Spinning Voices - “VCR Plus”
A vaporwavey synthwave track I made mostly using samples of TV and VHS logos from the 1970s-1990s, with some added bass and other effects for punch
A blast from the past …
Marlon Brando did not memorise the majority of his lines for his role in the 1972 film, The Godfather. Actor Robert Duvall is wearing a large cue card for Brando.
[Screen Gems]
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Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.
- Anne Michaels
First short: Port Whines, a 1929 Krazy Kat outing done by Ben Harrison & Manny Gould with uncredited animation from guys like Art Davis & Friz Freleng. Done at Harrison-Gould/Mintz in NYC, New York
Second Short: Lighthouse Keeping, a 1932 Krazy Kat outing done by the same team with credited animation attributed to Al Eugster & Preston Blair, done at Screen Gems in LA, California
Credit: PD Toons (and Adam the Entertainment Fan 2003) for the videos.
I do not own any of this, this is for study only! 100% non profit. If you or someone else wants me to take this down, I will!
[Its] first half is mostly a lot of sophisticated thriller fun commenting on the true crime genre's influence on culture from the point-of-view of a savvy zoomer. When things get cooking towards the climatic third act, so many logic-defying beats descend into a non-sensical series of truly baffling series of events more in line with cheap horror tricks that betrays the tight missing person drama it starts off as.
I dug out an old cassette recorder today and dubbed my vaporwave track "VCR Plus" onto a tape, and now it sounds just as lo-fi and dusty as the subject matter...
Get the original track on my album Assemblage 23 which you can buy at Bandcamp or stream on streaming platforms.
Normally, getting a reading to see your future is harmless. You may think twice after watching the new film, Tarot, as a group of teens unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within cursed cards.
What is Tarot About?
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