The history of rock in 15 minutes
The video was published some time ago but oddly enough, it didn’t have the success it deserved. The video maker was Ithaca Audio, an English audio/video processing studio, and the idea is one of those…
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Donnie Darko’s Mad World: the story of the theme song
Some songs are born marked by destiny, forced to find their way through tortuous and unusual paths where the freedom of choice is extremely limited, and yet it’s precisely that limitation that determines the success.…
Trans-Europe Express: behind the meanings of Kraftwerk’s futurism
On that extraordinary creative parenthesis that Kraftwerk had in the mid-’70s, when they gave life to the four most acclaimed records of their career, countless discussions took place and we often came at the point…
How music fell in love with M. C. Escher
M. C. Escher was one of the greatest artistic geniuses in the twentieth century, and among all the geniuses of the last centuries he’s perhaps the one whose works have a bigger reputation than his…
The Dark Side Of The Moon: why Pink Floyd’s album is pure perfection
It’s not easy to talk about The Dark Side of the Moon. Is it still possible to have a new, or at least different, opinion of a work that has been literally vivisected from its…
Enjoy The Silence: that iconic video that Depeche Mode hated
In 1990 Depeche Mode released Violator, the album that definitively consecrated them to international success. The record contained some of the group’s most celebrated songs, such as World In My Eyes, Policy Of Truth, Personal…