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MODULO: analogue synth documentary (short, 2014)

kinostr — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:16:06 GMT

MODULO: analogue synth documentary (short, 2014)

https://youtu.be/OZ74EFdW9Ug

The story of early electronic instruments, and the nearly forgotten Canadian music pioneer who created the first synthesizers. As told through interviews with three modern-day modular synth musicians.

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Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a…

kinostr — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:29:05 GMT

Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue (2002)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRwTgme1_KE

24 Preludes for a Fugue is an authorised documentary about Arvo Pärt. A portrait made of precious moments recorded during three prolific years of the composer's life, the film features rehearsals, premieres, seminars, meetings and recollections. Director Dorian Supin succeeds in revealing Arvo Pärt's musical thinking. His work opens a door on the inner world of one of the most spiritually intense composers of our life. The documentary is enhanced by excerpts from major musical works such as Tabula rasa, Für Alina, Fratres, Orient & Occident, Cecilia, vergine romana and Como cierva sedienta. With English subtitles.

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Synth Britannia (2009)

kinostr — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 19:43:47 GMT

Synth Britannia (2009)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lVljmH0yUw

Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage. In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including The Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Voltaire were inspired by Kraftwerk and JG Ballard, and they dreamt of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain. The crossover moment came in 1979 when Gary Numan's appearance on Top of the Pops with Tubeway Army's Are 'Friends' Electric? heralded the arrival of synthpop. Four lads from Basildon known as Depeche Mode would come to own the new sound, whilst post-punk bands like Ultravox, Soft Cell, OMD and Yazoo took the synth out of the pages of NME and onto the front page of Smash Hits. By 1983, acts like Pet Shop Boys and New Order were showing that the future of electronic music would lie in dance music. Contributors include Philip Oakey, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant.

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Taj Mahal Travellers On Tour (1973)

kinostr — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:51:45 GMT

Taj Mahal Travellers On Tour (1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdjmQkOOa9A

Takehisa Kosugi was a hippie become avantgarde composer. Born in Tokyo in 1938, and graduated in 1962 at the Tokyo University of Arts, Kosugi founded the Japanese equivalent of the Fluxus movement, called "Group Ongaku", a group devoted to improvisation and multi-media performances. In 1969 he formed the Taj Mahal Travellers, a psychedelic-rock group that played lengthy improvised jams that can be summarized in three principles: a Far-Eastern approach to music as a living organism, an intense electronic processing of instruments and voices, a semi-mathematical overlapping of frequencies. Basically: LaMonte Young on acid. Kosugi mainly played electric violin. The band acquired free-jazz improviser Seiji Nagai, Yukio Tsuchiya on tuba and vibraphone, Ryo Koike on santoor (a hammered dulcimer) and on a horizontal double-bass, Michihiro Kimura, who had begun as designer of LP sleeves and started playing percussion and "singing", and Tokio Hasegawa, another improvised singer, all of them much younger than him. Kosugi was on the road with this group between 1971 and 1972, traveling in a Volkswagen minibus from Holland to the Taj Mahal itself. Two albums were made out of that experience: Taj-Mahal Travellers (Sony, 1972), also known as July 15 1972 (reissued in 2002 by Drone Syndicate) and performed by a seven-unit line-up, and Taj Mahal Travellers (Denon, 1983), also known as August 1974 (reissued in 1998 by P-Vine), four tracks over two LPs performed by eight players, plus one side (two tracks) of the legendary double-LP bootleg Live At Oz (Oz, 1973 - OZ Days, 2001), which also includes live performances by obscure Japanese musicians Acid Seven, Minami Masato and Hadaka no Rallizes.

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Modulations - Cinema for the Ear (1998)

kinostr — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:58:58 GMT

Modulations - Cinema for the Ear (1998)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icpDt6aQDww

Modulations is a feature-length documentary that captures a moment in history where humans and machines are fusing to create today's most exciting sounds. It traces the evolution of electronic music as one of the most profound artistic developments of the twentieth century. By cutting back and forth between avant-garde composers, Kraftwerk's innovative synthesizer drones, Giorgio Moroder's glacial Euro-disco, Afrika Bambaataa's electro-funk, and Prodigy's current worldwide superstarstardom, Modulations celebrates, replicates, and illuminates the nomadic drift of the post-human techno sound. The film examines the kids who have turned the turntable into a musical instrument, disillusioned disco lovers who created acid house out of primitive synthesizers, Motor City mavericks who saw the drum machine as their escape route out of urban neglect, and a generation of British youth who transformed these blips and bleeps into dance floor anthems of their own alienation. Modulations provides a sense of history and context in which today's electronic music can be understood. It entertains the converted and remixes the mindset of electronica's nay-sayers. Featuring a stunning collage of interviews, cutting-edge visuals, in-studio footage, and live performances, Modulations moves at a pace that matches the energy and innovation of the music.

Soundtrack:

Donna Summer | "I Feel Love"

Afrika Mambaattaa | "Planet Rock"

Juan Atkins/Model 500 | "No Ufo's Remix"

LFO |"Simon From Sydney

Derrick May | "Strings of Life"

Jesse Saunders | "Yeah"

Aprodite | "Amazon 2 - King of the Beats"

Panacea | "Stormbringer"

Goldie & Rob Playford | "The Shadow"

Ryoji Ikeda | "Luxus 1-3"

Coldcut | "Atomic Moog 2000"

To Rococo Rot | "Kritische Masse 1"

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The Prodigy - Keef's Camping Shop…

kinostr — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:52:19 GMT

The Prodigy - Keef's Camping Shop Review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QChGuXjD9hw

Keith Flint of The Prodigy checks out an outdoor/hunting shop, and offers expert advice on walking boot selection.

#kinostr #documentary #music #comedy #kino #touchgrass #walking #boots

Hex - Global Chaos (VHS, 1993)

kinostr — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 23:11:25 GMT

Hex - Global Chaos (VHS, 1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY7iSW4yKU0

from archiveorg:

'Robert Pepperell founded Hex in 1990 along with Miles Visman and Coldcut members Matt Black and Jon More. We wanted to exploit the creative possibilities of personal computers especially exploring the convergence of distinct media such as music, video, animation and visuals. We developed a number of ground-breaking products in a wide variety of formats over the decade or so Hex was in existence.
Hex went throught many transformations and was finally wound up in 1999 after internal tensions came to a head. However, the name and spirit of Hex continues through its bastard off-spring Hexstatic and the legacy of its audio-visual experiments can be seen in the work of a number of digital artists and performers. Here follows a brief history of the Hex years.
...
In May 93 Hex released "Global Chaos" on vhs, a 1 hour sell-through Rave Video distributed by Imagine and featuring computer graphix so intense you may require shades to watch it! Soundtrax mixed by Coldcut. Global Chaos revolves around the story of the Alien Sphinx's trip to Earth to steal our resources for his own dead planet. On experiencing the Chaos which reigns on Earth and seeing how we have already nearly trashed our World, he realises that the only hope is to combine his psychic powers with the energy of Rave music in an attempt to prevent all-out destruction of everything by malignant Infoviruses and Fascist control freaks.'

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Metal City - A Neat Records documentary…

kinostr — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 20:14:01 GMT

Metal City - A Neat Records documentary (1985)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN6Lcnndptc

This VHS Video tape(1985), contains video clips, interviews, behind the scenes material etc. of the following four bands: Venom, Warfare, Saracen, Avenger.

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Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream…

kinostr — Mon, 05 May 2025 19:25:39 GMT

Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted (1990)
Director: David Lynch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p02WKbar-qg

The film tells the story of a heartbroken woman (played by Laura Dern) who floats over an industrial wasteland and sings ballads of love after her boyfriend (Nicolas Cage) leaves her. Made before the unprecedented success of his cult-classic TV show Twin Peaks, it is the footage from an original play which was presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1989. The experimental work is named after a series of complex mosaics in geometric shapes designed by Lynch. He made them while he was studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and called them Industrial Symphonies.

Often seen as a spiritual companion to his 1990 film Wild at Heart because it also co-stars Dern and Cage, Industrial Symphonies No. 1 is a hallucinatory dream that explores the concepts of love and pain in the modern dystopia. Julee Cruise plays “the dreamself” of the heartbroken woman who sings beautifully, even singing from the inside of a trunk of a car at one point. Many of the songs from the musical were recycled in Twin Peaks, including two of Julee’s recordings “Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart” and “The World Spins”.

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Twisted Issues (1988)

kinostr — Sun, 04 May 2025 20:44:39 GMT

Twisted Issues (1988)
Director: Charles Pinion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLq-uZ1m0F0

A murdered skateboarding teen rises from the grave on his trusty board, unleashing a wave of outrageous revenge on those who wronged him.

'Twisted Issues is the debut film from underground art-barf filmmaker Charles Pinion. It has a killer with a skateboard attached to his foot and girls screaming. So, you could label it as a “slasher” without sounding like an ass. But the face-crushings and impalements are just there to anchor us. Pinion wasn’t interested in narrative or logic. He was interested in documenting the punk/skate/thrash scene of Gainsville, Florida in the late 1980s. So Twisted Issues feels like an issue of Destroy All Monsters that was created with a camcorder instead of a Xerox machine — non sequitur after non sequitur overlap to create a snapshot of someone’s life. One that is scored by Mutley Chix and Hell Witch....'

full review on Bleeding Skull:
http://bleedingskull.com/twisted-issues-1988/

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Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii (1972)…

kinostr — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:02:48 GMT

Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii (1972) (Original Cut)
Director: Adrian Maben

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii is a 1972 concert film directed by Adrian Maben and featuring the English rock group Pink Floyd performing at the ancient Roman amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy.

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'technology is gay' (short music video,…

kinostr — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 20:18:10 GMT

'technology is gay' (short music video, 2005)
Director: 'colmar' (youtube username)

Posted for gem preservation. Anal Cunt 'Technology's Gay' music video created by YouTube user 'colmar'.

#music #technology #kino #kinostr #art

EYEHATEGOD "Peace Through Addiction" (Short documentary,…

kinostr — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 22:42:10 GMT

EYEHATEGOD "Peace Through Addiction" (Short documentary, 1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aobYYKSj9wo

"Peace Through Addiction" Short Documentary With EYEHATEGOD Members. 1993.

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Portishead: Roseland New York (1997)

kinostr — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:16:03 GMT

Portishead: Roseland New York (1997)
Director: Dick Carruthers

Portishead concert in the Roseland Ballroom, New York City, on the 24th July 1997 with tracks from the albums "Dummy" and "Portishead" played by the band and a 30 piece orchestra.

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Throbbing Gristle: The Recording of the…

kinostr — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:49:01 GMT

Throbbing Gristle: The Recording of the Heathen Earth Album (video, 1980)

Throbbing Gristle recording the Heathen Earth
LP, 1980. Filmed by Monte Cazazza.

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Shredder Orpheus (1990)

kinostr — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 21:18:24 GMT

Shredder Orpheus (1990)
Director: Robert McGinley

Skateboarder named Orpheus and friends go to Hell to stop television signals that are brainwashing America.

#horror #cult #kino #kinostr #filmstr #skateboarding #music