fado thread

Electronic songs found on TV, film, and video games. I want to archive how the umbrella has influenced the y2k and the frutiger aero era. Going from the labels like Wax Trax, Warp, Ninja Tune, Mo Wax, etc., the MTV blocks like Chill Out Zone and AMP, Locomotion idents and Adult Swim bumps, to soundtracks and comps. Old and recent examples welcome.

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Adult Swim Bumpers by anarchivism

Bump Music Collection by huckleferrytin

Bump Worthy

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Breakbeats in Video Games by vg_dnb

Breakbeats in Video Games by Soundwall

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I split this idea off the Afro and Latin Music thread, because I feel that this kind of insightful content can get lost in the shuffle, in a thread that is more often than not, just songs being liked and shared back and forth. You can’t really follow the OK K.O.! theme song (a fine disco song) with a video about the scathing critique of hip hop being commercialised at the expense of its own roots and culture, like other black genres historically. I feel this is a topic where I can recommend video essays and documentaries which touch upon how the Black and Latin genres I like are being shaped and informed, with Black and Latin culture around them.

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this documentary is great. elvis mitchell is one of my favorite film critics and it always bummed me out how he stopped writing after 2011, so it was a pleasure to hear him read his own prose for two and a half hours here

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