wizard Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 anyone know if this film/soundtrack has been released yet? heard it? seen it? know what the fuck im talking about? i read the deal on this a couple months ago, and it has since slipped my mind, and voila has re-emerged. im certain it will be an independant release, so it wont be on many big screens at all, but this is a truly innovative concept and quite a challenge even for jeff.holla------------------don't act too cool because you might get shot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
back2basics- Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 Hey give us the deatils, i havn't herd nmuch about it just that something was happening.------------------I want to go out blazing..not fade away.Trust in the currency of relationships, it's hard to earn but easy to loose - back2basics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzojournilist Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 HEY!the cd sucks its all ambient sounds with no bass linei watched the movie on mute and played the cd which was actually cool for 5 minutes, then i just switched back to porn and threw on mills live from tokyo. http://www.clubplanet.com/content/cdreviews/cdreviews24a.asp ------------------ once at a rave while tripping on acid someone slowly and akwardly said to me I'm not retarded, I'm just deaf I can't hear to well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeydollaz Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 Originally posted by wizard:anyone know if this film/soundtrack has been released yet? heard it? seen it? know what the fuck im talking about? i read the deal on this a couple months ago, and it has since slipped my mind, and voila has re-emerged. im certain it will be an independant release, so it wont be on many big screens at all, but this is a truly innovative concept and quite a challenge even for jeff.hollayeah def keep us up on this ! i forgot about that ... ------------------Your ad here !contact joeydollaz@aol.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizard Posted April 17 Author Report Share Posted April 17 b2b, this is what it's all about... Jeff Mills Metropolis (sdtk.) [Tresor Records] This is Mills first album since his release of Waveform Transmission Vol. 3 in `94, also on Tresor Records. The Detroit pioneer was so inspired by the 1926 masterpiece by German filmmaker Fritz Lang that he wanted to update the film with contemporary soundtrack. The original film version was released in 1928 (the original 1926 black and white no longer exists) and is a story that takes place in the year 2026, 100 years after the movie’s release. In the movie, Lang shows how beautiful the city of Metropolis is with its suspended streets and futuristic zig-zagging buildings. Lang also alludes to the horror of this modern city being cold and crowded with underground workers running machines, which keeps Metropolis alive. The album is not the hard beat techno anthems you would expect of Jeff Mills, but rather a smooth futuristic acid sound, giving out a similar tone to early Kraftwerk tracks, with just pure techno. It defines the movie well, with such tracks "Robot Replica" and "They Who Lay Beneath", my personal favorites. --Shareef Ben Dahlan gonzo, i didnt expect bangin techno, the film is a masterpiece and the idea itself is quite an undertaking from mills, IMO it was quite a risk for himself as an artist. i will appreciate the effort regardless.be cool------------------don't act too cool because you might get shot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
back2basics- Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 Originally posted by wizard:b2b, this is what it's all about... Jeff Mills Metropolis (sdtk.) [Tresor Records] This is Mills first album since his release of Waveform Transmission Vol. 3 in `94, also on Tresor Records. The Detroit pioneer was so inspired by the 1926 masterpiece by German filmmaker Fritz Lang that he wanted to update the film with contemporary soundtrack. The original film version was released in 1928 (the original 1926 black and white no longer exists) and is a story that takes place in the year 2026, 100 years after the movie’s release. In the movie, Lang shows how beautiful the city of Metropolis is with its suspended streets and futuristic zig-zagging buildings. Lang also alludes to the horror of this modern city being cold and crowded with underground workers running machines, which keeps Metropolis alive. The album is not the hard beat techno anthems you would expect of Jeff Mills, but rather a smooth futuristic acid sound, giving out a similar tone to early Kraftwerk tracks, with just pure techno. It defines the movie well, with such tracks "Robot Replica" and "They Who Lay Beneath", my personal favorites. --Shareef Ben Dahlan gonzo, i didnt expect bangin techno, the film is a masterpiece and the idea itself is quite an undertaking from mills, IMO it was quite a risk for himself as an artist. i will appreciate the effort regardless.be coolWell i also think that he is putting out some EP's soon. It COULD be that he is taking tracks from the album and putting beats to them, it would make sence for him to try something like that. Good to see electronic people doing more soundtracks. ------------------I want to go out blazing..not fade away.Trust in the currency of relationships, it's hard to earn but easy to loose - back2basics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzojournilist Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 Originally posted by wizard:with such tracks "Robot Replica" and "They Who Lay Beneath", my personal favorites. --Shareef Ben Dahlan actually these songs here are hotbut never really got into the rest of the albumgotta go on a job interviewpeace------------------ once at a rave while tripping on acid someone slowly and akwardly said to me I'm not retarded, I'm just deaf I can't hear to well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewel44317 Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 Haven't seen the movie, but I picked up the CD a couple weeks ago. It's, um....well I would def not say it sux like GJ did, but its way out there...like it conjurs up images of some deranged artist in a dark room with a 45 watt bulb swinging above his head trying to express his frustrations on canvas....think ACID, lol...the CD might work for afterhours after a loooong night out, or maybe if a bunch of friends were gonna chill at home one night and get all sorts of funky, but you would def not wanna throw this on before a night out. I myself have never heard anything like it, and it that regard I respect it for its originality. Mills gives a brief synopsis about his inspirations for this album on the inside of the CD cover- very interesting. I dig it...he def added a facet to the spectrum of electronic music.------------------"Spontaneity is the key to spice in life" "Music makes the world go 'round...so keep it spinnin!""Happiness is like a butterfly, which when pursued is just out of your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly, it will alight upon you." Walt WhitmanAIM: Jewel44317 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizard Posted April 17 Author Report Share Posted April 17 Originally posted by jewel44317:Haven't seen the movie, but I picked up the CD a couple weeks ago. It's, um....well I would def not say it sux like GJ did, but its way out there...like it conjurs up images of some deranged artist in a dark room with a 45 watt bulb swinging above his head trying to express his frustrations on canvas....think ACID, lol...the CD might work for afterhours after a loooong night out, or maybe if a bunch of friends were gonna chill at home one night and get all sorts of funky, but you would def not wanna throw this on before a night out. I myself have never heard anything like it, and it that regard I respect it for its originality. Mills gives a brief synopsis about his inspirations for this album on the inside of the CD cover- very interesting. I dig it...he def added a facet to the spectrum of electronic music.NICE!!!thats what i was looking for really, or moreso the work as a whole, how it fits to the film itself. having seen the original, many years past, it was hard to envision what he would do with it. obviously it was going to be minimal, but would it have direction and would it feel right. i had a gut feel that he would do something very nice with it.i think for mills, adding a facet to the electronic spectrum may be what he does best.kudos------------------don't act too cool because you might get shot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilly Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 I have it..picked it up a few months ago..It is different...not a whole cd of hard beats...I happen to like it...------------------" I give in to sin ..Because you have to make this life liveable "-DMSmoknjilly@aol.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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