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- Rocked the Nation (Part 3)
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Previously seen mainly at major rock concerts visuals effects are…
Taipei Times – May 28, 2008
Like their sound colleagues VJs fashion the mood atmosphere and tact of the lights from track to track. In major cities across the world they have formed their own small scene. Organizations representing VJs such as those in Hamburg and Berlin agree that an evening of electronic music in a club can¡t be pulled off without a VJ. ¡§It was simply the next step. Pictures were modified to sound and over time it became more compositional¡¨ said Olaf Kretschmar of the Club Commission Berlin. Club visuals were brought to a new level of sophistication at a wild techno festival in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Previously light shows were commonly integrated into rock concerts but in the electronic music genre the light effects have a special meaning.
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Rocked the Nation (Part 3)
New Zealand Herald – May 28, 2008
50: In 1971 Bruno Lawrence takes his BLERTA travelling music road show on tour for the first time and gets people dancing all around the world. 49: Saucy Sharon O’Neill got pulses racing with her spa video for Asian Paradise in 1980 and strikes it big with Maxine in 1983 but then record company CBS pulls the pin and she can’t record for four years. 48: In the 1960s Douglas Lilburn one of New Zealand’s foremost classical composers ditches his traditional approach in favour of electronic music. 47: In 2000 Anika Moa signs to Atlantic records but soon realises America is not for her. 46: Hello Sailor and Dragon share a very rock’n'roll Ponsonby flat in the 70s. “They moved in upstairs and we moved in downstairs like an infestation of cockroaches” remembers Todd Hunter. 45: Max Merritt is a 60s rock’n'roll star but his greatest hit is 1975′s beautiful Slipping Away.
Portishead | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones | MTV
MTV.com – May 28, 2008
As a result Portishead appealed to a broad audience — not just electronic dance and alternative rock fans but thirtysomethings who found techno trip-hop and dance as exotic as worldbeat. Before Portishead released their debut album Dummy in 1994 trip-hop’s broad appeal wasn’t apparent but the record became an unexpected success in Britain topping most year-end critics polls and earning the prestigious Mercury Music Prize; in America it also became an underground hit selling over 150000 copies before the group toured the U. Following the success of Dummy legions of imitators appeared over the next two years but Portishead remained quiet as they worked on their second album. Named after the West Coast shipping town where Geoff Barrow grew up Portishead formed in Bristol England in 1991… Barrow met Beth Gibbons who had been singing in pubs in 1991 on a job scheme. Over the next few years the pair began writing music often with jazz guitarist Adrian Utley who had previously played with both Big John Patton and the Jazz Messengers. Before releasing a recording Portishead completed the short film To Kill a Dead Man an homage to ’60s spy movies. Barrow and Gibbons acted in the noirish film and provided the soundtrack which earned the attention of Go! Records. By the fall Portishead had signed with Go! and their debut album Dummy was released shortly afterward. Dummy was recorded with engineer Dave MacDonald who played drums and drum machines and guitarist Utley who rounded out Portishead’s lineup.