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Speed Tribe

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Speedtribe is an audio-visual album created by digital filmmakers Sharon Matarazzo and Rod Chong in collaboration with legendary electronica producers of Front 242 Daniel Bressanuti and Patric Codenys. Put simply it is a record of last years Lemans race set to music.

First impressions- very slick and professional looking, great colours with spectacular audio. Then, when you watch for a second and third time with a critical eye as I did before writing this, you realize just how much thought and sheer artistic talent has gone into each and every frame. I can honestly say that you could freeze the thing at any point and have yourself a superb image to grace any gallery wall. Plenty of clever special effects, and Rod has woven some footage from the PC game Sports Car GT into his film, chasing down the straight through the spray at night. This would look great on a cinema screen.

The rain last year was a nightmare for the teams but a filmmaker's gift. Great shots of high-speed clouds rolling in behind the Dunlop Bridge and sheets of rain sweeping the track. I began to wonder how Rod got some of those angles without being run over!
If Britney and S Club are your musical bag you might not like the soundtrack. I love it but then I have twiddled a synth knob or two myself in the past. The music really compliments the visuals in a big way and of course there is another tune I guarantee you will enjoy, Lemans cars howling down the Mulsanne. The sound sweeps across the speakers in a great surround-sound way so turn it up and to hell with the neighbours!

All in all, this is a brilliant piece of work. Not sure if the makers will like me saying this but it has a definite feel of the Steve McQueen movie brought bang up to date. Good stuff!

this simply is an amazing piece of art! front 242 fans should not even think twice about buying this. perfectly captured video from the le mans 24 hour race, accompanied by the magic of patrick codenys and daniel b. from the packaging to the overall presentation, speed tribe is perfect. this should be shown to students of music, photography, production, and computer generated imagery as an example of excellence.

What can I say? Just slapped it straight into the DVD, turned on the big screen, cranked up the stereo and WOW!!!

Awesome, awesome, awesome!!!

Any self-respecting person who claims to enjoy the Le Mans experience must, must, must get a copy. If they don't own a DVD player, they should just go and get one, no questions asked! I have never had such a spine-tingling sensation for so long - the atmosphere is just mega!!!

Can't believe I took so long to decide to order a copy!

This is one of the most incredible audio/video dvds out there. Completely unique. Incredible racing footage shot in a completely fresh new way. The music is equally great. It keeps up the pace and more. The quality is superb as well. A great demo disc to show off your system. It is amazing what a good job both the film and music editors did with this disc. Truly unbelievable and incredible. Bottom Line: This is a must own dvd! The best dvd I have purchased in the past two years. Nothing compares.

OMG! In three words: WHAT A TRIP! Some of the most dazzling visuals yet to be seen on a DVD of this kind. I'm in complete awe as to the overall soundtrack, mixing and editing of this awesome blend of Super-cool, Ultra-fast cars, with a timeless soundtrack provided by the Legends themselves: Front 242. I grew up listening to them and there sound still pushes the sonic envelope, I'm just too happy with this buy!!! If there ever was a "gimic" or "visual toy" you just HAD to have....THIS IS THE ONE!.

I bought this as one of the starters into Front 242's music - along with Geography and to be honest this release gives me mixed feelings. While the music is superb - that in itself does give me visions of being a racing driver driving for his team at Le Mans.....the DVD is rather flimsy in comparison. Meandering and not half as interesting. And the interviews are boring. Listening to only the driver's voice without any pictures of the guy talking is really terrible and uninspiring. Perhaps they ran out of money on the budget they had in mind

As I said the music is faultless - it's a great industrial/techno hybrid.....it's just the shame the DVD couldn't be that bit better

Like a sonic boom that races across your mind's uncharted territory, delivering dose after dose of pleasure stimuli and pushing your neurons to capacity. This mind boggling work takes you to the extremes of tonal ecstasy.

This work is so far beyond the electronic frontier, I shudder. It seems to activate previously unexplored senses, expanding your nervous system into multiple directions...what a ride!

Dare I say it - it somewhat requires a refined pallet. It's delightfully less accessible than anything I've listened to in at least 1000 years. The rewards are just as endless. Synaesthetic connoisseurs welcome here. Others need not apply or at least be willing to enter at your own risk.

More like CNS architects than traditional musicians, the artists are shamans from the future, always heralding the next wave of music and delivering on contact with precision and great vision.

It's almost spooky that so many moods can be felt. Outstanding work...and that just describes the music!

I bought this DVD after reading a review in a magazine, and I have to say I'm really pleased. Although I watch the occasional motorsports race, I wouldn't call myself a racing fan. But seeing how Speed Tribe combines racing and electronic music, maybe I'll start watching more! Kudos to the producers for focusing on the 5.1 surround sound, and for making it widescreen. It really shows off my 34" widescreen TV, and the bass sure impress my neighbors! This isn't the sort of DVD I watch once then file away, I've been able to watch it many times, each time finding something new, since it's really almost like a long music video with tons of special effects.

Daniel Bressanutti and Patrick Codenys, both founding members of Front 242, pioneers of the Electronic Body Music (EBM) music genre, have joined forces with digital filmmakers Rod Chong and Sharon Matarazzo, to create a stunning audio-visual spectacle called "Speed Tribe". This fantastic double disc package (1 DVD + 1 audio CD) contains amazing high-quality (DVD) video images (in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 surround sound) combined with a SUPERB techno/ambient audio track, that captures the life in and around the Le Mans racing circuit. The audio CD contains 24 stunning techno/ambient tracks, composed, arranged, and performed by Daniel B. and Patrick C. of Front 242.

I hardly make a habit of "endorsing" products. I'm a sports car fan, a Le Mans fan, not a sales person. But Speed Tribe struck a chord. Rob Chong et al have sown their passion into this DVD. Rob and his group dragged their cameras to the very wet 2001 Le Mans and came back with a visual feast. And the images are simply heightened by the eletronica score. It all comes together in a synthetic fusion that pumps to the heart beat that is Le Mans.

Bar none, this is definitely the "Sounds of Sebring" for the 21st Century...