London’s primary cargo has become Data - how do we consolidate the affect of a kind of city that might exist purely as a gateway to virtuality?
A film by Dominik Englund
Archive footage from ThamesTV, TfL YouTube channel
Music:
Goldie - Inner City Life [Burial Remix] https://metalheadz.bandcamp.com/track/inner-city-life-burial-rmx
Proc Fiskal - Desert Island Discs Theme https://procfiskal.bandcamp.com/track/desert-island-discs-theme-prickfisklios-adoration-of-the-trachi-mix
Mala - Changes [James Blake Harmonimix] https://mala-music.bandcamp.com/album/changes-james-blake-harmonimix
Burial - Young Death https://burial.bandcamp.com/album/young-death-nightmarket
Some Treat - Lost In Vegas https://www.discogs.com/Some-Treat-Lost-In-Vegas/release/126709
Orca - 4am https://www.beatport.com/track/4-am-original-mix/101172
Todd Terry - It's Over Love https://www.discogs.com/Todd-Terry-Presents-Shannon-Its-Over-Love/release/60106
Terror Danjah - SOS https://terrordanjah.bandcamp.com/track/sos
Terror Danjah - Light Years https://terrordanjah.bandcamp.com/album/red-flag-ep
Pop Smoke - Welcome To The Party Remix [feat. Skepta] https://popsmoke.lnk.to/WTTP-SkeptaRMX
Drake - Crew Love [feat. The Weeknd] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgL33XNLhu0 Pa Salieu - Bang Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3NPhQjjZB0
On1 - Makita https://on1ukg.bandcamp.com/album/ryobi
Headie One - Ain't It Different [feat. AJ Tracey, Stormzy] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMPr9XXGymA
Ivorian Doll - Body Bag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUa7oszDjd4
Vangelis - La Petite Fille De La Mer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6qoTPhhv9w Francis Monkman - At The Pool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgI8bioBoSM&list=PLLwA7LzfsIPjsvTw_e0YKcoXZ3M1KIF5d&index=4
PK Brako - "Hang about pal BOTH our boats have holes in them" https://pkbrako.bandcamp.com/track/hang-about-pal-both-our-boats-have-holes-in-them
Recommended Reading:
James Bridle - New Dark Age
Alberto Duman, Dan Hancox, Malcolm James, Anna Minton - Regeneration Songs
Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism
William Gibson - The Sprawl Trilogy
Dan Hancox - Inner City Pressure
Patrick Keiller - The View From The Train
Sadie Plant - The Most Radical Gesture
Simon Reynolds - Energy Flash
Nick Srnicek - Platform Capitalism
Joy White - Terraformed