"What's that?" Y'all this is four features covering three and a half hours of seminal 80s-90s experimental dance, plus special features. I bought this JUST for a single 15 minute piece which is the best film representation of a Steve Reich piece I've ever seen ( https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110386487906550331 ) and there's so much other stuff in the box. It's oversize actually so either there's multiple DVDs in here or it comes with a nice meaty paper book
If the name "Steve Reich" means anything at all to you I would like to very strongly encourage you to turn off all the lights, do whatever preparations you would normally do to enter an altered state, and then watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouYiTiiY3vg
I have spent YEARS, like, a decade or more, trying to get a clean hq original copy of this video and now I've got one :D
@mcc I have no context for any of this, but it’s fascinating and I’m glad you shared it!
@calder Haha, well I'm glad
It's an attempt to do a dance representation of a really historically important 1966 "new music" piece by Steve Reich, it's one of a few pieces he did around then that basically predicted sample-based Electronic music by decades despite the fact he had no electronics just some tape machines and some splicing equipment. Just doing a whole lot with very little
("It's Gonna Rain" sounds for all the world like trance music to me)
