Audio Post: The Tangent
Like some heavy jazz influence with your prog? Here’s progressive band The Tangent with their song In Earnest off their 2006 album A Place in the Queue. It’s a really chill album with some playfulness scattered throughout it.
Audio Post: HORSE the band
With a group of friends I saw a band over a year ago (was it a year ago?) whose show still remains one of my favorites. It was intimate with a lot of crowd interaction.
Here’s HORSE the band with their song Big Business off their 2009 album Desperate Living.
Milli Vanilli Gets Movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEcTK2Jy5cw
Florian Gallenberger will write the screenplay and direct the film on the scandal of 80s popstars Milli Vanilli. This will be the German-born filmmaker’s first Hollywood movie.
German record producer Frank Farian hired dancers Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan to be the face of the singers of a band he put together; portraying them as the actual singers for the songs. Their looks were used to propel the songs on the charts. Rumors gradually spread that they lip-sync onstage; leading to empirical evidence when during a live performance, the recording they lip-synched to began skipping. The duo panicked and fled the stage.
Rob and Fab then had a change of heart and refused to promote another album unless they get to really sing, but Farian opposed it and revealed the charade to the public. The two attempted a legitimate music career despite the shame, but eventually the scandal overcame Rob who died from a drug overdose.
As an 80s kid, I am genuinely looking forward to the film. Milli Vanilli were huge and the scandal felt surreal; no one involved was innocent, and it ended tragically.
Gallenberger won various German film awards, including an Academy Award for his short film Quiero Ser — the story of Milli Vanilli is in good hands.
(Deadline)
Audio Post: Porcupine Tree
Here’s Fear of a Blank Planet by prog band Porcupine Tree, off their 2007 album of the same name.
It’s an excellent album and one of my favorites.
You can buy Fear of a Blank Planet HERE.
Let It Be Music Video
A group of 80s and 90s stars sing Let It Be in this video for a Norwegian show. It’s nothing short of surreal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8cNHCP3juQ&feature=player_embedded#!
Daft Punk’s Derezzed for Tron: Legacy
A new trailer for Tron: Legacy has been released, which heavily features one of Daft Punk’s songs for the soundtrack entitled Derezzed. Too excited; I cannot wait.
Nine Inch Nail’s Year Zero Moves Forward as HBO Miniseries
In 2007 Nine Inch Nails released a concept album entitled Year Zero. Coupled with it was an alternate reality game to further the concept that dealt with a fictional future where politics leaned heavily towards evil intentions and fanatics drowned out sanity.
Trent Reznor wrote the album during his frustrations with the Bush Administration, but put a spin on the music instead of writing a straightforward protest album. With a dash of science fiction in a form called, “The Presence”, Year Zero had an underlining horror element.
Now, why am I talking about it? Because Year Zero is finally moving forward to become a miniseries like Reznor has hoped for. Daniel Knauf of Carnivale is penning the pilot with BBC Worldwide Productions as the studio. It’s planned to be an HBO miniseries — which is smart, given the subject matter. There’s no word yet on a release date.
Sure, the inspiration for the concept is now dated, but the story was captivating. And there’s a lot that can be expounded on in a television format. It’s bound to be a very intriguing miniseries.