Cyclone W. wrote:
Can anyone think of any decent, inclusive doc films on underground
electronic music - aside from Modulations? The one making a fuss here >at
the moment is Better Living Through Circuitry but most have >dimissed it as
being very MTV.
One that comes to mind is that BBC-one, the final episode in that
"Rock'N'Roll" TV-series documentary (don't remember the name), where May
talked, Knuckles gave comments, Bambaataa explained some history etc.
Basically going from Hip Hop thru House to Techno, it was a decent (if
short) "documentary".
But one pioneering one was a finnish documentary film called "House that
Jack built" (or something like that;)), concentrating entirely on Techno (or
"TEKNO" as it was the term in those days). It was made in 1991-92, and had
an early interview with LFO in their home studio.
It tried to explain terms such as "hardcore", "bleeb", "rave" and such, and
had some pseudo-philosophical B.S. about the whole "idea" of techno and
machines. And it was rather Europe-centered, no U.S. scene was featured. If
you diss all that it was actually quite nice film, and to defend it I must
say there was at least some nice COMMENTS about Detroit techno ("purest
techno there is"). Too bad the film was all in finnish language!
Proffit
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