I saw only the 1st AMP on tape.
AFX's "On" was great, however, I was overwhelmed by the number of
semi-boring screen-saveresque videos. (unfortunatley similar to the
AII Motion video with endlessly repetitive animation).
What are the other AFX videos like?
Anyone care to venture why so many "idm-ambient" vidoes are, well,
somewhat comparable to looking through a kallidescope(which for me only
retains my interest for less than 1min).
I suppose they are attempts at visual manifestations of the sensations the
music is supposed to create?
Or maybe becuase they are really nice to look at if you are on some tye
of chemical?
Granted, these "computer generated" and swirly images(i.e. Kairo(STC), the
Sun Electric video etc ad nauseum) could be excellent on a large scren in
a club or at a live performance, with the music enveloping you, but, well,
they seemingly lacked creativity while watching them in my bedroom on
my TV. The whole idea seemed kinda trite.
What medium/audience are most of these videos originally made for? Are
they intended for homeviewers in Europe of for big "visual presentations"
with live performances? I suppose it varies.
I'll take Autechre's Second Bad Vibel, AFX's On or even The Box over the
redundant screen-saver stuff anyday. What about everyone else? WHy does
this genre of swrily colors persist? I'm bored with it.
andy, late at night, listening to ALec Empire
On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Brian & Sharon Beuchaw wrote:
quoted 35 lines On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Mikko Karvonen wrote:> On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Mikko Karvonen wrote:
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> > On 26-Jan-97, Gonzi (Fresh) wrote:
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> > >Greggy, please send videos of Donkey Ruhbarb and Ventolin to MTV. They
> > >obviously don't have them.
> >
> > Oh but they do - at least the MTV Europe. :P
> >
> > --
> > .Mikko
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> Yeah well, it's pretty obvious by now that eMpTyVee apparently are
> *completely* unaware of eMpTyVee Europe and their video library. :-(
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> On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Allert Aalders wrote:
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> > >speedy j evolution
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> > If this was actually the AMP play list, please tell me what the vid looked
> > like cauz there was never a video made for my favourite Speedy J track
> > AFAIK.
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> It was one of those completely computer-generated videos and it apparently
> came from the X-Mix 3 videotape (at least that's what the little banner at
> the bottom said, but it *has* been wrong in the past).
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> cya
> brian
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