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my new theme tune
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The Getdown (birth of hiphop/Netflix-R)
Ok. Ridiculous TV pitches. What ya got?
Airing winter 2017 on Sky One a twist on the Jack The Ripper tale, where dude is literally Hitler. No seriously. He's time traveling Adolf, hunted by time travelling Allied war heroes. We've taken that old moral question, 'If you had a time machine would you go back and kill Hitler?' and flipped it. It's April 1945 and Allied Forces are fast closing in on Nazi command. But top secret German scientists have just invented a time machine and whilst not perfected Hitler sees it as his last hope to save The Reich. So with the Russians knocking on the bunker door to evade capture he jumps in. Forces within the Allied camp are already aware the value of these German scientists and use the danger of them falling into Russian hands to pardon them and bring them to America, where they find out about the time machine and Hitler's escape. So far history has not changed so some figure Hitler failed. But leaving him out there is just not a risk others are willing to accept. Some want to try and use the machine to go back and kill young Hitler, but that's considered too drastic as we just don't know the consequences for history. But he must be stopped, so they send soldiers back to capture him but he always seems one step ahead, like he knows their moves before they make them. Then one crazy scientist believes he's found a way to use the machine to not only track Hitler through time, but tracking his very essence, his soul if you like. They think they can use this to capture his 'essence' and possibly him but it can't simply be used to bring him back because of some complicated science shit. They get close to capturing him, possibly even mortally wounding him but ultimately it fails. As a result Hitler starts quantum leaping into mass murders throughout history, attracted by their similarly evil soul profiles. So now they have to send someone back to hunt Hitler's soul down to save the world from Nazi rule, but to do it they must also hunt all these various killers, glimpses of Jack The Ripper, The Zodiac Killer, Bible John, Donald Trump etc flash across the screen. Who will he jump into next? Can they be not only be 'in time' to catch Hitler but also stop the killers?
After 5 seasons they finally catch up with him, but it's revealed that through some time travel space time continuum inception style bullshit that time travelling Nazi Hitler was in fact killed in the original hunt. But the time machine reached out into time found the soul of young Hitler, not finding the crazy killer part of his personality it merged him into the bodies/souls of these crazed killers and made him complicit in the butchery all these hundreds of victims all across time. And it was in fact the chasing of young Hitler through time that turned him into a murderous psychopath and who started WW2. If they had just let Nazi Hitler jump back in time young Hitler would've stayed a peaceful vegetarian painter, and that was why time travelling Hitler always failed to change history and save the Reich. Boom your head explodes.
copyright, 2016.
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The Getdown (birth of hiphop/Netflix-R)
The story in show itself makes a pretty big deal about how being true and authentic has always been important, kinda ironic really. It's not like it needs to be 100%, but the story is strong enough told straight, any additional embellishment is really a deduction.
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Favorite Japanese 70/80's soundtracks?
I could be misremembering it cause I still can't find any mention of it online. It could well be Tsutomu Ōhashi reworked the soundtrack for the one of the anniversary Blurays. It would make more sense for them to have had to take audio channels out for the dvd versions of the film, the soundtrack was made in such an unusual and complicated way . IIRC Victor released a 4.1 version of the soundtrack back in the early 2000s. I have that one and a homemade surround sound rip from a dvd on flac, they're cool in the way they give you a bit more of that gamalan orchestra feel, but obviously they're not much use unless you have a surround sound setup.
Edit: I finally found reference to the change in soundtrack, it's mentioned in Toru Mitsui's 'Made In Japan: Studies in Popular Music, which has a chapter on the Akira soundtrack. But it was indeed the film version that was changed when they digitised it. I forgot that the first time I watched Akira it would've been on VHS. fuck we old
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YWQKBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA177&lpg=PA177&dq=Tsutomu+Ōhashi+akira+symphonic+suite&source=bl&ots=P3grhcjyYg&sig=J4EK3Cd4jCTrNU8A8qMO5e-xbjc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj48JHLo77OAhXrZpoKHZc5DakQ6AEIPjAG#v=onepage&q=Tsutomu Ōhashi akira symphonic suite&f=false
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Favorite Japanese 70/80's soundtracks?
Have you heard the rereleased version with all the tracks they had to take out when they transferred it from movie surround sound mix to the album version? I can't find word of it online but I swear I read that for a recent reissue Tsutomu Ōhashi had remastered it and put back in all the things that had to be taken out.mattB said:Symphonic Suite Akira... awesome @Okem
The Akira ost and Kenji Kawai's GITS ost really opened a door for me when it comes to Japanese music. I was temporarily obsessed with them back in the late 90s early 00s, trying to find anything that sounded like Geinoh Yamashirogumi or Kawai's weirder work. But back then the internet wasn't as useful as it is now and buying records from Japan was too expensive for my meager budget.
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