En fin de nuit Vol. 8: Unscrambled
Just put the finishing touches on a new En Fin de Nuit mixtape. This one deviates from the usual recreating-a-late-nite-softcore-porn broadcast and is instead inspired by that night as a teen when the hardcore porn channel was mistakenly un-scrambled. The tape features three hardcore films, one from the ‘70s, ‘80, and the one I recorded that fateful night in 1999.
But this wasn’t a brand new BASF videocassette thrown into the VCR — you’d be right to assume other stuff had already been recorded on this tape, so the features are haunted by the analog ghosts of newscasts, talk shows, ‘80s music videos, resulting in a unique document of… well, tapes that existed in many homes during that era, usually hidden under a floorboard, a mattress, or in my case, a Star Trek board game box.
The ‘70s and ‘80s films feature some legendary performers but are mainly fascinating because of the music mimicking some big hits… and in the case of American Pie (1980), I’m pretty sure licensing wasn’t acquired in certain cases. The third film, The Lover Girls (1985), doesn’t hide its imitations/homages/copyright-circumventing of “We Got the Beat”, “Into the Groove”, “Boys of Summer”, among numerous others popular ‘80s songs.
There’s a lot going on in the edition, which clocks in just north of four hours. (4:10.21, 2.7gb) Download
