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World cinema classics #14

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Blood Simple (1985) Joel and Ethan Coen

Today is Ethan Coen’s fiftieth birthday.

Look out for the scene where the detective opens the window; the woman slams it on top of his wrist and drives a knife through his hand into the windowsill. The original soundtrack is by Carter Burwell, who has done the soundtracks to all of the Coens’ films.

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World dance music classics #6

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Sueño Latino (1992) – Derrick May mix

Sueño Latino is an Italo disco duo from Italy, formerly known as Righeira. In 1989 they released a famous eponymous house–techno song Sueño Latino. The track is based on Manuel Göttsching‘s E2-E4. It was remixed by May in 1992. The track you hear here as in a post by Youtube user Tuneseeker is cut off during the drop out.

More Italo here.

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World dance music classics #5

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Miss You (1978) – The Rolling Stones

“Miss You” is a 1978 song by The Rolling Stones, from their album Some Girls. You need the twelve inch version.

The Rolling Stones disco years:

Several of the songs on 1976’s Black and Blue had boasted vague dance influences, and certain songs such as “Hot Stuff” were essentially compromises between Mick Jagger’s growing interest in contemporary dance music and Keith Richard’s obsession with reggae. “Miss You” was the first Rolling Stones single with prominent disco influences however, most noticeably in Charlie Watts‘ thumping, four-on-the-floor drum beat, and in Bill Wyman‘s funky, grooving bass-lines

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The second significant artwork of the 20th century

The Fourth Estate, Il Quarto Stato (1901) – Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo

The second significant artwork of the 20th century is The Fourth Estate, a 1901 painting by Giuseppe Pellizza that depicts in – “MGM grandeur” – sepia-toned rows of handsome Italian workers marching toward a new dawn behind two men and a woman holding a baby.

This entry is part of a new series: “100 artworks that set the world on fire (while no one was watching)”, inspired by Wire’s 100 records that set the world on fire (while no one was listening).

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The first significant artwork of the 20th century

The first significant artwork of the 20th century is The Road to Hell, a 1900 drawing by Alfred Kubin that depicts a tunnel, at the end of the tunnel is a woman, between this woman’s legs disappear rectangular boxes speeding towards her.

This entry is part of a new series: “100 artworks that set the world on fire (while no one was watching)”, inspired by Wire’s 100 records that set the world on fire (while no one was listening).