Messing around with my modular synthesizer. Sometimes nice sounds come around.
A Pidgeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existance (2014)
This is the scandinavian Pulp Fiction. Just without any action. And without any plot. And a weird disturbing kind of humor. You watch this movie for about 30 minutes and it feels significantly longer. You really hope it makes some sense in the end. That’s what you hope. Oddly facinating.
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Demon Seed (1977)
This film is picking up on AI when its still in Kindergarden. Cool Effects, 70ies super computers, synthetic consciousness, and an actor (side character, which ultimatly dies) looking confusingly similar to the “Hackerman” from “Kung Fury”. When the smart home automation is taking a weird turn, employing deepfakes on visitors, this is just the beginning of an amazingly shocking storyline never seen before.
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BAM BAM: The Sister Nancy Story (2024)
Who is the greatest? Sister Nancy probably is, when it comes to jamaican female power. Often reduced to her super hit called “Bam Bam”, this woman has a lot of more to offer and the documentary, starring herself, showes it all. True inspiration for women in music and in general.
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She-Devils On Wheels (1968)
It’s the late 60ies, it’s america. it’s motorcycles. And you might think of the Hells Angles or Easy Rider first. However there have been female motorcycle crews too. Female empowerment meets trash could be the motto of this film. It documents the live and times of the purely fictional female crew named “The Man Eaters”. Name says it all. Definitly no lack of brutality in this flick.
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The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Films about weird, ancient, satanic rites are mostly worth watching. This case proves this asumption right. Even though this is an adoption from a 1934 more or less trash novel, Christopher Lee does a great job in making this movie watch-worthy. The plot jumps right into the scene and stays hot and fast paced until the end.
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C2C – Beause Of You
Kid Koala – Wrong Side Of The Tracks
Satellites – Seni Sen Oldugun Icin Sevdim
Thee Lakesiders – Parachute
The Colossians – Alejandra
Ellen Beth Abdi – Sad Chords
Erykah Badu – Other Side Of The Game
Ellen Beth Abdi – Elsewhere
The Natural Yogurt Band – Soft Cheese
Ghia – Out Of Luck
Annie – The Greatest Hit
Pelegrino & Zodyaco – Malia
CH.OP. – My Best Friend
Zackey Force Funky & XL Middleton – Hey MF
Jelly Roll Morton – Pianists and Honky Tonks
Che & Ray – Old Stuff
Leon Bell – Nostalgie
Jimmy Ponder – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Bonnie Warwicke – Walk On By
Elton John – Your Song
Lemon Jelly – A Song For Jack
Helge Schneider & Pete York – Heart Attack No.1
Thelonious Monk Quartet -Nutty
Janko Nilovic & The Soul Surfers – Maze Of Sounds
Eins Zwo – Tschuldigung
Cool Savage – Neongelb
Naughty By Nature – Written On Your Kitten
Shurik’n – Y’a pas la choix
Aufwärts – Channel 7
Sofa Surfers- Can I get an witness
Harry J All Stars – Liquidator Riddim
Jackie Mittoo – Ghetto Organ
Augustus Pablo – Far East
Dj Shadow – Organ Donor
Renegate – Terrorist
Sandro Brugnolini – Dichromeico
Masahiko Sato – Andy Warhol
Alessandro Alessandroni – Frustrazione
Sandro Brugnolini – Africaneidico
Jay Richford & Gary Stevan – Flying High
Paolo Ferrara – Regardless
Mario Molino – Andante Ritmico
Mario Molino – Barbara
Mario Molino – Cometa Leslie
Alessandro Alessandroni – Orgoglio
Masahiko Sato – TBSF
Moggi – Danza Galattica
Gruppo D’Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza – Settimino
1. Ebo Taylor – Heaven
2. K. Frimpong – Hwehwe Mu Na Yi Wo Mpena
3. Oscar Sulley & The Uhuru Dance Band – Bukom Mashie
4. Cos-Ber-Zam – Né Noya
5. Marijata – Otanhunu
6. Rob – Make It Fast, Make It Slow
7. Ebo Taylor – Nga Nga
8. Los Issifu & His Moslems – Kana Soro
9. Uppers International – Dankasa
10. Apagya Show Band – Ma Nserew Me
11. Muyei Power – Bi Loko
12. Gyedu-Blay Ambolley – Apple
13. Muyei Power – Yamba Sowe
14. Itadi – Live In Other World
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
College humor sci-fi. Bill and Ted travel time in a phone booth in order to do some research for their final history exam. Untimately some major and not so major figures of history are collected and meet up in the present (well 1989 for that matter) day. So thats the kind of movie Keanu Reeves did before he entered the matrix. Cult movie.
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Sorry To Bother You (2018)
A wild, funny and fast dystopian movie which is based in a call center (before they got replaced by cheaper AI bots). Cassius needs desperately some money and takes on a lousy job. But somehow he is good at it, gets promoted and finds out about the real business behind the scene.
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Detroit 9000 (1973)
I didn’t even know this movie had a trailer. In my memory 90% of this movie is a hot persuit. I wrote an article on this one about 12 years ago and it is still valid. Find out more.
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Volver (2006)
Family drama at its best. The grandmaster of spanish cinema, Pedro Almodóvar, develops a multi-layered story about a maybe not so normal family. Complicated relationships, strong emotions in every direction, great actors and here and there a little humor.
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Pi (1998)
A fast paced dark and obscure “math” thriller. Unemployed number scientist Max Choen comes across some mysterious 216 digit number, which seems to hold the key to all the mysteries of the world. From religious affairs to stockmarkets. This leaves the door wide open for conspiracy theories.
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Addis Ababa Band – Koklokkemanifest
Addis Ababa Band – Mass Confusion
Grotto – Doomed
Blackfoot – Running
Semi Colon – Isi Agboncha
Cosmique Hypnotique – Cobramagma
Cosmique Hypnotique – Coral Soul
The Oscillations – I’m A Lover
Ricky Banda – Who’s That Guy
Mother Tongue – Djangaloma Dara
Terakaft – Jag
Mammane Sani – Lamru
Mr. Güder – Diggin Dirt
The Specials – Guns Of Navarone
Booker T and the MG’s – Soul Limbo
Super Wolf – Anybody Can Do It
David Bowie – The Man Who Sold The World
Tocotronic – Crash
Thurston Moore – Sans Limites
Hans Hass – Welche Farbe Hat Der Wind
Neue Generation – Heiß, Heiß
Apotheke – Hi Baby Out
Baken Beans – The Edge Of The World
No Use For A Name – No It All
Technotronic – Rocking over the beat (Manchester rmx)
Glenn Miller – Cowboy Serenade
San Ul Lim – It was probably late summer
Die Zimmermänner – Keiner ruft Cornelia an
Telly Savalas – You’ve lost that lovin feeling
Gerhard Heinz – Disco Bar
Dimitris Papadimitrou – Rock Star Fantesy II
Run DMC – Sucker MCs
Rock Steady Crew – Hey You
Sugar Hill Gang – Apache
Fantones – Simla Beat Theme
Frenzy (1972)
An Alfred Hitchcock, and one of the few films he shot in England after his move to Hollywood. It’s actually quite impressive, seeing a shabby London of 1972. And there is of course this damn necktie murderer. Hard to catch. Chief Inspector Oxford (and his wife) takes care of the case, ready to solve the job. Besides the crime there is a lot of british humor in the film, which I didn’t expect, but liked.
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Fido (2006)
“Good Zombies are hard to find.” This movie playes in a 1950s american half dystopia and half utopia. Zombies are basically domesticated, but there are still some issues… An easy going comedy, featuring an unusually familar Carrie-Anne Moss (after all this Matrix stuff she did) and a really funny Billy Connolly as “Fido”, the good zombie.
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The Wicker Man (1973)
This is an interesting horror flim placed in Scotland. Christopher Lee as Sergant Neil Howie is send out to the outer Hybrids to solve the case of a lost girl. However nobody seems to remember that girl, not even her supposed mother. As he does some research he is drawn deeper and deeper into the circles and mysteries of an obscure cult.
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Swing Kids (1993)
1939, Hamburg, Germany. The Nazis are already in full effect. However there is a small youth movement (or kids for that mattter), which still enjoys american swing music and lives by its codes. Adapted from the historical movement comes a film, displaying the extreme contrasts between the ballrooms celebrating swing and the political reality.
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Piratensender Powerplay (1982)
This film is a german classic. Two dudes are running a priate radio station out of an old van. There are a lot of side stories, dad jokes, early eighties humor and a great Evelyn Hamann. Shot in Bavaria. A hit back then, more or less forgotten nowadays, but essential to watch for radio hosts nowadays.
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PVA – Rain
Lucrecia Dalt – Cosa Rara
Ohmslice – Broken Phase Candy
Rashad Becker – Deadlock
PVA – Flood
Nidia & Valentina – Rapido
Zdenek Liska – The Tiger’s Breath
Umbrafono – Film 227
Lucrecia Dalt – Over Unity
Zdenek Liska – Surveiliance On Standby
Glen Porter / Jessie Jones – Pale Rider