Radiohead Honoured With Four Hour Long Remix Of Videotape - Pointless Or Art?
How big a Radiohead fan are you? Could you sit through a four hour video remix of just one of their songs? I hope so, as that is exactly what serial remixer James Rutledge is planning to release.
Radiohead have been one of the most innovative, creative and experimental British bands over the last few years.
From their very ordinary Indie beginnings, they have created unique album after unique album, and virtually created a genre in the process.
This experimental nature went a stage further last year with the almost free digital release of newest album In Rainbows. To accompany this, visual elements were also released via YouTube, and the music videos weren’t exactly traditional either.
Now, producer and budding music genius James Rutledge is carrying on the trend of innovation by releasing a four hour long remix of the song Videotape, with accompanying visuals.
Rutledge used to be in the Dakota Oak Trio and has already remixed bands such as Foals and Bloc Party.
The images made to accompany the remix feature red, blue and green disintegrating visuals, and were designed by Phillip M Lane.
But don’t get your hopes up that you’ll be able to walk in to a record store and buy this remix. For starters, it is only being released on VHS, the dead format, and get this: there’s only one copy in the world!
This is to be sold on eBay in the near future to raise money for British charity UK Missing People.
The problem is, who on earth will bid on it? Turning a three minute song in to a four hour video is madness, and however good the cause is, I still don’t really get the point.
I wish them all the luck in the world securing a number of high figure bids for what is essentially a one off piece of music memorabilia, but knowing what I do about eBay, I wouldn’t expect it to go smoothly.
And no, I won’t be bidding.
[Photo Source: OctopusHat at Flickr]
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