This is for Nicholas, the only artist to ever exhibit Clarence Boddicker themed work that I know of. Robocop isn’t just an awesome movie, it’s an important film, possibly the one film that best carries the spirit of dystopian 1980′s cyberpunk. I know some people hate Darren Aronofsky, but I can’t wait to see his remake. The above 10 minute, rap/recap of the entire film is by The Anomalies, UK Hip Hop/Breakbeat/Indie trio out of Hereford, UK.
Seen at Boing Boing Gadgets.
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Does this mean PTP will get back together for a world tour of their one great song?(Let’s pretend Rubber Glove Seduction never came out).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN3N2dAL0XE
What’s up with the Terminator footage in that video?
The Terminators are constantly “showing their spines” because their rubber skin has been burned off. It’s mostly about the song for me, though.
I didn’t spot the Terminator shots. What mark are they at?
The Terminator shot’s are in the video uploaded linked by The Secret Lives of Cats.
That explains it.
OK OK Obscure references aside(I never heard PTP’s full version of Show Me Your Spine-the song that was used briefly in the club scene of Robocop, until five minutes before I posted that link) this is a major motion picture event. Aronofsky has just the right amount of “I am important!, but still desire to show ‘the humans’ how sick they really are,” to pull it off. I haven’t yet seen The Wrestler but I love Mickey Rourke and think it was an excellent casting choice. Robocop doesn’t really need any retooling though.
I also appreciate the fact that Anomalies worked around a lot the original dialogue for their funny rhymes.
“Don’t worry. They’ll fix you. They fix everything.”
How can you, of all people, not have heard the full version before. I think I had it on a comp of industrial dance stuff, and I heard it over and over again.
The Robocop re-make does strike me as a bit “too soon”, much like the Murakami mid-career retro at MOCA last year. For some reason I have a feeling that it’s going to be Ghost in the Shell influenced, but I have no reasoning to back up that intuition.
I have an “indusrtrial music” blindspot. Except where Cabaret Voltaire is concerned.
How on Earth did that happen? I would figure you have a pile of industrial dance 12″ singles hiding somewhere.
Ironically, I have a Cabaret Voltaire blind spot. I’ve just never been able to love them, even if Ferris Bueller had their poster in his ultra-cool bedroom.