On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, David J. Gebhart wrote:
quoted 4 lines does anyone know if the soundtrack to Liquid Sky was ever properly
> does anyone know if the soundtrack to Liquid Sky was ever properly
> released? we'd be talking vinyl here, given the age of the film ('86?).
> I have a vague recollection of seeing the vinyl once, but that just may
> be the drugs.
(Everyone will not be suprised that..) I have the vinyl copy of the
soundtrack, as well as a DAT (on loan to Pasta) of the entire movie audio.
It is excellent, ultra-quirky, dark, baroque Fairlight-synth programming.
The last few tracks (before the "sssstttssttttrraaaanngggee"-word-cutup)
are Night Club 1 and Night Club 2. These tracks are not 4/4 and are very
futuristic blurps and insect-click-noises that are way more avant than
most IDM. Because a few of the tracks are weird dark-wave-y versions of
Carl Orff compositions, there is a very slight antiquated musical
sensibility there, probably because the composer is playing slightly
early-20th-century organ riffs, like for a silent movie. Somewhere
between an electronic soundtrack to a cheap movie about aliens (hey, that
is actually what it is) and Graham Revell's "Insect Musicians" LP maybe.
The movie was made by Z Films, from NYC, which appears to be an
underground collective film group with arty lesbian overtones. Once,
after watching this movie and seeing the credits roll by, Pasta and I
stopped the tape only to see experimental animation on some weird cable
channel. It turned out that the animation was all 8-bit computer stuff
from the late 80's cranked out by female animators at Z Films in NY. We
were taken aback to have accidently seen a Z Films film festival in his
living room, tfs....
The original composer is a woman with a Slavic-looking name, I'll try to
look it up. I tried to search the web, but "Liquid Sky" has been so
co-opted by techno-heads and hackers since the early 80's that I found
almost no references to the movie!
What I liked about Liquid Sky was that they created a New Wave fashion
scene that was almost more extreme than the real thing in Europe at the
time. Being at a distance from the European scene seemed to lead to all
kinds of creative imagination about what was going on. Better than the
real thing, maybe...
Solenoid
quoted 14 lines reply in private or on the list if you want to start a thread. hope
> reply in private or on the list if you want to start a thread. hope
> some of you remember this film. I was in high school when it was
> released and forced my parents to take me. I warned them in advance,
> showing them my Strange Days comic books for conditioning, but I don't
> think I even knew what was in store. can't quite recall how my parents
> reacted, but I'm sure they're thankful I turned out normal.
>
> or did I?
>
> DGeb
>
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