this is a 4Play film for Channel 4 about Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
directed by David Terranova for Falko Haus
it follows TEED from his home studio in Oxford to Dour and Melt! Festivals

Remixing is a folk art but the techniques involved — collecting material, combining it, transforming it — are the same ones used at any level of creation. You could even say that everything is a remix.

Make sure to follow Kirby Ferguson’s exciting documentary series.

[pix by Naoto Hattori]

Walking on Eggshells is a 24-minute documentary about appropriation, creative influence, re-use and intellectual property in the remix age. It is a conversation among various musicians, visual artists, writers and lawyers, all sharing their views on why and how we use and create culture, and how intellectual property law, originally designed to provide people with incentives to create, sometimes hinders creative production far more than it enhances it.

Directed and Produced by:
Jacob Albert
Ryan Beauchamp
Brendan Schlagel

Interviews with (in order of appearance):
Eclectic Method
DJ Earworm (Jordan Roseman)
Joy Garnett
Michael Cunningham
Dudley Andrew
DJ Ripley (Larisa Mann)
Jonathan Lethem
E. Michael Harrington
Edgar Garcia

an hour long documentary by the BBC made in 2006
on the development of rave culture in the UK during the summer of 1989

[via Synthtopia]

A short documentary about a new vinyl pressing plant in Cleveland Ohio, called Gotta Groove Records. They specialize in 7″ and 12″ Vinyl creation/manufacturing using PVC molding.

[photo by Uninen]

boomboxes are the dinosaurs of portable music players
we’ve changed the way we listen to music, so they died out
NPR made a  great documentary about those big boys
so today’s kids can understand where their iPod is coming from

[via yvynyl]

after the history of house music
we guide  you to an another part of music history
let’s go back in time and check out the glory days of jungle aka drum & bass
the whole documentary is about 30 minutes but every second worth to watch

An intriguing, music-driven documentary by Tom Mansfield, which observes the orchestrations of a fantastical robotic musical machine, which was created by the inventor Felix Thorn in his bedroom.

Music from the Moon is an intercultural music and puppet show for children. In 2006, the Hypno Theatre travelled to Iceland and remote locations in Greenland to perform their show. The film accompanies the group on their journey through Arctic landscapes. Look forward to exceptional concerts and personal moments with Emilíana Torrini, Benni Hemm Hemm, Dagur Kári and other stars of the Icelandic and Greenlandic music scenes and learn about the Nordic attitude towards music and creativity.

Featuring: Emilíana Torrini, Benni Hemm Hemm, Members of Sigur Rós, Members of Múm, Eiríkur Orri, Helmus und Dalli, Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir, Dagur Kári, Slowblow, Ole Kristiansen, Naneruaq, Hypno Theatre, Hjörleifur Jónsson, Magdalena Mayas, Jan Terstegen, Ravi Srinivasan, Frances Jane Ball, Mandy Burton, …