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Bright light flash, birthday cakes smolder with the last remnants of a wish and Jammin' 94.5 blasts from the DJ booth as kids whirl around the skating rink unsuccessfully avoiding all that comes into their paths...
...percent of the movie with hand-held cameras. These directorial choices succeed in imbuing the film with a feeling of gritty realism, especially in the numerous jail sequences which were, justly, shot in Washington, D.C.'s correctional facility (as debatable a term as that is). Levin's choice of DJ Spooky's music for the soundtrack only intensifies the haunting feeling of modern urban life, and his directing is similarly appropriate. Sohn shines in a number of scenes; she has a remarkable gift for seeming both powerful and fragile at the same time. And when she performs her own poem...
...Dust We Trust? You'd better this time. Mad beats, ingenious mixing and more mad beats make Brother's Gonna Work It Out, the new DJ mix album by the Chemical Brothers a magnificent record. The Chemical Brothers sampled from and remixed songs by a number of other bands: The Micronauts, Spiritualized, Unique 3, Willie Hutch and Manic Street Preachers to name a few. Listening to this compilation of house techno gives an impression of an actual live performance of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, the duo who are the Chemical Brothers...
...bass riff. A few minutes later, the mix takes on a retro feel while incorporating samples from Kenny Dope, Badder Than Evil and Unique 3. This sound--which mixes several samples and songs together--is omnipresent in Brother's Gonna Work It Out and gives the record its live DJ performance feel. "It's brought alive some of the tracks that, maybe, weren't quite as powerful in their isolated form," Simons commented in a recent interview. "That's one of the good things about the mix record...
Definitely a unique album, the DJ mix project incorporates the work of a number of artists into continuous dance music. For those of us that didn't make it to Glastonbury this year, Brother's Gonna Work It Out provides us with a glimpse of how the Chemical Brother sound on stage...