ok, so i hope this works, but if it doesn't i do apologise...
Right..this is the Elektrons, with "Get up", featuring Soup from Jurassic Five and the vocalist Pete Simpson. The video, much like the music, refers back to a really 'old school' style, featuring original footage from New York's breakdance and Disco scene. Much like alot of Soups work with Jurassic Five, the mc's lyrics have a positive feel, and the timing of this tracks re-release, 1st August, meant it was still in time to make an impact as a summer party anthem. The graffiti styled animation is a classical style, using well known symbols like the bombox with wings or the green robot. I especially like the way they merge the 'old school' footage with this classical style
in the disco sequence, animating original footage by highlighting several features on womens faces. This gives the old footage a new feel.
I think the real reason I enjoy watching it is because its just nice to see footage I have seen before transformed into something totally different and freshly inspiring.
I hope you all enjoy it, I just think it is very cool. :)
Monday 22 October 2007
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The 'found footage' feel of the video perhaps creates a nice parallel to the process of sampling within this genre of music?
Old Skool!
This video looks so cool. the mix of cartoons with what I can assume is majoritively old footage (unless people grew their afros and wore CRAZY headgear especially for this video) is brilliant. gives it a nice funky feel and blends the old with the new
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