THTC vs ADDICTIVE TV
As summer approaches, sustainable t-shirt and eco-fashion label THTC - The Hemp Trading Company - asked us to create a music track and video for their site and for social media sharing, by sampling their archive of 14 years of THTC clips of their events, activists and artist supporters - including Ed Sheeran, Beardyman and Newton Faulkner.
So after a rather long sampling session and time in the studio, creating music from spray cans to beatboxers, here's the result...
Check out THTC at www.thtc.co.uk
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@ Arezzo Wave Winter Festival
December 2012, Addictive TV played the fantastic winter version of Italy's famous Arezzo Wave Festival in Arezzo, near Florence in the centre of the country.
Big thanks to the festival for the recording, here's a short clip from the set with the track "You Da 2", where Addictive TV mashup Rihanna's "You Da One" with Blur's "Song 2". FYI, this video is from the Vimeo page of Italy's Repubblica XL magazine, click here to read the interview it's used in.
ADDICTIVE TV: Blow Up for Arte
Celebrating the 100th edition of their specialist cinema programme called "Blow Up", German-French television channel Arte commissioned Addictive TV to remix Antonioni's influential classic 1966 movie Blow Up.
As well as sampling the movie, we of course sampled Herbie Hancock's original soundtrack with that same sample Deee Lite used in their 90's hit Groove is in the Heart.
If you can read French, for more info on Arte's Blow Up cinema show, click here.
Orchestra of Samples
Still in production, we're working on our forthcoming project 'Orchestra of Samples', which has involved filming recording sessions with over 100 musicians in more than fifteen countries in Europe, Africa and South America.
Working with so many fantastic musicians, we've created a unique archive to sample from (hence the project title); here's an early demo of what's being created. None of those featured had ever met, none of them had heard other recordings of other artists and all were filmed seperately in different countries.
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Paléo Festival 2012
Late Summer 2012, Addictive TV played the closing slot for the enourmous Paléo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland. It's six days and nights of festivities for 230,000 people, with over 200 concerts on six stages!
Many thanks to the festival for the recording, here's a short clip from the set of "Daftwerk Transformation", remixing all three Transformers movies and mashing them up with Daft Punk's 'Robot Rock' and Kraftwerk's 'The Robots'.
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The Gadget Show Live 2012
After working with The Gadget Show on Channel 5 last year, Addictive TV were asked to perform as part of The Gadget Show Live 2012, the UK’s leading consumer technology event, held at the NEC in Birmingham in April 2012.
The series has been on British television for nearly a decade now, and for the week-long live event Addictive TV were asked to sample all 16 series, creating an audiovisual remix to perform three times a day for 5 days! Here's what they made...
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE - CANAL93, PARISFor 2013, Addictive TV are part of the artists-in-residence programme of Canal 93, the venue and recording studios in the Paris suburb of Bobigny. It's a great space, check 'em out here!
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Sampling the delights of Ed Sheeran THTC supporter Ed Sheeran finds himself sampled for the remix alongside beatboxers, scratchers, a graffiti artists spray can and Prince Charles himself!ATV vs THTCAsked by eco-fashion label THTC to create a remix for their social media by sampling years of their clips of supporter artists, from Ed Sheeran and Newton Faulkner to Trojan Sound System and Beardyman, we took on the challenge!
www.thtc.co.uk
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Blowing it up! Sampling the movie and of course Herbie Hancock's orginal soundtrack with that same sample Deee Lite used in their 90's hit Groove is in the Heart. -
Bend it like Bhamra! We recently recorded with London based virtuoso tabla player and bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra MBE. Click here to read the blog entry. -
Live at the Forum des Images Both Addictive TV and DJ Zebra performed at the special event in Paris, at the Forum des Images. -
Thump, whack, ARRHGG, smack! Making beats from smacks, whacks and kicks, and turning them into - quite literally - a thumping track! All the while editing at the same time... -
Creating toy town in Strasbourg! Shooting on Canon 5D's with tilt-shift lenses from about seventy metres high up on different cranes, we're giving the port a miniture toy look! -
I'm Bob... This photo's from the fantastic film "Bob" by animator Darren Walsh (the man behind the "Compare the Meerkat" commercials).
