Video edits on base58 not already blogged

This is a guide to the video edits featured in the playlists that do not already have their own individual posts. Future additions to the playlists will be blogged individually.

My Bloody Valentine -- Soon (Andy Weatherall Remix)

from YouTube: Fan-made video for this classic 1990 remix of MBV by Andy Weatherall. For some reason I always saw morris-men and folk dancers in my mind when I heard this track. Archive footage was found on YouTube and edited with the music in Premiere.

Justice vs Unklejam -- Poptimix 07 extract

One of my favourite moments from the 07 mix I did is ‘Genesis’ crashing Unklejam’s party so here’s the accompanying clip which I made earlier this year and may expand on if I get the chance. Got the video from iTunes so the quality is great and it’s just a really stylish video anyway. The addition of ‘Genesis’ just sends extra power coarsing in both directions and it’s a pretty good fit with the jerky movements of the dancers and the sinister tone and effects.

Cortney Tidwell -- Don’t Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson’s Objects In Space Mix)

I bought the Halas & Bachelor book and DVD because I was hunting down some classic animation that I’d seen used in the video James had put together for the Carl Craig remix of Ultramarine’s Hooter’ to air on MTV’s Party Zone. The DVD inluded a short titled ‘Dilemma’ illustrating a general history of mankind punctuated by both conflict and progress.

I thought the visuals were wonderfully distinctive and I’d been trying to think of a good track to set them too. The dazzling Pearson mix of this Tidwell song sprang to mind so here it is. I’ve moved a few scenes around and cut here and there to fit the music better -- the climax in particular woks great as the ‘objects in space’ theme in the music starts to match the audio quite literally.

Madonna (Bedtime Story) vs Biosphere (Novelty Waves) & Autechre (Foil) -- Ultramix 94 extract

Having already created this sequence for Ultramix 94 I just had to follow it up with an accompanying clip as I’m such a fan of the wonderful Madonna video directed by Mark Romanek -- one of my all time favourites. So it came together fairly quickly, enjoyed syncing a few bits such as the liquid dripping to the sound of Autechre’s twisted drums and the whirling dervishes revolving in time to the cavernous warped bass. The effect is to magnify the eerieness of both the music and the video tho certainly there is a compromise of subtlety here in contrast to the original. Changing from one backing track to another halfway through gives a heightened sense of progress too (something I try and engineer in Ultramixes quite often).

AFX -- Laughable Butane Bob

It’s a ‘promojack’. Basically I took the visuals for Pantera’s ‘Planet Caravan’ (an impressive-at-the-time CGI video that I originally spent a couple of years trying to hunt down on VHS to digitise back at college for use in some clips that were later re-used in the ‘Respect’ clip) via downloaded mpg and just replaced the original song with the AFX track. It fits pretty well I think, and often nice to see and hear these things in a new context.

“Respect”

This is a montage of numerous clips digitised from VHS, recorded from MTV in the mid-late 90s. The clips are mostly from dance music videos that were aired on the channel at the time. Here is a list of the sources from which extracts were taken and arranged in order of first appearance:

• countdown sequence (source TBC)
• DJ Hell -- My Definition Of House Music (from Studio !K7’s X-Mix 5 by DJ Hell)
• fireworks footage (source TBC)
• Pantera -- Planet Caravan
• The Firm -- Star Trekkin’
• DJ turntable scratch (source TBC)
• circuit boards (BBC’s ‘Dancing In The Street: A History Of Rock & Roll -- Planet Rock’)
• test footage of asteroids from The Empire Strikes Back ‘making of’ feature
• ? (Compton) (source TBC)
• Deee-Lite -- Groove Is In The Heart
• Partyzone Massive presents ‘ffrr Platinum On Black’ Megamix
• Glastonbury ‘95 title sequence (Channel 4)
• Carl Cox -- Phoebus Apollo
• Michelle Gayle -- Sweetness
• Orbital -- Halcyon
• Gat Decor -- Passion
• The Prodigy -- One Love
• The Shamen -- Transamazonia
• Flowered Up -- Weekender
• 808 State -- Bombadin
• Gavin Friday -- Angel
• BT -- Embracing TheSunshine
• Adiemus -- Adiemus
• New Order -- Bizarre Love Triangle
• Ken Ishii -- Extra
• Bomb The Bass -- Bug Powder Dust
• Ultramarine -- Hooter
• Therapy? -- Loose
• Tricky -- Black Steel
• All Seeing I -- …Beat Goes On
• Beats International -- Dub Be Good To Me
• Leftfield -- Original
• ? (rave footage) (source TBC)
• Atlantic Ocean -- Waterfall
• Moby -- Go!
• Chemical Brothers -- Life Is Sweet
• Massive Attack -- Protection
• Blur -- The Universal
• The Prodigy -- Smack My Bitch Up
• Portishead -- All Mine
• Mike Oldfield -- Let There Be Light

Most of the montage sequence is derived from an edit I created over ten years ago at college (which explains the corny zooming white text that crops up now and then) so it was fun to revisist those clips and reset this all to a tune. I added the ‘eye’ frame to hide and the old base58 logo to hide the MTV ‘bug’ in the top right corner (iirc -- seems odd because the MTV logo would normally be top left and I don’t remember flipping these clips horionztally in Premiere!). The track you hear is the Vince Watson mix of The Black Dog’s ‘4 3s 555′ -- storming sublime tech-house! I guess you could call it an unofficial clip for that track but really it’s just a general montage to show off some of these often rare promos and with a vague message of gratitude and respect to all featured.