BURROUGHS, W.S./ P-ORRIDGE, GENESIS / F.M.EINHEIT — DECODER. Muzak is More Than Music

Format: DVD + CD

Label & Cat.Number: Transparency 0373

Release Year: 2010

Note: first ever DVD-edition of the German cult film from 1984 by KLAUS MAECK & MUSCHA, feat. BURROUGHS, P-ORRIDGE, F.M.EINHEIT, CHRISTIANE F & BILL RICE (87 min); comes with new English subtitles, the original trailer, slide show and 46-minute audio interview with KLAUS MAECK and other surprises (DEREK JARMAN filming BURROUGHS), plus the excellent full soundtrack (10 tracks) on a bonus CD by SOFT CELL, MATT JOHNSON (THE THE), EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN, W.S. BURROUGHS and G.P.ORRIDGE; ESSENTIAL !!

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €24.00

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"First time on DVD! Deluxe DVD/CD release of the 1984 German cult film featuring William S. Burroughs, Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle), F.M. Einheit (Einsturzende Neubauten), Christiane F, the prolific underground film star Bill Rice. DVD features include a beautiful color-rich transfer of the film with newly translated English subtitles, the original trailer, a slide show of 75 still production photos by Ilse Ruppert, a documentary on the Italian 'Decoder Collective', a 46-minute audio interview with filmmaker Klaus Maeck, rare footage of Derek Jarman filming Burroughs on set, and Berlin riot news footage used in the film with a music loop by Genesis P-Orridge commissioned specially for this DVD release. The soundtrack CD features Soft Cell, early Einsturzende Neubauten, Matt Johnson (The The), Dave Ball and Genesis P-Orridge, and William Burroughs. A lot of the music on the CD is not in the film and vice versa. NTSC all region, full screen format. 87 minutes." [label info]