Wills Glasspiegel has made this short video for NPR on Juke & Footwork. Shot in Chicago and featuring some of the producers making the best juke sounds out there talking about their craft – RP Boo, Traxman, DJ Earl – it gives a quick insight into how the sounds get created, how the dances get danced, and how kraftwerk gets footworked.
[Via Dutty Artz]
Real Scenes: Berlin from Resident Advisor on Vimeo.
This is the third installment in the Real Scenes documentary series put together by Resident Advisor. They’ve covered the Detroit and Bristol electronic scenes as well. All the docs include a playlist in the credits, so if you’re looking to update your deep-house collection, pay attention!
Farid Slimani has put together what looks like an amazing 120-minute documentary on NYC’s 90s house scene, Back In The House. Peep the 12 minute teaser here and watch for the release.
This is the teaser video for an upcoming documentary on vibraphone legend Roy Ayers, that features interviews with Questlove, Premier and a whole heap of inspiring musicians. Put this on the to watch list next to Beats, Rhymes and Life.
If you are a fan of documentaries, you need to check out Meghan Eckman’s new documentary The Parking Lot Movie on parking lot attendant’s in Charlottesville, Virginia .
Hailed as the “most feel-good film” of the South by Southwest Film Festival, director Meghan Eckman’s irreverently funny debut celebrates a brotherhood of eccentric attendants who man a unique parking lot in Charlottesville, Virginia. From grad students to middle-age slackers, indie-rock musicians to surly philosophers, these overeducated part-timers wax profoundly about car culture and capitalism, seek vengeance against entitled patrons and thieves, and make fun of drunken jerks.
Check out other clips and deleted scenes on their Youtube channel and grab The Parking Lot Movie on DVD.
Recommended.
Copyright Criminals is a new PBS documentary on the rise of sampling, specifically in hip-hop music, and the cultural and legal ramifications.
Copyright Criminals examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and (of course) money.
This documentary traces the rise of hip-hop from the urban streets of New York to its current status as a multibillion-dollar industry. For more than thirty years, innovative hip-hop performers and producers have been re-using portions of previously recorded music in new, otherwise original compositions. When lawyers and record companies got involved, what was once referred to as a “borrowed melody” became a “copyright infringement.” The film showcases many of hip-hop music’s founding figures like Public Enemy, De La Soul, and Digital Underground—while also featuring emerging hip-hop artists from record labels Definitive Jux, Rhymesayers, Ninja Tune, and more.
[via Dubstepper]
The name January derives from the Roman god, Janus, a two headed god with each head facing in opposite directions—effectively looking backwards and forwards—and with our first post in 2010, we will do the same. Here is a documentary on the making of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side Of The Moon” which includes interviews with the band, the engineers and the designer of the album art. May we aspire to make great things this year.
