LCD Soundsystem x Miles Davis
So first of all, this mashup of LCD Soundsystem’s New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down and a recording of Miles David from his Elevator to the Gallows score is just great to listen to musically. But the, let’s call it choreography, is brilliantly spare: a pair of YouTube videos pulled up side-by-side in a now-ancient Safari browser and pressing play to sync them by hand — jazz-like, improvisational.
If you’d like to try this yourself, here’s the LCD Soundsystem and Miles Davis videos; just press play on the David video at 32 seconds into the LCD video.
See also New Yorker film critic Richard Brody on Louis Malle’s “Elevator to the Gallows,” and Its Historic Miles Davis Soundtrack. (via James Risley in the Kottke comments)
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instant on repeat! what a fantastic combination of great songs!
I made a promise to myself that any time I saw this linked, I would stop and watch it in full. Never breaking that promise.
So glad you saw it and loved it! I'll add that one of my favorite things about visiting it over the years, and you alluded to this, is the time capsule element. While I do yearn for this version when I hear the album cut, I'm really glad that it's a video that captures what it felt like to discover things on the internet at that time, with dozens of windows open and often building on each other.
rip the 'thumbs down' button, lil' bundle of nostalgia how this screams OS X Aqua
This feels like a throwback to When the Internet Was Weird. I love this (but then, as an LCD SS *and* Miles fan, the outcome was foretold).
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