2 Detroit Documentaries: Requiem For Detroit? + Detroit Lives (2010)

I really wanted to post some films to diversify the blog for some time so these 2 excellent documentaries are a nice start. I will only upload movies if they are impossible to find but mostly I will post torrent links. I would love to post the great documentary on early Detroit techno scene "High Tech Soul: The Creation Of Techno Music" - but I just can't seem to find some proper links so please post some if you find any. Otherwise, I'll have to upload the whole damn thing.

Requiem For Detroit? (2010)

From Guardian

Law and order has completely broken down in the inner city, drugs and prostitution are rampant and unless you actually murder someone the police will leave you alone. This makes it great for filming – park where you like, film what you like – but not so good if you actually live there. The abandoned houses make great crack dens and provide cover for appalling sex crimes and child abduction. The only growth industry is the gangs of armed scrappers, who plunder copper and steel from the ruins. Rabid dogs patrol the streets. All the national supermarket chains have pulled out of the inner city. People have virtually nowhere to buy fresh produce. Starbucks? Forget it.

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Detroit Lives (2010)

The Motor City has been declared dead more times than Rasputin. But over the last few years, while The News Media (and Dutch tourists) were hemming and hawing over a few neglected streets that had started to look more like meadows, a bunch of creative badasses were quietly buying abandoned 9-story buildings, filling them with everyone they knew, and making Detroit actually pretty fucking incredible. Our old buddy Johnny Knoxville paid a visit to the D to explore for himself.

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Also, Check out this small but excellent Detroit in Ruins photo gallery. All photos are from Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre.

V.A. Out Run Arcade Game Alternative Soundtrack (2010)

ARTIST`````Various
ALBUM`````V.A. Out Run Arcade Game Alternative Soundtrack
GENRE`````Kitsch, Nerdy, Electronic, Italo, Electro, Techno, Retro, Moog
YEAR````````2010

A Bleeding Panda Compilation

Out Run:

For some time now I wanted to make a nerdy tribute to one of the greatest arcade games of my childhood - the glorious 1986 Out Run by Sega. I too have lost tons of pocket money trying to beat the #1 record set by some mysterious local kid but I never really made it (I was either a shitty player or didn't carry around enough cash for coins). Anyway - for those who didn't play it or have a vague memory: Out Run was and still is considered to be one of the breaking points in arcade game history. It had supreme, smooth fake 3D graphics and a great FPS so you could actually feel the speed. It had a killer soundtrack with a revolutionary twist: you could choose a song you wanted to listen while driving (a concept obviously taken for the GTA series years later). Now, today this sounds like blah, but at that time - this was really, really important and really, really awesome + this was not the only choice a player could make. While driving through luxurious, detailed European scenery, you could choose different paths at predefined crossroads. Some paths were difficult while some were easier - this is the first time players could slightly feel "freedom of choice" which is mostly why this game is so praised (also, the blond in the Ferrari Testarossa added some pluses)."At least part of Out Run's huge success was down to it capturing the fun-yet-superficial spirit of the 1980s. Previous racing games had concentrated on the more serious side of racing, with the action usually taking place in a Formula One racing car, over a series of competent but uninspiring racing tracks. Out Run was different; in a decade that celebrated style over content, the game offered players the ultimate boy racer experience by putting them behind the wheel of that eighties icon of cool, a red Ferrari Testarossa; replete with a 'blonde bimbo' in the passenger seat."

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Why no Testarossa?
I know someone who knows the subject would ask so I am answering in advance: I didn't post Kavinsky's Testarossa track in this selection because I posted it already in one of my worst compilations so instead I inserted a goofy intro from the EP that really sits well here. Many critics (including the obnoxious Pitchfork sponges that dismissed the 1986 EP because it wasn't trendy and indie enough) have completely missed to notice that a few of Kavinsky's tracks are a goddamn DIRECT HOMAGE to this very game. Ok, the entire EP is not great but just the fact that at a time when everybody was farting in torture of being the indiest band on Pitchfork's homepage, a nerdy French dude was having lots of fun producing romantic Miami Vice/Out Run music makes me say YES! I go with the nerdy French dude.In general
The kitschy selection is a mix of early italo-disco tunes, a few romantic Moog moments and some fresher songs heavily influenced by 80's sound. Many of tracks are (or were) very popular club hits at some point but got lost or were simply to stupid & too 80's to last long. Since most of the older tracks were of really shabby quality I had to unskillfully "remaster" them ha HA! I used a VST plugin called Izotope Ozone which I highly recommend (can be easily found). Since I am quite unfamiliar with mastering I just browsed through a ton of presets and chose the ones I though sounded the best?! This is my first time in using shit like this and I hope your ears don't suffer too much.

Enjoy and I will see you in October - I am taking a sunny vacation in Lisbon::::-)
Tracklist
01 James Saunders - Launch Control (1981)
02 Patrick Cowley - Sea Hunt (1982) 256
03 Trevor Bastow - Light Industrial Motion (1980)
04 Alden Tyrell - Rendez Vous At Rimini (2006)
05 Claudio Mingardi - Star (Instrumental) (1984)
06 Alden Tyrell - Mindless (2006)
07 FPU - Crockett's Theme (FPU Original Mix) (2002)
08 Yello - Hawaiian Chance (1987)
09 Kavinsky - Flashback
10 Alan Hawkshaw - Technicolour (1981)
11 Mark Shreeve - City Of Angels (1989)
12 Roland Bocquet - Epsilove (1982)
13 Droids - Be Happy (1978)
14 Aavikko - Syntaksis (2009)
15 Rockets - Future Game (1982)
16 Morgan Geist - Palace Life (2008)
17 Mux Mool - Death 9000 (2010)
18 Sebastien Leger - Saturn (2007)
19 Astral Sounds - Velvet Mousetrap (1982)
20 Colossus - Raga (1978)
21 Hard Ton - Flawless (Tobias Bernstrup Italo Remix) (2010)

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V.A. BLEEDING TECHNO SERIES VOL.02: GLIDE (2010)

ARTIST`````VARIOUS
ALBUM`````BLEEDING TECHNO SERIES VOL.02: GLIDE
GENRE`````BALEARIC, HOUSE, PROGRESSIVE, DETROIT
YEAR````````2010

WHAT?
For some time now I wanted to share some great techno/house/electro tracks I enjoyed but they were either to "4x4 clubby" for my compilations or simply long beatport frenzy club mixes and did not fit at all. So I decided to start regularly releasing compilations of just kool danceable club sounds overlooking their genres or bpm's.

Since there was a really warm reaction to my Bleeding Techno Series Vol.01 I decided to pack another bunch of tracks I enjoyed these last months.
Here we have a selection of several excellent Balearic house-chill tracks for a cool and long warm-up. Naturally, I had to complicate it and enforce some more minimal (Tristesse), electro (Juno Ride) and even a pure commercial clubby progressive-tech-house (Step Out) to diversify the mix a bit. I hope you enjoy this selection and that DJ's find some romantic, moody tracks to spin.

As for some comments posted here about my chaotic combination of songs from different years (not being 100% trendy or something) I can only say - a good track is even better when you hear or discover it 5, 10, or 20 years after and it still sounds great. Also, there are thousands of "Best 2010 Summer House Hits Vol.458" on the web to feed a trendy mind with short-lived music. Accidentally, most of the songs on this comp are from 2009 so I guess I'm late for 6 months hehe.

Leave some feedback folks and enjoy the glide.

TRACKLIST:
01 Lullabies In The Dark - Code 7429b
02 Jacob Korn - Grosskariert (2009)
03 The Field - Leave It (2009)
04 Woolfy VS Projections - Return Of Starlight (Invisible Conga People Rmx 2009)
05 Fontän - Nightrider (2009)
06 Kollektiv Turmstrasse - Tristesse (2007)
07 Makossa And Megablast - Juno Ride (2009)
08 Joris Voorn - Decay (2007)
09 D-Nox and Beckers - Step Out (2007)
10 Damian Schwartz - In The Mood (2008)
11 Kenny Larkin - Cirque De Soul (2008)

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V.A. BLEEDING TECHNO SERIES VOL.01 - EVOLVING TUNNELS (2009)

ELECTRONIC!
ARTIST`````VARIOUS
ALBUM`````BLEEDING TECHNO SERIES VOL.01 - EVOLVING TUNNELS
GENRE`````TECHNO, MINIMAL, DETROIT, ELECTRO, PROGRESSIVE,BERLIN
YEAR````````2009
BLEEDING PANDA COMPILATION!

WHAT?
For some time now I wanted to share some great techno/house/electro tracks I enjoyed but they were either to "4x4 clubby" for my compilations or simply long beatport frenzy club mixes and did not fit at all. So I decided to start regularly releasing compilations of just kool danceable club sounds overlooking their genres or bpm's.

Basically here are some older classics (Joey Beltram) blended with some fresh 2009 productions (Dusty Kid). As usual, this compilation is a bit awkward and doesn't function as a mix. Each song is pretty much for itself.

As promised in the Naked compilation, here is the futuristic original Der Dritte Raum - Hale Bop track. Standouts are definitely "Evolver", a storming surgeon precession minimal techno, Dusty Kid's flawless travelogue "Cowboys", DJ Hell's apocalyptic romantic "The Angst" from the over-promoted "Teufelswerk" album, Gatto Fritto's kitsch love affair "Invisible College" and one of the best produced Detroit electro tracks of all time "LBLB Detroit" from Jimmy Edgar. Pay attention to the sound panoramic quality of "LBLB Detroit" and turn up your volume as much as possible. Also, I should mention Detroit's second wave artist Kenny Larkin and his obscure and amazing "Vibin" - listen to the brilliant progressive bassline at 2:50.

Also, can someone recognize the theme melody in "I Am Plankton"??? It's killing me that I know it in the back of my mind, I know it's a classic theme but can't remember what it is...

TRACKLIST:
01 Der Dritte Raum - Hale Bop (Original Mix) (1999)
02 Peter Horrevorts - Evolver (2007)
03 Joey Beltram - Drome (1994)
04 Mike Monday - I Am Plankton (Album Version 2008)
05 Guy Gerber - Belly Dancing (Album Version 2007)
06 Dusty Kid - Cowboys (Extended Version 2009)
07 Petar Dundov - Waterfall (2008)
08 Dj Hell - The Angst (2009)
09 Jimmy Edgar - LBLB Detroit (2006)
10 Kenny Larkin - Vibin' (2008)
11 Gatto Fritto - Invisible College (2007)
12 Spirit Catcher - Hidden Memories (2007)

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