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Inactive_user_100

A scintillating synth-tastic history of synth music on Bbc - now available on the tube of you for your eyeball pleasure. Its a fascinating look into the history and personalities that made and shaped synth music from Omd to Numan and the equipment used to create those pioneering sounds... will post a link in a min

February 28, 2012 00:20 1 Like
Inactive_user_100

waveformless.blogspot.com/2009/11/synth-britannia-on-you-tube.html?m=1

February 28, 2012 00:21
95349 simonbrewer1987

24 / M / GB

Posts: 209

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX9q-X_GBSM

The Fearless Freaks - The Soft Bulletin

March 05, 2012 17:13
332512 Cookie_monster69

24 / M / GB

Posts: 7

http://documentaryheaven.com/ try this website its got loads of them.

March 27, 2012 03:49 1 Like
142433 nogouda

39 / F / US

Posts: 2

I recommend It MIght Get Loud

March 30, 2012 02:14
142705 Synthbunny

26 / F / US

Posts: 3

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1249171/ <- must see

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478209/ <- if you love metal!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1658487/ <- if you love synth

March 30, 2012 05:23 1 Like
Inactive_user_100

Hype!

March 30, 2012 14:04
Inactive_user_100

Let's Get Lost - The Chet Baker Story

Tried posting a link, but it's not working. You can find the whole doc on Youtube.


March 30, 2012 21:48
Default_male_100 freezy93

80 / M / US

Posts: 5

The Devil and Daniel Johnston is an amazing film, he's a very interest and troubled man. Also, their was a film about Pixies that I saw not too long ago that was pretty rad. Oh, and watch 'Hated', the film about GG Allin if you want to see some fucked up shit. I have no links, sorry. ):

March 31, 2012 01:35 1 Like
99395 Ryantalope

34 / M / GB

Posts: 14

This a film that I have to see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEojGEN9MFo

Better Than Something: Jay Reatard (Trailer)

March 31, 2012 10:58
146571 WIZZARDofSOUND

30 / M / DE

Posts: 1

Hey Joe: The Short Life Of Jimi Hendrix
Instrument (about Fugazi)
American Hardcore



No documentaries, but very good bio-pics:

The Doors
Control

April 03, 2012 15:37 2 Likes
335574 Xtreme_Light

45 / M / DE

Posts: 190

Well here are some of the documentaries I like (with some trailers):

Anvil! The Story of Anvil ( In fact I don´t like the music they do that much - but if you have a heart, this documentary will touch you) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF4H8lB2Y_o&hd=1

Metal - A Headbanger's Journey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etfaqTx0bjg

Iron Maiden - Flight 666 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOsMoBJLAys&hd=1

Metallica - Some Kind Of Monster http://youtu.be/jCtRwt30cd0

Frank Zappa - Biography http://youtu.be/CQH1T9LMpug
and generally everything documentary about Frank Zappa ;)

Anvil! The Story of Anvil - Official Trailer

April 06, 2012 14:19
152953 SNR1984A

24 / M / BR

Posts: 1

If you like stoner, sludge, and other doom-related stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-njKCr6ieKE

Such Hawks Such Hounds (Full Documentary)

April 17, 2012 05:51 1 Like
152539 Thauling

23 / M / GB

Posts: 12

"Touch The Sound" - if you're interested in Sound/Percussion/Acoustic Ecology - focuses on Evelyn Glennie.
Ditto Fred Frith's "Step Across The Border"

I don't think you need to be invested in classical music to enjoy "Knowledge Is the Beginning (2005)," about the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra -- music bridging the Israeli/Palestinian divide.

"El Sistema" Another German documentary (they get around!) on Jose Abreu's socially reformative music education program. Read more about The System and Abreu at the wiki. He's perhaps my favourite living human.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Sistema

The Music Instinct (2009) - If you're interested in the psychology of music/neurology/music cognition.
/Excellent round-up, with the clever application of Bobby McFerrin. Some of the epiphanies are devalued, but it's worth watching in lieu of the two-hour talks available elsewhere. There's so much left to discover./

"All Tomorrow's Parties" (2009) is wonderful, 'though perhaps more of a concert film.

Sigur Ros' "Heima," naturally (cf, again)

"Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould" (1993) Is an objectively excellent film.

+1 to 30 Century Man (Scott Walker)

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I'd be interested in hearing opinions on the 1 Giant Leap (2002) film(s?).
Can't wait to see "Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise"

April 17, 2012 10:33
152539 Thauling

23 / M / GB

Posts: 12

Oh, I watched many of those on the SkyArts Channels, for those fortunate enough to own them.
Sky 129/130(HD)

April 17, 2012 10:52
152539 Thauling

23 / M / GB

Posts: 12

I realise this is verging on spam, but here's a transcript of the La Monte Young interview from "The World According to John Coltrane."

In the documentary The World According to John Coltrane, narrator Ed Wheeler remarks:

"In 1960, Coltrane left Miles [Davis] and formed his own quartet to further explore modal playing, freer directions, and a growing Indian influence. They transformed "My Favorite Things", the cheerful populist song from 'The Sound of Music,' into a hypnotic eastern dervish dance. The recording was a hit and became Coltrane's most requested tune—and a bridge to broad public acceptance."


(La Monte Young)
"[JC] was using what were like elements of minimalism in his playing, when he would take a fixed constellation of tones and do these very interesting mathematical permutations on them. It's not unlike what you would hear Lester Young doing in Blues. But, he had refined the process because of his exposure to Indian classical music and other Eastern traditions of modalism. You can hear it tied into his Blues legacy and brought into a new level of refinement and understanding."

(Narrator)
"In the Eastern and African cultures Coltrane turned to for inspiration, music is a means to enlightenment, not an end in itself.
His drive to expand his musical horizons increasingly became a process of spiritual development. His playing and composing - a probing of soul and spirit with his audience as active participants rather than passive witnesses.
A friendship with Ravi Shankar that began in the late 1950s--with informal discussions and jam sessions--became an education in an ancient Science of sound; in which musical structures map specific states of consciousness."

(La Monte Young)
"One of the really important things about modal music is that you have a set of frequency relationships that are repeated over and over. Because of the emphasis on intonation in Indian classical music, this set of frequency relationships is very much in exactly the same place, so that each frequency comes right back at the same place. This sets up a series of patterns in the mechanism of the nervous system of the listener, so that a psychological state is created.
If you believe the Universe is composed of vibrations, then you can understand how a study of sound--which is the most concrete form of vibrations that the human mechanism can immediately assimilate--can be an introduction to the understanding of universal structure."

April 17, 2012 11:03
136565 marybarat

22 / F / FR

Posts: 33

I don't know if anyone mentionned it yet but Dig! blew my mind.

Absolutely love Brian Jonestown Massacre. Dandy Warhols too, although I'm not into them like I used to be. But the movie is worth a look just for Anton Newcombe, he's a genius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84oiQJ1N9To

Dig! (trailer)

April 17, 2012 12:00 3 Likes
Inactive_user_100

Insurgentes - Steven Wilson , Lasse Hoile
For all fans of Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson, Blackfield, No Man..etc.
And also for those who are curious about what it's like in a brilliant 21st century musicians head :P

April 21, 2012 22:05
156941 helen_bot

29 / F / GB

Posts: 7

If you're interested in footwork, juke etc this documentary is excellent:

https://vimeo.com/36275353

And the BBC recently screened a great one about reggae's influence on music in the UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ydp83/Reggae_Britannia/

I'm really looking forward to checking out that synth one!

From Jack to Juke: 25 Years of Ghetto House

April 26, 2012 21:47
157762 ApolloSeaVerm...

31 / M / US

Posts: 12

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet but I thought the Bob Moog documentary was pretty interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7VGkhknT9E

Moog Trailer

April 29, 2012 08:13 2 Likes

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