Minilogue’s ‘Animals’ come to life on DVD

Minilogue’s ‘Animals’ come to life on DVD

11 January, 2009 | 5.10AM

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Swedish duo Minilogue are known for their wide-ranging explorations into deep ambient soundscapes and peaktime minimal techno, and they’ve always had a penchant for cute imagery.

But rather than just use their bespoke artwork to compliment last year’s ‘Animals’ LP, they’ve decided to go much further.

February will see the release of ‘Animals - The Movie’, a full length mix DVD that has Minilogue’s animals dancing to the pair’s LP (check the above video for a sneak peak).

Minilogue have always done a good job of incorporating visuals and nice designs into their work, and now comes a full length video mix DVD called ‘Animals - The Movie’ (check the clip above for a sneak peak).

With fifteen chapters that explore the theme of “universal transformation and movement,” the DVD is based around their whimsical mixed-breed imaginary animal designs that evolve with the album’s music.

“Each chapter has a topic of its own and develops a unique visual style,” said Sebastian Mullaert from Minilogue.

“All parts are connected by a certain theme: the conjunctive concept of the film is the idea of universal transformation and movement, which is represented in the animals.”

As electronic music artists, this is an ambitious attempt to meld visuals with beats.

‘Animals—The Movie’ will be available on Cocoon Recordings in February 2009

‘Animals- The Movie’ tracklisting

1. ‘’Old Water’ (design & animation by Rob Zohrab)
2. ‘Windows’ (design & animation by Rob Zohrab)
3. ‘City lights’ (design & animation by Rob Zohrab)
4. ‘Six arms and one leg’ (design & animation by Rob Zohrab)
5. ‘View of a juggling ball’ (design & animation by Rob Zohrab)
6. ‘Yesterday Bells’ (design & animation by Rob Zohrab) : 16mm Film Footage Shot by Nic Fay@Traction Films
7. ‘Giant hairy super monster’ (design & directed by Rupert Mackenzie, edited by Francis Glenday)
8. ‘The Word feat. Tobias’ (design & animation by Rob Zohrab)
9. ‘Across town’ (design & animation by Rob Zohrab) + Mel Goodard
10. ‘Hitchhiker’s Choice’ (design & animation by Kristoffer Ström)
11. ‘In a distance’ (design & animation by Rob Zohrab)
12. ‘The first day of the rest of my life’ (design & animation by Dylan Pharazyn@Timbuctoo : additional edit by Rob Zohrab)
13. ‘Seconds’ (Colour & Sound) (design & animation by Jon Baxter @ Perceptual Engineering.com
14. ‘Animals’(director & character animation by Kristoffer Ström)
15. ‘Outro’ (design & animation by Rob Zohrab)

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