XTC - "Radios in Motion". (1978). A cameraman's nightmare: The show was known for requiring bands to play 100% live, unlike "Top of the Pops" where everyone mimed to a backing track. XTC arrived with such intensity and such phenomenal volume that the BBC technical crew panicked.
Over 100 minutes of brilliance from one of the very best now. 19 years ago:
This is @AphexTwin @ All Tomorrow's Parties, Minehead, UK 09.12.07
36 tracks, veering from genre to genre. As always, just a masterclass on the stage. Tracklist in comments.
Reminder that all mixes uploaded here today go on my Kofi for download tonight.
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According to Wong Kar-Wai, "Chungking Express" (1994) and "Fallen Angels" (1995) should be considered as a single film which is 3 hours long and watched as a double bill. When he was asked, why he had made these two stories which have no relationship at all to each other and how he could connect them, he replied,
"The main characters of 'Chungking Express' are not Fay Wang or Takashi Kaneshiro, but the city itself, the night and day of Hong Kong. 'Chungking Express' and 'Fallen Angels' together are the bright and dark of Hong Kong.”
He further added,
"I see the films as inter-reversible, the character of Fay Wang could be the character of Takashi in 'Fallen Angels'; Brigitte Lin in Chungking could be Leon Lai in 'Fallen Angels'. All of their characters are inter-reversible. Also, in Chungking we were shooting from a very long distance with long lenses, but the characters seem close to us."
P.S: On this day, 31 years ago, "Fallen Angels" (1995) was released in Hong Kong.
¿#Jalisco se está separando de México?
El estudio profundo del 'Bloque de Jalisco' muestra el movimiento geológico que está teniendo esta sección hacia el Océano Pacífico. En millones de años esta porción podría convertirse en una isla.
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Happy 55th birthday to Richard D. James, otherwise known as the legendary Aphex Twin.
Five and a half decades of life, masterminding some of electronic music’s strangest and most unforgettable sounds.
What better way to kick off #NightBoatToAugust than with the official music video for #NightBoatToCairo… It’s hard to believe this video wasn’t shot on location in Egypt 😎
'Before the hits came the hustle'
"Take It Or Leave It” our 1981 film, newly restored by the @BFI will be released on DVD / Blu-Ray on 19th October, featuring a host of extras (see via the link).
Pre order it now from the BFI: https://t.co/2LAikZhXkG