Once the compact disc is finally laid to rest...

I would love to see some of today's most exciting acts from the electronic and indie worlds start becoming multimedia artists rather than music artists, releasing only videos and songs together indivisibly from one another as whole individual releases.

you mean like stakker's eurotechno?

i don't know what that is.

Gantz Graf should only be in audiovisual form....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuX4mzjnvxk

a video album that was put out in 1989 by a design group called stakker, with music by humanoid (the future sound of london).

  On 5/26/2010 at 9:05 PM, margaret thatcher said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuX4mzjnvxk

 

a video album that was put out in 1989 by a design group called stakker, with music by humanoid (the future sound of london).

yes, that sounds like it. but these would be smaller releases, more like video ep's maybe, where there was as much emphasis on the video as the audio, a complete project. there might be some artists that do all their own video and music, some might collaborate with others.

that would be awesome

  On 5/26/2010 at 9:04 PM, Atop said:

Gantz Graf should only be in audiovisual form....

yeah right, imagine if the video version were the only release there were and that's what everybody was doing. Ipods with video glasses? that would be so awesome.

Isnt Animal Collective coming out with a Visual Album to be released in theaters?

edit: nevermind. straight to DVD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODDSAC

Fuck me. That's the last time I try to figure out how to embed youtube vids while editing the post that I fucked up.

How does one embed a youtube video?

just put the address of the vid into the last function, insert media

Thank you!

Meam - 'The L' is just one such release I can think of -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxXQ4IS8S-s

It came with an accompanying CD or Vinyl but the DVD was the primary medium for the album

EDIT: Oh, and this -

and this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbmpW9XPCiQ

Hell there are probably hundreds of examples of 'albums' that are meant as solely a multimedia project rather than just some audio tracks that someone later makes some videos for....

the album concept will never die. thats like saying now that we have internet and instant messaging, we dont need books.

I'm all in favor of musicians creating other forms of art, but I don't "wish" death upon the album format. Fuck that, are you nuts? I love albums. My love for EPs has increased over recent years too, as there is no room for filler so that's cool (directly related to my diminished attention span, I'm sure). But I don't want just a bunch of singles. Meh.

LONG LIVE THE ALBUM!

And I don't want my CDs to be worthless. I want to pass on my collection to future generations. However, maybe I won't have a future generation.

yeah, Alzado is as nuts as Charlie Manson being interviewed by a nude Geraldo....

  On 5/26/2010 at 9:41 PM, jules said:

the album concept will never die.

Yep, agreed.

Don't worry guys, I won't let it.

Plaid's Greedy Baby too? or not?

  On 5/26/2010 at 9:04 PM, Atop said:

Gantz Graf should only be in audiovisual form....

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yes

Check out Hexstatic. Every song they have ever released has a video for it, and they release audio and video cds together in one pack. Most the videos are very interesting and lot's of synced up sounds.

I dunno maybe the 45-70min range will get wider but a collection of works is easier to promote and sell even in mp3 format instead of lots of little releases no one can keep track of.

I also think there is an art in making a complete album that you want to listen too from beginning to end without skipping any tracks.

  On 5/26/2010 at 9:25 PM, colunga said:

Isnt Animal Collective coming out with a Visual Album to be released in theaters?

 

 

edit: nevermind. straight to DVD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODDSAC

 

they are touring it in theatres but its very limited film festivals etc. plaed here but the cheesy horror theme put me off even though i'm a huge fan of their music. i usually hate their visuals/artwork etc

Yeah I really don't think the style of that video fits their music at all. I'm guessing it might make more sense in the context of the whole thing though ...

Vinyl isn't dead. Cassettes ain't dead. CDs won't be dead for a long long time. Multimedia releases, however, were a fad and a flop in the nineties.