Showing posts with label Happy Mondays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happy Mondays. Show all posts
Saturday, 10 October 2015
Music For Misfits: The Story of Indie - Episode 2 - "The Alternative 80s" (MKV)
Thanks to dfb0308 for posting this excellent rip in TTD.
Broadcast on BBC4 HD, 9th October 2015
"The story of British indie over three musically diverse episodes. Much more than a genre of music, it is a spirit, an attitude and an ethos.
Episode 2 explores a time when the independent labels transformed from cottage industries into real businesses that could compete with the majors. It examines the evolution of 'indie' - a guitar-based genre of music with its own sound, fashion and culture. Independent record labels provided a platform for some of Britain's most groundbreaking artists at this time, including the Jesus and Mary Chain and the Smiths, who would burst onto the scene in 1983 staging a mainstream intervention and starting a small revolution.
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The programme concludes in the late 80s with the Madchester scene, as alternative music crossed over into the mainstream chart. This breakthrough was inspired by a merging of indie rock and the burgeoning acid house culture, and it was led by a new crop of bands such as the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays."
(bbc.co.uk)
Lineage:
BBC4 HD satellite broadcast -> Ross HDR-8130USB -> external hard drive (.ts file) -> VideoReDo TVSuite v4 (editing) -> MKVmerge -> .mkv
(direct stream capture, no re-encoding)
Technical info:
Video: 1920x1080i 25fps 16:9 H.264 (average bitrate = 5.5 Mbps)
Audio: 48000Hz 192kbps stereo AC3
Duration: 00:58:26
Size: 2.42Gb
Includes subtitles track.
Lineage for subtitles:
BBC4 satellite broadcast -> Fortec Star Zeta PVR -> firewire out (.tp0 file) -> ProjectX -> .srt
Monday, 13 June 2011
Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays (Documentary DVD)
Excellent documentary about Factory Records, thanks to cEnda for this one.
Factory Records was a Manchester based British independent record label, started in 1978, which featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, and (briefly) James and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. Like the label 4AD Records, Factory Records used a creative team (most notably record producer Martin Hannett and graphic designer Peter Saville) which gave the label, and the artists recording for it, a particular sound and image.
The label employed a unique cataloguing system that gave a number not just to its musical releases, but to artwork and other objects.
Director: Chris Rodley
Release date 21 September 2007 (UK)
Duration 90 min
Plus some extra interviews with Tony Wilson and a review of his life presented after his passing.
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