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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 23:52:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ned Raggett <eahg119@ea.oac.uci.edu>
Subject: Aphex's Anime Guest Appearance
If this has already been discussed, apologies, but I just saw this
and had to share.
Background--Japanese animators seem to love to sneak in crazed pop
culture references in the strangest of places. In one of the original
_Macross_ episodes [bastardized in the US as part of the _Robotech_
series], a missile zooming past the screen displayed on one frame
the Budweiser logo, for instance.
Anyway, I ended up with a review copy of the first episode of
_Macross Plus_, which is really good, as far as my somewhat sporadic
knowledge of things anime goes--excellent animation at points, while
coming across overall as a futuristic _Top Gun_ with an actual
plot [strange but true...].
About halfway through, there's a sequence showing life in a future
city on another, human-colonized planet--it looks like an extremely
cool San Francisco, sort of the flipside of _Blade Runner_'s dark
LA. The year is 2040 AD.
At one point, the camera cuts to a streetside scene showing shoppers,
pedestrians, buses, and various ads and posters. On one, you see
this:
AFX
[the Aphex symbol appears,
in a circle as on SAW 1]
SELECTED AMBIENT WORKS
VOLUME 23
2034-2040
Good to see Mr. James will still be busy in a few decades! Has
anyone uncovered any similar plugs for ambient or IDM artists in
anime works?
Ned Raggett | We are not your sinners
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