Friday, October 22, 2021

Nero - Untitled (Dune Concept Record)

I'm sharing this early Temporary Residence release to celebrate today's official release of "Dune", which almost certainly will be the first film I'll watch in a theatre in more than 2 years. I remember very little about this record, except I discovered it in the CD drawers at WMUC during one of the early morning DJ shifts I had my year at University of Maryland. I think Nero was from Louisville; they were half of the first record on Temporary Residence, and, as you can tell by the title of this post, they did a record about "Dune". That's literally all I remember about this. Well, that, and I liked this enough to rip it almost 20 years ago AND save the CD in my stacks. Sometimes, an interesting concept is enough to earn you a place in history.

"Dune" is one of my favorite books. It's definitely my most watched David Lynch movie. I'll probably watch the shit out of Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, no matter what the reviews are. I'm hyped. And thus I have shared far too much.



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2 comments:

jonder said...

Maybe you will appreciate hearing this. Years ago, a blogger I corresponded with came up with the concept of combining expository dialogue from the Lynch film with music from the Toto/Eno soundtrack.

IIRC, he wanted to hit the highlights of the story arc, as well as the best parts of an underrated soundtrack. (It's Toto, FFS!?) He came up with two 12 minute "suites". I did the primitive audio editing in Audacity, based on his instructions. The concept (and the art) are his, so my feelings won't be hurt if you don't like it. You can stream or DL the results here:

https://archive.org/details/2019-06-17-111220

jonder said...

PS - the entire Dune thing is less than 30 minutes long. I also helped out with his compilations of Leonard Cohen and Prince covers that he posted on archive.org. He's a film buff (like yourself) so there's a few soundtracks here:

https://archive.org/details/@media_monster

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