Rave Related Movies, pt 1: Vibrations

I figure it’s about time I posted about some movies tangentially related to oldskool/rave… Here’s one of my favorites. No film quite nails the origins, sound and soul of techno quite like “Vibrations”. Watching this movie is like doing a vulcan mind meld with Jeff Mills AND Juan Atkins at the same time.

Here’s the trailer:

Movie Synposis: Suburban rock guitarist gets in an accident and has both hands amputated. Becomes homeless, moves to SF, passes out in a warehouse which is used for a rave later that night. Wakes up, befriends raver girl (Christina Applegate!!), gets cyborg hands made by a “hacker” and his rave mc friend, dresses up like Robocop and plays scales on a midi keyboard live which apparently is the “ultimate” rave music because it has more notes than normal rave music. Tours with fierce ruling diva, U96 and Utah Saints. The end.

here’s Fierce Ruling Diva performing in the film… there’s actually a semi decent sounding quasi-hardcore tune early on the origins of which I’m not sure about, but there’s no youtube clips of it. There’s also supposedly a Utah Saints performance which is cut from the US release of the film, but is on a region free Hong Kong DVD.