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Re: 1977 Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune

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Post by jandrese »

conception wrote: post #5
duxup wrote: post #2

The thing I find appealing about Dune is how WEIRD it is. There's depth too, but it's weird and it really lends itself to all sort of styles and IMO they all kinda work.

I’ve started showing my kids, Herculoids, thundar the barbarian, he-man, and other sorts of just really weird old cartoons. There’s not a lot today that’s being produced. That’s just fun and weird and gets the creative juices going. There are a few weird kids books too like the skull and the queen in the cave that I highly recommend. Culture quickly defined by what has already been created could definitely use a shot…

Back in the old days authors didn't know how anything worked and there was no Internet to look things up and no budget to do research so they were forced to make a lot of the stuff up on the spot. In retrospect a lot of those choices were weird and often blatantly unscientific, but they worked in context.

I sometimes wonder what He-Man would have been like if they had spent more than 5 seconds coming up with character names and concepts. The whole universe feels like a rough draft/outline where someone went "we're out of budget, this goes into production as is."

Re: 1977 Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune

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Post by duskwuff »

_sys49152 wrote: post #6

For something a little more updated, a partial list of tracks that sample dune: https://www.whosampled.com/search/?q=dune+david+matthews

Not to be confused with a list of tracks which sample Dune (the 1984 film):

https://www.whosampled.com/movie/Dune/

Re: 1977 Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune

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Post by samplenoise »

Lalabadie wrote: post #7

The article mentions MF DOOM's sampling, but for fans of RJD2, the bonus track on the original Deadringer CD (Here's What's Left) is built on a sample from David Matthews' Silent Running on that album.

Ah thanks for this one, I spent a good half hour earlier today trying to recall where I know that intro from. Whosampled doesn’t have it

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Post by mastazi »

If any Apple employees are reading this, the Apple Music page for David Matthews https://music.apple.com/au/artist/david-matthews/616619 mixes up 3 different people:

1. Keyboardist David Matthews born in 1942 who made the album "Dune" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Matthews_(keyboardist)

2. Rock musician David Matthews born in 1967 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Matthews

3. Jazz saxophonist David Matthews born in 1911 (the bio section of the Apple Music page is about him) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Matthews_(saxophonist)

I have submitted a feedback ticket to Apple but I thought I would also leave it here.

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Post by austinprete »

duxup wrote: post #15
conception wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve started showing my kids, Herculoids, thundar the barbarian, he-man, and other sorts of just really weird old cartoons. There’s not a lot today that’s being produced. That’s just fun and weird and gets the creative juices going. There are a few weird kids books too like the skull and the queen in the cave that I highly recommend. Culture quickly defined by what has already been created could definitely use a shot…

I think there's some weird stuff still. I ran across Gravity Falls with my kids not long ago, that was great.

Seconded! Also, Adventure Time and its spin-offs are fantastic and deeply weird at times. Over the Garden Wall is another one.

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Post by jessemerriman »

paulsmith wrote: post #4

For fans of this there's another '70s-era LP similarly inspired by the novel: Bernard Szajner's "Visions of Dune" from 1979. It's proggy, synthy, psychedelic, and just a weird fun listen. https://bernardszajner.bandcamp.com/album/visions-of-dune

Nice one. Another Dune-concept French progressive album from around the same time is Eros, by the band Dün: https://www.discogs.com/master/122007-D%C3%BCn-Eros

Re: 1977 Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune

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Post by thankyoufriend »

conception wrote: post #5
duxup wrote: post #2

The thing I find appealing about Dune is how WEIRD it is. There's depth too, but it's weird and it really lends itself to all sort of styles and IMO they all kinda work.

I’ve started showing my kids, Herculoids, thundar the barbarian, he-man, and other sorts of just really weird old cartoons. There’s not a lot today that’s being produced. That’s just fun and weird and gets the creative juices going. There are a few weird kids books too like the skull and the queen in the cave that I highly recommend. Culture quickly defined by what has already been created could definitely use a shot…

"Aquaman: King of Atlantis" hit some of those notes for me. I didn't particularly care about the story, but the animation was captivating.

Re: 1977 Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune

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Post by conception »

Tade0 wrote: post #11
conception wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve started showing my kids, Herculoids, thundar the barbarian, he-man, and other sorts of just really weird old cartoons. There’s not a lot today that’s being produced. That’s just fun and weird and gets the creative juices going. There are a few weird kids books too like the skull and the queen in the cave that I highly recommend. Culture quickly defined by what has already been created could definitely use a shot…

My preschooler enjoyed Du Iz Tak? by Carson Ellis. The characters are insects who talk in an unintelligible language. On the less weird, but still interesting side there's what's known to English speakers as Adventure Box - it's a translated version of the French monthly magazine J'aime lire which is published since 1977.

Du Iz Tak is amazing!
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