Well, not exactly. In fact, it's the first in a series of collections of incidental music for an incredible TV show I've been developing:
ULTIMATE MIXTAPE GALAXY!
An epic odyssey through an alternative galaxy of music - a life-changing quest for love, freedom, and the BEST MIXTAPE EVER!
In which our young hero is mysteriously transported from 1994 (a time of mixtapes and MTV) to a galaxy where every planet is home to a different genre of music, where the harmony of the spheres is a tangible source of energy coursing through everything, and the basis of all life. And, in order to get home, and win the heart of the girl he loves (who constantly scorns him for not being 'cool enough') with an awesome mixtape, he must travel from planet to planet, recording the most incredible gigs of all time - from Mozart to Miles Davis to Michael Jackson, The Animals to The Zombies, Frankie Valli to Fela Kuti, Serge Gainsbourg to Sex Pistols, etc etc etc. He gains the most incredible education in music - but also in life and love - and becomes a legendary hero in the underground resistance against the evil totalitarian POP federation, who have taken over the entire galaxy... he meets slaves singing in the fields, monks chanting in mountain-top shangri-las, punks spitting, hep-cats swinging, Germans pretending to be robots, all manner of pirates and outlaws and merchants... and finally, in an asteroid field on the outer reaches of the galaxy, manages to track down the mysterious Samplers, who have the ability to suddenly appear out of nowhere, steal music, and disappear just as suddenly...
It's a big, ambitious project, which I think would make incredible television. The idea's not quite (but at the same time is not too far off) ready to be pitched properly. If you think you might be able to help/would like to get involved please let me know. SPECIFICALLY I'd love artists and illustrators to imagine scenes from the show (I think ideally it would use the rotoscope technique, especially to bring the gigs to vivid life... somewhere between Waking Life and Sin City and Yellow Submarine). Get me at: woowoowagon at gmail
It's a big, ambitious project, which I think would make incredible television. The idea's not quite (but at the same time is not too far off) ready to be pitched properly. If you think you might be able to help/would like to get involved please let me know. SPECIFICALLY I'd love artists and illustrators to imagine scenes from the show (I think ideally it would use the rotoscope technique, especially to bring the gigs to vivid life... somewhere between Waking Life and Sin City and Yellow Submarine). Get me at: woowoowagon at gmail
ANYWAY, this is the first in a long series of mixtapes that are not the main concerts he goes to, but are built for wistfully watching the stars through the spaceship window and thinking of the girl back home, at the end of an episode, montages, chase scenes, etc etc etc. A bit spacey, though only occasionally overtly, but all very very floaty and psychedelic... It's a paean to stoned sunshine.
ULTIMATE MIXTAPE GALAXY INCIDENTAL MUSIC VOL 1: "Turn Off Your Mind, Relax, And Float Downstream. It is not Dying..."
ULTIMATE MIXTAPE GALAXY INCIDENTAL MUSIC VOL 1: "Turn Off Your Mind, Relax, And Float Downstream. It is not Dying..."
1. Tomorrow Never Knows - Little Junior Parker
2. Petite Musique De Clown Triste - Erik Satie
3. Aht Uh Mi Head - Shuggie Otis
4. Maruzzella - Renato Carosone
5. Le Brin D'Herbe - Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem
6. The Bublight - Joe Meek & The Blue Men
7. Mother Earth - Memphis Slim
8. Siboney - Xavier Cugat
9. How High The Moon - Slim Gaillard
10. Four Women on One Man - Nina Simone
11. Okwukwe Na Nchekwube - Celestine Ukwu & His Philosophers National
12. Flash Forward - Serge Gainsbourg
13. Tropical Hot Dog Night - Captain Beefheart
14. J'Aime Les Filles - Jacques Dutronc
15. 2069 A Spaced Oddity - Us69
16. Alcohol Love - Billy Walker
17. Moogies Bloogies - Anthony Newley & Delia Derbyshire
18. Caravan - Takeshi Terauchi
19. Sharks - Ivor Cutler
20. Hey There Little Insect - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
21. As Far As I Can Remember (Memories) - The Pasteur Lappe
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