Visuals for Different, dec 16 2006 in Malmö, Sweden.
Hiphop yesterday, techno today.
Living in Berlin, you have to learn to cope with techno. How does techno visuals regularly look? After two years in this town and countless techno clubs, no clear technovisual memories popped into my head when I was asked to do something for the club Different in Malmö, Sweden. So I felt kind of free. What finally emerged was a merge between Christmas and more childhood TV, in the red & light cyan colors of some old Swedish icicle (anyone recall an icecream with these colors?) or the Hallesches Tor U-bahn station.
If you grew up in Sweden in the eighties, you might recognize the foreground jungle adventure and the gnomes in the background, give it a try before you read further.
So, what is it composed of? Yes, you're right! The norweigian 1979 classic TV adventure "Brødrene Dal og professor Drøvels hemmelighet" against a backdrop of "Trolltyg i Tomteskogen" ("Gnomes" for you non-swedes who might have happened to have seen it).
Visuals for GrimeStep International @ Club 103, Berlin
Visuals - GrimeStep International
Finally got around to YouTube:ing clips from the club visuals I made this autumn. Here's the first one.
I made these visuals for the GrimeStep International club at Club 103, Berlin, october 7 2006. GrimeStep International started as a DVD-project and is now a planned compilation CD of grime and dubstep acts from all over Europe, outside of the UK. I was watching the old Transformers series at the time, and though robots are always popular, I felt they had sufficiently little to do with the scene for me to want to use them in the visuals. Looping their transformations made for some really nice dance moves. They are mixed with random scenes of japanese gameshows. The only visible connection to the grime genre might thus be the intensity of the visuals, and kept GrimeStep:s yellow/magenta color scheme.
The club/concert included artists & DJ:s Marvy Da Pimp (ego6, Bass Ball Club / Paris), Harry Landet (UFM / Oslo), Sick Girls (Revolution N°5 / Berlin).
