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NYC BLANK CITY film screening

Future Artists are screening this next Tuesday, worth a viewing I reckon...

BLANK CITY tells the long-overdue tale of a disparate crew of renegade filmmakers who emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history. From the late 1970’s through the mid 80’s, when the city was still a wasteland of cheap rent and cheap drugs, these directors crafted daring works that would go on to profoundly influence the development of independent film as we know it today.

Directed by French newcomer Céline Danhier, BLANK CITY weaves together an oral history of the “No Wave Cinema” and “Cinema of Transgression” movements through compelling interviews with the luminaries who began it all. Featured players include acclaimed directors Jim Jarmusch and John Waters, actor-writer-director Steve Buscemi, Blondie’s Debbie Harry, hip-hop legend Fab 5 Freddy, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, photographer Richard Kern as well as Amos Poe, James Nares, Eric Mitchell, Susan Seidelman, Beth B, Scott B, Charlie Ahearn and Nick Zedd. Fittingly, the soundtrack includes: Patti Smith, Television, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, The Contortions, The Bush Tetras, Sonic Youth and many more.

Made on shoestring budgets in collaboration with the pioneering musicians, visual artists, performers, and derelicts that ruled Downtown, the films surveyed in BLANK CITY are fitting documents of an exhilarating and unique cultural moment. This same legendary-but-fleeting period likewise birthed punk rock, hip-hop and Madonna, and brought New York City to the forefront of the international art world. Unlike the revered musical revolution of this era, this epoch of underground film has never before been chronicled.

BLANK CITY is a love letter to New York, a cultural portrait of Manhattan in the days before Reagan, big money, and gentrification forever altered the fabric of the city. Though a look back, the heart of BLANK CITY does not live in the past. In this new age of digital democracy, the maverick spirit of the New York Underground has risen again in emerging creative communities worldwide. The Do-It-Yourself ethos, audacious storytelling, and sense of urgency guiding “No Wave” and the “Cinema of Transgression” are more relevant and inspiring than ever.

All profits go towards our own underground movie - find out more http://www.indiegogo.com/thelostgeneration

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Hopefully it'll be a worthy companion piece to the very best NYC documentary: 

 

MIXTAPE: 'Back From The Shadows' LSD TEST

 BACK FROM THE SHADOWS by LEGO-aA

BEAT KONDUCTA - BONUS 16
GOLD PANDA - FIFTH AVE [ + AUDIO FROM 1960s LSD CLINICAL TESTS ]
GONJASUFI - MY ONLY FRIEND
BULLION - CRAZY OVER YOU
EDDIE WARNER - GETTING HIGH
OFEGE - IT'S NOT EASY
JASON CREST - BLACK MASS
TAKEN BY TREES - MY BOYS
THE RUBY SUNS - OH, MOJAVE
TIME & SPACE MACHINE - MUSHROOM FAMILY
RALPH LUNDSTEIN - HORRORSCOPE
REAL ONES - OUTLAW [ BEYOND THE WIZARD'S SLEEVE REANIMATION ]
PRINCETON - SHOUT IT OUT
PANDA BEAR - ROUNDABOUT
LALO SCHIFRIN - BURNING BRIDGES

ADDITIONAL SHORE SOUNDS FROM RUNNING BACK

Mushroom

Swirl

Piccadilly Gardens

House

Forest

Rays

Loch

Coast #02

Coast #01

Metro

Bridge

DUTTY TAPE

RE UP OF A MIXTAPE RECORDED WAY BACK WHEN [ ER, 2008...]

 

LEGO - DUTTY TAPE AUG 08 by DEEJAY LEGO

1 Jamie Lidel : Another Day (Rustie Mix)
2 Rustie : Just For Kicks (insrt)
3 Little Dragon : Recommendation (Toddla T remix)
4 Rustie : Cafe De Fresh (insrt)
5 Buff 1 : Beat The Speakers Up (Clean mix)
6 Rustie : Patrick Swing (insrt)
7 Madera Limaa : Loco (Daniel Haaksman remix)
8 Roots Manuva : Buff Nuff (7" mix)
9 Rob G : Do U Know (dub)
10 Toddla T : Soundtape Killin (Feat Serocee)
11 Tigerstylez : Shoalin Style (Street mix)
12 Mystikal Dubz : What's Going On? (4x4 mix)
13 Clipse : So Sick (Uptown mix)
14 Wookie : Battle (Mystikal Dubz mix)
15 Nastee Boi : Soundtape Killin (remix)
16 Roll Deep : Straight Down The Middle (Danny Weed mix)
17 Mujava : Township Funk (Ashley Beedle Africanz On Mars re-edit)
18 Martyn : All I Have Is Memories
19 Benga : (black label)

BY THE SEA

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In the meantime, check out this mixtape I did for Trip, a couple of years ago:

There's A Place I Want To Go [ Sounds Of The Trip Festival 2010 ] by LEGO-aA


WALLS - BURNT SIENNA
TIME & SPACE MACHINE - MUSHROOM FAMILY
DJANGO DJANGO - SKIES OVER CAIRO
THE RUBY SUNS- THERE ARE BIRDS
SOUNDCARRIERS - TIME WILL SOME
TIM AND SAM BAND - SUMMER SOLSTICE
ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL - TROUBLE MIND
TIME & SPACE MACHINE - YOU ARE THE ONE
PLANK! - LA LUNA
WALLS - HEAVY FOUR
BETH JEANS HOUGHTON - DAY BY DAY
ROLLING STONES - LIGHT YEARS [ BEYOND THE WIZARD'S SLEEVE REANIMATION ]
SMITH & MUDD - 24/7 [ RECLOOSE MIX ]
TRY TO FIND ME - MAKE DANCE
THE MALADIES OF BELLAFONTAINE - LONGSOCKS

Bauhaus

No ball

The Hills