NEW! SCANDROID'S COVER OF MICHAEL JACKSON'S THRILLER!

Another great cover version from Klayton: Very audacious, this synth-wave translation of the dance-pop classic rocks pretty hard...

BLADERUNNER BLACK OUT 2022 - NEW ANIME SHORT

Image: Sony Pictures Japan

It goes without saying that beloved science fiction films have a history of cross-pollinating each other across the decades. Elements from Metropolis ( 1926 ) may be visible in Bladerunner ( 1982 ) and Akira ( 1989 ), for instance. 

Here, we have the final of the three short films commissioned to coincide with Denis Villeneuve's imminent Bladerunner sequel. The director, Shinichiro Watanabe ( most famous for Cowboy Bebop ), purportedly commented that Bladerunner was the film that had the most influence on him, and that it was important to pay respect but not be an imitation. It was inevitable perhaps, that the stunningly-realised futuristic milieu of the original film, imprinted itself on dozens of live-action cinematic releases over the years, as well as on the colourful, animated world of manga. 

Advance word on Villeneuve's film is already resoundingly positive, and may even be a new classic. He will have pulled off an astonishing feat if that indeed is the case. We only have a few more days to find out for ourselves, but until then, here Villeneuve presents a new short to as the final hors d'oeuvres to the main course:

OOPS! IT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN DOWN BY WARNERS. 
OKAY, HERE'S THE TEASER CLIP, COURTESY OF TOKYO POP TV!

 

BLADERUNNER 2048: NOWHERE TO RUN - SHORT MOVIE STARRING DAVE BAUTISTA

Directed by Luke Scott

ZARDONIC'S UNOFFICIAL BLUE STAHLI REMIX GOES LEGIT!

After millions of plays since 2011, Blue Stahli's 'SHOTGUN SEÑORITA' - as remixed by Venezuelan Metal Drum & Bass artist Zardonic ( below ) - gets an officially-sanctioned release.

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ZARDONIC'S GUIDE TO DJ-ING plus MIXTAPE

ALIEN BASS: ZARDONIC EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

OYINDA : FLATLINE ( RAMZOID REMIX )

Pussykrew's glitchy visuals perfectly capture the eerie brittleness of the sounds...

COMING SOON: 'ELECTRIC DREAMS' TV SHOW - 'FROM THE MIND OF PHILIP K DICK'

NEW BLADERUNNER 2049 SHORT - NOT IN THE MOVIE!

With an intro from director Denis Villeneuve.

BRAND-NEW CELLDWELLER VIDEO DEBUTS TODAY!

With Klayton's other personas grabbing all the limelight lately, ( namely quasi-80s synthrocker Scandroid, and post-90s industrial metaller Circle of Dust ) and both having multiple releases in the last 18 months, it's about time his most famous alter-ego made a comeback. Here, we see Celldweller in an introspective mood, in a cut taken from the forthcoming album OFFWORLD. Released on July 28th, its melancholy textures herald somewhat of a detour from the usual crushing Electro-Metal sound.

NEW! BLADE RUNNER 2049 - 'TIME TO LIVE' FEATURETTE

SPECTACULAR NEW SHORT FROM THE DIRECTOR OF 'DISTRICT 9': RAKKA

We here at Future-Rocker think South African film director, Neill Blomkamp, can do no wrong. District 9, Elysium, Chappie, are all masterpieces of speculative cinema. ( Yes, even Chappie, which we consider to be way better than Ex_Machina, another A.I.-themed film that came out the same year, and which Chappie was unfavourably compared to ). We feel that nobody but Blomkamp has been able to consistently capture a science fiction landscape of a future Third World that is dirty, lived-in, and disturbingly contemporaneous. And let's face it, if you go purely by Hollywood blockbusters, it would be easy to assume that only America owns the future. Refreshingly, Blomkamp is adept at visualizing a worst case scenario for the entire Planet Earth.

20-minute Alien invasion thriller Rakka ( starring Sigourney Weaver, above ) is the first 'volume' from his new Vancouver-based Oats Studios. A year or two back, we were pretty bummed that Neill's proposed sequel to Aliens ( in which Hicks and Newt survive ), got put on the back-burner after Ridley Scott's success with The Martian. But with Scott following his polarising Prometheus with the anti-climactic performance of Alien: Covenant, we wouldn't be surprised if he will soon be moving on, and that studio heads are reconsidering Blomkamp taking the reigns. However, after seeing Rakka, where again Blomkamp uncannily blends CGI with the real world, as he did with the low-budget breakout hit District 9, do we actually want him back on the big studio treadmill? Judge for yourself...

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