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Downbeat Electronica Film Soundtrack It was just a matter of time before the Cinematic Orchestra received a commission for a film score, but this 2003 release actually dates from 1999. The genesis of Man With a Movie Camera lies in the selection committee of a Portuguese film festival, which asked Cinematic Orchestra to score their re-airing of Dziga Vertov's 1929 film of the same name, a silent Soviet documentary focused on a day in the life of an average worker. Performed live by the orchestra, Man With a Movie Camera doesn't allow J Swinscoe to indulge in his usual post-production magic, but it is a surprisingly adept score, with occasional bursts of on-the-one jazz-funk wailing to break it up. (Pity the poor comrade who's soundtracked 70 years later with a hyper-speed Pretty Purdie-type drum solo and some old-school-rap samples in the background.) Scattered moments of brilliance abound, and at one point, someone on sax comes up with a brilliant foghorn recr
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The Projectionist
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Melody
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The Dawn
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The Awakening Of A Woman (Burnout)
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Reel Life (Evolution II)
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Postlude
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Evolution (Versao Portuense)
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Work It! (Man With The Movie Camera)
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Votage
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Odessa
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Theme De Yoyo
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The Magician
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Theme Reprise
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Yoyo Waltz
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Drunken Tune
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The Animated Tripod
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AllThings
Last FM Information on Cinematic Orchestra
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The Cinematic Orchestra is a British-based jazz and electronic outfit, created in the late 1990s by Jason Swinscoe. The band is signed to Ninja Tune independent record label. In addition to Swinscoe, the band includes PC (former DJ Food member Patrick Carpenter) on turntables, Luke Flowers (drums), Tom Chant (Saxophone), Nick Ramm (piano), Stuart McCallum (guitar) and Phil France (double bass). Former members include Jamie Coleman (trumpet), T. Daniel Howard (drums), and Alex James (piano). The most recent addition to the band is Mancunian guitarist Stuart McCallum.
Swinscoe and Carpenter (PC) have also recorded together under the band name Neptune. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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