don't stop for 72 hours. Their stories are about tenderness, excess, and self-destruction. About the search for happiness and the fear of being alone. The portrait in 19 conversations, 56 nights, and 13 tracks.
"Feiern" shows them getting down - sweaty, dazed, deliriously happy. People who dedicate their lives to music, clubs and drugs talk about their experiences.They tell stories of self-destruction as well as tenderness. And every one of them is about the search for happiness: about that perfect moment of collective ecstasy, about the right record being played at the right time, about talking for eight hours to a complete stranger, who you adopt as your best friend - for the night. Or about how it feels to walk into a darkroom and become "a mere piece of meat, to be used and use others". The conversations add up to the portrait of a family and make "Feiern" the melancholic homage to a subculture that continues to celebrate until, finally, a simple cough turns into pneumonia, and a blackout leads to psychosis. In Berlin, says Ewan Pearson, a DJ and producer from London, somebody could bang a wooden spoon on a saucepan - as long as you did it in time, nobody would go home. With a smile he advises his friends: "Don't forget to go home!". They might not. And rave on happily ever after.
Synthetic Pleasures is an 85 minute exploration into the worlds of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, plastic beauty, cyber sex, robotics, nootropics, cryonics, electronics communication and the rise of the internet.
A documentary film on the history of The Hague electronic music scene and its many labels (Viewlexx, Clone, Bunker etc). Featuring interviews with I-F, Guy Tavares, Alden Tyrell, Legowelt, Orgue Electronique, DBF Crew and many more.
Intellect: Techno House Progressive is an entertaining and educational look at the hard-working DJ's and producers who have brought electronic dance music into the forefront of nightlife around the world. This 2 DVD disc set features over 5 1/2 hours of music and knowledge. Disc One includes a 30-minute inspirational documentary about the "art of the DJ" and "what it takes to make it" featuring interviews with over 40 of the world's greatest DJ talent including Paul Van Dyk, Deep Dish, Timo Maas, Orbital, Steve Lawler, Derrick May, Sandra Collins, Hybrid, Doc Martin, Ming & FS, and many, many more! Disc Two features the very first tutorial to ever focus on techno, house, and progressive DJ's. Nigel Richards of 611 Records takes the viewer step-by-step through every level of DJ'ing - from the most basic equipment setup all the way to advanced mixing on three turntables. Also included are 8 bonus topics focusing on specific aspects of DJ'ing and producing dance music featuring tips of the trade by artists featured on Intellect.
Featuring Over 40 Artists, Including: Juan Atkins, Derrick Carter, Sandra Collins, Deep Dish, Charles Feelgood, Steve Lawler, Christopher Lawrence, Timo Maas, Doc Martin, Derrick May, Miguel Migs, Orbital, Nigel Richards, Paul Van Dyk, Swayzak, Hybrid, Ming & FS, Slam, Theo Parrish, Soulstice, Stacey Pullen, DJ Feelgood, Sander Kleinenberg.
We Call It Techno! tells the story of a tempestuous phase in music history, the first time that pop culture was created significantly in Germany. With exclusive interviews and comprehensive, mostly unreleased film and photo archive material from the years 1988-1993!
Incl. Statements from Ata, Cosmic Baby, Mijk van Dijk, Elsa for Toys, Hell, Mike Ink., Jürgen Laarmann, Mark Reeder, Tanith, Triple R, Upstart, Sven Väth, Wolle XDP and many more.
Tracklist: 01 3 Phase feat. Dr. Motte - Der Klang Der Familie 02 Bam Bam - Give It To Me 03 Cosmic Baby - Cosmic Trigger 4 04 Cosmic Baby - Galaxia 05 Cosmic Baby - New Zone 06 Cybersonik - Technarchy 07 Dance 2 Trance - We Came In Peace 08 D-Shake - Yaaaah! 09 Eon - Spice 10 F.U.S.E. - FU2 11 F.U.S.E. - Substance Abuse 12 Frankie Bones - Call It Techno 13 Kid Paul & The Weird Club - Acid In My House 14 Komakino - Dynacore 15 Mark N-R-G - Turn The Bass 16 Microbots - Cosmic Evolution 17 Microglobe - What Is Space 18 Nitzer Ebb - Warsaw Ghetto 19 Ongaku - Mihon 3 20 Resistance D. - Cosmic Love 21 Sequential - Ambiant Block 22 Sequential - Sonne 23 Space Cube - Pure Tendency 24 T-Bone Castro - Wize Guys Are Freakin' Lower 25 Teste - The Wipe 26 Break Boys - My House Is Your House 27 Overlords - Sundown 28 Thomas P. Heckmann - Floatation 29 Thomas P. Heckmann - The Sound Of Colour 30 Umo Detic - Fahrenheit
High Tech Soul - The Creation of Techno Music Year: 2006 Country: USA Playtime: 01.03.22 Interviews with: Richie Hawtin, Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Jeff Mills, Jhon Acquaviva, Carl Cox, Carl Craig, Blake Baxter,
HIGH TECH SOUL is the first documentary to tackle the deep roots of techno music alongside the cultural history of Detroit, its birthplace. From the race riots of 1967 to the underground party scene of the late 1980s, Detroit's economic downturn didn't stop the invention of a new kind of music that brought international attention to its producers and their hometown. Featuring in-depth interviews with many of the world's best exponents of the artform, High Tech Soul focuses on the creators of the genre -- Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson -- and looks at the relationships and personal struggles behind the music. Artists like Richie Hawtin, Jeff Mills, Carl Craig, Eddie Fowlkes and a host of others explain why techno, with its abrasive tones and resonating basslines, could not have come from anywhere but Detroit. With classic anthems such as Rhythim Is Rhythim's "Strings of Life" and Inner City's "Good Life," High Tech Soul celebrates the pioneers, the promoters and the city that spawned a global phenomenon. The film features: Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Eddie (Flashin) Fowlkes, Richie Hawtin, Jeff Mills, John Acquaviva, Carl Cox, Carl Craig, Blake Baxter, Stacey Pullen, Thomas Barnett, Matthew Dear, Anthony "Shake" Shakir, Keith Tucker, Delano Smith, Mike Archer, Derrick Thompson, Mike Clark, Alan Oldham, Laura Gavoor, Himawari, Scan 7, Kenny Larkin, Stacey "Hotwax" Hale, Claus Bachor, Electrifying Mojo, Niko Marks, Barbara Deyo, Dan Sordyl, Sam Valenti, Ron Murphy, George Baker, and Kwame Kilpatrick.
The film's soundtrack includes: Aux 88, Cybotron, Inner City, Juan Atkins, Mayday, Model 500, Plastikman, Rhythim Is Rhythim, and more. "Bredow's cast of alumni -- the holy trinity of Atkins, May & Saunderson at the front -- fill out this tale with passion, pride and, oddly for music of the future, nostalgia too." - Dazed and Confused "An enjoyable education into the music, the city and the main players past, present and future." -DJ Magazine "Defines the myths and the magic of Detroit techno from its beginnings right up to how it has evolved to become High Tech Soul." -Derrick May
On Sunday October 24 1999 Dutch TV channel VPRO had a broadcasting in the Lola da Musica show. The documentary is called Trance Europe Express and the Lola da Music team is following Dutch DJs / producers Ferry Corsten and DJ Tiesto who had their first successes with System F - Out Of The Blue and Gouryella - Gouryella.
In the documentary you can see Ferry and Tijs in Glasgow, Ibiza, during the Fast Forward Dance Parade in Rotterdam, in the famous Magik Store in Breda and in Ferry Corstens studio in Rotterdam. You can see the boys while they are producing the new Gouryella track Walhalla. Furthermore they about what trance exactly is and how a normal week looks like for them
If you're a techno head you've no doubt noticed the hype around Berlin's more introspective existentialist answer to 'Human Traffic' in 'Berlin Calling' starring none other than BPitch's Paul Kalkbrenner who, surprisingly enough, provides the soundtrack too. Kalkbrenner has long been a mainstay fixture of the BPitch label, with a style incorporating electronica enhanced techno with a widescreen melodic touch, kinda like a more melancholy Modeselektor without the hiphop influence. His soundtrack for the film is suitably cinematic and full of tempered trance moments loaded with emotional rushes and wistfully melodic touches comparable to the finer points of the Kompakt catalogue like The Field or Closer Musik. The one thing that separates this from most film soundtracks is the steady pulse of 4/4 techno running throughout the soundtrack, which was of course completely neccessary when basing a film around a city that lives, breathes and eats on a 120-130bpm throb. Having not seen the film yet myself I can only imagine that the Moby-ish 'Sky and Sand' with an emotionally strained blues vocal from his bruv Fritz Kalkbrenner, must be set to a particularly poignant scene featuring them chomping little fellas on the hill at Gorlitzer park or something, but cynicism aside this has a lot of potential to appeal to an indie audience dabbling with the synaptic rush of chemical music. Fellow BPitch head Sascha Funke contributes the only non Kalkbrenner cut on 'Mango' with a suitably moody soft trancer, entirely in keeping with the equilibrium of the rest of the soundtrack. Go watch the film and then get your rave slippers on to this.
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