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Voyag3r : New York Ninja S/T

Voyag3r : New York Ninja S/T

New York Ninja is not a movie you’ve seen, but you sort of have. You see, in 1984 John Liu wrote, starred in, and directed this over-the-top ninjasploitation film in New York. It had it all; gritty NYC and crime, a tragedy of epic proportions, and a hero donning a white ninja outfit slicing and dicing muggers, rapists, creeps, and gangland members in order to protect the city he loves, and to…

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Timelines pt. 2 - Live, in the studio hardware synth improv via my YouTube channel.

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What shall appear as I travel this path #Voyag3r #studiotime #geometricart #hardedgepainting #paintingafterartisdead https://www.instagram.com/p/B-YWXLXFbVG/?igshid=16biro897k57w

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The Rise of The Synths EP 1 Album Review | Vehlinggo

The Rise of The Synths EP 1 Album Review | Vehlinggo

Each artist has contributed a top-notch song to the project. – Vehlinggo   For synthwave aficionados and newcomers to this musical genre alike, a documentary like The Rise of The Synths, together with the debut album, The Rise of The Synths (The Official Companion Album) EP 1, should be a required primer.  Aaron Vehlinggo reviews all seven cuts of EP 1 (read it here), which features new and…

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New York Ninja’s original motion picture soundtrack is available on vinyl for $30 via Mondo. The score is composed by synthwave band Voyag3r.

The album is pressed on 140-gram "Plutonium Killer" orange and green swirl colored vinyl, limited to 500. It's housed in a gatefold sleeve featuring artwork by Luke Insect. An insert is included.

Voyag3r’s New York Ninja soundtrack is also available on CD ($18) and cassette ($15) from Vinegar Syndrome. You can stream it below.

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Movie Review | New York Ninja (Liu & Spieler, 2021)

If you spend enough time (and money, mostly money, all hail capitalism) buying and watching things from different Blu-ray labels, you start to get a feel for the different sensibilities behind each one's curation of the films they release. And in that sense, New York Ninja feels so at home with the schlocky charms of Vinegar Syndrome's releases that if it didn't exist, they would will it into existence. Which is kind of what happened. A bunch of unreleased footage from an incomplete production of a ninja movie from the '80s was lovingly assembled into a finished film, with dialogue provided by a voice cast of genre stars (Don "the Dragon" Wilson, Linnea Quigley, Michael Berryman and others) and slapped with a snazzy new synth soundtrack courtesy of the band Voyag3r. What's even more surprising is the respect that went into this, and the overall coherence of the result. There's a certain goofiness inherent in the subject matter, but the movie doesn't play this up excessively, and the results feel true to the spirit of a real '80s ninja movie. And given that all the original audio elements were lost, the script wasn't available and the original director didn't want anything to do with the project, the story is actually easy enough to follow. It's a miracle this movie exists. As for whether it's any good...

Well, it feels like an authentic '80s ninja movie, and not an especially distinguished one, but if you like that kind of thing, it certainly has its charms. The original director and star is John Liu, a martial arts star best known for his superman kicking abilities, which Grady Hendrix claims, on the documentary included on the Blu-ray, were the result of extensive training and "perverted crotch torture" (a phrase both frightening and intriguing). One can see these abilities put to great use in the highly entertaining Invincible Armour, which contains one of the great villain deaths in cinema. These abilities can also be seen in New York Ninja, but in less potent a package.

Working with a minuscule crew inexperienced in shooting martial arts, the shot setups here are a lot more basic and the effect is more demonstrative than exciting. See John Liu kick the hell out of a bunch of goons who can barely keep up. (The goons here don't coordinate their outfits very well. At times it seems like the Ninja is fighting members of the Village People.) The effect is similar to Jackie Chan handily outperforming the much slower American stuntmen in Battle Creek Brawl. (I enjoy that movie enough, as director Robert Clouse understands Jackie's star qualities, even if he's not skilled enough to do them justice. And we get to hang out with Jackie's girlfriend Kristine DeBell.) But when the Ninja chases bad guys on rollerskates or does his big hair-raising stunt at the end, it's pretty hard to hold those shortcomings against it.

The other charms of the movie come from the "New York" part of the title. Pre-cleanup NYC is one of the ultimate movie settings if you're into genre fare, providing a reliable level of scuzzy texture to the proceedings. There's added sleaze thanks to the plot, which features the titular New York Ninja avenging the death of his wife by fighting a sex-trafficking ring run by the monstrous Plutonium Killer, who has a habit of murdering the girls his organization kidnaps with his radioactive hands. (I assume this is the sex-trafficking version of "getting high on your own supply", which seems like a poor business model.) The Ninja of course has a secret identity, and during his off hours attaches himself to a news crew determined to catch his exploits and build up his legend. He ends up with a dedicated fanbase, who bail him out with the cops at least once. There are even t-shirts, although it looks suspiciously like they just modified a bunch of "I ❤️ New York" shirts.

The movie settles into a pattern of the Plutonium Killer's goons terrorizing innocent women (including the great Sharon Mitchell, who gets harassed in the subway; alas, she has no dialogue) and the New York Ninja intervening to deliver justice. It's hard to say the movie really escalates, but the fun stuff comes steadily enough that I was entertained. And in case you're wondering, there's an end credits rap, for those of us who want to either relieve the glories of the preceding hour and a half, or didn't pay enough attention and need it summarized for us. I would suggest pairing this with Charles Ahearn's The Deadly Art of Survival, another movie that situates martial arts in pre-cleanup New York and features its share of ninja bullshit, although that one is surprisingly sincere about its belief that martial arts can better the community. (The star Nathan Ingram once received a medal from Ed Koch for foiling a bank robbery, so he seemed to practice what he preached.)

I chased this with a viewing of an earlier Liu directorial effort, Ninja in the Claws of the CIA AKA Made in China AKA Kung Fu Emmanuelle, a movie whose feverish incoherence makes New York Ninja seem downright classical in its storytelling. From what I could make out (and I confess some of the details escaped me), John Liu is hired by the CIA to train their operatives in martial arts (and of course, Liu had his own style, Zen Kwun Do) and then crosses them and escapes to Paris with his own secret heretofore unmentioned organization as the CIA tries to kill him. Also he has a twin brother (also played by Liu) who appears for one scene, disappears for 90% of the proceedings, and then *SPOILERS* is immediately machine-gunned to death when he makes his return. *END SPOILERS* There's definitely a Seagalian quality to the self-aggrandizing material, but the delivery feels like a direct transmission from the mind of a conspiracy nut who stayed up all night watching kung fu movies. How "good" this is I cannot say, but when Liu is fighting off a whiny little bitch played by Casanova Wong and ignoring a scantily clad female operative rubbing up against him at the same time, traditional standards of quality go out the window. (I assume that operative was the "Kung Fu Emmanuelle" of the alternate title. The version I watched trimmed out around twenty minutes from the runtime, which unless I hear other, will assume consisted entirely of more scenes of this character.) And of course, there are lots of great fights, the fruits of that frightening and intriguing "perverted crotch torture" that Grady Hendrix alluded to.

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Spectacle Radio no.75 :: Good Evening Mutants and Mutettes

Sven Grunberg - Teema (Dead Mountaineer's Hotel)

Good Evening Mutants and Mutettes (Cafe Flesh)

Mitchell Froom - Zeroes Are Wild (Slam Dance)

Votyag3r - Battle on the Rooftop (New York Ninja)

The Daddyo's - Crop Top (Alien)

The Headless Chickens - Cruise Control (Aberration)

Einstürzende Neubauten - Sehnsucht (Halber Mensch)

Matthew Wade - A Black Riff Begins to Yawn

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Atanarjuat's Love Song (Atanarjuat)

Sexual Love (The House)

John McDermott & Paul Zaza - The Ballad of Harry Warden (My Bloody Valentine)

My Heart as a Valentine (Send a Gorilla)

Douglas Wood - Romantic Sway

Kenny Bee - End Titles from The Illegal Immigrant

Sukkubus

Mitchell Froom - Sensible Hell (Slam Dance)

Paul Zaza - The Horror of Valentine Bluff Suite

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Songs of the Cracking Ice (Atanarjuat)

Sven Grunberg - Õhtu Tuleb (Dead Mountaineer's Hotel)

Douglas Wood - Icicles

Ennio Morricone - Desolation (The Thing)

Matthew Wade - End Titles from A Black Riff Begins to Yawn

Einstürzende Neubauten - Sehnsucht (Z.N.S.)

Ken Shimizu - Amida Buddha (Kei Fujiwara)

Kamal Sabran - Chapter 3 (Family Portrait)

Santo and Johnny - Sleep Walk (Sleepwalkers)

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Destroy All Monsters - Grow Live Monsters

Gong - Tried So Hard (Glastonbury Fayre)

Alien

Tredici Baci Live at TV-EYE

Nico Fidenco - La Sposina

Stelvio Cipriani - Deviation

Destroy All Monsters - Grow Live Monsters

Nicholas Poss - End Titles from Alien

Sven Grunberg - Nimetu (Dead Mountaineer's Hotel)

Melanie - Peace Will Come (Glastonbury Fayre)

Voyag3r - Roller Ninja (New York Ninja)

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The Headless Chickens - Cruise Control (remix)

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NEW YORK NINJA de John Liu:  I ♥  NY Ninja

C’est probablement unique dans l’histoire du cinéma : un film tourné en 1984, abandonné avant l’étape de la postproduction, puis assemblé 37 ans plus tard, par l’équipe de Vinegar Syndrome. On pense peut-être à The Other Side of the Wind d’Orson Welles, miraculeusement ressuscité par Netflix il y a quelques années. Mais le défi supplémentaire concernant New York Ninja est que les pistes audio avaient été perdues, alors l’entièreté de la trame sonore, incluant les dialogues, a dû être recréée.

Au milieu des années 80, New York est une ville infestée par le crime, notamment confrontée à une vague d’enlèvements de femmes, en plus de celles qui sont retrouvées mortes et couvertes de brûlures radioactives, victimes de celui que la presse surnomme le « Plutonium Killer ». Lorsque son épouse enceinte est tuée en pleine rue après avoir été témoin d’un kidnapping, John (l’expert en arts martiaux, acteur et réalisateur John Liu, dont la voix est doublée par nul autre que Don « The Dragon » Wilson) devient le New York Ninja, un héros assoiffé de vengeance et de justice. Les bandits le craignent, les autorités s’en méfient, mais il devient l’idole des enfants new-yorkais!

  De loin le film le plus hilarant que j’ai vu cette année, c’est aussi exagéré et caricatural que la trilogie Ninja Eliminator de RKSS, mais en même temps, c’est irrésistiblement sincère et candide. On dirait une parodie, mais ses créateurs ne le réalisaient pas à l’époque. Avec ses malfrats aux costumes glorieusement ridicules, New York Ninja fait penser à The Warriors ou Death Wish 3. Mais le ninja incarné par John Liu est badass pour vrai, qu’il soit armé de ses poings et ses pieds, de katanas, de shuriken, d’une sarbacane ou... de patins à roulettes?! Les nombreuses scènes d’action rappellent souvent les jeux vidéo side-scroller comme Double Dragon, le tout au rythme de la musique de Voyag3r, dont les synthés et les riffs de guitare évoquent John Carpenter.

New York Ninja aurait été mon film préféré si c’était sorti quand j’avais 10 ans, alors que j’étais fan des Tortues Ninja. Vu que ce petit gars est encore bien vivant en moi aujourd’hui, j’en ai adoré chaque instant, jusqu’au formidable plan final avec un freeze-frame, suivi d’une chanson thème rappée durant le générique!    

New York Ninja sera lancé sur Blu-ray par Vinegar Syndrome ce lundi 1er novembre. Une sortie en salle est prévue en 2022. 

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It's a synthy kinda morning. Kickass jams by @voyag3rband 🙌🏼💀 #nowplaying #synth #voyag3r #vinylrecords #records #vinyligclub

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“Deep Space Saga” by Voyag3r sounds exactly like its name would suggest.  This one is great in that it makes use of electric guitars, giving it a vibe similar to Europes epic “The Final Countdown.” The distorted rock guitars help give it an ambience of retro action. So already, Voyag3r’s tapping the vein of a retro epic.  The song begins with a atmospheric synth pad and then wastes no time entering the bass and a four on the floor kickdrum. Then the whole “band” enters. The rhythm is chugging shuffle like a spaceship in a cutthroat chase. The melody is a synth horn, which is fitting for a piece about the more powerful, triumphant aspects of a space epic. About a minute or so in we reach a moment of reflection, the beat drops out.   This is like the down section of a John Williams main theme, a fade to a more peaceful part of the storyline, but more pensive and less romantic.  (In space you usually have some time on your hands).  Then the beat comes back in, the repeating synth riff comes in, along back with the melody, chugging groove and guitars.  The last hurray phrase is a unison riff and then the beat fades out, while we slip away in a ship going down a mysterious and ANYthing but boring future…    Till Next Time, Johnny VHS

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Voyag3r Return With 'War Mask'; Listen To "The Terror Is Gaining On You"

Voyag3r Return With ‘War Mask’; Listen To “The Terror Is Gaining On You”

Detroit, Michigan’s prog/synth warriors Voyag3r return on April 26th with their follow-up to 2016s excellent Are You Synthetic? War Masksees the trio of Steve Greene(synthesizers, piano, saxophone), Greg Mastin(drums and percussion), and Aaron Greene(guitars) heading from sci fi territory to a post-apocalyptic landscape, and from the sound of lead single “The Terror Is Gaining On You”, the guys…

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Cybertronic Spree and Voyag3r are hitting the road next moth for a few concert dates. Check out the video and get your tickets now!

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Motion Picture Mix (of Delusiomal) 4

https://www.mixcloud.com/kawaknown/motion-picture-mix-of-delusiomal-4/

1. Tornado Wallace feat. Sui Zhen - Today 2. Cliff Martinez - Bride Of Chang [オンリー・ゴッド] 3. John Carpentar - Christine [クリスティーン] 4. Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Boys and Girls [ストレンジャー・シングス] 5. S U R V I V E - Glass Knives 6. 坂本龍一 - Variety Show 7. Michael Bundt - The Brain Of Oskar Panizza 8. John Carpenter - The Bank Robbery [ニューヨーク1997] 9. Q - The Voice Of Q 10. Milkways - Galactic Reaction 11. Peru - Africa 12. Tangerine Dream - Going West [フラッシュポイント] 13. Le Matos - Mackey’s Theme [サマー・オブ・84] 14. Vangelis - End Titles [ブレードランナー] 15. Voyag3r - Il Guanto Nero 16. Dan Terminus - It’s Too Bad She Won’t Live 17. Le Matos - Playtime Is Over [ターボキッド] 18. Tony Banks - Charm 19. Bibio - Sugarette (Wax Stag Remix) 20. Giorgio Moroder - Paul’s Theme (Jogging Chase) [キャット・ピープル] 21. Brian Briggs - Aeo (Pt.1 & 2) 22. Tornado Wallace - Trance Encounters 23. Tom Holkenborg - Chapter Doof [マッドマックス 怒りのデス・ロード] 24. Cliff Martinez - Rubber Head [ドライヴ] 25. John Carpenter - Assault On Precinct 13 (Main Title) [ジョン・カーペンターの要塞警察] 26. Tangerine Dream - Crystal Voice [炎の少女チャーリー] 27. Vangelis - Tears in Rain [ブレードランナー]

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Pre-order The Rise of The Synths EP 1 - Full Official Companion Album Drops May 1

Pre-order The Rise of The Synths EP 1 – Full Official Companion Album Drops May 1

The highly-anticipated The Rise of The Synths (The Official Companion Album) is now available on pre-order!  If waiting for the May 1 release is intolerable, you get two instant downloads with your pre-order purchase: Carpenter Brut‘s “Night Stalker” and Dance With The Dead‘s “Dead of Night”, which you can preview below.   The full album also features new and original synthwave tracks by Giorgio…

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Motion Picture Mix (of Delusiomal) 4

Compile & DJ Mixed by Kawaknown

Mixcloud | https://www.mixcloud.com/kawaknown/motion-picture-mix-of-delusiomal-4/

1. Tornado Wallace feat. Sui Zhen - Today 2. Cliff Martinez - Bride Of Chang [オンリー・ゴッド] 3. John Carpentar - Christine [クリスティーン] 4. Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Boys and Girls [ストレンジャー・シングス] 5. S U R V I V E - Glass Knives 6. 坂本龍一 - Variety Show 7. Michael Bundt - The Brain Of Oskar Panizza 8. John Carpenter - The Bank Robbery [ニューヨーク1997] 9. Q - The Voice Of Q 10. Milkways - Galactic Reaction 11. Peru - Africa 12. Tangerine Dream - Going West [フラッシュポイント] 13. Le Matos - Mackey's Theme [サマー・オブ・84] 14. Vangelis - End Titles [ブレードランナー] 15. Voyag3r - Il Guanto Nero 16. Dan Terminus - It's Too Bad She Won't Live 17. Le Matos - Playtime Is Over [ターボキッド] 18. Tony Banks - Charm 19. Bibio - Sugarette (Wax Stag Remix) 20. Giorgio Moroder - Paul's Theme (Jogging Chase) [キャット・ピープル] 21. Brian Briggs - Aeo (Pt.1 & 2) 22. Tornado Wallace - Trance Encounters 23. Tom Holkenborg - Chapter Doof [マッドマックス 怒りのデス・ロード] 24. Cliff Martinez - Rubber Head [ドライヴ] 25. John Carpenter - Assault On Precinct 13 (Main Title) [ジョン・カーペンターの要塞警察] 26. Tangerine Dream - Crystal Voice [炎の少女チャーリー] 27. Vangelis - Tears in Rain [ブレードランナー]

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Steve Greene (of Voyag3r) solo music via BandCamp [synth/ambient/electronic] via /r/outrun

Steve Greene (of Voyag3r) solo music via BandCamp [synth/ambient/electronic] https://ift.tt/2CJeY9e Submitted October 20, 2019 at 09:39PM by bcm-detroit via reddit https://ift.tt/2P3YQoh