Radiohead just released a new video for its song "House of Cards" from the album "In Rainbows".
No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.
directed by alex rutteford of lost in space for warp records this music video established many pioneering techniques in motion graphics with its extreme 3d, raw cg and quick whip whip camera moves. laboriously choreographed by hand this labour of love took about 3 months for alex to create.
Slapped this on my iPod so as to help me on a journey to a wedding. Was looking forward to the wedding, just not the tube journey. I needed some new tunes to see me on my way. Started the journey listening to 'Ben Westbeech' Bodytonic Podcast 013 mix, which was good but a little too upbeat for a tube journey. So scrolled through the iPod and thought I'd give 'Oneiric' a chance. First track comes in, 'Tauhid', and am already locked into the covert build up, and starting to feel comfortable with the general ambience that's going on. Slightly Arabian mysterious strings with electronic beats keeping me alert and leaving me glad to have listened. Then am shunned into a slow motion type of pin ball game making me physically thirsty and mentally vulnerable. 'Grub' is a relentless odyssey of dub electronica cleverly crafted and delivered. At this point am left wondering that am certainly going to listen to something special and unique. By the time "Skuff'd" comes in, am thinking, shiiit! I've already heard ambient, breaks dub electronica, and now am getting hit with this dark floor filler that just makes me what to turn it up. That sampled vocal and the bassline, goodness!!! It's moving you even if you don't like movin, it's a marathon of menacing breaks and bass, sucking you in but never really going anywhere. Thankfully, this is followed by 'Brood', a lovely comforting ambient tune soothing parts that "Skuff'd" may have left a little raw. By time 'Brood' is done yr kinda ready for some more. 'Mossy' is like an alien landing that you wish would happen. The electronics, the bassline, the beats create an almost mesmerising effect throwing you into some kind of drowning rave abyss. This is followed by 'Rikta' an almost jazzy soulful dub track that ends up slowly withering away to a wind instrument and beautifully ending to introduce 'Sunshine VIP' a monster track that will leave marks in your pants. This album is totally unlike anything that I have heard before. 'Bad You Do' makes sure you understand that Barry Lynn listens to a broad range of music. Here you are treated to flutes, dub ambience and bass lines that keep you interested to a point where you are almost day dreaming. 'Silver Birch solstice' brings in a funky soulfulness that is dressed in a drum and bass beat that takes you back to a time when you wished you listened more to late night radio. What else can I say man? This album is the nuts. It has it all, and the one thing that is there across the whole album is the unmistakable sound of dub. 'Hyloz' has more flutes acid breaks electro that is both soulful and funky bringing the album full into the second half. 'Hyloz2' is broody, experimental, and more abstract compared to the rest of the album. 'Chloropyll' follows more in the same vain but much less obtrusive. Instead it is very calming and masterfully brings the album to an end. The interesting thing about this album is that I wanted to listen to something new. I didn't know that it was actually released in 2006. I thought I was listening to something new, instead it was Barry Lynn's debut on 'Planet Mu', which sounded bloody good'. Oh my gosh, the irony!
Tracklist: Juelz/Wayne/ Make it Work... Grimey String Tune that runs at 80... Sebastian- H.A.L.... Missy- The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)... Cauto- Shy Fx Remix(dub)... Trill Bass- save me from myself (dub)... Styles P- Blow Ya Mind (Starkey Remix)... Distance- V... Rusko- Gone 2 far... Cardopusher- Green Disorder (dub)... Iron shirt- All my Love (Matt Shadetek's all my dub remix)(dub)... Cataracts ft pack- Blueberry (BD1982 remix)(dub)... Zomby- Spliff Dub (rustie remix)
Universal Everything is just over 4 and a half years old. Founded by Matt Pyke, after 8 years at the internationally renowned studio, The Designers Republic from 1996 - 2004.
Professor of dirt, Paul Curtis aka 'Moose' introduces the concept of "Reverse Graffiti'. If you're not familiar, watch the video, directed by Doug Pray.
The very long awaited debut album from Hot Flush head bloke Paul Rose aka Scuba is finally unleashed upon the world. Garnering much widespread attention from the heads and tastemakers, Scuba's recent move to Berlin has been cited as a large influence on the album and his current direction within the dubstep movement, a scene which he makes clear in the recent Woofah interview that he likes to maintain a healthy distance from.
After we have moved past the unfortunately retrogressive IDM tweeness of opener 'systematic decline', the album blossoms into 'hard boiled', the killer cut spotted on the album sampler 12", a wide open slice of dubstep minimalism owing a very large debt to the skeletal rhythmic convolutions of T++ and Berlin style dub techno, but essentially retaining his melodic watermark.
'Tell her', the other cut from the sampler, harks back to the Scuba productions of yesteryear with those smacking rock style snares and bass drops, but thankfully balances these with a beautiful piano motif to alleviate the pressure. 'Disorder' meanwhile sounds quite unlike anything we've heard from this fella before, embarking on a quasi industrial techno trip with rough cut metallic percussion battered into stomping patterns.
The industrial attitude prevails through 'ruptured', and onto the lo-slung ambience of 'the upside' and the rhythmic experimentation of ' twitch'. The album reaches it's pinnacle with 'stolen', sounding more like an Autechre offcut from 'Amber' than anything Berlin related.
Mr Rose hasn't let any dancefloor obligations hold him back with this album and has obviously enjoyed the freedom this has allowed him to experiment and rethink the Scuba sound, taking it to a more subdued, emotionally complex level. The result is a deep and heady album that should broaden the horizons of Dubstep, serving as a companion piece to Burial's after-hours lights-down-low blueprint...
