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David Hampson ,
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Wed, 06 Sep 2000 22:07:39 +0100
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Re: [idm] Jeff Mills/Metropolis
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do u know where this track can be heard???????? Dom David Hampson wrote:
quoted 32 lines Here's what NME say about the Jeff Mills Metropolis soundtrack - though I've> > Here's what NME say about the Jeff Mills Metropolis soundtrack - though I've > always found using FSOL's "Accelorator" album has been a great score for it > in the past! Does anyone have any idea which cut of the film Mills' score > is for? > > BABY DIDDY > > JEFF MILLS, the legendary second wave Detroit techno DJ and former > UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE member, has produced an updated soundtrack for the > film 'METROPOLIS'. > Following the controversial Queen soundtracked re-release in the '80s, Mills > has produced a techno soundtrack to the classic 1926 Fritz Lang film. The > original film, a startling Modernist parable, has a singular resonance with > both Mills' and the original techno producers' futurist outlooks. > As Mills explains, "It is our intention to re-introduce and educate the > theories and ideology of Fritz Lang's 1926 masterpiece to the cyber youth of > today. It seems fitting that this movie, the movie that shaped the young > minds in the '20s, with its timeless message of solidarity and the > romanticising of its Utopian dream world be reiterated and reintegrated at > the beginning of our new century." > This is the Mills' first album since the 'From The 21st', Japan-only album > from the beginning of 1999. The album will be released through the stalwart > Berlin-based techno label Tresor on CD only. A double vinyl version will be > released through Mills' own Axis label. "Through the advances made in > technology," Mills concludes, "and the acute sense of futurism felt by the > youth of today, we hope to capture the minds and expand the imaginations of > the ones that will soon form and forge our new world." > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org
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