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Check out gmunk’s new showreal, amazing as usual.
Robin Soulier is a photographer from Paris, who takes photos of buildings through the perspective of reflections. Really digging his work. Check.
From Resident Advisor:
If you have any chance of moving forward, you must know where you’ve been. So goes the thought behind The Black Dog’s nascent mix series, in which this Underground Resistance podcast is the second. Earlier last month, the Sheffield trio celebrated the work of minimal master Robert Hood, who recently returned the favor by remixing the group’s “Train by the Autobahn.”
As a group that has relentlessly looked forward, the dogs have earned the right to look back a little bit—in the late ’80s and early ’90s, their sound was most decidedly the future and still is, as Soma’s recent re-release of their early work, Book of Dogma, and 2008 album Radio Scarecrow has so aptly proved. This mix and—presumably the ones that will follow—are celebrations of influence and a timely reminder that Underground Resistance still have few peers when it comes to blistering techno and hitech jazz. You can learn even more about the interstellar fugitives here.
Tracklist
01. Underground Resistance - Antimatter - Underground Resistance
02. Voice Of Electrifying Mojo
03. Underground Resistance - Afrogermanic - Underground Resistance
04. Underground Resistance - Mirage - Underground Resistance
05. Underground Resistance - Windchime - Underground Resistance
06. Underground Resistance - Talkin2Z - Underground Resistance
07. Underground Resistance - Final Frontier - Underground Resistance
08. Underground Resistance - In Or Out - Underground Resistance
09. Underground Resistance - Maroon - Underground Resistance
10. Underground Resistance - Death of My Neighbor - Underground Resistance
11. Underground Resistance - Baghdad Express - Underground Resistance
12. Underground Resistance - Inversions - Underground Resistance
13. Underground Resistance - Technology Gap - Underground Resistance
14. Underground Resistance - Antimatter - Underground Resistance
15. Underground Resistance - I Am UR - Underground Resistance
16. Underground Resistance - Tazumal - Underground Resistance
17. Underground Resistance - Hunting the Program - Underground Resistance
18. Underground Resistance - Toxic Broadcast - Underground Resistance
19. Underground Resistance - Detonate - Underground Resistance
20. Underground Resistance - Orbit (Black Dog edit) - Underground Resistance
21. Underground Resistance - Riot - Underground Resistance
22. Underground Resistance - Base Camp Alpha 808 - Underground Resistance
23. Underground Resistance - Entering Quadrant 5 - Underground Resistance
24. Underground Resistance - Adrenalin - Underground Resistance
25. Underground Resistance - Gamma Ray - Underground Resistance
26. Underground Resistance - Ambush - Underground Resistance
27. Underground Resistance - Sea Quake - Underground Resistance
28. Underground Resistance - Kill My Radio Station - Underground Resistance
Full Interview about the Mix at RA
The demoscene is a computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos, which are non-interactive audio-visual motion graphic presentations that run in real-time on a computer. The main goal of a demo is to show off programming, artistic, and musical skills.
I first was made aware of the demoscene back in the early nineties when a friend lent me a floppy (fnar) disk for my amiga and told me to check it out.
I think it was called Acid Jesus or something along those lines and it totally blew me away. I never imagined that my humble little amiga could produce anything that visually exciting on a 880k disk. The graphics and music where better than anything produced by the large software houses at the time.
The demoscene first appeared during the 8-bit era on computers such as the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum, and came to prominence during the rise of the 16/32-bit home computers (the Atari ST and the Amiga). In the early years, demos had a strong connection with software cracking. When a cracked program was started, the cracker or his team would take credit with a graphical introduction called a “crack intro” (shortened cracktro). Later, the making of intros and standalone demos evolved into a new subculture independent of the software (piracy) scene.
For me, the independent and underground illegal beginnings of the scene share parallels with that of graphiti, and in its own right this mostly unknown art subculture is as valid as any artform out there. It may not have had the same impact as Graphiti on mainstream culture, but for me growing up it was as influential as any art form could be. It introduced me to motion-graphics and computer visualisation and it also was influential in getting me into electronic music.
Fast forward to 2008 and the scene is still very much alive, with coders making demo’s still for all platlforms still including the old 8bit and 16bit computers of the 80/90s.
Of course with technology taking massive leaps since then so have the demos.
Below are my current top 11 of these motion graphic code based masterpieces. A deserved art-form in its own right and I for one hope the scene continues to grow.
11: Sincere by The Black Lotus
10: Receptor by TBC
Drum and Bass visual treat.
9:Demoscene Outreach Reel
A montage compiled by NVision and is an excellent example of modern day demos. Many of the clips featured here will feature down the rest of this page.
8:Midnight Run by ASD
Really like this one because its not your normal demo with the obligatory camera down wobbly tunnel rave video cliché’s.
7: Stargazer by Andromeda & Orb
6: Final Audition by Plastic
5: Media Error by Fairlight , cncd & Orange
4:FR-042: Debris by Farbrausch
This really should be at number one but for some unknown reason. Even to me. Its not.
The astonishing fact about this demo is that its complete unzipped state its size is only 177k.177K! - Its really pushing programming to the limits that lazy game studios just don’t bother with these days. Listen to the music, watch the video and then answers on a postcard exactly how this is 177k. I’m going with witchcraft personally. Anyway watch, scratch your head and enjoy.177k??!!! download if you go to their website they explain how its done if you really need to know.
3:The Seeker by Still
2:Lifeforce by ASD
Brilliant demo this, but the music has some incredibly dodgy moments including a wailing rock out guitar moment that for a minute had me thinking I was watching a Michael Bay film, right at the climactic moment where he likes to reach cheese critical mass. Normally with some angled jaw wooden actor diving down an explosive corridor in slow motion to save a baby who was inexplicably in harms way. Get passed that though and there are some wonderfully conceived and well visualised moments in this demo that mixes after effects style 2d motion with traditional Demoscene 3d.
1: Only One Wish by Fairlight & The Black Lotus
Fairlight have been around since I can remember and this demo, with sceners The Black Lotus, is my current favourite.
All above videos are available to download in their binary executable format for viewing in real-time on a PC. www.pouet.net and www.scene.org have them all to download.
Links for the Demoscene:
www.capped.tv
www.scene.org
www.nvision2008.com/
www.pouet.net
www.demoscene.tv/
http://still-scene.org/
www.farbrausch.de/
Great video doc from Current TV about photographer Martha Cooper and the first documented pictures of graphiti and hip-hop in early 80’s New York.
Rob Chiu of The Ronin directed this amazing short for Digital Kitchen and the 12th Annual Webby Awards. Check it out Here and read more about it at Motionographer.com