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Сообщение CrazyFan » Пн янв 14, 2013 8:46 pm

NICK RHODES AND WARREN CUCCURULLO OF DURAN DURAN DEBUT TV MANIA ON MARCH 11TH
January 14th, 2013
Nick Rhodes and Warren Cuccurullo of Duran Duran Debut TV Mania on March 11th
Concept Album “Bored with Prozac and The Internet?” a Soundtrack to the Digital Age

New York, NY – January 14, 2013 – Back in the mid-90s, Duran Duran’s keyboardist and founding member Nick Rhodes and guitarist Warren Cuccurullo had what turned out to be a premonition of a society in which voyeurism was woven into the cultural fabric. In wanting to share their vision of the future, they created its soundtrack in the form of an album called TV Mania: Bored With Prozac and The Internet?, that they also intended to turn into a Broadway musical.

The tracks were constructed by blending television samples and looping rhythm tracks to create a sonically sophisticated collection of songs that now serve as the perfect backdrop for the frenetic energy and atmosphere of today’s digital age. Shortly after they completed the final mixes, the original tapes were stored and the project was temporarily shelved as other priorities took hold. The intention was always to find the time between Duran Duran project cycles to go back and release the album – perhaps around some anniversary of its inception. Although they discussed it often over the years, the tapes were thought to have been lost, so it wasn’t until recently when going through material at an out-of-town storage facility, to digitize old masters that were held there, Rhodes discovered the original TV Mania tapes misfiled, and he swiftly decided they were long overdue for a release. On March 11, 2013, the TV Mania project will finally see the light of day on vinyl and a limited edition box set through The Vinyl Factory and digitally via The Orchard/Beatport.

Produced by TV Mania (Rhodes and Cuccurullo), Mark Tinley and Anthony J Resta, and mixed by Bob St. John, Bored With Prozac and The Internet? is a conceptual soundtrack for what the duo imagined as a “bizarre TV cyber soap opera,” about a family who gives away their freedom to scientists in exchange for a hi-tech modern lifestyle and reality show fame. With song titles like “Yoghurt and Fake Tan,” and “Using A Hidden Camera—Eyes In The Sky,” the pastiche of cool beats and conceptual content proved more prescient than its creators could ever have anticipated.

“We were envisioning a world where a family would give up their day-to-day privacy and allow their existence to be televised to the masses, and this was two years before the film, The Truman Show and four years before Survivor,” said Cuccurullo. “Now everyone is giving away their most intimate details online and on reality TV.”

At the time of the album’s creation, the Internet was in its infancy and reality TV only existed in the form of MTV’s hit show The Real World. Back then, the TV shows we indulge in today could only be imagined as pure science fiction. Aside from reality TV, the album also explores a broad range of other modern themes, including virtual shopping, surveillance, pharmaceutical drugs, fashion, film, fame and faith. All of which are now ubiquitous in our society, but mostly were not then.

“When I found the master recordings, I thought ‘Wow, this sounds unbelievably contemporary’” said Rhodes. “When we put them up on the system, it was not only a great surprise, given what we had thought their fate was, but it was also literally like finding a painting and blowing the dust off of it. Times have certainly changed since we made the record, but the subject matter that inspired this album happens to be at the forefront of today’s world, so the songs have weathered the test of time in a strangely beautiful way.”

The Vinyl Factory will release both limited Boxed and Gatefold editions of Bored With Prozac and The Internet? In addition to the vinyl featured in the gatefold, the limited edition boxed set will also include exclusive Polaroid photographs shot and signed by Nick Rhodes, screen printed artwork, a personally authored note by Warren Cuccurrullo, and an over-sized glossy booklet featuring exclusive imagery. The Vinyl Factory collaborates with musicians and artists to create premium vinyl editions. In 2012 the label released records by artists including Florence + the Machine, Roxy Music, Massive Attack, David Byrne and Martin Creed.

The tracks from the album “Beautiful Clothes”, “Euphoria”, and “I Wanna Make Films” have recently been remixed by the likes of MNDR, The New Sins, Monikker and MSTMX, and will be released digitally via Beatport in the coming month.

Duran Duran fans may recall a single produced by TV Mania, “Electric Barbarella” off the album Medazzaland. Released in 1997, the song became the world’s first digital download to be sold online . Perhaps the duo has a talent for clairvoyance!

Visit http://www.tvmaniamusic.com for more information on TV Mania, and see the full track listing and limited edition box set details below.

TV Mania: Bored with Prozac and The Internet?

Track Listing:

1. What About God?
2. Euphoria
3. Beautiful Clothes
4. You’re Dreaming Pal
5. Paramount
6. What’s In The Future?
7. I Wanna Make Films
8. Yoghurt and Fake Tan
9. Grab The Sun
10. Using A Hidden Camera – Eyes In The Sky
11. People Know Your Name

Remixes:

Beautiful Clothes (Eric Hart and Warren Cuccurullo Remix)
Beautiful Clothes (Peter Wade MNDR Remix)
Beautiful Clothes (The New Sins Remix)
Euphoria’ (Monikkr Remix)
Euphoria’ (MSTMX Remix)
I Wanna Make Films (MSTMX Remix)

The Vinyl Factory limited editions:

Boxed Edition

* Cloth bound pure white lift-off lid box w/black ribbon pull inside
* Front of box screen printed black and gold
* Nick Rhodes signed Polaroid hand dipped onto white art stock 12″ square paper
* CMYK photo of Nick Rhodes & Warren Cuccurrullo on same 12″ stock
* Black envelope holding Warren Cuccurrullo’s signed A5 paper drawing positioned on 12″ stock
* 12pp newspaper print fold out booklet
* 12pp 4 col. 12″ glossy booklet
* 2 x 180gram white vinyl
* 2 x white disco bags
* 4 x black labels hand-stamped with white ink TV Mania logo

Gatefold Edition

* Gatefold sleeve screen printed w/black & gold
* 2 x 180gram white vinyl
* 2 x white disco bags
* 4 x black labels hand-stamped with white ink TV Mania logo
* 12pp newspaper print fold out booklet
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Сообщение CrazyFan » Вт янв 15, 2013 6:37 pm

Предзаказ альбома будет возможен с 11 февраля через сайт - http://thevinylfactory.com/
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Сообщение CrazyFan » Ср янв 16, 2013 7:40 am

Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes And Warren Cuccurullo To Release ‘Lost’ Concept Album

Posted: January 15, 2013

In the mid-90s Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist Warren Cuccurullo created a concept album about voyeurism being woven into the cultural fabric. The two men planned to share their vision for the technologically connected future in an album titled TV Mania: Bored With Prozac and The Internet?, that vision was also priming to become a Broadway musical. The album was never released.

In constructing TV Mania the two musical artists blended television samples with looping rhythm tracks to create a new type of sonic collection of songs.
After completing the final mixes the tapes were put into storage, then shelved over other priorities. Fast forward nearly 20 years and Nick Rhodes and Warren Cuccurullo are now preparing to release their “lost” tapes.

Both men had believed the tapes went missing forever when they recently began sifting through old material in an out-of-town storage facility. The TV Mania tapes as it turned out has been misfiled.

On March 2013 the TV Mania project will drop on both vinyl and through a limited edition box set at The Vinyl Factory. TV Mania will also release digitally through The Orcharge/Beatport.

Here is a description of the concept album from the team at Frequency Media:

“Produced by TV Mania (Rhodes and Cuccurullo), Mark Tinley and Anthony J Resta, and mixed by Bob St. John, Bored With Prozac and The Internet? is a conceptual soundtrack for what the duo imagined as a “bizarre TV cyber soap opera,” about a family who gives away their freedom to scientists in exchange for a Hi-tech modern lifestyle and reality show fame. With song titles like “Yoghurt and Fake Tan,” and “Using A Hidden Camera—Eyes In The Sky,” the pastiche of cool beats and conceptual content proved more prescient than its creators could ever have anticipated.”

Cuccurullo says of the concept album:

“We were envisioning a world where a family would give up their day-to-day privacy and allow their existence to be televised to the masses, and this was two years before the film, The Truman Show and four years before Survivor. Now everyone is giving away their most intimate details online and on reality TV.”

Since the mid-1990s the internet has become an everyday part of life and Kim Kardashian rules the airwaves, it will be interesting to see how right Rhodes and Cuccurullo were in their predictions.

Rhodes says of discovering the lost tapes:

“When I found the master recordings, I thought ‘Wow, this sounds unbelievably contemporary. When we put them up on the system, it was not only a great surprise, given what we had thought their fate was, but it was also literally like finding a painting and blowing the dust off of it. Times have certainly changed since we made the record, but the subject matter that inspired this album happens to be at the forefront of today’s world, so the songs have weathered the test of time in a strangely beautiful way.”

You can find the full track listing and limited edition box set details information at www.tvmaniamusic.com

Are you excited to get your hands on TV Mania: Bored With Prozac and The Internet?
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Сообщение CrazyFan » Ср янв 16, 2013 7:02 pm

Duran Duran Side Project TV Mania: Bored With Prozac and The Internet?

01/16/2013

Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes and Warren Cuccurullo mid-90s side project, TV Mania: Bored With Prozac and The Internet?, will be released on March 11th.
The Vinyl Factory will be releasing a limited edition vinyl box set of the project and The Orchard/Beatport will be releasing it digitally. We were sent this background:

Back in the mid-90s, Duran Duran's keyboardist and founding member Nick Rhodes and guitarist Warren Cuccurullo had what turned out to be a premonition of a society in which voyeurism was woven into the cultural fabric. In wanting to share their vision of the future, they created its soundtrack in the form of an album called TV Mania: Bored With Prozac and The Internet?, that they also intended to turn into a Broadway musical.

The tracks were constructed by blending television samples and looping rhythm tracks to create a sonically sophisticated collection of songs that now serve as the perfect backdrop for the frenetic energy and atmosphere of today's digital age. Shortly after they completed the final mixes, the original tapes were stored and the project was temporarily shelved as other priorities took hold. The intention was always to find the time between Duran Duran project cycles to go back and release the album - perhaps around some anniversary of its inception. Although they discussed it often over the years, the tapes were thought to have been lost, so it wasn't until recently when going through material at an out-of-town storage facility, to digitize old masters that were held there, Rhodes discovered the original TV Mania tapes misfiled, and he swiftly decided they were long overdue for a release.

Produced by TV Mania (Rhodes and Cuccurullo), Mark Tinley and Anthony J Resta, and mixed by Bob St. John, Bored With Prozac and The Internet? is a conceptual soundtrack for what the duo imagined as a "bizarre TV cyber soap opera," about a family who gives away their freedom to scientists in exchange for a Hi-tech modern lifestyle and reality show fame. With song titles like "Yoghurt and Fake Tan," and "Using A Hidden Camera—Eyes In The Sky," the pastiche of cool beats and conceptual content proved more prescient than its creators could ever have anticipated.
"We were envisioning a world where a family would give up their day-to-day privacy and allow their existence to be televised to the masses, and this was two years before the film, The Truman Show and four years before Survivor," said Cuccurullo. "Now everyone is giving away their most intimate details online and on reality TV."

At the time of the album's creation, the Internet was in its infancy and reality TV only existed in the form of MTV's hit show The Real World. Back then, the TV shows we indulge in today could only be imagined as pure science fiction. Aside from reality TV, the album also explores a broad range of other modern themes, including virtual shopping, surveillance, pharmaceutical drugs, fashion, film, fame and faith. All of which are now ubiquitous in our society, but mostly were not then.

"When I found the master recordings, I thought 'Wow, this sounds unbelievably contemporary'" said Rhodes. "When we put them up on the system, it was not only a great surprise, given what we had thought their fate was, but it was also literally like finding a painting and blowing the dust off of it. Times have certainly changed since we made the record, but the subject matter that inspired this album happens to be at the forefront of today's world, so the songs have weathered the test of time in a strangely beautiful way."

The Vinyl Factory will release both limited Boxed and Gatefold editions of Bored With Prozac and The Internet? In addition to the vinyl featured in the gatefold, the limited edition boxed set will also include exclusive Polaroid photographs shot and signed by Nick Rhodes, screen printed artwork, a personally authored note by Warren Cuccurrullo, and an oversized glossy booklet featuring exclusive imagery.
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Сообщение CrazyFan » Сб янв 19, 2013 10:34 am

DURAN DURAN'S NICK RHODES TO RELEASE "LOST" CONCEPT ALBUM

Wednesday, 16 January 2013 Written by Jon Stickler

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Back in the mid-90s, Duran Duran's keyboardist and founding member Nick Rhodes and Duran Duran guitarist Warren Cuccurullo had what turned out to be a premonition of a society in which voyeurism was woven into the cultural fabric. In wanting to share their vision of the future, they created its soundtrack in the form of an album called 'TV Mania: Bored With Prozac and The Internet?', that they also intended to turn into a Broadway musical.

The tracks were constructed by blending television samples and looping rhythm tracks to create a sonically sophisticated collection of songs that now serve as the perfect backdrop for the frenetic energy and atmosphere of today's digital age. Shortly after they completed the final mixes, the original tapes were stored and the project was temporarily shelved as other priorities took hold. The intention was always to find the time between Duran Duran project cycles to go back and release the album - perhaps around some anniversary of its inception. Although they discussed it often over the years, the tapes were thought to have been lost, so it wasn't until recently when going through material at an out-of-town storage facility, to digitize old masters that were held there, Rhodes discovered the original TV Mania tapes misfiled, and he swiftly decided they were long overdue for a release. On March 11th, 2013, the TV Mania project will finally see the light of day on vinyl and a limited edition box set through The Vinyl Factory and digitally via The Orchard/Beatport.

Produced by TV Mania (Rhodes and Cuccurullo), Mark Tinley and Anthony J Resta, and mixed by Bob St. John, 'Bored With Prozac and The Internet?' is a conceptual soundtrack for what the duo imagined as a “bizarre TV cyber soap opera,” about a family who gives away their freedom to scientists in exchange for a Hi-tech modern lifestyle and reality show fame. With song titles like 'Yoghurt and Fake Tan,' and 'Using A Hidden Camera—Eyes In The Sky,' the pastiche of cool beats and conceptual content proved more prescient than its creators could ever have anticipated.

“We were envisioning a world where a family would give up their day-to-day privacy and allow their existence to be televised to the masses, and this was two years before the film, The Truman Show and four years before Survivor,” said Cuccurullo. “Now everyone is giving away their most intimate details online and on reality TV.”

At the time of the album's creation, the Internet was in its infancy and reality TV only existed in the form of MTV’s hit show The Real World. Back then, the TV shows we indulge in today could only be imagined as pure science fiction. Aside from reality TV, the album also explores a broad range of other modern themes, including virtual shopping, surveillance, pharmaceutical drugs, fashion, film, fame and faith. All of which are now ubiquitous in our society, but mostly were not then.

“When I found the master recordings, I thought ‘Wow, this sounds unbelievably contemporary’" said Rhodes. "When we put them up on the system, it was not only a great surprise, given what we had thought their fate was, but it was also literally like finding a painting and blowing the dust off of it. Times have certainly changed since we made the record, but the subject matter that inspired this album happens to be at the forefront of today's world, so the songs have weathered the test of time in a strangely beautiful way.”

The Vinyl Factory will release both limited Boxed and Gatefold editions of 'Bored With Prozac and The Internet?' In addition to the vinyl featured in the gatefold, the limited edition boxed set will also include exclusive Polaroid photographs shot and signed by Nick Rhodes, screen printed artwork, a personally authored note by Warren Cuccurrullo, and an oversized glossy booklet featuring exclusive imagery. The Vinyl Factory collaborates with musicians and artists to create premium vinyl editions. In 2012 the label released records by artists including Florence + the Machine, Roxy Music, Massive Attack, David Byrne and Martin Creed.

The tracks from the album 'Beautiful Clothes', 'Euphoria', and 'I Wanna Make Films' have recently been remixed by the likes of MNDR, The New Sins, Monikker and MSTMX, and will be released digitally via Beatport in the coming month.

Duran Duran fans may recall a single produced by TV Mania, 'Electric Barbarella' off the album 'Medazzaland'. Released in 1997, the song became the world's first digital download to be sold online. Perhaps the duo has a talent for clairvoyance!

Visit www.tvmaniamusic.com for more information on TV Mania, and see the full track listing and limited edition box set details below.

'TV Mania: Bored with Prozac and The Internet?' tracklisting is as follows:

1. What About God?
2. Euphoria
3. Beautiful Clothes
4. You’re Dreaming Pal
5. Paramount
6. What’s In The Future?
7. I Wanna Make Films
8. Yoghurt and Fake Tan
9. Grab The Sun
10. Using A Hidden Camera - Eyes In The Sky
11. People Know Your Name
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Сообщение CrazyFan » Сб янв 19, 2013 8:52 pm

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Несостоявшийся дебютный альбом проекта TV Mania, созданного двумя участниками Duran Duran в середине 90-х, все же будет издан. В марте виниловый лейбл-бутик The Vinyl Factory выпустит пластинку "Bored With Prozac And The Internet?", работу над которой клавишник Ник Роудс (Nick Rhodes) и гитарист Уоррен Кукурулло (Warren Cuccurullo) начали еще 18 лет назад.

Целью TV Mania был выпуск концептуального альбома, который должен был стать основой для мюзикла, высмеивающего потребительскую культуру и психологическую зависимость от новых технологий. Тема с тех пор не утратила актуальности, однако энтузиазм Кукурулло, Роудса и их партнера по проекту Энтони Реста (Anthony J. Resta) пошел на спад, а после ухода первого из Duran Duran в 2001 году работа и вовсе застопорилась.

По утверждению Кукурулло, за время своего существования TV Mania написали около шестидесяти треков, используя сэмплы из рекламных роликов и закольцованные электронные вставки, но большинство из них так нигде и не пригодились, а практически готовый альбом лег на полку.

Теперь "Bored With Prozac And The Internet?" будет выпущен в виде эксклюзивного бокс-сета с двумя виниловыми пластинками и тонной ностальгических сувениров.
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TV Mania: Nick Rhodes Of Duran Duran Rediscovers Side Project & Rates Our Modern World

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Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes might not be up on your favorite new DJ or band, but he's OK with that.

"Now I think I'm fairly discerning with what I listen to," Rhodes told HuffPost in a recent interview. "Because I don't need to particularly listen to something that is brand new unless it's really great. I'm all for any piece of modern music. Someone tells me, 'You've got to listen to this.' I'll always listen."

Rhodes, 50, says certain new acts have made an impression on him (he likes the Ting Tings' "Shut Up and Let Me Go" and says MGMT's "Kids" has "a completely different feel to it"), but wonders if the relative ease with which one can produce a song nowadays has brought with it a lack of focus on craft. "Are people going to be listening to it like they listen to the Beatles now, or whoever else who has endured?" Rhodes asked. "I'm not sure of that. I think the quality of songwriting is what we miss through the convenience of technology."

If that sounds like cynicism, it's not. Rhodes has always been on the forefront of technological shifts in the music industry (read below about his battle to release the first legal download) and finds such questions to be of great inspiration.

That's where TV Mania comes in: The side project of Rhodes and Duran Duran guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, TV Mania recorded an album of found samples, original instrumentation and vocals. The band made "Bored with Prozac and The Internet?" in the mid-nineties, well before we collectively decided that splaying our private lives on Twitter and Facebook was smart living. It was then lost, buried in tape storage where Rhodes recently uncovered it while digitizing other archival material.

When he happened upon the album years later, he couldn't help feeling it was a cipher of our current society (after all, "Big Brother" is in its 15th season in the United States, and the show is a global phenomenon). Confidence ratings in many modern institutions -- from Congress to the news media -- are at or near all-time lows while prescription pill usage skyrockets. When "Bored With Prozac" hits stores on March 11, music fans will be hard-pressed to find a more relevant record. And when the group announces its plans to "franchise" out TV Mania licenses to those who wish to create modern takes on the same theme, marketing gurus and tech-heads alike will be pleased to see a couple of 50-somethings putting young hipsters on notice.

We caught up with Rhodes to talk TV Mania and take stock of his decades long career in music. Along the way, he discussed MTV's descent into irrelevancy and the differences between the cult of celebrity Duran Duran helped create and the transmuted form of fame that today's Justin Biebers must confront. An edited transcript of the conversation is available below.

Did you stay up like [Duran Duran singer] Simon Le Bon and watch the Superbowl or is that not of interest?
To be honest, no I didn't. I don't even know how American Football works, but then I don't how most sport works. I play chess. I like the commercials in the Super Bowl. I seem to remember that was very entertaining.

For a lot of us at The Huffington Post it was more about Beyonce. The Beyonce bowl.
Oh did she? And she sung?

Yes, she sung live after all of the controversy with the National Anthem. Do you have any thoughts on that, by the way?.
Not really. I think those things happen. Everybody knows she has a great voice. I don't think it was that necessary. I guess they were probably concerned about the TV stuff. I think if you're doing that, perhaps it's better people know. But I'm sure she'll survive it very well.

Would you be excited about a Super Bowl gig?
Yeah, of course. How could you not be? It's one of the biggest events worldwide that gets such massive viewing figures not only in America but everywhere else. And it's a big audience there in the stadium. If there's an audience there, there's always a reason to play for them.

Let's talk about TV Mania, which focuses on privacy and the internet. Would you say your surprised with how much everyone is sharing online?
But of course. But I think everybody would be. What was clear to me when I found it -- because we really thought we'd lost it years ago because we have so many mountains of tapes everywhere. We'd lost the actual multi-track masters. We still haven't got them. Never seen them. Don't know where they are. They're probably in some studio somewhere in the world where they were mixed and God knows if the studio got shut down and they got thrown away or given to someone. Who knows. But by luck, I was looking for some other tapes in a tape storage and I found the TV Mania master of the actual mixed recordings from 1996. And I had to find an 8track player because I didn't even one to play it on, the format that we were using a lot then that we actually mastered to.

But it was so exciting to me from the point of view that I hadn't got a clue. And I remembered what the songs were but I didn't know whether it would stand the test of time or not. Because that's quite a long time ago. And of course I remembered all the detail of what we were writing about and what the premise was of the whole thing. But the songs themselves, actually putting them on and hearing the sonic quality of them and seeing what they're about and still making me smile a lot, I thought, "Okay, we should really put this out." Because either way, it's a bizarre time capsule. It never intended to be like that. When we shelved it in the first place I was hoping to get to it within a year or so. I'm thrilled to be releasing it.

What happened in that year or so? Were you just busy with other things.?
Well we had started writing it when we were doing the "Medazzaland" album which was '96. Eventually we finished the "Medazzaland" album but we actually finished the TV Mania album before that. Of course, we went to go on the Duran Tour and started promoting the album and then right after that, we did the "Pop Trash" album and then we did the reunion in 2002. That five years vanished very quickly. And it just really is one of those things that got lost and I didn't know where it was. And we didn't think about it so much because we were busy doing other things. And I suppose the other thing that happened was when we wrote it, it was quite a unique idea because it was truly written as a musical. I got the whole thing planned out to Broadway. I wanted to wire everybody's seats up and put virtual reality headsets in there so at certain points in the set they would put these things on and experience this different visual along with the music. And we started talking to people about raising the money to do it, which of course, that got very complicated because it was quite futuristic as well. And not traditional, sort of Broadway style. Then "The Truman Show" came out and and Warren and I actually looked at each other and said, "Hmmm, I guess there's a lot of other people out there thinking the same sort of thing at this point.

You were scooped.
Yeah, it was obviously the same sort of thing in the air. You could tell that's where things were going. But we hadn't gone there yet. And then "Big Brother" was announced, and I suppose that was the other reason that we thought we don't want to be copying anything at this point. We should actually put it on the back burner for awhile and maybe we'll rethink what it is. But as I picked it up recently, I realized that it's perfectly fine as it is. We haven't touched it. We haven't re-mixed it. We couldn't. We don't have the master tapes so it's exactly as it was and now it has taken on a different life of its own because it's literally of that period -- all the sounds we used, all the beats we used, all the samples from there and the thoughts we were having about pharmaceuticals, about video surveillance, about the internet, about big brother style reality TV. And we obviously had no thoughts and visions that it would be a TV show. But in our synopsis for the whole thing, we'd initially seen it as scientists wanting to do a study. And it was so fascinating that TV companies begged them to buy the rights to what they were doing with the family. And the number was so overwhelming that they caved in and allowed people to show it on network television and the internet. But I think having the hindsight now and seeing what really unfolded since 1996, it's quite interesting as a document as to what we were personally thinking. And, as I said, clearly a lot of other people were thinking along the same lines.

I think something that is very interesting about you and also Duran Duran is that you've sort of been very successful on a lot of formats, from the early MTV era on. You've also been close with technology, having performed at a big Microsoft launch event in 2003. This project seems like something that is very viral or very internet ready. Is thinking about these themes just a source of inspiration for you?
From the very beginning when we started Duran Duran, John [Taylor] and I had a vision that was much more multimedia. Back then, I believe, most artists were considering at the time -- and this was obviously way way way before the birth of the internet -- but it was wanting to cross pollinate art, photography, cinema, fashion, design, architecture, anything we could. We had a fascination with all those things and getting out visual aspect of the band to be almost of equal importance to everything else. Technology as it developed became not only a very powerful tool but a constant source of inspiration. Not only toward recording in the studio or computers or whether it's new synthesizers or digital effects, or whether you have to broadcast yourself online directly to millions of people instantaneously. Each one of the developments, the CD, obviously downloads, they were all important to music and for artists to be able to communicate. I'm actually very proud of the fact that we were the first band to ever sell a legal download. I remember the time when we did it I had to battle with the record label. They were absolutely insistent that I didn't do it. And it was only down to the foresight of one decent guy there at capital records in America that I finally got them to consent. But it was real uphill battle. And that song, "Electric Barbarella," was then banned by really all the major record chains in America. They refused to stock it. So I have no idea if it would have become a hit or not. But of course, it certainly didn't. And I feel that was one of the contributing factors. You literally couldn't' buy it. And of course online we didn't sell very many really anyway because everyone was terrified of the internet and putting their cards on there. And the payment systems, you didn't have Paypal and any other mechanisms. So it's interesting times.

Before iTunes came along and decided every song should be ninety-nine cents.
Exactly, I think years later, I think iTunes launched in the UK in 2003, and that was 1997 when we did that.

Theres been a sort of buzz about these dance music producers who will say they make a remix or a song on a laptop in four hours and put it out. You're obviously a band, and yourself, blended technology with classic rock elements. Do you feel in any way that rock has sort of been edged out of the pop consciousness a little bit?
I think times change. So they should. I'm all for pop culture dictating where things go. It's very easy to be cynical and say, "We only think the sixties, seventies and eighties, whatever we had, really revolutionized things." But what have kids growing up now got of their own? What's really special and what's going to annoy their parents?

And there isn't a lot. Certainly hip-hop was the major one that happened throughout the nineties. But since then, certainly rock music, there haven't been that many more ideas I don't think. Of course there has been some really good artists who have written great songs. But there's not been movement. I think grunge was the last one. That really was, to me, somewhat recycled punk. But Nirvana, undoubtedly is one of the last great rock bands to come out of America. And there have been plenty of things I have like since then. I like the Killers. I think they're really good. But I don't think they reinvented an entire genre. I think technology has been good. But it's a case of people starting to think about how to use and what to do with it because technology is dangerous in that it makes everything easier to share. There are plenty of producers that can make a whole track in four hours and produce and have it on the radio a week later. Or a day later. But is that track still going to be around in 30 years, 40 years, 50 years time? Are people going to be listening to it like they listen to the Beatles now, or whoever else who has endured. I'm not sure of that. I think the quality of songwriting is what we miss through the convenience of technology.

We also can't experience anything for ourselves anymore without this massive, immediate critical reaction from every voice. Do you think that's been healthy?
I think that one thing that has hit me clearly on the last couple of tours that we did is that I think most people in the audience now don't feel as completely immersed or engaged to me as they used to because half of them are holding their hand up with a mobile phone in it, filming. And I understand the joy of taking something home and saying, "Hey this is what I saw. This is my souvenir. I'm watching it again now." But I wonder really -- that must reduce your enjoyment of seeing a show. I personally like to watch a show live and have that moment live in my head. It's great if there's a crop of professional filmers and then afterwards I can watch it again. But I'm absolutely certain I couldn't stand there with a camera or a device in my hand holding it up watching it through there. Because I really think you lose the moment. So that is true of a lot of things in life now. I do lament the downfall of record stores because there's something so grand about being able to go through and browse through things. Sure you can browse online but not quite the same. And again you lose the atmosphere of being in there and having real people tell you things. And you can look at the recommendations. "If you bought this, then you might this too. Other people have bought this." But the reality of this is it's not the same as having a chat with someone about something. Or just discovering something for yourself in a more real way rather than in cyber world. So, I'm for one hoping that HMVs survive here in the UK because they're literally our last chain and they've suffered recently these enormous problems. But it's a changing world, though. You win some things and you lose some things. The CD was never as good as the album and the MP3 is no where as good as the CD. However, we've traded sound quality and the luxury of an album and the packaging and everything else was traded in for the convenience of the CD and digital quality. And now we've traded that for something that's crushed down even smaller that we don't even need to keep it home. It just lives in our iPod. I get it. And in many ways it is huge progress. But on the quality side, it isn't yet. The thing with the digital realm is that I do think that will improve as bandwidth gets so much faster at an exponential rate. It won't be a big deal to send WAV files instead of MP3s. And they are certainly more comparable to CDs. And that will personally make me more happy.

But isn't also that the point of contact for a lot of musicians has changed. For instance, I know that Justin Bieber has a lot of music fans, but at the same time, if HuffPost Celebrity posts a story about something involving him and his girlfriend, it's generally going to get far more interest than his music. And a lot of people are introduced to these musicians through their personalities -- which is not the case when you were starting out with Duran Duran. Even though image was extremely important to your career, they were still music videos.
I think in that respect, the world is entirely different. When we got into a band, we got into a band because we'd grown up listening to glam rock and punk rock and soul. And we wanted to form a band. And we were a bunch of friends who got together and tried to write some music together and had master plan for how we were going to take over the world and work every single day until we got as close as we possibly could. I think now, there is so much more stuff out there that is manufactured. And that stuff isn't as interesting and never would be as interesting to me, but I get that it caters for a market. It has just become a lot bigger now because of television and the internet. You can promote things so instantly. It's that culture of fame. It's sort of being famous for not really doing so much has generated this imbalance. A game that is very much a part of what the TV Mania project was about. People just wanting to famous.

Wanting to famous for what? It's great to be famous if you invented a cure for some horrible disease. It's great to be famous if you are the fastest guy alive and you don't take enhancing chemicals. It's great to become famous because you've written a beautiful piece of music. But to become famous just to become famous. That is a relatively new phenomenon that came out of the mid-to-late nineties.

When it comes to Duran Duran's work, are there any songs on the albums that are either uncomfortable or unusual and too far removed from your current life at all?
Really it's mostly for other people to judge. I certainly have enough distance from the TV Mania project to just hear it for the first time in many years. With fresh ears though, I'm at least able to make an artistic judgement on it as to whether I thought it was worth putting out. With Duran Duran things, some of them have already survived three decades at this point. I think you've just got to hope time is kind to your music. If you write songs that are honest and that people can relate to, even things with the most abstract lyrics, if it's something that people can relate to and they can get ahold of something that affects them some kind of way, emotionally or means something at a certain point in their lives, then I think you've got a much better opportunity for your material to endure. If you want to make a quick buck and you do things swiftly and it's all about just getting that thing done, I don't know how much artistry is involved with that. Some people can work very quickly.

But the things I like I realized were done by great musical performers, writers at the height of their powers. Now I think I'm fairly discerning with what I listen to. Because I don't need to particularly listen to something that is brand new unless it's really great. I'm all for any piece of modern music. Someone tells me, "You've got to listen to this." I'll always listen. There are tracks that have come out over the last few years. That MGMT track "Kids." When I first hear that I thought, "Okay, this has got a completely different feel to it." A few things over the years like that Ting Tings track "Shut Up and Let Me Go." You have to try and sift through because there is so much stuff now. That's the other thing that's really changed that everybody that's just leaving school can make a record now if they want to. Before, you had to be sort of be good enough or in a position where you could persuade somebody to pay for you to make a record. Now it doesn't cost anything so anyone can make one which is a nice thing. But at the same time, it makes it harder for us to really focus on which ones the great ones are.

In a lot of ways now, though, the albums that really break through and get both pop and critical appreciation are often the ones made by storied producers, from Dr. Dre (Kendrick Lamar's album) to Jeff Bhasker (fun.).
I think that is probably right, because what I think you're talking about is that those things have become more established brands. Because people do tend to trust things a little bit more when they're more familiar. It's hard to try to find new things. Occasionally you'll find things that break through the lines. You'll get an Arctic Monkeys or something that's got a little something about it that you'll say, "Oh this is different from the last 300 things I heard."

And then everyone will call them "the new Beatles."
[Laughs] I suppose that's right.

Can you tell me about your plans with Mark Ronson?
Well, we had a lot fun doing the last record with Mark. So it seemed to be an easy choice to say why don't we try to do it again. If you find someone where you have that kind of chemistry, particularly being at this point in your career, for us being on album 14 or something, then it's better to stick with it if you can than search around to find something else. And I also have no fear that we will come up with something very different with Mark. I don't think it will be an absolute replica of the last album. We're not looking to reinvent the history of music. But I'm sure we'll change direction a bit and try some different things out. So we are going to start a bit of writing in March and then we start work with Mark a little bit in April. But we tend to do it in bursts, spend couple of weeks together and then go away, write some lyrics, fiddle with some things and then get back together again a month or so later.

You were a memorable contributor to "I Want My MTV," the oral history of the network. I think we know the answer to this, but has MTV figured in any way in your music consciousness in recent years?
No. It's a simple answer. I stopped even thinking about MTV sometime in the mid-nineties when I started to realize that there was a ridiculously shrunken playlist and that reality shows were their new chosen destiny. I just remember seeing a newspaper headline that said "Toys-R-Us Wants To Get Out of the Toy Business." It sort of made me smile. It was a nice parallel to MTV want to get out of the music business and that would have been an appropriate headline at that time. And I understand. It started up as a truly beautiful idea and turned into a massive faceless corporation. It often happens and a lot of people did extremely well at it. I have no regrets about the time we spent with MTV. Being there at the beginning of it was very exciting. I think the only error we made was not buying shares.

The reason I ask is because in the world that TV Mania focuses on, one of the driving forces is reality TV.
As I say, I don't know whether they chose the wrong business model. They became enormously successful. I don't know where the figures were more than their height when they were really pursuing music all the time. But it's something they obviously saw too and they moved in that direction. But it's a shame to me that we don't have a focused music channel in the world. Well I suppose we do, it's called YouTube.
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Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes: 7 Questions About TV Mania’s ‘Bored With Prozac And The Internet?’

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Iconic pop band Duran Duran are no strangers to having their members split off and take part in side projects. But following the recording of Nick Rhodes and Warren Cuccurullo‘s experimental TV Mania: Bored With Prozac And The Inernet? in 1996 — an album that featured electronic tracks mixed with samples of television dialog — the master tapes were misfiled in a storage facility, and were not recovered until 15 years later.

Rhodes spoke with Idolator about the album finally seeing the light of day (it’s out March 11 — pre-order it digitally here, the box set here or the gatefold vinyl here). What’s striking is that the story the record tells, about a dysfunctional family whose lives are filmed every day, pre-dates not only the glut of reality television shows that have been clogging up airwaves for the past 13 years, but also the similar-themed Jim Carrey film The Truman Show, which was released two years after the recording of Bored With Prozac And The Internet?

This begs the question: Is Nick Rhodes psychic? Let’s find out below.

The TV Mania track “Beautiful Clothes” begins with the repeated phrase “the banality of life.” Quite prophetic for something recorded in 1996, given that most reality TV shows would go on to focus on just that. Did you truly envision television eventually going this route back then?
NICK RHODES: In a word, yes. [Warren and I] had come up with a concept together that we kept developing over the time period in 1996 when we were working on this TV Mania project. I’d envisaged a family who allowed themselves to be filmed and studied by scientists, so I hadn’t exactly particularly seen it just as a TV thing; it was more of an anthropological test, scientists studying them, to see what was going wrong with the home life in this period. And the characters were sort of extreme stereotypes of a dysfunctional family.

So who makes up this family?
NR: The mother was hooked on pharmaceutical pills and spent most of her time daydreaming in front of a computer, watching people in uniforms. The father was a religious extremist who didn’t see anything wrong with his family at all and just ignored everything they said. The son was addicted to video games, barely left his room and became very proficient with hacking. And the daughter just wanted to be famous — at any cost — for anything, whether it was fashion or films or television. And so that was the family that we had, and we were trying to find samples that would fit for the characters that we had imagined. Hence, we ended up for the daughter, “Beautiful Clothes” and “I Wanna Make Films.” For the father we ended up with “What About God?” For the mother we ended up with “Euphoria.” But of course when we were imagining this, there were many other people out there having similar ideas. Hence, shortly afterward, and a long time before we managed to release the project, you ended up with the movie The Truman Show. When we saw that we thought, wow — there you go; there goes the idea. And then of course Survivor and Big Brother and all the other shows came quick and fast after that.

How exactly did the original TV Mania tapes get misfiled and lost for this long?
NR: What happens is you start with the premise that you’re organized and, “Right, that’s our tape for this,” and “here’s the Duran Duran tapes from that same period for the Medazzaland album.” “There’s the sessions we used.” “There’s the masters.” “ There’s the copy masters.” Whatever they are, they’re all labeled. And at the time, it probably is fairly well organized. But then give it a decade later, things get moved around. Storage gets taken from somewhere. Someone borrows a tape because they want to do a remix. Someone wants to sample something off something else. Things get put in a different box, and suddenly chaos prevails.

How were they eventually recovered, all these years later?
NR: I had, several years ago, looked for the TV Mania tapes and did not find them. I thought, oh, god, we lost them somewhere. We chased around studios because some of it was done in Boston, some of it was done in New York, some of it was done in Battersea. The tapes had been flying around — the actual multi-track masters, we still don’t have them at all. I don’t know where they went. I don’t know whether they still exist. But if anyone does know where they are, I’d love to have them back! But I did find the little DAT tape, which was the format we used at the time, which was the master of the final mixes exactly as it was left in 1996. And fortunately when I played it, I thought, okay, it holds up really well and the crazy ideas that we had somehow seem even more relevant now than they did then.

Did you go back and add any instrumentation or additional production?
NR: No, we couldn’t, because all we had was the final mixes. I guess we could have played stuff on top of that, but we couldn’t alter anything about the mixes. You know, I listened to one song and I thought, damn, I wish that one sound was a bit louder. But there was nothing I could do about it.

Aside from you and Warren, had any of the other members of Duran Duran heard these songs before now?
NR: I think they heard a little here and there because John [Taylor] was in LA a lot. It was during the album that he only actually played on about half of, the Medazzaland album. He’d moved his life to LA and actually parted company with the band during that period. But Simon [Le Bon], yeah, would have heard bits and pieces when he was coming in and doing lyrics and writing. We’d finish with Simon at 5 o’clock in the afternoon then we’d carry on doing TV Mania until midnight or whatever. We became so obsessed with these little samples from television and how to make them work — re-tuning them and tweaking them and making a song from the samples — that it was really new and exciting. Sometimes when you stumble across something, you want to just keep following the idea through to see what you can unveil. And that’s very much what happened.

In a way, the Bored With Prozac And The Internet? project reminds me a bit of Duran Duran’s “Too Much Information” off The Wedding Album — a song that almost plays like a precursor to this album. Did you find yourself feeling skeptical of the media in the 1990s?
NR: Personally, I think we’ve always had a healthy caution when dealing with the media. I consume as much of it as anybody else, and I’m very grateful that we still have some amazing writers and photographers, programs, websites, people that crunch up pop culture for us and give us a beautiful version of a story about whatever the chosen subject matter is. But having said that, the volume of stuff that is out there now is mind-boggling. On top of the regular television, you obviously have so many cable channels, and now you have so many Internet sites and channels. You really have to carefully filter what is you want to get. And often the one thing I think that does happen is that the cream — the best sites, the best shows — they still rise to the top. Enough people find out which ones are working for them and they pass the word along.

You can pre-order TV Mania’s Bored With Prozac And The Internet? (out March 11) on iTunes here. Check back later this week for more with Nick Rhodes as he discusses the 20th anniversary of Duran Duran’s 1993 LP The Wedding Album.
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EXCLUSIVE! TV MANIA BEATPORT REMIX EP COMING MARCH 11TH!
March 4th, 2013
In addition to the release of the TV Mania full album, they will be also be releasing a Beatport exclusive DOwnload Remix EP also out on March 11th

BEATPORT REMIX EP:

‘Beautiful Clothes’ (Nick Rhodes – Glitter Glam Mix)
‘Beautiful Clothes’ (Eric Hart and Warren Cuccurullo Remix)
‘I Wanna Make Films’ DubStep (BUNNY feat. Noah King Remix)
‘I Wanna Make Films’ (BUNNY feat. Noah King Remix)
‘I Wanna Make Films’ (MSTMX Remix)
‘Euphoria’ (Philip Mossman Remix)
‘Euphoria’ (Monikkr Remix)

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Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes: TV Mania, Photo Shows, and Why He Loves NY

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If Duran Duran was the most stylish band of the '80s, keyboardist Nick Rhodes was the band’s esthete principale, pushing the envelope of style (over the years a head-swirling list of iconic designers from Versace to Dolce & Gabbana has created stagewear for the band) and following his multimedia muse into photography and other arts. To this day, Rhodes lives out the fashion-forward, style-conscious mix of art-for-art’s-sake and life-is-a-party credos that defined the UK New Romantic movement from which Duran Duran was born.

On a respite from band activities, the man who was once quoted as saying “I don’t do casual. I never wear jeans” has both an album release and a photo exhibition in the offing. Bored With Prozac and the Internet? is a project Rhodes worked on back in 1996 with Duran Duran guitarist Warren Cuccurullo under the name TV Mania. “But then life took over,” explains Rhodes. “We finished the Duran album [1997’s Medazzaland], went out on a long tour, came back, did another album, went on a tour… by this time the tapes had gotten lost in the ether, and some years ago I just thought they were lost forever. But then about 18 months ago I happened to be in one of our tape storage places looking for something else, and I flipped open a box, and to my absolute astonishment, it was Bored With Prozac and the Internet?, which had been mislabeled and put into another box.”

The album, with themes presaging the rise of privacy-eroding reality TV shows and other techno-social developments, arrives on March 11 as a time capsule of the mid '90s zeitgeist. “It was an interesting time culturally," remembers Rhodes, "and we’d come up with this concept of a dysfunctional family: a mother, husband, daughter, and son, and they were sort of stereotypes of all the disasters in our society. And what we’d got going on in our society in 1996, the Internet proliferation was just starting to really spread, Prozac was fairly new, and there was a lot of technology that was pretty new too, even for music. It was the first time we’d done a lot of sampling, and we’d take samples from people talking, from TV shows, and actually write the songs from those samples.”

On the visual side of things, Rhodes, whose passion for photography goes way back, has a photo show in London that’s a more contemporary offshoot of the TV Mania project. “I was doing some photos for the TV Mania album package,” he relates, “because we’re putting out a beautiful vinyl package as well as the online release, and I was photographing a girl as our character from the [album’s] story. She really turned out to be something quite extraordinary, because she’s a real chameleon. Over the course of the day I realized that I’d gathered a lot more material than I needed, and some really fabulous stuff, and so I showed the record label, and they said, 'Well look, we’ve got a gallery here, why don’t you do a show with the other ones? Because they’re really something.'" (Bei Incubi runs from March 8 through April 5 at The Vinyl Factory Chelsea Gallery.)

Eternal aesthete Rhodes’ interest in visual arts is even at the heart of one of his most cherished memories among countless high-flying '80s nightlife adventures. “One of my personal favorites was, I went to Limelight,” he recalls fondly, “I was leaving New York at 6 am the following morning. I thought, I’ll just go out and have a quick drink. I bumped into a friend there, a young gallery owner called Yves Arman, and he said to me, 'Listen, I’ve got this Marcel Duchamp show on at the moment, why don’t you come over and have a look?' I said, 'I can’t, I’m leaving at six in the morning.' He said, 'Alright, let’s go now!' It was about 2 in the morning. So I went and got a limo, one of those fabulous nouveau riche old-style '80s limos where you could open the sun roof up, and the stars in New York were shining even though you don’t see them so much with all that light pollution. We got there and he unlocked his gallery that had all the best Marcel Duchamp pieces, that he’d gathered in one room. We looked around there till about four or five in the morning, and then I got on a plane to play a show somewhere the next day. But that sort of stuff only happens in New York.”

Pumped for more vintage New York nightlife tales, he recalls wistfully, “MK, I had an amazing birthday party there once, which I won’t forget. I had some great birthday parties in New York, one where Andy Warhol and Quentin Crisp hadn’t seen each other for a long time, and they were both there, that was very bizarre, but in a beautiful way. New York has an energy unlike any other town,” Rhodes rhapsodizes. “I still to this day get such an adrenaline rush when I get off the plane there and I’m there even for a few days.”
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Сообщение CrazyFan » Вт мар 12, 2013 3:44 pm

Клавишник и экс-гитарист Duran Duran выпустили свой концептуальный альбом, записанный еще в 1996 году.

Клавишник Duran Duran Ник Роудс (Nick Rhodes) и гитарист группы, фактически покинувший ее в 1996 году, Уоррен Куккуролло (Warren Cuccurullo) выпустили совместный концептуальный альбом «TV Mania: Bored With Prozac and the Internet?»,который записали еще 17 лет назад.

Клавишник Duran Duran Ник Роудс (Nick Rhodes) и гитарист группы, фактически покинувший ее в 1996 году, Уоррен Куккуролло (Warren Cuccurullo) выпустили совместный концептуальный альбом «TV Mania: Bored With Prozac and the Internet?»,который записали еще 17 лет назад.

Новый альбом, по словам Ника Роудса, это история о научном эксперименте, который превратился в телешоу с четырьмя героями — религиозным фанатиком отцом, матерью наркоманкой, инфантильной дочерью и сыном-хакером и игроманом. Альбом был записан за несколько месяцев до того, как на экраны вышел нашумевший фильм «Шоу Трумана», повествующий о человеке, чья жизнь с самого первого дня является телевизионным шоу.

«Тогда мы удивились, узнав, что все эти идеи витают в воздухе!», — заявил Ник Роудс в интервью Rolling Stone.

Идея сайд-проекта родилась у Ник Роудса и Уоррена Куккуролло, когда Duran Duran работали над альбомом «Medazzaland». Саймон Ле Бон (Simon Le Bon) взял творческий отпуск для работы над лирикой, и музыканты решили заняться чем-то еще. В это время группа ежедневно выступала в двухчасовом шоу на ТВ и, по признанию музыкантов, большинство песен родилось из вопросов, которые задавали им зрители в студии. Записав альбом в 1996 году, музыканты предложили EMI выпустить его. Но лейбл отказался это сделать из-за неформатности музыки. Забыв об альбоме, музыканты отправились в тур с группой.

Запись была случайно обнаружена полтора года назад, когда клавишник Ник Роудс перебирал архив группы. Все это время альбом хранился на аудиокассете. Уже сейчас пластинка доступна для покупки в iTunes.
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Сообщение Tatian » Вт мар 12, 2013 6:33 pm

Один из сайтов, с которых взяты статьи, стал просить меня что-то принять и обновить при входе в эту тему... ну, во всяком случае, подписано им... интересно, это мой глюк или действительно их...

а по поводу русскоязычной статьи на mail.ru - забавненько и приятненько. Понятно, что без искажений не обошлось, но мы-то это уже даже не замечаем почти. :-)
А с другой стороны - вот сидим себе такие старые и умные на манер "анекдот № 18 - ха-ха-ха" . А есть же много людей, которые и не знают исторической правды и факты будут отсюда черпать. И я вот тоже поэтому не знаю, какой информации из того, что я не знаю и так, можно верить.
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Tatian писал(а):а по поводу русскоязычной статьи на mail.ru - забавненько и приятненько. Понятно, что без искажений не обошлось, но мы-то это уже даже не замечаем почти. :-)
А с другой стороны - вот сидим себе такие старые и умные на манер "анекдот № 18 - ха-ха-ха" . А есть же много людей, которые и не знают исторической правды и факты будут отсюда черпать. И я вот тоже поэтому не знаю, какой информации из того, что я не знаю и так, можно верить.

Проще всего, конечно, черпать самую достоверную информацию из устных интервью с ДД или хотя бы из записанных интервью, размещённых на солидных ресурсах (допустим, тот же роллинг стоун). Но процентов 70 из русскоговорящих фанатов либо игнорирует такие интервью, либо не понимает (не все же идеально знают инглиш... и я в том числе).
А верить или нет тому, что пишет наша пресса - дело-то сугубо личное. Но я обычно даже не читаю нашу прессу. Отношусь к заметкам наших примерно так: ну, заметили, уделили внимание... и то уже хорошо.
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Ник Роудс: «Я не против быть частью поп-культуры»

История рок-музыки буквально кишит легендами о потерянных и недописанных альбомах. В случае с «TV Mania: Bored With Prozac And The Internet?», концептуального альбома авторства Ника Роудса и Уоррена Куккурулло из Duran Duran, легенда оказалось правдой. В 1996 году клавишник и гитарист группы завершили запись первой и единственной пластинки своего сайд-проекта только для того, чтобы забросить, а потом и вовсе забыть о нем на долгие годы. 17 лет спустя эксперимент музыкантов с семплами и телевидением, наконец, увидит свет. Единственный участник Duran Duran, переживший всевозможные пертурбации в составе группы, 50-летний Ник Роудс поговорил с Rolling Stone об альбоме, поп-культуре и музыкальном наследии.

Как появилась идея «TV Mania»?

Мы работали над очередным альбомом Duran Duran «Medazzaland». У Саймона Ле Бона что-то не заладилось с текстами песен, и нам пришлось сделать паузу в записи. Но мы с Уорреном Куккурулло, гитаристом, продолжили работать. В то время каждый день в два часа дня показывали телешоу «Модная планета», и гости программы выдавали фразы, которые так и просились стать названиями песен. Я предложил Уоррену семплировать эти интервью и превратить их в музыку. Так появились «Beautiful Clothes», «I Wanna Make Films» и «You're Dreaming Pal». У нас получилась первоклассная мешанина из досужей болтовни, звука аналоговых синтезаторов, старомодной ритм-секции и пронзительных цифровых вставок. Мы сотворили нечто действительно уникальное и, разумеется, поспешили к руководству нашего рекорд-лейбла EMI/Capitol... где нас благополучно развернули. Они ждали новый альбом Duran Duran с обоймой талантливых поп-песен, а мы принесли им странную поделку в дадаистском вкусе.

Возможно, мы бы выпустили альбом самостоятельно, но нам предстояло закончить «Medazzaland», затем случился реюнион оригинального состава Duran Duran — словом, релиз пришлось откладывать, а потом альбом и вовсе позабылся. Я думал, что навсегда. Однако 18 месяцев назад я разбирал залежи старых материалов Duran Duran и наткнулся на кассету с той самой записью. Я словно нашел капсулу времени. Обрадовался жутко.

Изначально вы планировали пластинку как основу для бродвейской постановки?

Да, альбом записывался как концептуальный, рассказывающий о семье с большими проблемами. Отец — религиозный экстремист, мать сидит на прозаке и проводит все время в интернете. Сын полностью поглощен онлайн-играми и хакерскими штучками. И дочь, красивая девушка, которая жаждет быть знаменитой, не слишком понимая, зачем ей это нужно. Мы придумали сюжет: ученые ищут семью, на примере которой хотят понять, почему распадается наше общество. И вот они находят эту семью, идеальный набор стереотипов, и помещают их в дом, где за ними круглосуточно наблюдают камеры и нет никакой возможности выбраться. Телеканалы предлагают ученым большие деньги, и те позволяют превратить эксперимент в шоу. Сюжет, как мы его видели, должен был растянуться на два альбома, причем второй предполагался более традиционным по звуку, песенным. Но мы за него так и не взялись.

Басист группы Джон Тейлор пишет в своей биографии о зависимости, которую провоцирует Duran Duran. Речь не столько о наркотиках, сколько о жизни на пределе во всех смыслах — в сексе, путешествиях, славе, постоянном стрессе. Предчувствие надрыва есть во многих песнях группы. А что еще дает направления творчеству?

В нашей песне «Too Much Information» поется об информационной перегрузке, и поп-культура — главный ее источник. Конечно, большая часть идей берется из жизненных ситуаций. Разговор с другом накануне, размолвка с подружкой, травмирующие воспоминания из детства — подтолкнуть может все что угодно. Но если Саймону не удавалось подобрать нужные слова, мы обращались к наследию поп-культуры — и переиначивали его на свой лад. Вообще, мне нравится поп-культура, я не против быть ее частью, но иногда мне хочется отступить и посмотреть на нее со стороны.

Почему вы остались с Duran Duran и не больше не занимались экспериментальными сайд-проектами?

У меня достаточно свободы внутри Duran Duran, я могу делать то, что захочу — как и остальные участники группы. Я постоянно работаю с замечательными людьми от искусства, моды, дизайна, фотографии. Например, в прошлом году мы сняли фильм с Дэвидом Линчем. Дэвид записал горы оригинального материала и объединил с записями наших живых выступлений. Мы запустили видео в интернет, и его увидели более семи миллионов человек: кадры нашего выступление в Лос-Анжелесе с наложенными поверх образами работы Дэвида Линча.

Многие рок-музыканты выступают в качестве селебрити-диджеев, но вы — один из первых, кто ставил пластинки в клубе Rum Runner Disco, где Duran Duran выступали в ранние годы и еще не успели толком прославиться как группа.

Да, мне тогда было 16 лет.

Как этот опыт повлиял на вас в дальнейшем?

Возможно, даже сильнее, чем я сам осознаю. Этот опыт научил меня лучше понимать, что работает в музыкальном смысле — какой темп предпочтительней, что заставляет людей двигаться. Антропология танцпола увлекательна: ты знаешь, что этот трек привлечет девочек, а вслед за ними последуют мальчики. Я ставил то, что нравилось мне самому: Kraftwerk, Ultravox и Дэвида Боуи, смешивал их с Грейс Джонс, Sex Pistols и Фрэнком Синатрой. Получался очень эклектичный условный пост-панк. Мне нравилось экспериментировать в то время.

Есть что-то в современной культуре, о чем вы можете сказать: а вот к этому и я приложил руку?

(Смеется) Это было бы слишком самонадеянно с моей стороны. Но, признаюсь, когда я замечаю заимствования или отсылки — например, разворот журнала, оформленный как обложка одного из наших альбомов, или песню молодой группы, звучащей как мы в ранние годы — я не могу не улыбнуться. Приятно осознавать, что мы, возможно, вдохновляем других музыкантов. Я сам помню, как творчество других артистов влияло на меня в свое время, и этот факт не становится менее значимым с годами. Если ты создаешь нечто, что передается следующему поколению — ничего важнее быть не может.

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