JMC ft. SCORCHER - SNAPCHAT / GRM DAILY

DJ SHADOW: BERGSCHRUND [ feat. NILS FRAHM ] / DIR: MATT DEVINE

AND DON'T FORGET TO CLICK ON MIXTAPE FOR MORE EDM, GRIME AND INDUSTRIAL / ELECTRO-METAL

KLAYTON LIVE IN THE STUDIO / CELLDWELLER FACEBOOK EVENT

If you want to see how Klayton turns all that amazing noise into a track, check it out:

For a great overview of his 2016 output [ Celldweller, Scandroid, Circle of Dust, games soundtracks, etc. ], watch this clip:

MUSIC PROMO FOR TRANSMISSIONS: PULSE INJECTOR

ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS (2016)

Well, this is weird. Hip Polish films seems to be like buses right now: You wait ages for one and two come at once. This time it's Michal Marczak's All These Sleepless Nights. With a clear nod to famous coming of age movies that preceded it, and swapping classic rock for cool electronica, could this even be Poland's answer to Richard Linklater's Dazed And Confused? See trailer, below:

NEW TRAILER: THE LURE

Director Agnieszka Smoczyńska's debut was originally released in Poland in 2015, making a splash ( ! ) at Sundance in 2016, where it won the Special Jury Prize, and is now getting it's international release. The director has apparently used the mermaid / siren allegory as a way of depicting her own teenage years, without having to include anything too directly personal. A mash-up of camp retro-bubblegum horror musicals..? No idea, but by all accounts, well worth checking out.

BRAND NEW ON FIXT: RAIZER [ ALBUM SAMPLER ]

INSPIRATION

Electronic rocker and record producer Klayton on how he got to where he is now. 

CARRIE FISHER ( 1956 - 2016 )

Out of all the stars we expected to dodge the '2016' bullet, we thought it would be Carrie. Even after she was taken ill on Christmas Eve, we thought she would emerge, days, maybe weeks later, in 2017, feistiness intact, middle finger raised, thus signalling the end in the appalling run of celebrity fatalities that marked this particular twelve months.

Unfortunately, it was not to be. As 2016 taught us over and over again, life does not follow the narrative you want.

There are charming clips of the original Star Wars cast surfacing all the time on the internet. We'll add to this as we go along, but in the meantime, let's start with this one:

Very funny impromptu 2005 interview with Carrie, by British comedian Justin Lee Collins.

BRAND NEW! BLADE RUNNER 2049 TEASER TRAILER!

OTHER RECENT BLADE RUNNER-RELATED ARTICLES ON FUTURE ROCKER:

SYD MEAD ( ORIGINAL BLADE RUNNER DESIGNER ) INTERVIEW 

STUNNING 'BLUE MONDAY' BLADE RUNNER MASH-UP

RECENT PHILIP K DICK PAPERBACK COVER DESIGNS

REWINDING A CYBERPUNK CLASSIC: RICHARD STANLEY'S 'HARDWARE' ( 1990 )

'THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT, THIS IS WHAT YOU GET'

- Public Image Limited

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There's a shot in the new Blade Runner 2049 trailer that is very reminiscent of a similar shot in the 1990 movie HARDWARE, so we thought we'd include some clips as a little side-bar to the aforementioned, heavily-anticipated Harrison Ford sequel.

Above: HARDWARE poster art

For a short while at the beginning of the 90's, director Richard Stanley was the up-and-coming indie auteur to watch. Coming from a background of music videos and documentaries, Stanley was able to bring a widescreen vision to HARDWARE, a small-scale, low-budget sci-fi flick, that references both Terminator and Evil Dead. The film was a success and garnered a cult following, and was followed up by the equally good Dust Devil, a slow-burning horror film shot on location in Namibia ( Stanley was born in South Africa, and so has an affinity for the African continent ). However, subsequent career missteps meant that he has maintained a relatively low profile compared to the indie kids who came after him ( notably Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez ), and so he failed to capitalise on the huge mainstream appetite for original indie film-making that came to define 90s cult cinema.

Hardware was unavailable on DVD until 2009, when it was released as a special edition.

CINEXPLORERS CHATTING ABOUT 'HARDWARE'

FAN CUT OF PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED'S 'THE ORDER OF DEATH'

( FROM THE SOUNDTRACK ):