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Smoke Eaters- a journey in to the heart of the apocalypse
Acid Apocalypse- the Smoke Eaters
The Amersterdam based Smoke Eaters' remix videos began to appear on YouTube about a year ago. Since then they've released 9 videos all of which are notable for their adroit editing, skillful remixing, off kilter perperspective and their high concept ideas. To my knowledge they are still without a label. You can go to
Smoke Eater's YouTube homepage if you want to hear more of their remixes.
Acid Apocalypse weaves film clips and spoken voice samples from Francis Ford Coppola's grounbreaking film
Apocalypse Now to shape an ornate dance tempo remix of the Door's epic musical freakout,
The End.
The End was also the acid drenched musical backdrop to Francis Ford Coppola's surrealist storyboard for his Vietnam film saga
Apocalypse Now.
The End will remain married forever to
Apocalypse Now in the minds of both Doors and Francis Ford Coppola fans.
The end product of the Smoke Eater's endeavor is an impressionistic rendering of Coppola's storyboard. For the musical component the Smoke Eaters use a revved up. tripped out dancebeat remix of
The End. For those Doors fans who think 128 bpm dance remix of a Doors classic like
The End is a profane act of blasphemy against the Lizard King, listen to the music in the video. The high velocity dance tempo works in a way I never thought it would have.
Coppola wrote the script of Apocalypse Now using Joseph Conrad's dark and allegorical novella of colonialism in the Belgian Congo
The Heart of Darkness as a conceptual template.
There are a few talented people that excel in sound mixing, and an equally few talented people that excel in video editing, however it's rare to watch a video where the aural content of the music is seamlessly connected to the visual content of the video.
Acid Apocaplyse is typical of the Smoke Eaters post-modern, deconstructive methodology of remixing music and editing video.