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Summary: T.U.S. Gives High Praise for SpeedTribe
Review: Awesome! Being a Photographer, Video Editor and Special Effects artist myself, I can appreciate the effort that went into creating this collage of site and sound. Even more important is how the emotion of the event went from inside their hearts to the screen. I've attended the 24 Hours of Le Mans only twice to this date and I can tell you that this DVD captures the essence of the event in a way that no other presentation has. It is not a documentary of a specific race, although it was shot during the 76th running of the race. It is a documentary of the power that is the 24 Hours of Le Mans'something that no facts or figures can portray albeit in print, on the web or in video. For those of you who've been to the 24 Hours of Le Mans, to witness the spectacle, you'll watch this DVD with the same excitement that surmises the entire race weekend. For those of you who've never been to the event'this is where it starts! Mark Gilvey
THE UNOFFICIAL SPECTATOR
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Summary: Expected more
Review: Being a VJ and listening to many different styles of electronic music I was really expecting alot more from 242...
The visual part was Ok! It is just footages of the race with some filters a little computer rendering so forth not much animation or anything like that. The footage is good some parts are quite nice but over all it could get boring. The music I was expenting more fast paced music but alot it could be like dark atmosphereric some of its more upbeat but really disappoiting I would have say. and there are two versions
the second version is some guy just talking car and race stuff
but I bought this DVD expenting visuals not technical data about the cars if I wanted that i would go buy a dvd for that. I dont see the point of this. I guess I was expeting too much and the reviews I read were all great and from the packaging and the previews it look very interesting. But overall for the price I payed its ok not bad.
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Summary: Le Mans meets Front 242 in surround sound !!!
Review: Daniel Bressanutti and Patrick Codenys, both founding members of Front 242, pioneers of the Electronic Body Music (EBM) music genre, have joined forces with digital filmmakers Rod Chong and Sharon Matarazzo, to create a stunning audio-visual spectacle called "Speed Tribe". This fantastic double disc package (1 DVD + 1 audio CD) contains amazing high-quality (DVD) video images (in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 surround sound) combined with a SUPERB techno/ambient audio track, that captures the life in and around the Le Mans racing circuit. The audio CD contains 24 stunning techno/ambient tracks, composed, arranged, and performed by Daniel B. and Patrick C. of Front 242. > Evil E. <
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Summary: Le Mans at its best, nearly
Review: For anyone who has ever been to the Le Mans 24 hour race, this is a must. If you've never been, then its even more of a must, if that makes any sense. The photography and video work are absolutely stunning. This DVD features footage from the 2001 Le Mans race, where as those who were there will know, it rained for pretty much the whole weekend. This makes for excellent shots of the cars spewing rooster tails of spray and sliding all over the place. Backed by an excellent soundtrack that really enhances the mood of the pictures on screen. The "nearly" tag? The only better thing you will find on the market is the Steve McQueen film - but you've already got that anyway? This DVD blew me away the first time I saw it and it still doesn't disappoint after many further watches. Stick it on loop for a party, or play around with the different view settings and be amazed at the photography and the driving. It rocks.
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Summary: Great CD - DVD isn't special
Review: I bought this as one of the starters into Front 242's music - along with Geography and to be honest this release gives me mixed feelings. While the music is superb - that in itself does give me visions of being a racing driver driving for his team at Le Mans.....the DVD is rather flimsy in comparison. Meandering and not half as interesting. And the interviews are boring. Listening to only the driver's voice without any pictures of the guy talking is really terrible and uninspiring. Perhaps they ran out of money on the budget they had in mind As I said the music is faultless - it's a great industrial/techno hybrid.....it's just the shame the DVD couldn't be that bit better
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Summary: Super cool!
Review: I bought this DVD after reading a review in a magazine, and I have to say I'm really pleased. Although I watch the occasional motorsports race, I wouldn't call myself a racing fan. But seeing how Speed Tribe combines racing and electronic music, maybe I'll start watching more! Kudos to the producers for focusing on the 5.1 surround sound, and for making it widescreen. It really shows off my 34" widescreen TV, and the bass sure impress my neighbors! This isn't the sort of DVD I watch once then file away, I've been able to watch it many times, each time finding something new, since it's really almost like a long music video with tons of special effects.
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Summary: "Sounds of Sebring" for the 21st Century
Review: I hardly make a habit of "endorsing" products. I'm a sports car fan, a Le Mans fan, not a sales person. But Speed Tribe struck a chord. Rob Chong et al have sown their passion into this DVD. Rob and his group dragged their cameras to the very wet 2001 Le Mans and came back with a visual feast. And the images are simply heightened by the eletronica score. It all comes together in a synthetic fusion that pumps to the heart beat that is Le Mans. Bar none, this is definitely the "Sounds of Sebring" for the 21st Century...
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Summary: A Benchmark in Experimental Electronic Music and Multimedia
Review: I was drawn to this project from the audio side, as a longtime fan of Front 242. While I was thrilled with the audio CD, I was also impressed with the DVD. The style of the visuals involves heavy digital manipulation, which alternately exaggerates and renders surreal. The effect is a lot like representing a recalled memory of the race rather than the race itself, with all the arbitrary details and reified skews of the rememberer. A simple auto race, the 24 hour Le Mans in France, is given mythological significance using the tools of abstract art multimedia. The cars themselves, though given some impressive screen time, are only one of many elements recreating the entire experience of being at Le Mans, including scenes from pulsing excitement to half-alert waiting, huddling to stay warm, the eventual drone experienced by the drivers; and finally, the thrill of the victory, in an award presentation that is portrayed on a TV screen off-track, a video within a video, emphasizing once again the transitory quality of the personal experience. The camera is as likely to dwell on odd details like a woman hopping through the rain and a single chair of mismatched color in the bleachers, as on the racecars. The overall effect makes the race almost an arbitrary choice as a window on a massively shared experience. The music is the perfect complement to the visuals, with its corresponding experimental style of heavily manipulated electronics. The racecar subject matches the long-running 242 idiom of modern union between human and machine. The music by itself on the CD improves on the DVD; free of the distraction of visuals, it is an adventure in purely abstract motivs. Unlike so much lesser electronic music, it is constantly innovative and absorbing. Rhythms and themes, alternately ambient, driving, and chaotic, sway in and out unpredictably amid a greater canvass of sound, as if the music exists in many more dimensions than we can perceive and we can only experience small fragments of the whole at a time. As such, it ranks along with the greatest past works by the team of Daniel Bresanutti and Patrick Codenys as the successors to Edgard Varese in revealing entirely new possibilities in the craft of abstract electronic music.
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Summary: FEAST FOR THE SENSES
Review: Like a sonic boom that races across your mind's uncharted territory, delivering dose after dose of pleasure stimuli and pushing your neurons to capacity. This mind boggling work takes you to the extremes of tonal ecstasy. This work is so far beyond the electronic frontier, I shudder. It seems to activate previously unexplored senses, expanding your nervous system into multiple directions...what a ride! Dare I say it - it somewhat requires a refined pallet. It's delightfully less accessible than anything I've listened to in at least 1000 years. The rewards are just as endless. Synaesthetic connoisseurs welcome here. Others need not apply or at least be willing to enter at your own risk. More like CNS architects than traditional musicians, the artists are shamans from the future, always heralding the next wave of music and delivering on contact with precision and great vision. It's almost spooky that so many moods can be felt. Outstanding work...and that just describes the music!
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Summary: Fresh and original
Review: Normally listen to jazz. Especially enjoyed the way the group Front 2-4-2 was able to bring a real feel to the video. Would love to see more of this type of music video - combining real world events with music that enhcances the experience.
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