The Download Munkey : Tracking the Treasure Down …

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Trailer for an award-winning documentary Fight or Flight tracing Irish filmmaker/producer Peter McCarthy’s journey to learn Muay Thai in the gyms and training camps of Thailand. Made over the period of five years, Fight or Flight is much more than just Muay Thai and the often fascinating Thai culture, it’s also an attempt to try and understand the issue of conflict and violence in the world today .

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A flurry of fists and knees – the trailer definitely captures the intensity of Muay Thai action much better than this static shot

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Freshmeat!

The collection of snippets from the film includes a particularly memorable scene where Peter passes by some of the queer stuff for sale at the many roadside stalls of Thailand, to glimpses of the Lanna Muay Thai boxing camp in Chiangmai and actual Muay Thai fights (legal of course) in Thai stadiums – one thing I noticed here and in a recent visit to Lumpinee Stadium (some photos at thoo2’s blog) was how quickly the referees in grey-brown uniforms moved in to separate the fighters when required.

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KOed.

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Punishing knee strikes

Not much to comment about Fight or Flight since I haven’t actually watched the film yet – I’m keeping my fingers crossed, hoping that it will be screened at one of the film festivals here eventually

Check out the trailer at the official site for Fight or Flight. The film is available for sale on DVD from this official site only.

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A look at some of Ben Stokes’ creative outputs, who’s probably better known as Dimensional Holofonic Sound or D.H.S to techno fans. His track House of God or one of its many remixes has been played by DJs for two decades now, check out its music video at Youtube, also directed and animated by Ben Stokes himself. Or listen to the track itself at Junodownload.

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Also check out the music video for Steel Pulse and Damien Marley’s No More Weapons directed, shot and animated by Ben Stokes. Look for the video labelled Music Videos Part 1 at the Video section of his official website at holofonic.com or at YouTube – you definitely can’t miss the reggae vibes or the animated silhouettes of soldiers moving onscreen (reminds me of the Massive Entertainment animated production logo in the game World at Conflict).

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My favourite work from Ben Stokes is definitely the ultra funky Drum Attack video released in 2003 consisting of multiple video clips of drummers doing their thing and expertly chopped and spliced together into a delicious two and half minute mini-mix, not unlike how hip hop DJs mix in different records at lightning speed like DJ Spinbad (or Aquasky for that matter, who crammed in 150+ records for a 5 minute mini-set for Annie Mac’s show on BBC Radio One in Jan 2006).

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Karate chops! Wait, have those got anything to do with drumming?

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Ends with a visual of Clyde Stubblefield who played the drums for James Brown’s Funky Drummer.

The quality of the Drum Attack video posted at Youtube is rather crappy so you might want to check out a clearer version at the website for Ben Stokes’ label Tino Corp or the Video section of holofonic.com where a longer 3 minute version of Drum Attack awaits in the Other Works video (fast forward to 2:34 mins).

Enjoy!

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A promo video for a new CD + DVD release titled .Network from techno producer/DJ Gayle San. Hailing from sunny Singapore, she moved to Europe to further her DJing career many years ago (and probably won’t come back since there’s hardly a techno scene here – hell, over here people even confuse rave and eurohouse with techno ).

I won’t attempt to bore anyone by posting her bio here as you can check out her official site at www.gaylesan.com where you can preview five of her tracks in their entirety, including the very funky The Sell Off forthcoming on her own label, Equator.

The CD contains a live mix (or half mix since Discogs lists it as partially mixed) and the DVD contains a feast for the eyes and ears (supposedly, since I don’t have it in my grubby hands yet ) I’m actually surprised at the utter lack of electronic music releases featuring a similiar combination of audiovisual experiences out there – the two that immediately come to mind is Jeff Mills three deck wizardry on 2004’s Exhibitionist and the other by minimal master Richie Hawtin on DE9 : Transitions.

Gayle San contributes two unreleased tracks to this release with the rest of tracks from techno producers around the world including Cari Lekebusch (Sweden), Jay Denham (America), Oscar Mulero (Spain) and DJ Boss (Slovakia). Tracklist as follows:

1. Cari Lekebusch – Psyphonic
2. Gayle San – The Sell Off
3. Jay Denham – Strings Of Madness
4. Oscar Mulero – Clava
5. Gayle San – Sanmonsaks
6. DJ Boss – Brain Damage
7. Space DJz – Black Mantis
8. Cristian Varela – Mentaloide
9. Eric Sneo – Interrupt
10. Glenn Wilson – Removal

Snapshots of the videos exclusively produced for each track in the 1:11 mins long promo video (arranged in the same sequence as they’re played in the video).

Jay Denham – Strings Of Madness

Cari Lekebusch – Psyphonic

Gayle San – The Sell Off

Oscar Mulero – Clava

Gayle San – Sanmonsaks

DJ Boss – Brain Damage

Space DJz – Black Mantis

Cristian Varela – Mentaloide

Eric Sneo – Interrupt

Glenn Wilson – Removal

Heading down to the local HMV soon to see if they’re bringing this in, otherwise I’ll probably have to order it online from the ever reliable folks at Juno Records (no, I’m not paid for recommending them but they do have free worldwide delivery for this item as I’m writing this )

Check out the promo video for .Network on YouTube.

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Trailerfreaks.com recommended by commenter blob is one of those sites that you’ll most definitely find handy when you want to just download the trailer of major blockbuster films, without the hassle of actually figuring the actual download link like what I previously wrote about grabbing HD trailers off the web.

Trailer Freaks essentially does the hard work for you by compiling the direct download link for the latest movie trailers posted online at Yahoo! Movies, Apple’s Movie Trailers or the official movie sites so you can simply copy the link for your download manager or grab them directly via your browser quickly and conveniently.

Granted, you won’t find the greatest selection of trailers listed here i.e small indie/niche films don’t seem to get much love at Trailer Freaks but for the majority of big budget commercial films like Terminator : Salvation or the upcoming Transformers 2 : Revenge of the Fallen, this site should more than suffice

Download HD Movie Trailers from Trailer Freaks.

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An upcoming console game featuring the elite superhuman warriors from Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 universe. And of course, it’s the familiar blue Space Marines from Primarch Roboute Guilliman’s Ultramarines chapter again, a chapter which has featured prominently in most games bearing the license to Games Workshop’s grim vision of the far future – from leading a team of Terminators to explore and cleanse space hulks in Space Crusade (1992), awesome tactical squad-based action in Chaos Gate (1998) to a cameo appearance in the singleplayer campaign in the original Dawn of War (2004) and even in the PSP game Squad Command (2007).

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A mix of CG and gameplay snippets in the trailer released at the official site @ www.spacemarine.com and at THQ UK which devotes significant footage time to one of the space marines wielding an unusual weapon looking suspiciously like a thunder hammer commonly equipped by Space Marine Terminators.

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I know I haven’t been keeping up with the latest rules for the tabletop game but such a powerful weapon in the hands of an ordinary Tactical or Assault Marine looks just plain ridiculous. Besides, swatting Orks around with a huge hammer doesn’t seem to provide the same feel of more conventional assault marines jumping into the fray with bolt pistols firing at point blank and then proceeding to stab and parry with whirring chainswords – that IMHO is much more bloody, messy and WH40K-ish

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Watch the trailer at THQ UK or the official Warhammer 40,000 : Space Marine site.

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