4k video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/tvruDRezQe8

In a room thick with neon-lit smoke and glowing vintage technology, a lone figure sits entranced, their mind tethered to the static hum of a forgotten frequency. The flickering VHS filter blurs the line between memory and reality, as pink and blue hues dance in the shadows. These are the echoes of those lost to the machine, suspended in an ethereal loop of retro-futuristic reverie. A hypnotic pulse, a dream left behind in the waves of static.

Glimmering Echoes of the Lost

Glimmering Echoes Of The Lost

4k video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/MsMc0Rw1sys

In a dimly lit room, the cables come alive, ensnaring and tightening around a human figure—a terrifying fusion of flesh and machine. Retro technology hums in the background as organic and cybernetic elements merge, creating a gritty dystopian world. Tension mounts with each moment, as the figure struggles against the signal’s grip, trapped in an industrial nightmare. Pulsing with dark energy, this unsettling audiovisual journey immerses you in the eerie echoes of a technological future gone wrong.

Ensnared by the Signal

Ensnared By The Signal

4k video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/s1IwVy00aB0

Lost in the depths of decayed technology, vintage televisions ooze with chaotic imagery, their screens intertwined with thick cables and organic matter. Mud and slime cover this forgotten space, where machines have grown flesh, spilling out like the remnants of a long-lost signal. As the visuals morph endlessly in a single shot, a haunting fusion of dystopian decay and grimy textures emerges. The air is thick with a sense of collapse, where the past meets an unsettling, surreal future, leaving you trapped in the circuitry of this abandoned world.

Decayed Transmission

4k video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/kIUvpCG8aQI

A sinister descent into a decaying hallway where reality warps and twists with every breath. Bloodstains paint the floors of this forsaken place, while shadows flicker and stretch as though trapped in a loop of time. The story unfolds slowly, a dark dream caught between memory and nightmare, where each second feels suspended, unraveling the secrets that linger in the cracks of a forgotten world. Experience the eerie tension as technology and horror blur into a singular, unsettling vision—where echoes of the past haunt the present in an unending spiral.

Echoes of a Synthetic Dream

Echoes Of A Synthetic Dream

4k video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/_bfd4_Xazsw

Venture into the decaying bowels of analog memory where obsolete technology pulses with a dark, residual life. "Coaxial Pulse Signal" explores the unsettling fusion of organic and mechanical decay—a forgotten machine's heartbeat echoing through the void. Dive into the haunting remnants of a bygone era, where every frame drips with the eerie tension of a world slipping through the cracks of time.

Coaxial Pulse Signal

4k video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/-AFv2KvgwlA

Step into a world where the remnants of analog dreams dissolve into the electric hum of forgotten frequencies. Neon-soaked stairways lead to abandoned chambers, where overgrowth and digital debris merge, crafting an eerie post-apocalyptic reverie. The track hums with a haunting resonance, mirroring the visuals of solitude, high-tech decay, and nature reclaiming the future.

Decay and Digital Reveries

Decay And Digital Reveries

4k video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/3rR7xoTihVw

A pulse echoes through a decrepit control room, its forgotten systems struggling to breathe life into a cosmic digital void. "Heartbeat of Forgotten Systems" dives deep into the tangled web of analog technology, revealing the haunting beauty of its malfunctioning relics.

Heartbeat of Forgotten Systems

Heartbeat Of Forgotten Systems

4k video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/zIi_TJgc1tk

As the shot spirals around intricate circuits and a glowing central core, "Tape Head Descent" pulls you into a world of mechanical complexity, where each rotation reveals another layer of the machine’s relentless pulse, echoing the hum of forgotten systems.

Tape Head Descent

4k video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/7Byp-Uo1hXY

The walls sweat as the cables pulse—dripping with life, surrounded by industrial grime. "Creeping Voltage" brings you inside a damp, mechanical space where the electric hum whispers in the darkness, slowly revealing a digital dystopia just beneath the surface.

Creeping Voltage

Made on Elektron Digitakt/Digitone/Syntakt/Octatrack. Videodrome audio samples. Listen to interlude first!

cutme (raw)

4k video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/9WAPzhHr9aw

In the glow of forgotten screens, a lone chair awaits—surrounded by walls of ancient CRTs flickering with half-lost signals. "Analog Requiem" is a haunting journey through the slow transformation of outdated technology, where liquid energy drips from the ceiling, and the past bleeds into the present through a kaleidoscope of static.

Analog Requiem

4k video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/fQfoNU01zsk

"Circuit Communion" delves into the glowing heart of forgotten machinery. A slow zoom reveals the precision and warmth of vintage vacuum tubes and intricate circuits—each soldered connection a portal into the lifeblood of a bygone era. Let the warm amber glow pull you deeper into the pulse of retro-tech worship, where the sacred hum of analog becomes a hymn to lost futures.

Circuit Communion

4k video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/b7FqMihD10s

In a shadowed room cluttered with outdated yet intricate machinery, screens flicker and hum with enigmatic data, as cables sprawl across the floor like digital tendrils. "Signal Intrusion Ritual" captures the eerie transformation of analog technology as it morphs and pulses with each beat, unraveling a secret encoded deep in forgotten systems.

Signal Intrusion Ritual

4k video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/MgSlQ7MfjtE

In the claustrophobic corridors of abandoned technology, towering walls of vintage televisions loom, their tangled wires snaking through the shadows like forgotten memories. "Chamber of Electric Whispers" pulls you deep into a labyrinthine space, where intricate networks of decaying electronics hum with ghostly echoes, creating an eerie yet mesmerizing journey through obsolescence.

Chamber Of Electric Whispers

Nicki Brand wants to try a few things.
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LF on hubcap guitar (played as guitar and drum), circuit-bent toy keyboard spliced with a DSL modem, & yamaha cp7.
DH on vocals.

Wanna Try A Few Things?

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest critic and author Violet Lucca discuss a double feature inspired by her new book "David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials" with one of his earliest inspirations in sci-fi paperback cover artist turned experimental filmmaker Ed Emshwiller's RELATIVITY (1966) and one of Cronenberg's more unloved and forgotten passion projects, the psychological drama SPIDER (2002) starring Ralph Fiennes as a Freudian schizophrenic whose subjective mind provides Cronenberg with dreamy and depressed experimental form of the film. 

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RELATIVITY // 15:53-1:01:07
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Outro // 1:56:36-1:59:38

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367 - RELATIVITY (1966) + SPIDER (2002) ft. Violet Lucca

Uses sampled voice clips from a few places:

- 1983 film Videodrome (mostly voice clips, but a few sounds too)

- Homer from The Simpsons

- An answering machine message from Hunter S. Thompson ( specifically the beep from the answering machine and a few words. It's towards the begining and goes like:


[beeps]

"Dio
I uh yeah
[beeps]
Dio
Uh
Audio video)


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The "lyrics" appear in the following order:

"Civic TV: The one you take to bed with you" - Videodrome

[beeps]

"O...
I uh yeah"
[beeps]
"O...
Uh Audio / video" - Hunter S. Thompson

"The television screen...
Has become the retina of the minds eye.
The television screen...
has become the retina of the minds eye.
That's why I refuse to appear on television...
except on television." - Videodrome

"Soon all of us will have special names.
Names designed to cause the cathode ray tube to resonate." - Videodrome

"Teacher!
Mother!
Secret...
lover..." - Homer Simpson

"TELEVISION!" - Homer Simpson

"Teacher!
Mother!
Secret...
lover..." - Homer Simpson

"TELEVISION!" - Homer Simpson

"Teacher!
Mother!
Secret...
lover..." - Homer Simpson

"TELEVISION!" - Homer Simpson

"TELEVISION!" - Homer Simpson

"TELEVISION!" - Homer Simpson

"TELEVISION!" - Homer Simpson

[Beeps]

Nemesis (Hypothetical Death Star)

SL4YEERS(1994)

CRONENDROME emerges from the shadowy corridors of visceral storytelling and the eerie dissonance of industrial soundscapes, crafting an experience that transcends the boundaries of the flesh and the digital realm. This project is an ode to the narrative of human metamorphosis and the chilling embrace of the machine, marrying distorted realities with the pulsating rhythms of a synthesized nightmare. It is a journey into the macabre, where the corporeal and the mechanical become indistinguishable, and the viewers' deepest anxieties are etched in sound and sight.

Through CRONENDROME's lens, the body becomes a canvas for exploration and transformation, an entity no longer confined to its organic origins. The project's auditory offerings draw from the disquieting quietude and cacophonous roars that underscore our uneasy symbiosis with technology, echoing the dread and fascination of our possible futures.

This is for those who find beauty in the grotesque, who hear music in the cacophony of distorted signals, and who seek reflection in the unsettling dance of body and technology. CRONENDROME exists to keep the flame of this dark, introspective genre alight, ensuring that the pulse of its unnerving legacy continues to resonate with those who are entranced by its enduring spell.

Welcome fellow SLEAZOIDS!!! Come along as hosts Josh Lewis and Jamie Miller (and, occasionally, guests) go down the rabbit hole of 20th century genre fare from the most influential canon classics to the the trashiest exploitation films we can get our hands on. Each week is a double feature—grindhouse style—where we discuss two films loosely related by subject, genre, actor, filmmaker or franchise and at the end of each episode, along with our HONORARY SLEAZOIDS (click on over to our patreon to become one), we decide on ratings and rankings for each film that's covered. Join us as together we work to uncover the best genre films of 20th century.

New tracks tagged #Videodrome