Our passion with subcultures and style is ongoing, and so is our commitment to ‘Dance Crasher’, a story about what happens when characters with different aesthetics, outlooks and musical tastes collide. It’s a big story, and we want it to be a big movie…with a soundtrack that kills! Below are our character designs, development art and movie synopsis.
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If you are in Los Angeles, come and see Eddie perform at Club Ding A Ling on Feb 2nd!!!
As some of you may know, Eddie has been making music since the 80’s... Here he was in SHANGHAI AU GO GO, circa 1986, in Melbourne, Australia. (www.myspace.com/shanghaiaugogo)
The early 2000’s saw the birth of EDDIEMUERTE and two albums: Lo-Fi In Los Feliz and Ruido Blanco. “…Bleepy ditties and beats created using a combination of new school grooveboxes and old school sequencers”, which you can listen to at www.fwakanimation.com.au/eddiemuerte or www.myspace.com/eddiemuerte
In 2010, Eddie is busy again with a brand new sound.
Check out EDDIE MORT‘s new Fuzz Guitar + Sequencer tunes at www.myspace.com/eddiebeat
Better yet, come see him PLAY LIVE!
Where: Club Ding A Ling – Hyperion Tavern, Silverlake
When: Tuesday night, Feb 2nd , 2010
Time: Club opens at 10pm
See ya there!
It is unfortunate that WordPress.com doesn’t allow the embedding of music playlists so…
We direct you to the Los Campeones MySpace page to listen to the soundtrack. (0r click HERE for the mixpod playlist)
While you are there, check out the Los Campeones myspace blog, which hasn’t been updated in ages but still has lots of production photos. Check out THIS ENTRY specifically, to see and hear a very cool Mariachi Los Toros recording session.
Not only has this blog moved and undergone rejuvenation, but so has the little-known Fwak! Grab Bag : our pop-culture scrapbook that started as a reference resource for our DANCE CRASHER cartoon.
WAY too cool for this century, cats and kittens ;)
Japanese director Yasuharu Hasebe has died at the age of 77.
Firstly, this awesome graphic via diedangerdiediekill.blogspot.com.
Next, here are ‘Black Tight Killers’ Opening Titles which we recorded from TV (VHS):
Vodpod videos no longer available.
Last but not least, Eddie’s tribute to this film. Listen to Eddiemuerte‘s: Killers In Black Tights
Following on from the previous blog entry, a list of favorite books on music and fashion subcultures. WE LOVE THIS STUFF.
1. Ready, Steady, Go!: Swinging London and Invention Of Cool by Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy documents the rise of swinging London through the rise of 7 people: Mick Jagger, Mary Quant, Robert Fraser, David Bailey, Videl Sassoon, Brian Epstein and Terence Stamp. – eddie
2. The Way We Wore: A Life In Threads by Robert Elms
Besides being an amusing autobiography which focuses on Elms’ obsession with changing fashion trends and getting the right clothes; this book also serves as an engrossing history and etymology of London’s Youth Subcultures from the 50’s to the 90’s. Teddy Boys, Rude Boys, Mods, Skinheads, Northern/Southern Soul Boys, Bowie/Glam types, Punk and its offshoots (Goth, Two-Tone, Rockabilly etc), New Romantics & Blitz Kids… there’s even an amusing mention of what he calls “Bedsit-Depression chic”… (that 80’s trend of looking as ordinary and glum as possible eg, Joy Division, The Smiths) – lili
3. The Legendary Joe Meek: The Telstar Man by John Repsch
Biography of England’s most innovative and tragic music producer. RIP Joe, you crazy, gifted bastard! John Repsch’s book has become THE source for everything that has since been produced about Joe Meek. – eddie
4. A Decade Of The Who by Pete Townshend/Fabulous Music
The Who in paintings, words and Pete Townshend’s hand-drawn fretboards that tell you how to play The Who’s best songs. Altogether now…”Substitute me for him, Substutute my Coke for Gin…”- eddie
5. The Sharper Word: A Mod Anthology edited by Paolo Hewitt
A great and diverse selection of articles, short stories and excerpts from different sources detailing Mod culture in the UK. – eddie
6. Soul City: A Novel by Toure
This is a city run by DJs, where souped-up cars are dedicated to musical legends (eg, The JamesBrownmobile, The Billiemobile, The Wu-Tangmobile etc), groovers drop bliss (a drug that enhances your hearing), are able to fly, and buy mind-altering shampoo from the Devil. – lili
7. Subculture: The Meaning of Style and Hiding In the Light: On Images & Things by Dick Hebdige
Although somewhat dry and academic in style, Subculture is the first, most important POSITIVE book ever written on British youth subcultures that brings with it an inspiring knowledge of teddy boys’, mod’s and punk’s West Indian/Jamaican musical roots. Hiding In The Light focuses more on consumer aesthetics and there is a cool chapter on the history of Mod aesthetics.
8. Back In The Days by Jamael Shabazz – lili
Awesome, fun and stylish photographs from the early days of hip hop. – lili
9. Made In the UK: The Music of Attitude 1977-1983 by Janette Beckman
A photographic showcase of Punk, Mod, 2Tone, Rockabilly in the late seventies and eighties – eddie
10. Cool Cats – 25 years of Rock n Roll Style by Tony Stewart
Great book – and awesome photographs – of the different decades of Rock n Roll, with an early eighties bias. First time I ever heard of Northern Soul was when I read this. Ian Drury (RIP) writes a great essay on the fifties. – eddie
11. Haircults: Fifty Years of Styles and Cuts by Dylan Jones
Hairstyle reference! – lili
I first read Nik Cohn’s ‘Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom – Pop From The Beginning’ (now subtitled “The Golden Age Of Rock”) when I was 16 and it was the first passionately opinionated and rebellious chronicle of Pop Music I ever read.
Written in 1968 (and updated 3 years later) it still bites, and this summary of Phil Spector is eerily prophetic:
“when you’ve made your millions,when you’ve cut your monsters, when your peak has just been passed, what happens next? What about the fifty years before you die?”
…is my new obsession! We acquired a Honestech conversion kit on our last trip to Sydney (to convert all those pesky PAL formatted videos to NTSC DVD) and it works like a charm!
It’s also great for converting those cool Mexican movies that spring up on TV. I taped ‘Amor a Ritmo De Go Go’ on Channel 22 and here’s the result: Los Rockin’ Devils performing ‘Bule Bule’…
More videos from the movie on my youtube page
I remember this from when I was a kid (I had no idea what ‘jones’ meant; I thought it was the character’s name!) and finally found it on youtube! Makes me nostalgic for that wonderfully loose Bakshi-style animation.
Keep an eye out for the ‘Impeach Nixon’ Zeppelin!
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