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2000ad week #5: Drokk! Stomm! Hi-Ex! Dredd3D out today


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Finally the day has come, Dredd3D is released and will, hopefully, wash away the (distant) memory of the 1995 Stallone blow out (which, to be fair, had a great looking Mega City 1 and Stallone’s chin looked the part). Here’s hoping also that it will open the door to many more franchises from the vast back catalogue that the comic holds – there’s already talk of Grant Morrison writing a Rogue Trooper screen play. Got my tickets for tonight with several other long-time fans / friends, some sort of review tomorrow…

Here’s a short featurette on the film and the world of Dredd from the comic


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2000ad Week #3: Dredd prologue comic ‘Ma Ma’


Appearing online yesterday and seeing printed form with this weekend’s Megazine issue is a prologue to the Dredd3D film dealing with the villain Ma Ma‘s origins. Written by Matt Smith and drawn by Henry Flint, it’s pretty gritty and not exactly SFW as it includes the first ever utterance of the ‘MF’ word in a 2000ad strip (to my knowledge). If the film is anything thing like this and the reviews of ultra violence are to be believed then it’s going to be hardcore.
Lionsgate (the film’s distributors) have put together a nice motion comic of the strip too which you can watch above. Alternatively you can read the strip version over on Scribd.com OR you can buy a physical version when the Megazine arrives over the weekend.

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Dredd 3D “Legendary” – US TV Spot

US TV spot for Dredd 3D, titled ‘Legendary‘. Not long to wait now but in case you’ve not been paying attention: Filmed in 3D, the film returns the celebrated character to the dark, visceral incarnation from John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra‘s revered comic strip. In this adaptation, Judge Dredd teams up with a rookie (Cassandra Anderson) who possesses psychic abilities. Together they fight to wrest control of Mega City One’s dystopic streets from a brutal prostitute-turned-drug kingpin named Ma-Ma.
Starring Karl Urban (Star Trek) and Olivia Thirlby (Juno) and Lena Headley (Game of Thrones)
Written by 28 Days Later‘s Alex Garland
Released by Lionsgate Films in the UK on Sept 7th and the US on Sept 21st
More info here

Also there will be a prequel comic available next week (physical or online, I’m not sure yet) with artwork by none other than Henry Flint, which makes me very happy as he will be getting even more exposure.

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On the menu…

So many Food-related things to look forward to this Autumn / Winter:

‘Caught In The Middle of a 3-Way Mix‘ – a tribute to the Beastie Boys’ ‘Paul’s Boutique’ album in mix form by DJ’s Cheeba, Moneyshot and Food with artwork by Jim Mahfood tomorrow night on Solid Steel via Strongroom Alive.

Debut of my remix of Kilah’s ‘Krzesany’ at the Sacrum Profanum festival, Poland on Sept 15th

A night of DJ Shadow mixes on XFM to support the ‘Reconstructed‘ comp with two by yours truly on Sept 21st

‘The Search Engine’ quadruple vinyl gatefold repress edition and return to the SAT in Montreal this Sept/Oct

A John Rydgren compilation on Omni Recording Corporation curated by David Thrussell with audio and images supplied from my archive.

‘The Search Engine’ fulldome performance at the Leicester Space Centre, UK on November 16th

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Scanone ‘Archive’ DVD

I’ve featured work by Jude Greenaway, before, his promo for Pendulum‘s ‘Coffin‘ last summer was fantastic. Long time associate of The Light Surgeons, owner of the Yellow Machines label and music maker under the name Scanone.

Now he’s put together a DVD of 13 unreleased experimental / cinematic audio tracks that have been worked on visually by 12 directors and collectives. The tracks span a 10 year period and this project has taken four years to put together overall. Catch a sample in the trailer below and pre-order the DVD here.

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More Tron Uprising concept art

While Tron Uprising fans wait until October (!) for the remaining episodes of the first season to air here’s some more concept art by Alberto Mielgo. If you haven’t seen this show (and if you’re outside the US then it’s unlikely unless you’re downloading torrents or subscribe to Disney’s XD channel) you can now buy a series subscription from iTunes and view the first episode here.

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All I could hear was static

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I recently unlinked my old YouTube account and created a DJFoodOfficial one instead. Below is the screen you get when you unlink an account, nice touch. There’s not much up there at the moment but it will grow over time and I put the ‘Sunspot’ track up that I did for the Carling Zest campaign as this is the only place you can get it…

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Akira fan made live action trailer project

This is the poster for an online initiative to make a live action trailer for Akira, this time by fans rather than Hollywood who have tried and failed many times to get a version of the film made. The Akira Project have just started a site and blog asking for help and equipment but already have a small team of people working on it.

This came about because of their love of the film and various leaked Hollywood plot rewrites and re-locations (Neo-Tokyo to Neo New York) that have frustrated fans of the original for years. In a recent interview with comic artist Chris Weston, who was drafted in to work on a Hollywood version of Akira, he said the first thing the production team asked him to do was redesign Kanada‘s bike. This is a classic case of Hollywood just not understanding the fundamentals of what makes something a classic and he said he was relieved when it was finally taken out of production.

The Akira Project’s aim is to stick as close to the original as possible and bring a faithful version of it to the big screen but they intend to start at a trailer to show what they are capable of.

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DJ Food – ‘The Search Engine’ Live at SAT, Montreal

DJ Food ‘The Search Engine’ live at SAT, Montreal from Solid Steel on Vimeo.

This is what I got up to in Montreal recently. Many, many thanks to Anne-Marie Bergeron who put this together at very short notice. If anyone seeing this works at a dome or planetarium, anywhere in the world, and are interested in hosting it in the future then please get in touch. I realise not every dome has a surround system or space to lay on the floor, it doesn’t have to, I will happily work with you to tailor the show to your needs. Contact details are up on the right there…

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1000th post! ‘The Search Engine’ at the SAT, Montreal

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As it always does, the day of the show came and went in a blur. By 7pm on July 19th we actually had everything in place, there was no last minute rushing around or ‘that will have to do’ decisions. The only thing I was worried about was doing a short introduction in front of the assembled press, I’ve never been comfortable being center stage, even less when speaking through a mic. By the time the first show kicked off there was little to do but sit down and play, or even lie down and shift sound around as much or as little as it needed for the 50 minute show.

I should have done this years ago, I get to lie down with the audience and just play with the sound, no one is looking at me up on a stage, they’re concentrating on the dome and I can watch it too whereas most projections are usually behind me when I DJ.

Sébastien Roy – the SAT‘s photographer – took an amazing set of photos that really capture the scale as well as working well with the low light levels (see above and below galleries).

_MG_7195_sebastien_roy640_MG_6695_sebastien_roy640DJ Food-photo Susan Moss-57Ju_Graphee Foodmg_6632_sebastien_roymg_6717_sebastien_roymg_6765_sebastien_roymg_6847_sebastien_roymg_6871_sebastien_roymg_6961_sebastien_roymg_7007_sebastien_roymg_7010_sebastien_roymg_7195_sebastien_roy640mg_7400_sebastien_roymg_7416_sebastien_roymg_7591_sebastien_roymg_7596_sebastien_roymg_7603_sebastien_roymg_7688_sebastien_roymg_7718_sebastien_roymg_7741_sebastien_roymg_7759_sebastien_roy

Sam from Vinyl Junkies made this video clip compilation. That’s his 6 year old daughter at one point at her first ever gig, she loved it. I also did an interview with him the day after about the shows which will be online soon.

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Thursday, post show comment: Thanks so much to everyone who came out last night, it was such a thrill to finally see it up on the dome. So happy to be hosted by the SAT in one of my favourite cities in the world, everyone who helped on this has been amazing, especially Olivier Rhéaume who helped me mix the sound all week. Looking forward to coming back for the Friday night crowd. Tickets have been selling so well that a Saturday show was announced too.

Here’s a review (in french) by Olash Bacon and a nicely put together set of pictures by Jü|Graphee

Friday, post show comment: Just back, another two down, we tweaked the sound during the day and it’s now sounding a lot better, less top end in places, the spoken word stuff cuts through a lot better too. One more show for Saturday at 8pm, tickets still left but selling fast, a lot who came tonight couldn’t get in and bought for tomorrow instead. I met so many cool people tonight and the posters are selling really well too.

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Also, more fantastic photos: this time by Susan Moss

_MG_7195_sebastien_roy640_MG_6695_sebastien_roy640DJ Food-photo Susan Moss-57Ju_Graphee Foodmg_6632_sebastien_roymg_6717_sebastien_roymg_6765_sebastien_roymg_6847_sebastien_roymg_6871_sebastien_roymg_6961_sebastien_roymg_7007_sebastien_roymg_7010_sebastien_roymg_7195_sebastien_roy640mg_7400_sebastien_roymg_7416_sebastien_roymg_7591_sebastien_roymg_7596_sebastien_roymg_7603_sebastien_roymg_7688_sebastien_roymg_7718_sebastien_roymg_7741_sebastien_roymg_7759_sebastien_roy

I should take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped me, especially people who supplied some of the footage and gave invaluable advice before I even got to Montreal. Jan Zehn and Stefan Berke from Germany for their CymaSonics sequences, very happy to have their input. Paul Bourke, something of a legend in dome projection, and the sequences he sent, very generously at the last minute. Thomas English for the Red Epic footage, again donated very kindly. Phil Mayer and Ben Stern at Fulldome UK for advice and who will be staging the next version of this show in Leicester this coming November. Also Mario Di Maggio from Thinktank‘s Digital Planetarium in Birmingham for a special preview show which opened my eyes to several possibilities.

At the SAT it’s thanks to LP, Dominic (it was a boy!), Olivier, Guillaume and Alex that it all went smoothly. Evelyn at Evenko for helping stage it, Jeff Waye and Danna Takako Hawley at Ninja Tune N. America for setting it up and doing all the nitty gritty stuff. Finally a big man hug to Pat Hamou (that’s him below) who initially suggested it, helped out and designed the poster to boot – thanks all. I hope to make it back soon with a better show, each one is a learning process and there’s still work to do and plenty more domes to visit.

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