My tuppeny worth: As I suggested to Toby Frith earlier, Metropolis is a film which worked intriguingly on many levels and I agree 200% that "In order to appreciate >>the CD, I think you have to watch the film with the music." .... You know, I don't think I appreciated *just* how true that was until it started rolling ... I rank my music by order of merit at home (anorak & proud!) and Metropolis has to go to the front of 2000 after last night ...
Something else which I found striking is that you've got to see the thing re-dubbed with the Jeff Mills's Metropolis 'score' to appreciate what happens when you dub a primarily digitally-produced track to analogue format. The sound quality changes somewhat - but I don't mean interms of 'worse/better': I eman that the usual analogue effect of 'warming' sounds up, applies. It gives the whole thing a much more cinematic feel, moods and textures are enhanced and the sharp sort of 'cd' quality edge is distilled. Overall, to me, Jeff Mills is a hero for reviving a film which is so classic it's almost archetypal -especially the underlying theme - it's always shocking to remember that millions of Americans (in a different America, true) espoused the ideas which that film encapsulates, less than a century ago. That Jeff Mills did it with such panache ... it's commendable I think. Maybe one day, it will be commended. >-----Original Message----- >From: rob webb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:17 AM >To: 313@hyperreal.org >Subject: Re: [313] Metropolis @ Royal Festival Hall > > >Toby wrote: > >>I really enjoyed Radioboy's set, very dynamic and all, but I think one >>would >>get a bit tired of him >>destroying stuff all the time. Thankfully he's no one-trick pony. Missed >>most of Super_Collider, but >>I didn't really dig what I heard at the end. The screening of >"Metropolis" >>was v.good. In order to appreciate >>the CD, I think you have to watch the film with the music. I enjoyed it >>thoroughly, and it posed >>the question of how tough it must have been to create a soundtrack that >>didn't get too "Vangelis-like", i.e >>just lots of atmospherics. "Robot Replica" makes a lot more sense now. > >spot on Toby, i thought Metropolis was excellent too - Mills' soundtrack >matches the flow and mood of the film really well. it's difficult to know >what to make of his dj set afterwards. on one level it kicked, but on >another i found to be a bit samey - other than "Jupiter Jazz" it was an >hour's worth of hardish techno. a bit more variety would've been >good, but >then again would the crowd've been into that? it's like the DE9 cds... i >find myself uncontrolably bobbing along to the music, even tho it's also >kinda boring. guess that's the 4/4 for you. hmmm. > >as for Matthew Herbert - imho he puts on a great show, but as far as the >music's concerned i'd rather hear a Herbert set than a Radioboy one. > >i quite enjoyed Super_Collider, and it looked like they were into it >themselves. as Marc said their performance used some v.creative visuals, >and the tracks themselves were pretty cool - loads of heavy funky bass. i >wasn't too impressed by their first lp, so it'll be interesting to >hear how >the new one sounds. > > > >rob > > >_________________________________________________________________ >MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: >http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
