Orchestra of Samples

Our new live performance project Orchestra of Samples premiered in London on 2/11/13 at Watermans Arts Centre. Next show: 29/11/13 at Canal 93 in Paris (Bobigny).

Having filmed recording sessions with over 100 musicians in more than twenty countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, we've created a unique archive to sample from. We then produced visual music, fusing all manner of instruments and styles, creating a virtual supergroup of international artists who never met. More info HERE and here's the trailer...

Addictive TV remix 'Vikings' series

Creating an alternative trailer for Vikings, the latest US hit series has gone under the knife of Addictive TV, as we were asked to create a short audio/visual remix of the series for it's promotion.

An historical drama series written by Michael Hirst (who wrote the BBC's The Tudors and the feature film Elizabeth), Vikings is based on the tales of Viking warrior Ragnar Lodbrok, one of the best-known Norse heroes and reviled in medieval England for his daring raids. Here's our trailer on the right - share and enjoy...

Addictive TV vs H5

For the 15th anniversary of the French Techno Parade, during Paris Electronic Week 2013, Addictive TV were commissioned by arts complex The Pompidou Centre to work with Oscar winning French animators and directors H5, to sample and remix a number of their ground-breaking music videos from the last fifteen years...

Big thanks to all involved, including animator Stuart Fortune. Many thanks to Glowbl for live streaming the show and for the recording.

THTC vs ADDICTIVE TV

As summer approached, sustainable t-shirt and eco-fashion label THTC - The Hemp Trading Company - asked us to create a music track and video for their site and for social media sharing, by sampling their archive of 14 years of THTC clips of their events, activists and artist supporters - including Ed Sheeran, Beardyman and Newton Faulkner.

So after a rather long sampling session and time in the studio, creating music from spray cans to beatboxers, here's the result...

Check out THTC at www.thtc.co.uk

ADDICTIVE TV
@ Arezzo Wave Winter Festival

December 2012, Addictive TV played the fantastic winter version of Italy's famous Arezzo Wave Festival in Arezzo, near Florence in the centre of the country.

Big thanks to the festival for the recording, here's a short clip from the set with the track "You Da 2", where Addictive TV mashup Rihanna's "You Da One" with Blur's "Song 2". FYI, this video is from the Vimeo page of Italy's Repubblica XL magazine, click here to read the interview it's used in.

ADDICTIVE TV: Blow Up for Arte

Celebrating the 100th edition of their specialist cinema programme called "Blow Up", German-French television channel Arte commissioned Addictive TV to remix Antonioni's influential classic 1966 movie Blow Up.

As well as sampling the movie, we of course sampled Herbie Hancock's original soundtrack with that same sample Deee Lite used in their 90's hit Groove is in the Heart.

If you can read French, for more info on Arte's Blow Up cinema show, click here.

ADDICTIVE TV @
Paléo Festival 2012

Late Summer 2012, Addictive TV played the closing slot for the enourmous Paléo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland. It's six days and nights of festivities for 230,000 people, with over 200 concerts on six stages!

Many thanks to the festival for the recording, here's a short clip from the set of "Daftwerk Transformation", remixing all three Transformers movies and mashing them up with Daft Punk's 'Robot Rock' and Kraftwerk's 'The Robots'.

ADDICTIVE TV @
The Gadget Show Live 2012

After working with The Gadget Show on Channel 5 last year, Addictive TV were asked to perform as part of The Gadget Show Live 2012, the UK’s leading consumer technology event, held at the NEC in Birmingham in April 2012.

The series has been on British television for nearly a decade now, and for the week-long live event Addictive TV were asked to sample all 16 series, creating an audiovisual remix to perform three times a day for 5 days!  Here's what they made...