Sun Ra – Brother From Another Planet
Arena Radio Night - Part 1 of 2
A documentary recorded from BBC2’s Arena Radio Night in the Mid 1990’s. Weekend Rush and Kool Fm were big targets of the DTI mainly because of the music they were playing was taking listeners away from the legal stations. In the Uk all the legal radio stations, still to this day, play the same main stream commercial junk we are all forced to think is good music…
John Samson – Pleasure documentary
Lecture: Erykah Badu (Madrid 2011)by Red Bull Music Academy
Erykah Badu needs little introduction. Her seminal works like ‘Baduizm’ and the ‘New AmErykah’ series have successively upped the ante in terms of what can be done within the soul spectrum. Erykah fuses cosmic b-girl bravado with the forward-thinking sounds of producers like the Soulquarians, Madlib, and more recently, Academy grad Flying Lotus, to create a sonically varied body of work – selling millions of albums in the process. She also heads up her own record label, Control FreaQ, and has even been caught on the ones and twos recently, under her moniker DJ Lo Down Loretta Brown. Watch her tell the story to Eothen ‘Egon’ Alapatt at the Red Bull Music Academy 2011 in Madrid.
King Midas Sound Documentary Part 2
This is the second part of a documentary on the band King Midas Sound who’s first album ‘Waiting For You’ was released in 2009 on Hyperdub, and who’s second album, an album of reworks and revoiced versions of their first album called ‘Without You’ comes out in November 2011
Directed by Inumikaku (Hiroo Tanaka).
