Reader Matt Brock (synthotronic) shared this awesome retro-futuristic video, Motion, ‘electronic listening music for the eyes’.
The video is sort of a warped version of the Mind’s Eye music videos and features music from Warp Records’ Artificial Intelligence II compilation. Music from Autechre, Beaumont Hannant, Polygon Window and other IDM artists, was combined with 90s computer animation by David Slade and Phil Wolstenholme.
Originally released by Warpvision on VHS in 1994.
Thank for the upload! I knew this existed but could never found the whole thing before.
there were a bunch of these kind of things in the late eighties / early nineties. stakker (fsol / amorphous androgenous) made one called eurotechno that was mainly quantel paintbox stuff. There were a load of pseudo 3D ones like “VR Cyberdelia” which came with funky laser-etched glasses that made swirling rainbows when you looked at the telly, with pretty dodgy techno soundtracks. it was probably great if you were off your chops
Oh yeah! THIS is electronic music, not so keep on trippy visuals anymore but the track and artist selection is testament to warp labels greatness.
Even Brian Eno releases on warp these days.
Cheers for posting this, should be very educational for the less informed who worship the likes of daft spunk, skrillex et al
First class music on warp, make no mistake! Real artists with real instruments and real skill:)
I am somewhat perturbed, this is not based on any apple mac product. Synthopia really has it the lowest point of the last four years, shame on you .
Warp records who are they and what have they done to promote apple products.
( Forgemasters)
Hot debate. What do you think? I think that comments like this aren’t about debate at all. They are conceived by somebody who believes that they are witty and intelligent, but by their comment just shows how unoriginal, repetitive and boring some people can be.
It almost strikes of a fear of being usurped by a perceived inferior product. By the plagiarism inherent in your comment, in your case – it may be well founded.
Awesome find, What a lot of people dont realize is back then when we were doing visuals.. there was a limit to what could be done. I started doing Visuals for raves around 1992, The weapon of choice was using an Amiga with a video toaster and a few TBCs for live manipulation. One reason why these old 90s videos have a certain quality is because you had to use either VHS or S-VHS as a source and bouncing mixes kept the quality in a constant degradation. Autodesk Animator and Autodesk 3dstudio were about the only tools you could use aside from apps like Fractint and other fractal color cycling programs. As mentioned above about the Quantel paintbox.. you really had to be connected to a post house to use higher end systems to generate content.. but those were never used live for the most part.
Ive run into probally the earliest modular Vj stuff back then.. There was two stacks of VCRs, so 4 on each side, with some other radio shack video color boosters. And the ins and outs and rec RCA ports were being switched around.. and the older more broken VCRs would provide glitches from bad signal paths which reacted to the music because of the bass in the venue. would rattle. And running mindseye through it was so distorted that what was being projected absolutely was locked in.
I have this on VHS. I will trade your boring ARP 2600 for it. Digital is the future.