I love stumbling onto brilliant things that I never knew existed. Yesterday during my daily internet trolling session, I ran into this series of videos that resembled the old 80’s school instructional videos I remember as a student. They have that style down to the “T” and the complete and utter missinformation that they are basing this science on is fantastic. So to relate to music we can start with Synthesizer Patel:
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And another favorite on video games:
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I absolutely love the synth interludes they use, the terrible experiments, and the delivery. If you look closely you can see some of your favorite comedic actors, i.e. Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Peter Serafinowicz from “Shaun of the Dead” and (the first two) from the awesome fake trailer “Don’t” from the recent Rodriguez/Tarantino release “Grindhouse”. Also is Olivia Colman who made a brief appearance on the UK version of The Office.
Enjoy!
UPDATE: I just found the entire music episode, check it out here: Music 2000
You should also mention that Wright also wrote and directed the upcoming Britain cop comedy thriller “Hot Fuzz” which has become a smash hit in the UK and I think is opening here this weekend.
There is a great interview with these chaps at the AV Club:
http://www.avclub.com/content/interview/nick_frost_simon_pegg_and
and also one at Wizard Universe:
http://www.wizarduniverse.com/movies/other/004328929.cfm
Not sure I would describe them as instructional videos as I would 80s educational programming ala 321 Contact.
Educational programming probably is a better classification.. I did love 321 contact as a kid..