Just stumbled across this song again today. I’m not sure if it was very big in the US back in 2001, especially the Above and Beyond remix, which i love.
Good reason to post it here for people to check it out!

Video directed by Guy Ritchie

And, as a Bonus, here is one of the most nuts video’s i’ve seen…

Ken Block is completely insane… but hey, DC Shoes definitely seems to make him some good money :P

Alright, time to do pull off a Vanishing Point!

I’m sure that you know by now that i’m really bad with names. That’s another reason why i find it curious that i suddenly had the urge to look up DJ Shog.

Now, DJ Shog has been around for a while. He’s a very successful DJ and producer, who’s career took off around the millennium.

I remember listening to his tracks many years ago (It’s funny to think that the 90s is so far away already), and the emotions and feeling associated with his songs. It’s always fun to rekindle these things.

Naturally, you won’t have the same connections with the songs as i do, but i thought it might be fun to show off his progression over the years. And maybe you even like a track. Who knows?

Another world is probably one of my all time favorites. Many good memories associated with his one!

Running Water is another ‘oldie’ but goodie. Love it.

Stranger On This Planet is a in between song, really. It’s very good, but relatively long. Nonetheless, powerful and makes you want to move.

This is my Sound is newer, lost SOME of it’s trademark DJ Shog feel, if you ask me, but still a very solid and fun track.

Feel Me is the most recent track i’ve heard from him. Very good vocals and great feeling. It’s allot ‘smoother’ compared to his older work, but nowadays ever Trance song is suffering from that.

Well, that’s it, pretty much. I hope there was something in there that might spark your interest in either the DJ or the style of music.

Anyway, time to grab some glowstickz, take a few Xs and rave to teh Muzac!

People that know me, also know that Once Upon a Time in the West is one of my all time favorite movies.
I first saw this movie when i was a little boy, no idea how old, on the TV. It, for some reason, ingrained into my brain, even though i was at the age of BAM! POW! SHAZAM! movies.
Let me explain…

Once Upon a Time in the West came out in 1969 (In the US and Austria). It was directed by Sergio Leone (Dollars Trilogy, Once Upon a Time in America etc.), an incredibly good director, in my opinion.
The movie stars Henry Fonda as the villain, Charles Bronson as the mysterious unknown nemesis of Fonda, Jason Robards as a bandit (He is the fucking MAN in this movie…) and Claudia Caridnale as Jill. Claudia looked pretty damn hot in that movie, too… just saying…just saying…

To set the tone, and to somewhat get a feel for the movie, here us a short, 6 minute clip from the beginning of the movie.

Now, here is a snipped of the production element, the theme and, most importantly, the music.

With Once Upon a Time in the West, Leone chose a different path to styling the film, and this can be distinguished from his earlier westerns. Whereas the “Dollars” films were quirky and up-tempo, a celebratory yet tongue-in-cheek parody of the icons of the wild west, Once upon a Time in the West is much slower in pace and sombre in theme. The characters in this film are also beginning to change markedly over their predecessors in the “Dollars” westerns. They are not quite as defined and, unusually for Leone characters up to this point, they begin to change (or at least attempt to) over the course of the story. This signals the start of the second phase of Leone’s style, which would be further developed in A Fistful of Dynamite and Once Upon a Time in America.

A major motif of the film is the railroad; its advent heralds the arrival of civilization and culture, marking the death of the mythic Old West. This captures in miniature the dying-off of the old cultural heroes in the wake of the modern world, where it is the ordinary man who is important. The West was seen by Leone as the last environment of the old-style hero, and one can understand the film as a nostalgic examination and exploration of the past. Running parallel to this is Leone’s sadness at the demise of the mythical Wild West as told by cinema, and the film is his way of laying to rest the old Hollywood-style western heroes and legends, as the film’s title suggests. The climactic duel between Harmonica (Bronson) and Frank (Fonda) brings these messages into focus. Harmonica often acts as the thematic voice of the film and has been waiting for Frank (who has been trying to become a businessman throughout the story) to show his irrepressible true colors as a figure of the “ancient race” and engage him in a fated gun duel. Another major theme is water. The transformation of the central character Jill (Cardinale) all takes place due to the water on her land, and there are several scenes involving water being drunk or served. A well and its water have a central role in the plot as the fuel that nourishes the New West, and the Pacific Ocean plays prominently in Morton’s motivational dream to build a trans-American railroad.

The film features long, slow scenes in which there is very little dialogue and little happens, broken by brief and sudden violence. Leone was far more interested in the rituals preceding violence than in the violence itself. The tone of the film is consistent with the arid semi-desert in which the story unfolds, and imbues it with a feeling of realism that contrasts with the elaborately choreographed gunplay.

The music was written by composer Ennio Morricone, Leone’s regular collaborator, who wrote the score under Leone’s direction before filming began. As in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the stirring music contributes to the film’s mythic or operatic grandeur and, like the music for The Good the Bad and the Ugly, is considered one of Morricone’s greatest compositions.

The film features leitmotifs that relate to each of the main characters (each with their own unique theme music) as well as to the spirit of the American West. It was Leone’s desire to have the music available and played during filming.

Like i said, this movie is more than watch-worthy. If you have a spare… well… 3 hours i guess, pick it up and check it out. I’m confident that you won’t be disappointed.

You know, Jill, you remind me of my mother. She was the biggest whore in Alameda and the finest woman that ever lived. Whoever my father was, for an hour or for a month – he must have been a happy man.