Funny how life can imitate pop art sometimes… After my cd lamentations earlier this week, word of an exclusive Radiohead remix for their song ‘Videotape’ emerged yesterday. But this isn’t your average I-tunes only release or downloadable torrent thing. This one, and do take that literally, is on VHS. And yes, that’s right there is but one copy. Read on.
Monday, March 17, 2008
4 Hour Radiohead Remix on VHS!
A press-release says:
A reworking like no other! Clocking in at four hours on the nose, it surely has to be the longest remix ever committed to (video) tape.
That’s right – a 240 minute version of Radiohead’s track
Videotape (the closing number on the recent download LP In Rainbows) on an extremely limited edition (only one copy available) VHS Video Cassette, with slowly mutating hallucinatory red, blue and green disintegrating visuals. Playing like something has possessed your VCR. Lovingly packaged in a one-off sleeve that references blank/ rental videotapes past and (almost)
present. See pics below.
In an age of USB-stick albums, download-only releases/ remixes and dwindling CD sales, this has to be the most awkward way of releasing a track. And VHS is one of the more unusual and outdated formats to put music on.
Is it a comment on the state of the music industry, or music PR? Fan boy tribute? Ambient epic? Inspiring idea? Bad joke? Deranged waste of time? You decide… Well… You can’t… Because you can’t really hear it. Or watch it. For the time being, there are no promo copies or blog mp3s available. The whole plan is that it isn’t widely available. Does it even exist?
So, how do you get your hands on it? We want to auction it on eBay at some point in the near future with the money going straight to charity. I hope that doesn’t sound corny. I don’t even know if we’ll be able to do that...
Happy blogging!
Credits:
Video Philip M Lane
Tape James Rutledge
Case Jacob Blandy
Radiohead Extend "Videotape,"
Release Limited Edition Copy of One
Monday, March 17, 2008
4 Hour Radiohead Remix on VHS!
A press-release says:
A reworking like no other! Clocking in at four hours on the nose, it surely has to be the longest remix ever committed to (video) tape.
That’s right – a 240 minute version of Radiohead’s track
Videotape (the closing number on the recent download LP In Rainbows) on an extremely limited edition (only one copy available) VHS Video Cassette, with slowly mutating hallucinatory red, blue and green disintegrating visuals. Playing like something has possessed your VCR. Lovingly packaged in a one-off sleeve that references blank/ rental videotapes past and (almost)
present. See pics below.
In an age of USB-stick albums, download-only releases/ remixes and dwindling CD sales, this has to be the most awkward way of releasing a track. And VHS is one of the more unusual and outdated formats to put music on.
Is it a comment on the state of the music industry, or music PR? Fan boy tribute? Ambient epic? Inspiring idea? Bad joke? Deranged waste of time? You decide… Well… You can’t… Because you can’t really hear it. Or watch it. For the time being, there are no promo copies or blog mp3s available. The whole plan is that it isn’t widely available. Does it even exist?
So, how do you get your hands on it? We want to auction it on eBay at some point in the near future with the money going straight to charity. I hope that doesn’t sound corny. I don’t even know if we’ll be able to do that...
Happy blogging!
Credits:
Video Philip M Lane
Tape James Rutledge
Case Jacob Blandy
Radiohead Extend "Videotape,"
Release Limited Edition Copy of One
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