Synch Reviews

I remember this one called something along the lines of Matrix Absolution(s) from the old Arkive, but I don't remember its creator. If someone could either claim credit or let us know who discovered it that would be cool. The Muse album Absolution is started when you first see Neo's boots before the lobby shoot-out in the first matrix film. The epic almost operatic energy of the music fits perfectly with the intensity of this section of the film. The arcing of the songs with the flow of the scenes it great. The themes in the lyrics also fit perfectly: "I'm not breaking down, I'm breaking out." There is only one small weak spot during the foot chase. The rest works very well. This one is definitely worth checking out.

Looney Rune's "Lucifer over Fantasia (part 1+2)" uses the song "Lucifer over London" to cover the haunted moutain section of Disney's "Fantasia". The mood and lyrics matched well. The transitions of music and movie were good. I give the combination an "A". Bravo!

"It's all part of my rock 'n' roll fantasy
It's all part of my rock 'n' roll dream."

Bad Company "Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy"

I read about this in one of the Anomaly previous posts on a list of his synchs. I had both the CD and the Movie and thought it deserved a shot. The First Three songs; We are one, Botnus and Three Fingers, were phenominal. It had a great mood very angry and oppressed. Many visual connections to sounds, especially in Three Fingers, almost every word was mouthed by the chickens. But then i just gets boring after those songs. I would give it a B- for overall its worth a watch for the first half.

Looney Runes' "2001: Dreammoves of the Sleeping King (part 1)" was interesting but the music is very experimental. I guess I was expecting the music to be more uplifting when Dave went through the rift in space and time. I give it a solid "B" because I do not really get into the music but still thought it had good merit. It sounds like somebody just left on a tape recorder on the floor of their car while driving to a fast food joint for late night munchies.

"It's all part of my rock 'n' roll fantasy
It's all part of my rock 'n' roll dream."

Bad Company "Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy"

"I had never seen Stigmata before so i watched it a few weeks ago. I had never heard of the band Christian Death before so the music was all new to me and my first time hearing it was while watching the synch. Neither the film or the album are to my taste but put them togther as a synch and they work very well!

The first play starts really well, the short lead-in track and then the next two songs really set the mood and match the onscreen action for the entire pre-credits and credit sequence, drawing you into the synch. It all goes well for about 15 minutes but i felt there was a bit of a dip in the middle of the first play for perhaps 15 minutes with only an occasional match up. However i stuck with it and im glad i did as it picks up again and the first play ends very strongly.

The cd repeats and again the first few songs are very good. I felt the second play was better than the first as there was only one song that didnt fit, Track 6, which also seemed out of place in the first play. However the transition into Track 7 is great as is all of the track (one of the best parts of the synch) and the rest of the second play.

The cd repeats once more and we hear a few minutes to finish the synch. Again the first few tracks work very well as they did in the two previous plays, giving a satisfying end to the synch.

I would give this synch a 'B' as apart from the dip in the first play it held my attention throughout with lots of mood and music matches as well as some nice transitions. As im not familiar with the music i may have missed some lyrical matches but still managed to pick up quite a few, some that were very obvious."

"I tried the first part of this synch today - 'Frances The Mute'.
It was quite tricky to get the start right but it was worth the effort.

The Mars Volta sing in English, Spanish and Latin and the lyrics are quite random so it was more of a musical synch than a lyrical one for me. With this in mind it was important for the music (tempo, transistions, mood) to match up and im glad to say it did - but not for the whole synch. I'd recommend stopping this synch anytime after track 4 but that doesnt matter as Tracks 1 to 4 cover the opening 45+ minutes of the film which is when the action happens. The rest of the synch is ok-ish but theres not a lot happening onscreen and i think it takes away from how good the first 45 mins is.

As the tracks are quite long i'll pick up on certain scenes or moments i liked rather than individual songs;

The whole Trinity chase scene.
The ambient passage for the introduction of Neo in his room.
The strange women talking on the cd as we see Trinity whisper in Neo's ear.
The chase in Neo's office.
The ambient passage for the interrogation with the Agents.
The mood change when Neo is bugged.
The mood change when they search Neo for the bug.
The ambient passage for the meeting with Morpheus.
The spooky sounds for Neo's 'rebirth' folowed by the ambient passage for his recovery.

After that the synch sort of falls apart so i'd suggest stopping there.

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The second part of the synch using 'De-loused...' for the final 48 minutes or so of the film was very good.
The only disappointing part was the Subway fight as the music was way too minimal and quiet and so didnt fit. However even that scene picked up at the end.
The other key parts from the final section of the film were great; the Lobby, Morpheus' rescue (one bit in particular was fantastic) and the climax of the film. I also picked up more lyrical synchs in this one. Great synch.

I would certainly recommend checking out either part of this synch (although i'd suggest the shorter version of the first part)."

This synch by Looney Runes combines Kenneth Anger's "inauguration of the pleasuredome" with the Legendary Pink Dots "Crushed Velvet Apocalypse" CD. And posted 10 minutes of part 1 on Youtube.

The mystical carnival music matches the psychodelic dream world of the movie. I have no earthly idea what the music or movie are about but the mood, tempo, and poetic lyrics have a mystic harmonic nature with the bizarre movie. I give it an A for mood. I am looking forward to further bewilderment by the other parts. I can understand why nobody comments on it because they don't understand what is supposed to be happening.

"It's all part of my rock 'n' roll fantasy
It's all part of my rock 'n' roll dream."

Bad Company "Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy"

Date Posted: 2004-01-26 17:09:19 - The Synchronicity Arkive
Author: karl
Subject: Review of "Darkest City" by Stegokitty

Dear Reader,

The “Darkest City” synchronism is hypnotic in beauty. Much of the music matched the movie in some form. All the music is applied appropriately. I never had the feeling that there is dead space and only consulted the list of checkpoints to see who the music was by. Music transitions are right on target. I might be biased because I enjoy most of the music used and was very pleased that the songs are played in entirety (you know, start to finish). Yes, “Darkest City” is spectacular. It truly enhanced both the music and the movie. I give this full length harmony an A+ and recommend it for surreal pleasure.

Because the songs were not from the same artist, the level of difficulty in matching was reduced. Because different artists were used, the ear did not become bored with the same tone. In some cases, I would have like to have heard other artists but I never felt that the music did not match. Much of the music used has a fantasy vibe to it.

Sincerely,
Karl Tune

Here is a link to Stegokitty's "Darkest City" web site.
http://members.cox.net/stegokitty/dsotr_pages/stego_syncs.htm

Galactic Hombre writes that Nakaudo's creations putting Michael Jackson Music Video to J-Pop are really good. He has been showing them off to others. One of the other people who saw it thought they were an actual promotional video for Michael Jackson.

Some day soon I may actually see them with my eyes.

Here is my Drukqs / Oz review;

Since I'm an aphex twin fan, I decided to give it a try, knowing that richard will probably never do anything like this, i did it in the name of chaos.

the first track (jynweythek ylow) matches nicely the starting of the film, where the titles are shown, quite a match. If you know the album (catagorized heavy IDM - techno) you'll know that every one or two tracks of crazy upbeats and electronic noise there is a melodic, piano drived track to calm down the journey, that part worked nicely.

if you are used to see the Oz with the DSotM, you'll be quite dissappointed because firstly, there are no lyrics (much), and the music is much more upbeat and therfore is not an analogy to the pink floyd synch.

the second part of the first CD, where the avarage mood is more soft, you can catch nice combos like having ambient noise to the walking in the forest, or having a piano melody when they enter Oz (i think it's "avril 14th" or another one).

Comparing the synch to jabti, this synch is a 6.

No one flies around the sun;

I have been wanting to watch "Wish You Were Here/It's a Wonderful Life" by Mr. Stillman (I thought Mr.Wendland discovered it since it is on his web page) since I came here. There have been good reviews and I wanted to check it out. Every December I forget to tape the movie to synch to. I finally decided to rent it.

I thought it was a very good mood synch and many sounds consitently matched up with something. The lyrics matched quite a bit with the theme of the movie. I was quite pleased and give it a 9 for mood.

Yet warning bells were ringing in my head the whole time. But I could not figure what was wrong. Then I realized. It was the colorized versioun. oh bother. This movie was not meant to be colorized. The movie visual was balanced for black and white.