From Solenoid Sent Tue, Aug 11th 1998, 01:28
From Solenoid Sent Tue, Aug 11th 1998, 01:28
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, David J. Gebhart wrote:
> does anyone know if the soundtrack to Liquid Sky was ever properly
> released? we'd be talking vinyl here, given the age of the film ('86?).
> I have a vague recollection of seeing the vinyl once, but that just may
> be the drugs.
(Everyone will not be suprised that..) I have the vinyl copy of the
soundtrack, as well as a DAT (on loan to Pasta) of the entire movie audio.
It is excellent, ultra-quirky, dark, baroque Fairlight-synth programming.
The last few tracks (before the "sssstttssttttrraaaanngggee"-word-cutup)
are Night Club 1 and Night Club 2. These tracks are not 4/4 and are very
futuristic blurps and insect-click-noises that are way more avant than
most IDM. Because a few of the tracks are weird dark-wave-y versions of
Carl Orff compositions, there is a very slight antiquated musical
sensibility there, probably because the composer is playing slightly
early-20th-century organ riffs, like for a silent movie. Somewhere
between an electronic soundtrack to a cheap movie about aliens (hey, that
is actually what it is) and Graham Revell's "Insect Musicians" LP maybe.
The movie was made by Z Films, from NYC, which appears to be an
underground collective film group with arty lesbian overtones. Once,
after watching this movie and seeing the credits roll by, Pasta and I
stopped the tape only to see experimental animation on some weird cable
channel. It turned out that the animation was all 8-bit computer stuff
from the late 80's cranked out by female animators at Z Films in NY. We
were taken aback to have accidently seen a Z Films film festival in his
living room, tfs....
The original composer is a woman with a Slavic-looking name, I'll try to
look it up. I tried to search the web, but "Liquid Sky" has been so
co-opted by techno-heads and hackers since the early 80's that I found
almost no references to the movie!
What I liked about Liquid Sky was that they created a New Wave fashion
scene that was almost more extreme than the real thing in Europe at the
time. Being at a distance from the European scene seemed to lead to all
kinds of creative imagination about what was going on. Better than the
real thing, maybe...
Solenoid
> reply in private or on the list if you want to start a thread. hope
> some of you remember this film. I was in high school when it was
> released and forced my parents to take me. I warned them in advance,
> showing them my Strange Days comic books for conditioning, but I don't
> think I even knew what was in store. can't quite recall how my parents
> reacted, but I'm sure they're thankful I turned out normal.
>
> or did I?
>
> DGeb
>
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