The official TRON LEGACY trailer
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BOOM!!
SCI—FI SOUL
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Aside from the cosmic b-boy musings of ‘Reflections…’ Quaid is perhaps best well known, on these pages at least, for his ongoing love affair with soulful electronic music — citing the big ‘D’ and some of it’s visionary residents as a major influence. Sci—Fi Soul is a term Quaid uses to describe his music, not just because of his Sci-Fi obsession but more blatantly from sampling such classic scores as Gill Mellé’s ‘Andromeda Strain’ & Lalo Schifrin’s ‘THX 1138′.
But whether it’s the Gilles Peterson-championed body music of ‘Feel’, the synth-funk of ‘Raw Shit’ or collaborative pieces with vocalist’s like Nigerian soul-boy Ade on ‘City on Fire’, Quaid’s aesthetic remains the same – raw, emotive electronic music.
This is an ongoing project, so we’ll be adding more back catalogue, edits and new material in the coming weeks, hope ur feeling it.
RIP Robert Mccall
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Robert Mccall, once described by Isaac Asimov as the “nearest thing to an artist in residence from outer space” has died, aged 90 after a life inspiring and illustrating the dreams of a generation of space freaks.
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Illum Sphere
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Biosphere 2
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This is a scifi film waiting to happen.
A partially decaying Biosphere, over run by nature after a science experiment gone wrong.
“When the human guinea pigs left the structure after two years, crops had failed, noxious gases had built up, the water had turned acidic and the site was overrun by ”crazy ants” “
Noah Sheldon’s haunting photoset show the current state of this $200M structure, the largest sealed environment ever created (it had it’s own million-gallon sea !!) which has been mostly disused, ever since the original biospherians left.
Couldn’t we just head over there now and film that ‘Dark Silent Running‘ idea we’ve been kicking around.
The set is ready to go and the soundtrack has been in the bank for months.
More over at bldgblog
MUSIC FROM THE FUTURE (PART 4)
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We go from the experimental to the mainstream: a little something from 1979’s ‘Buck Rogers in the 25th Century’. It’s scored by composer Stu Phillips who put together the soundtrack to the original ‘Battlestar Galactica’ series a year earlier — so he’s no don by any stretch of the imagination.
And for the most part it’s a by-the-numbers Hollywood soundtrack, but this track ‘Something Kinda Funky’, taken from the film’s spacey disco scene, does have some nice synth work and syncopated drum programming (courtesy of Ian Underwood from Frank Zappa’s The Mothers of Invention) if you can get over the cheesy lead b-line…
Stu Phillips — Something Kinda Funky
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Punch it!
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A collection of hyperspace clips from films.
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MUSIC FROM THE FUTURE (PART 3)
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As promised now we touch on Jerry Goldsmith’s work for the surreal, slightly camp, but epic sci-fi classic Logan’s Run. Much of this soundtrack still sounds future-proof, though it’s hardly fitting for the one’s & two’s (rectified to a certain extent by having been sampled by nu-skool heds like Soundspecies and J.Quaid) it comes from that mid-70s golden era of analogue synth experimentation that unwittingly created soundscapes that sound way more futuristic than almost anything produced 30 years later.
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First official TRON poster
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Wish they would loose the ‘Disney’ from right above the title, but otherwise….not too shabby.
PHASE IV
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Random Sci-Fi dopeness from Saul Bass — thanks to Brother Murray for the heds up.
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