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One of the funniest techno remixes on YouTube is undoubtedly the remix of the spartan movie 300. The clever remix artist humorously cut together various pop cultural highlights including Star Wars, Saturday Night Live, and television shows like My Name is Earl.
Musically, the remix is weak and repetitive without as much creativity as the video counterpart. While the music remix isn’t the greatest or most original, the video itself is certainly funny enough.
Techno remix fans will be glad to know that everyone’s favorite Political Celebrity has put out another call to action to the Remixers of the world!
Back in January, he challenged the remix world to slice and dice his interview with Lawrence Lessig and set it to techno music. Several great remixes showed up on YouTube and Colbert had a follow-up a couple weeks later…
| The Colbert Report | Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
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But now the stakes are raised. Colbert is officially inviting all editors and remixers to insert themselves into his show here. That’s right. Hack your way onto national television by actually re-slicing a piece of recorded reality: The Colbert Report show footage. Add yourself in and, if they like your style, they’ll air your supposed Colbert Interview.
This is huge!
We talk a lot about how reality is a remix and you have the power to re-envision it as you go. Here is a definitive example of that power in action. You want to be on the show. So you remix yourself into previous interview footage. If it’s successful, you’re spell lands your face on the actual show! Magic in action.
Techno Magic.
What is this thing called techno?
No doubt most of the modern world has formed some kind of associated meaning with the word techno and the musical genre and culture associated with it. Most would imagine it to be “club music”… that beat-heavy pulsating that jingles along above the heads of sweating, swaying ravers. Others think of a mad house of synthesizers and beeps.
All accurate to a certain extent but the reality behind electronic music is that it’s not a completely futuristic genre. Techno is a specific sub-genre of electronic that has roots in Detroit, where European synthesizers mixed with afro-beats and dance music. Rarely does this form of electronic music have vocals. Usually steady beats with drum machines, turn tables, or loop-sequencing machines.
The most well-established theme in techno is the futuristic techno-spiritual flavor given by its cadenced trance-like percussion. Techno itself seems to serve a cultural purpose in embracing technology to enhance human expression rather than the dismal fear mindset brought on by the bloating of the industrial era.
Rather than fear or resent the ongoing evolution to more digital, and therefore less organic, modes of expression and creation, why not embrace the wave of freedom rolling over us with the progression of synthesized information and music! We have the power, thanks to the massive advances in audio engineering and digital photography to create and remix our media and our lives!
The Techno Remix represents the unique control of the individual in the brave new (and exciting) world of the 21st Century.