Modulations - Cinema for the Ear | Documentary
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- čas přidán 16. 01. 2020
- Modulations is a feature-length documentary that captures a moment in history where humans and machines are fusing to create today's most exciting sounds. It traces the evolution of electronic music as one of the most profound artistic developments of the twentieth century. By cutting back and forth between avant-garde composers, Kraftwerk's innovative synthesizer drones, Giorgio Moroder's glacial Euro-disco, Afrika Bambaataa's electro-funk, and Prodigy's current worldwide superstarstardom, Modulations celebrates, replicates, and illuminates the nomadic drift of the post-human techno sound. The film examines the kids who have turned the turntable into a musical instrument, disillusioned disco lovers who created acid house out of primitive synthesizers, Motor City mavericks who saw the drum machine as their escape route out of urban neglect, and a generation of British youth who transformed these blips and bleeps into dance floor anthems of their own alienation. Modulations provides a sense of history and context in which today's electronic music can be understood. It entertains the converted and remixes the mindset of electronica's nay-sayers.Featuring a stunning collage of interviews, cutting-edge visuals, in-studio footage, and live performances, Modulations moves at a pace that matches the energy and innovation of the music.
Soundtrack:
Donna Summer | "I Feel Love"
Afrika Mambaattaa | "Planet Rock"
Juan Atkins/Model 500 | "No Ufo's Remix"
LFO |"Simon From Sydney
Derrick May | "Strings of Life"
Jesse Saunders | "Yeah"
Aprodite | "Amazon 2 - King of the Beats"
Panacea | "Stormbringer"
Goldie & Rob Playford | "The Shadow"
Ryoji Ikeda | "Luxus 1-3"
Coldcut | "Atomic Moog 2000"
To Rococo Rot | "Kritische Masse 1"
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There seems to have been something so futuristic, prophetic and philosophic at works in the 90s scene, which I'm not seeing today. The party is still there, but the depth, the hope and future seems lost.
The scene sucks now. I design stages and animations, but I stay home.
You just got old and jaded, like everyone else. I'm sure if you talked to some 17 year olds they'd tell you that there's never been a better time to get into music. After all, they can hear the best stuff from our era (because all the rubbish gets forgotten in the filter of history) and make some brand new things the old folks like us don't understand.
It was drug fiuled and underground we would rent out old parking geroges and drugs were not hidden then lil kids and cops distroyed it
In the 80S too
You"re so right my friend
2023 and still fresh. Fresher than current mainstream edm
“Electronic music is the hot rodding of the 90’s” Robert Moog 😎🖤🙌
I watched this in 2000, I was blown away and still am after watching it 20 yrs later. Their needs to be a Modulations 2.
Yes, we really need a documentary on the next wave of electronic music - 2010s house, EDM, dubstep, and the newer genres. That would be fantastic.
My mind is blown 🤯💥😍
Yes!. Especially considering the modern advancements in music production and technology!.💯👍🏿
modulations 2 electronic boogaloo YES
@@AngryBrother360 Ironically enough, I've read that the younger generation is embracing the old styles of DJing and Dance Production, so we're seeing a rejection of the new tech in certain circles. I'm not an expert by any means, but I have heard this around. I'm fine w it. I love the sounds and aesthetic of 90s/00s dance.
Born in 1969, I lived through and experienced the UK HipHop scene from it's beginnings, then House, Acid House, HipHouse, and the best of all, the rave era.
1990-1993 was the best 3 years of electronic music of all time in the UK, nothing before or after could ever be as good.
Everything else is it's own genre. It all sounds very samey. It can still be good, but Jungle is Jungle, no mistaking, DnB is DnB no mistaking it for anything else.
Rave music from 90-93 had everything, you could have all types of genres played in the same set, it had so much variation, so much experimentation, from 4/4 techno, to reggae influenced breakbeat, to hoover stabbage, to film and cartoon sampled music, and a dozen other styles all mixed together.
Nothing will ever top that.
You would be happily surprised to find that outer provenances with this music culture was far more peaceful yet just as intense. True story bro. HU Shanti
So many genres and sub-genres each deserving of their own name then and some without even their own name. The term Techno was thrown about at everything from Jeff Mills - The Bells to Shades of Rhythm - Armageddon to 2 Unlimited - No Limits! Like you say: so much experimentation and variation! It was lost on a lot of people then (just listen to Top of the Pops' comments about the lack of lyrics being a problem) and is still lost on a lot of people now. I think it's a mark of good music when it can still get the same extreme reactions now as it did then - some people now talk about it like the old fuddy-duddies from back then (e.g. "it's just noise", "how do you listen to that rubbish?") and yet I've played fast Acid Trance and Oldskool Hardcore to a room full of people who'd likely never heard it before in their lives and had them dancing past 3 AM! The early 90s was a truly special time - a golden age of music among other things as well.
88 - 92 sunny jim 🙂
Как охренительно читать всё это!😍
old people b like
Truly a documentary shot on film that has stood the test of time.
So happy the first person being interviewed is Genesis P Orridge, god father of UK rave scene. People here in Detroit have no clue how important he is or even who he is.
Seeing this makes me feel nostalgia for a place I've never been
I was a techno club/party dj for 20yrs plus , & was lucky i met & even had gigs with a few of the artists in this documentary. I enjoyed it so much! Far more than almost all of the many shows that have tried to tell the history of electronic music. Thanks, you made an old dj very happy today 😊❤
I always get chills at 59:10 when Oval talks about "just editing the source material" and then that quick cut to black and those choppy sounds and weird tone. It's so wonderful that someone uploaded this absolute gem of a documentary, and just as Gen Z starts to make the 90s electronic revival happen again.
@@user-zx5gg8od6l ACTUALLY ALOT CRAZIER THAN THAT IF YALL ON THE UNDERGROUND :)
Genz doesn't do anything 🤣🤣🤣🤣 you'd have to be an artist. They just wanna be tik tok stars.
the word for those chills is frisson, a quality contemporary producers seek in their creations
@@terrestrialgmusic ur so outta touch I can tell you're old and unaware of cool shit to say this
zoomer. not gen z. there's no such thing as "gen z", or hey buy into that social programming and just fall in lockstep with whatever terminology the state run media uses. way to go ya bold beautiful brave and true free thinker.
As the blurb says, this documentary “captures a moment”. It’s about 90’s electronic dance music and is really well made.
But it’s a long way from being a “history of electronic music”. Everything before the 90’s is summarised visually in less than a minute and hardly mentioned again.
And its a black washing
@@supme7558 wtf are you talking about
Oh dear, he said the "B" word. 😆
yup...very very limited...kinda clickbait...
@@HealyHQ he probably didn't know about the role Detroit and black people played in the techno music evolution and thinks there's an agenda at play in this documentary.
Fantastic image restoration work on this film, guys. It‘s all very subtle, but I can see it and appreciate it, and it definitely beats uploading it in 480p! Thank you.
I grow up with rock and never was interested in electronic music, until I come to Europe on 2000, what a time, since then I'm making the most of it!!!!
I was born in 1984 and missed the first wave of techno but was ready for the 90s. As a kid, I really think the electronic music was my biggest love. It was so amazing in the 90s, rave, hardcore, breakbeat, goa, trance, French house, IDM, ambient, ambient techno, DnB, different waves of techno and of course many labels, raves, parties and DJs. There was something magical bout the whole era. Especially since the interent was still young and you had to dig to get the good music etc...
I was a teenager through the 1990s. From there into my young adult years in the 2000s, I was exploring as much as I could in the electronic music realm. This was also building from what I heard as a kid from what passed down (1970s informing the 1980s).
It’s fascinating watching this in the 2020s where truly “the more things change, the more they remain the same”. So much has changed as far as tools and such. But at the heart of it all, it’s still about finding sounds to reflect whatever you want.
Like Holy WOW! I recorded this in about 98 and was looking for the VHS tape the last few months but couldn't find it. I couldn't remember the name of it, all I remember was May and Saunderson and the track at the end with Holger which I thought was his. That track has remained unnamed in my head for 25 years! Until now. Thank you for waiting and I'm sorry it took so long Cosmic Bird. Thanks Cultures of Resistance for posting this up. Boy has life changed since.
So much heritage and history...
I feel proud to be part of the movement.
really enjoyed this, I was too young to really get into the rave culture , I was born in 85 and most house music we grew up with in the Chicago area was on B96 or dance mixes. I did regularly start to listen with robert miles children and DJ Alice better off alone, Moby, Eiffel 65 remixes and regularly found techno on Napster, Kazaa and Soulseek. I remember it was very different, like computer music and none of my friends were into it. For some reason it was the only music I liked and then around 2000 found out about digitally imported, Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold, Paul Van Dyk, Ministry Of Sound and the early 2000s that was what got me through hard times. Always dreamed of going to a rave but the highschool was cracking down heavily, we were forced to watch videos about the dangers of X and the music was looked at as druggy music so I didnt get to go to any live events until 2015.
I went to my first live show in 2015 as well. I was born in 96 and grew up listening to electronic music from the 90s. I didnt really keep up with the modernization of the art until i started going to shows
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And now, MDMA is being studied for PTSD (and I believe for alcohol use disorder though fact check me please) in Phase 3 trials here in the U.S. Phase 3 is the last phase before something can be put on the market.
that sounds terrible man..in the UK the best years were 89 to 94 for mine - top tunes and proper pills! long live club uk
I was born in 86 and I was a hardcore raver in NYC and all over New England for like seven years in the mid-00s and early 2010s :shrug: mid-00s hardcore and the early years of Dubstep were particularly exciting, but I've been to plenty of psytrance raves, mixed genre raves, hardstyle and gabber raves, house and techno raves...
Just because you miss earlier waves of a culture, and just because a culture has gone through multiple instances of mainstream integration and bastardization doesn't mean the culture doesn't continue on. There are still warehouse raves, underground club raves, raves of every kind, happening every weekend all over the world. You just have to know about them. Don't listen to anyone who burned out on taking pills every weekend and saw the culture change in a direction they didn't personally enjoy telling you that it's dead and will never be the same. Not only might you find the new permutations even better, but there will always be people out there still doing it exactly like it used to be done. Granted, I won't lie and say it'll ever be as exciting as it used to be when it was still newer and technology was still younger, but the world moves on, as does rave culture.
I can't say when I first learned there was such a thing as synthesizers or electronic music. But sometime in grade school. I was born in '65. I remember seeing something in school, or on TV, about synthesizers. And I remember for some reason, we had a modular synthesizer brought into a classroom. Maybe for a music class. Anyways, I have loved electronic music for almost as long as I can remember.
as a modern DJ, stuff like this is my favorite. I definitely don't play much house or techno, but I identify with the philosophy of most of these musicians. its all about experimenting with sound
Out of curiosity, what do you play?
@@christheghostwriter I like G jones style experimental stuff. lots of big, trippy sound design with booming bass. lol
@Skrʞro I don't know that reference, but I'll check it out. I'm a first-wave raver from the late 80s/early 90s, and I still listen to a lot of house and techno. I'm always down for something new, so I appreciate the reply 🙂
YEP
@@SkrkroG Jones and Eprom are sound wizards, love their music! Big ups
I remember renting this VHS at a VHS rental store that had rare and unique VHS's and where I found this gem and I still remember it to this day. One of the best docs out there for Electronic Music hands down!
yeah, remembering or mentioning VHS rental stores always brings a tear to my eye.
i don’t miss paying for the video content that we now have mostly available for free in much more higher quality _(remember, the resolution of a consumer VHS tape was 240p loool)_ , but the sense of magic and naive excitement around that time - i very much do.
What a trip watching this 20 years later. Love how earnest this was all back in the day.
Those of us who lived it loved that it was are secret these were sellouts
This doc is filled with soundbites just waiting to be sampled.
This doc makes me wish I was older in the 90s. Such simpler times, actual visceral connection with people and ourselves without the facades of today’s superficiality and technological disconnectedness. No nonsense production too, compared with the ever grating hysterical hype and lecturing of todays youtube style of documentary. Just the real deal, direct from the players. Thanks for sharing this, some valuable insights and a bit of history too.
I have been listening to all these guys since the early nineties, and making my own electronica since the mid 2000s. I have never heard of this film, and I am exceptionally thankful to have found it. It truly ties together so many loose ends for me. Electronic Music is truly a lifestyle, and the music itself has a life of its own, as well. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much! This made my day... 90s filming and editing style. Hands down. And it has the artists and the sounds I love! I can't believe I found it, what a tape.
I love the fuzzy filter films still had in the earlier 2000s and 90s we abandoned classic cinematography for quickie eye candy
That wasn't a filter - that's just what real film looks like.
Brilliant stuff. Was painful to watch the 90s rave scenes during Covid times though...
as the young guy who's born in 2000, this documentary really help me up with what electronic music is, not just boom boom bigroom kick
Dont believe it when people try to say they invented anything its ushaly stolen from the real inventers
For the time when this came out it was brilliant. Looking back at it now with all the nostalgia, it’s sort of a mishmash broken timeline of facts and semi facts of interpretation. However, the overall presentation is very disjointed and so nonlinear it’s chaotic. Doesn’t really exemplify what it set out to achieve. An explanation of electronic music.
I don't know if criticising a documentary that starts with GPO talking about cutups and ends on turntablism, taking in all manner of talk about recombinant culture along the way, for not being strictly linear is really hitting the mark ;-)
Watched this film at least 30 times since it’s release. Brilliant!
Wow, all my heroes in one place, fantastic, can't believe I hadn't seen it sooner.
In my twenties in the 90s, living in london - the best of times!
Gabber wasn't my thing but loved the description of it here!!
What a great documtary. A snap shot in time. And all the better watching it back years later.
Amazing doco. So many legends, memories and new ideas. Fusion, sound mashup, curious experimenting - let us never get old, or at least not stale!
5:38 - 6:05 Daiyego - Footprints
18:46 - 18:53 Autechre - Second Bad Vilbel
18:53 - 19:12 Omni Trio - Renegade Snares [Foul Play Remix]
25:40 - 26:26 The Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea
thanx :)
do you know the track at 5:30 ?
@@truthfilter daiyego - footprints, but also it seems this song was released in 2021 so i dont really know. i use aha music on chrome to find
The on at 28:23 PLEASE
Thank You! So good to see this again. Loved it upon release, loving it forever after.
43:32 - Alvin Toffler - "Future Shock" & "The Third Wave" - essential material!
27:27 - MMM @ FSOL: "Hello? Hello, Hello .. ? They hung up ... oh, well."
Priceless upon precious - thank you, Culture of Resistance,
lots of love to all contributors and lots more to Iara Lee
what a gem! thank you for uploading this
Overall found this documentary refreshing because I have owned electronic music devices for the majority of my life and always appreciate different artists and their music. Really interesting
Thank you for uploading this!
Thanks for uploading! ♥
Bravo! I enjoyed enormously ! Aesthetic editing and of course so much integral information for any music nerd. Massive
I had this documentary on DVD back in days😂. Here I am browsing CZcams looking for a “EDM” documentaries, started watching and was like “I’ve seen this before 🤔”… Strange since this Doc came out EDM has exploded into the mainstream and public consciousness. Things like Tomorrowland and Ultra being attended by pop stars and influencers wasn’t happening in the Rave & Warehouse days of dance music .
You can watch "We call it Techno!"...it's about the beginnings of techno in Germany in the 80s...narrator is English, statements of protagonists have English subtitles...they actually complain about the same, in the late 90s it became commercialised with the effects you mentioned...yet today there is again a scene going back to the original idea (far away from tomorrowland and all that mainstream EDM)
all the corporate festivals suck ass anyways, warehouses and the underground are still the best
@@kobey. very true!!!
Calling it EDM is a crime
@@Dezzasheep Agreed. I kinda take issue with the term ‘EDM’. I think it’s kinda its own genre yet people use it as a blanket term. What has ambient or progressive house got to do with the corny stuff that plays in McDonalds?
No way, footage of Rob Playford and his studio.. Thats some rare content
Thanks for uploading.
Beautiful material. Thank you!
Thanks so much for uploading this. Perfect encapsulation of a time & place forgotten and imperfectly now emulated.
great documentary!!! thanks
👍👍
I had this DVD and lost it. Glad its up!
Probably one of my fav music docu's ever
Wow. This doc was incredible. Love the style
The best electronic *Ambient* album of the 90s is arguably Global Communication's "76:14".
It's an extremely cohesive listening experience front to back as a complete album, and pleasantly tranquilizing, despite the era's technical limitations.
Another highlight ambient outing not to be missed:
Bola's album "Soup", from '98.
this album is really a gem! I have it on vinyl and it surprises me everytime
This is so cool, just found my copy of Modulations on VHS!
Awesome. Truly Inspiring. Thank youv
Fantastic documentary. Really captures a mood.
super interesting documentary and there needs to be a part 2 like about the last 20 years
Absolutely amazing. It’s crazy to compare this to the present day.
I have heard about this since it came out even got one of those post card sized promos of it at a local record store, never did find it...until now, and you released it on my birthday! I MISS film like this! Was so blown away at all of the contributors and artists interviewed
Missing so many
I knew this was made in the 90’s just from the editing style.😂
Seen this at the nu-art theater back when it first released. They where handing out T-shirts . I was just 15. Thanks big brother.
Loved this so much.
Seriously inspirational doc.
Thanks for showing me the film. I'm working on a book that takes a look into the history of Electronic Dance Music (EDM). It's called "Let's Have A Dance Party: The Story Of Electronic Dance Music".
Jussara Lee, if you're reading this, find me! It's Jeff! Laguna Niguel late 90s!! Miss you.
We have Genesis P Orridge featured byt no mention of Throbbing Gristle, PTV, Chris and Cozy.
This guy says "Electronic music is often more about the character of the sound than the composition." My thoughts exactly! I have tried to explain my love of some songs just because of the textures in them. Sure I like music that's traditional with melodies and and such. But I also like like organized sound. Is that a minority thing to like?
each and every piece of music or sound is simply a vibration, you either vibe with it or you don't, but what a lot of electronic music allows is the removal of words, and therefore the removal of the conditioning of language that brings it to a purer level of engagement in the moment of vibration over preconditioned expectation. Sounds matter, some say Detroit techno had 'soul', what is 'soul' in musical terms other than humans attempting to communicate a deeper meaning beyond words in sound?
Most people prefer communicating in words. It's what separates us from animals. That said, my lizard brain can appreciate a 909 kick and a squelching 303.
That guy is Moby 😊
@@ricardojmestre True! I should not have called him "this guy". I admit to knowing his music, but not knowing what he looks like, and might have missed that it clearly said "Moby". Certainly I owned "Play" like I am sure a million other people did :)
Yeah this random Moby guy lolz
What a classic film about electronic music still pissed I lent out my dvd abd never got it back. Sooo good even now.
This was utterly brilliant.
Excellent doc.
So atmospheric💙i love it
Great doc
Completey unexpected to be blown away by this as much as i was. One of the rare occasions when youtube actually recommends something awesome>
Its cool to see the evolution of electronic music. I forgot this doc existed. But right on!
This was great, thanks
Thx for the very intererresting dokumentary, really n!c3!
thanx for putting this up, i got the book... but didn't see the accompanied video yet after all these years
this was a very interesting watch, so much possibilities with applying technology to music to create new sounds
lovely
great film very informative❤❤
Talvin Sing....just checked out Sound of the Indian Underground. Owned that CD for 30 years. Still love it.
Food for thought ☀️
52:30 flawless transition
10/10 documentary!
I had this on DVD when it came out, mostly came for the GPO stuff, but it expanded my mind a lot. Kind of mandatory viewing for anyone interested in electronic music in my book.
Is there any other docs which you consider mandatory? Genuine question, not trying to be an ass
The first Moog synthesizer came out the year I was born - 1964. Thank you Robert Moog. 🔈🔉🔊🎹🎼🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶
2020 :) AWESOME FILM
So inspiring 🤯🥹
love this. Great to have lived through the entire evolution of EDM. good times.
Awesome!
This is exactly what i was looking for!
excellent x
I remember hanging out at Limelight and Palladium in the 90's. The music was off the hook. The good old days!
I've got this on VHS and the soundtrack on CD.
I recently bought a Behringer 303 clone and after many many years of playing with ReBirth it was the coolest thing to have one IRL to play with.
I've now got it synced to my drum machine and it syncs pretty well. I tried syncing to my daw and it does not work well.
One drum machine and a 303 is enough to take up hours in tweakage and simple jamming.
I love this setup.
Luv and Peace.
thanks for this video gneu
pure synth pop arrived when aerobics became popular; in the late 70's the first wave of all-synth music was known as "Hi NRG", x cheesy pre-house pop. A series called 'Eurobeat' pumped this formula into the record stores in the early 80's by mixing the tracks and farming out 4-LP sets for the price of a typical album. 'Disco' as a genre gave way to various poorly-spelled niches with "X" in the name, and remixers rose to prominence. By the mid-80's groups like Kraftwerk had established the synth sound for good.
great movie, saw it on vhs back in the day
This is what my knowledge needed 🤩😎
Electronic Music is about losing yourself and forgetting about what is going on around you…for some reason the sound takes you away with it…not really into garage or hip hop but that is a form of music that takes other people away into their other world…but pure electronic music stripped bare without lyrics is my go to music.
haha same as me sir, am type of who's doesn't really into lyrics/vocal radio music, most of my playlist just beat kick in 6 minutes straight
Definitely feel this. I can go to a rave sober and be taken away into my own world.
Thats called escapism
Its all about the escape
Those who did it best when the genre (and sub-genres) established a foothold, continue to do it best (and have outlasted the rest):
Orbital, Underworld, Chemical Brothers, Aphex Twin, London Elektricity, Squarepusher.
No longer formally active: Daft Punk. Scarcely active: The Orb, Tom Middleton.
Honorable mentions: Boards of Canada, Caribou, Amon Tobin, Royksopp, Apparat/Modeselektor, Ken Ishii, Basement Jaxx.
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