Category: music matters

Following the success of 2011’s How Hip Hop Changed The World and featuring some of the biggest names in dance music, actor and international DJ Idris Elba returns to count down the defining moments of the greatest cultural phenomenon of our generation in Idris Elba’s How Clubbing Changed the World . Twenty-five years since the birth of Rave, a new…

The story of Roland is one of the most expansive and influential in the world of music technology. This feature length documentary sets out to tell it through their iconic inventions

“Crate Diggers” is a video series from Fuse that profiles artists and their record collections. (Previous episodes have featured Pete Rock, Just Blaze, Cut Chemist, Jermaine Dupri, Lord Finesse, and more.) The latest installment has the show traveling to a storage facility in Detroit to explore the late J Dilla’s record collection. The episode features…

Ice-T travels coast to coast interviewing rap performers such as Q-Tip, Common and Kanye West to pay tribute to the musical art form.

“DJing is about creating a journey; it’s about telling a story. And to do that you need time.” – Roger Sanchez Odyssey is a new short film from Mark Knight and Toolroom focussing on the art of the extended DJ set. With more demand than ever for clubs and festivals to pack their line-ups with…

Toolroom Records have decided to mark their 10-year anniversary with a documentary exploring the last decade of dance music. ’10 Years of Dance Music: The Documentary’, available on Youtube, was a year in the making and saw the producers travel the world getting exclusive interviews from the likes of Armin van Buuren, Steve Angello, Seth…

A documentary on the German band Kraftwerk, pioneers in electronic pop. In the late 60’s and early 70’s when Kraftwerk were striving to find a new artistic voice in the pop culture vacuum of post war Germany, few would have predicted that these reclusive Rhineland experimentalists would become one of the most influential pop groups of…

Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Shorter came to wide prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he went on to join Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet, and from there he co-founded the jazz…

Tracking the progress of modern-day film score development, this documentary illustrates how the first few notes on a piano keyboard end up in the most dramatic moments of a film’s emotional climax. Turning the spotlight on the creative struggles that make up a major motion picture score, this documentary showcases the way the world’s top…

The Art of Listening is a documentary film about the journey music takes to reach a listener’s ear, from the intent of an instrument maker and composer, to the producers and engineers who capture and preserve an artist’s voice. This journey is narrated by intimate conversations with artists, engineers and producers about the philosophy of…