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Everyone knows that music festivals are big business, with tens of millions made (ticket sales, beer vending, corporate sponsorship) and lost (artist fees, production costs) every summer. But what happens when big business decides to throw it’s own festival? You get Virgin Free Fest. Run as a multi-city paid festival in 2006 and 2007, the mobile phone company’s attempt at playing with big dogs like Coachella, Lollapalooza and Bonarroo never seemed to hit it’s stride—perhaps due to it’s location in Maryland. Then last year, super rich bad-ass mofo Richard Branson decided to make the whole shebang free, and called upon Blink-182, Weezer and Jet to bring in the masses. This year, he’s banking on a cooler selection, including Thievery Corporation, M.I.A., LCD Soundsystem and Temper Trap to do the same. …MORE
ODDSAC is best described as an audio-visual album with an original score by Animal Collective. You may have seen some of the work by Danny Perez, the filmmaker, if you’ve been to a Panda Bear or Black Dice concert. Perez is known for his concert projections and the film is the product of a four-year-plus ongoing collaboration with the band. ODDSAC can be considered the band’s new album with all-new material that will not be released in any other format.
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Everyone’s artists of the everything last year have released a trailer to for their experimental film, Oddsac. A quick viewing (it’s only 26 seconds long) reveals a colorful yet creepy kaleidoscope—not unlike one of the band’s videos or album covers, but with a little Chris Cunningham/Aphex Twin vibe thrown in.
Hitfix attended an actual screening at Sundance last night, and had this to day:
“ODDSAC” is not a traditional film, let alone a concert film or music video or a strictly experimental exercise. A film like this that takes four to five years to complete is no exercise.
Animal Collective and frequent collaborator Danny Perez created a very colorful movie that entirely …
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Having come out of 2009 on the top of most every critics poll, traditional thinking makes this the ideal time for Animal Collective to release a new video and single off of Merriweather Post Pavilion. A sort of victory lap to celebrate a successful year, and maybe sell a few more records. But this ain’t 2009, it’s 2010, which means the deliberate bringing down of these critical darlings should begin. Not that anyone is ready to declare Animal Collective finished, but it’s hard to not notice the slightly passive aggressive tone of the current blog posts.
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As early as Sung Tongs Animal Collective has made mention of a longer audio visual project, in collaboration with Danny Perez, director of the “Who Could Win a Rabbit” video. Apparently that project has come to fruition, as Oddsac, the collaboration between Perez and Animal Collective, was listed Thursday as the films playing out of competition as the Sundance Music Festival, which takes place in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden Utah from Jan. 21 to 31.
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