In the post Max Headroom, Blade Runner late eighties, computer graphics and virtual reality had momentarily an aesthetic of their own. My friend Phillip had a home theatre and one of those cheesy laserdiscs of computer-generated landscapes set to new age music. We sat around one afternoon and watched this sixty minute demo of Jean-Michel Jarre on LSD.
Ironically, my first exposure to computer animation was "Oliver and Company," the Disney movie, which incorporated digital rendering of some scenes. This movie also marked another turning point: the last Disney film before "The Little Mermaid."
The revolutionary late 80s.
808 State made a hi-tech music video for "Pacific State." Their pure techno acid house sound is one of the few retro genres not to be mined by a new generation of collective memory musicians.
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1 comment:
you get to talk about using illegal drugs but i can't post a video about a crazy little kid whose older sibling or irresponsible parent probably put him up to it anyway? (sorry i've just been waiting for an opportunity to make fun of you for that - you called me when i was sleeping!)
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