All Hail the Beat

Dir. Nelson George. Short documentary about Roland TR-808 drum machine. 

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Style Wars: New York 1982 (1983 Hip-Hop Documentary) 

(Source: pitchfork.com)

Detroit The Blueprint Of Techno

Edouard Glissant: One World in Relation - Trailer

In 2009, Manthia Diawara, with his camera, followed Edouard Glissant, on the Queen Mary II, in a cross-Atlantic journey from South Hampton (UK) to Brooklyn (New York). This poetic meditation then continued in Martinique, the native home of Edouard Glissant. The extra-ordinary voyages resulted in the production of an intellectual biography in which Glissant elaborates on his theory of Relation and the concept of “Tout-monde.” Documentary film directed by Manthia Diawara.

(Source: youtube.com)

Documentary: Tales of Dr. Funkenstein: George Clinton (Dir. Don Letts, 2006)

Documentary: Sun Ra, Brother From Another Planet (Dir. Don Letts, 2005)

Culture Hip Hop à New York

French Documentary (1994)

Featuring Wu Tang Clan, Lord Jamar (Brand Nubian), Red fox, Greg Tate, Vicious Chuck D (Public Enemy), Guru, Supernatural, Lasts Poets, Afrika Bambaataa, Fuman Chooz.

Future Sound (2010. Dir: Jamie Whitby & Rachel Lob-levyt)

Future Sound is a short documentary that looks into a small cross section of London’s forward-thinking underground dance music scene, exploring some of the things that define and affect it as it moves into a new age of digital innovation. 

Featuring interviews with Roska, Scratcha DVA, Blackdown, Mark Fisher, and Lisa Blanning, plus footage from a live SBTRKT DJ set.

Benda Bilili! Trailer

It’s often said that football and music offer the two best escape routes out of poverty but, for the street musicians of Staff Benda Bilili, neither looked likely to offer salvation. Having grown up suffering from polio, the band’s four core members spend their days in customised wheelchair tricycles that provide them with mobility, and their nights pass as they sleep in the grounds of the local zoo. Football was never much of an option to these fifty-something paraplegics, and as citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo, home to the world’s most deadly conflict since World War II, nor were they ever likely to be groomed for the world’s pop charts.

http://thequietus.com/articles/06389-staff-benda-bilili-dvd-review

Underground Resistance Mini Documentary

via dunefield

MicroFilm: A Tribe CalledRed
Last month, Guillaume Decouflet made his way to the Electric Pow Wow in Ottowa and sat down with A Tribe Called Red to talk party music, urban indigineity, and upending racist stereotypes through multimedia artwork. Cluster Mag is proud to host Decouflet’s account of the experience; a short film-documentary assembled from his interview, a little bit of party footage, and the audio-video work of Bear Witness, one of ATCR’s three members. Decouflet’s native language is French, so to reach out to the States, Canada, and beyond, we thought we’d include a French original, and our own English translation. Enjoy.

(Source: theclustermag.com)

Angela Davis

Excerpt from the film The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975

(Source: blackvintage)

Trailer for a new documentary, Back In The House, about 1990’s House Music in NYC. Featuring interviews with Joe Claussell, François K, Louie Vega, Kenny Dope, Juan Atkins, Roger Sanchez, Roy Davis Jr, DJ Sneak, Maurice Fulton, Byron Stringly, Ultra Nate, and, Kerri Chandler.