The scope of Robert Beatty's hydra-headed art practice has grown into an extreme articulation of unconfined creativity across multiple disciplines. A founding member of 2000's noise outfit Hair Police, as well as visionary illustrator and album-art designer for many of this era's most celebrated underground artists, Robert Beatty records his solo work under the name Three Legged Race. Come May 27th, 2014, Three Legged Race will release the first volume of Rope Commercial, a planned series of EPs premiering through the label Underwater Peoples.
Rope Commercial Vol. 1 will be the first Three Legged Race record since 2012's acclaimed Persuasive Barrier (Spectrum Spools / Editions Mego) and Beatty's follow up to last year's video score collection, Soundtracks for Takeshi Murata (Glistening Examples, 2013). Where those records take charge in a paradigm of collaged synth melodies, fragmented samples and twitching textures, Rope Commercial is more unsettling. Rope Commercial Vol. 1 delivers claustrophobic geometries, intensely disfigured narratives, and genre-free experimentation.

Beatty's recent celebrated performances as Three Legged Race abandoned prior synthesizer-dependent set-ups in favor of an intentionally dematerialized approach, employing just a sequencer program in an iPhone, and a lone tape machine. Conceptually, Beatty was defiantly shrugging off the fetishized hardware-oriented model so rampant in current electronic music discourse, and this became the inspiration to create Rope Commercial. Beatty stepped even further in recording Rope Commercial Vol. 1 however, adding acoustic instruments, (dulcimer and piano), and thoroughly processing sampled elements to warp the whole into un-recognizable dimensions.

Importantly, Rope Commercial Vol. 1 will be outfitted in a picture-disc of a classic Beatty vision. In a creamy neon-green urban landscape, the face of a humanoid figure is merged with a screen of a smartphone, its consciousness fused to the glass. Dangling from the phone is one leg outfitted in a woman's heel, presumably its sole means of transport. These kind of pathetic cyborg figures in states of physical flux frequently appear in Beatty's art. They function neatly as windows into Beatty's music as well, with its electronically marred voices and barren sonic spaces. These figures are Beatty's torpid avatars, in his music and art both, their humanism is strained by a confounding digital synergy.

Aptly, the picture-disc is a perfect setting for Beatty's airbrush work, his favored rendering tool, and the general modus operandi of Beatty's electronic music as Three Legged Race. In all, Beatty renews obsolete materials discarded from a voracious commercial culture, and employs them in strangely poignant contexts. In Rope Commercial Vol. 1, such found samples are diced and strewn into uneasy chapters. There is the dizzying, terse "All Ajax Dial", the interplanetary gale of "Aside From Each Other and Together Overnight", the faintly whirring "New Government", the white noise of "The Humidity Mascot" and perhaps Beatty's motif-to-be "Rope Commercial." In this title track alone, something of the whole EP is condensed: intentionally un-heroic melodies plod out over a darkly redundant groove and voices are haltered in the instance of utterance. Its electronic music most overtly, but defrocked of its sheen, with any conceivable hallmark of commercialism littered on the gravel.

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Nah, you don't need to be afraid. Peek-A-Boo won't talk about boring politics! But Sony has a good alternative for us, why not vote on House Of Cards, the highly acclaimed series with Academy Winner Kevin Spacey?

If you want to know if you would put your trust in his hands, watch the series. The first season is available from 23rd July on both DVD and Blu-ray, the second season will follow in August.

Click here for the trailer from the first season, and here for the second!

Arrow Video is thrilled to announce the UK Blu-ray and Blu-ray Steelbook release of Bob Clark’s iconic teen-sex comedy, Porky’s. Arriving on 16th June, this will mark the first time that Porky’s will be made available on the Blu-ray format in the UK.

Long before American Pie, an age ahead of Superbad, there came Porky’s, a seminal ’80s comedy high school sex-romp which defined the VHS generation and arguably went on to become more than just a full-frontal pioneer of the adolescent sex farce. A national embarrassment, a rite of passage, a rebuke of racial discrimination and a crudely accurate portrayal of high school life—director Bob Clark’s 1982 classic is all this and more.

Porky’s owes at least part of its legendary status to the timing of its release. Though a hit on theatrical circuit (it still remains Canada’s most successful film of all time when adjusted for inflation), Porky’s arrival on home video at the dawning of the VHS era meant that enterprising youngsters could effectively bypass the theatrical ratings system and indulge in Clark’s forbidden fruit. With naked limbs and a leering eyeball against a clean white tile background, Porky’s iconic VHS box art let kids know exactly what the film featured. For years, underage kids lucky enough to see the film circulated stories on school playgrounds about its most notorious and possibly funniest scene—the shower spyhole, “Paulie the Penis” and women’s coach Ms. Balbricker’s (Nancy Parsons) subsequent rant about the offending “tallywhacker”. Clark has admitted Porky’s was primarily aimed at teenage viewers, even though in many parts of the world they weren’t even allowed in the theatre. And while the promise of illicit nudity initially lured many of these viewers to check out the film from alternative sources, the warts-and-all story of Pee-Wee and his pals kept them coming back for more, helping the film grow in popularity and reputation.

Featuring a bumper crop of bonus features including an audio commentary with the late director Bob Clark and an interview, Porky’s Through the Peephole, which sees the director looking back at his cult classic, this deluxe edition will also include a newly commissioned featurette Skin Classic! In which Mr Skin celebrates Porky’s and the heyday of the 80s teen sex comedy. The Blu-ray will also feature new writing on the film by Paul Corupe, creator of the Canuxploitation website, and a previously unpublished interview with director Bob Clark conducted by Calum Waddell, illustrated with archive stills.

Synopsis

Long before American Pie and Superbad came the original and best sex comedy. A firm favourite of teen movie fans, Porky’s introduced audiences to Kim Cattrall (Police Academy, Big Trouble in Little China) and made an absolute killing at the box-office.

It’s 1954 and the sex-obsessed boys of Angel Beach High School are looking to get laid. Porky’s is their destination, local nightclub and whorehouse. Only its redneck owner has other plans, as does his sheriff brother. Will Meat, Mickey, Tommy and the other guys in the gang get their own back? And will the barely-endowed Pee Wee finally lose his virginity?

Having established his credentials as one of Canada’s top horror filmmakers with the likes of Black Christmas and Dead of Night, Bob Clark took an unexpected turn into the world of the teenage sex comedy and inadvertently made the most successful Canadian motion picture of all time, an honour it still holds today.

Special Features

·Limited Edition SteelBook packaging

·High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the film from a digital transfer prepared by Twentieth Century Fox

·Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

·Audio commentary by writer/director Bob Clark

·Porky’s Through the Peephole – Bob Clark looks back at his box-office sensation

·Skin Classic! – Mr Skin celebrates Porky’s and the heyday of the 80s teen sex comedy

·Porky’s trailer reel

"You are cured!" These words are a dream come true to any cancer patient. Scene promoter, DJ and frontman of electro-industrial act Rein[Forced], Jim Semonik, returns to give the vile disease of cancer another pummeling with a ton of his friends, comrades, heroes and allies in Electronic Saviors 3:Remission. Jim, creator of the series, recently celebrated 5 years cancer free and is eager to share his gift with the world. He was diagnosed in 2008 with stage 2B colorectal cancer and has since made Electronic Saviors his dream project along with close friend Chase Dudley (boxed warning). The Electronic Saviors series has been one of the most successful compilation series in industrial scene history having already raised over 30K for charity. Semonik once again returns with an armada of talent to shake dance floors and crush eardrums. Brand new and exclusive tracks from Combichrist, 16 Volt, Hate Dept, Stromkern, Rein[Forced], Panic Lift, Ego Likeness, Left Spine Down, Aesthetic Perfection and many, many more make Electronic Saviors 3 an essential purchase. Limited to 1000 copies, this volume is expected to sell out quickly and become a collector's item. The Electronic Saviors series continues to grow with this 3rd volume. Jim once again dedicates this volume to anyone who has been a victim of cancer in any way, shape or form.

DISC 1
01. 16 Volt - Ever Careful
02. Stromkern - Lightsout
03. Death Line International - In Den Staub
04. The Dark Clan - A Final Elegant Turn
05. Hell:Sector - Saints Without A Halo
06. Assemblage 23 - Last Mistake (Dominatrix Remix)
07. Combichrist - From My Cold Dead Hands (SIRUS Remix)
08. Modern Weapons - Enemy
09. Null Device - Ashes
10. Velvet Acid Christ - Eternity (Vox Edit)
11. Caustic - Death By Stereo
12. Ludovico Technique - Dead Inside (Remix by Helltrash)
13. genCAB - Siren Song (Quiet Mix by Panic Lift)
14. Lost Signal - Postscript
15. PRUDE - Great Eraser (Caustic's Hummer Of The Gods Mix)
16. The Anesthesiologists - It Never Ends
17. Attrition - Narcissist (Zero Corporation Remix) 

DISC 2

01. iVardensphere - Mother Of Crows (Club Mix)
02. Rein[Forced] - Defeated
03. GoFight - The Funk
04. Interface - Fixation
05. Hate Dept. - Biggest Fan
06. The Azoic - Let It All Go
07. Left Spine Down - Side Effect
08. Decoded Feedback - Death Pusher
09. XP8 - Night Run (Ducati Slow Jab by Informatik)
10. Stiff Valentine - Coke Ah Coal Ah
11. Ego Likeness - Sirens and Satellites (Cultural Tourist Mix)
12. Panic Lift - Awake (Dream Kill Mix by Eye Kandy)
13. Shutterdown - Best Revenge
14. Kevorkian Death Cycle - Mind Decay (FGFC820 Remix)
15. Spider Lilies - Father Time
16. Angels On Acid - Wrath Of The Gods
17. din_fiv - Terminal Condition (1999 Tour Version) 

DISC 3

01. Christ Analogue - Fuse
02. Cynical Existence feat. Logic Division - In A Perfect World
03. Battery Cage - Forever Never Ends (2013 Version)
04. Dead On TV - Cocaine (GoFight Remix)
05. am.psych - Guns + Drugs
06. Mordacious - Terminal
07. Cesium_137 - Consequence (Crucible Mix)
08. boxed warning - Taggert Terminal
09. Inertia - Hang Around (Saviour Mix)
10. The Clay People - Strange Day (More Machine Than Man Remix)
11. The Rain Within - This Is Alive
12. Aesthetic Perfection - A Nice Place to Visit (Syndroid Remix)
13. Sonik Foundry - Under The Knife
14. Cryogen Second - Killing The Prophet (Mangadrive Remix)
15. NOIR - Timephase (Inertia Remix)
16. Toxic Coma - Ready To Rock 

DISC 4

01. I:Scintilla feat. Rein[Forced] - Sins Of The Flesh
02. Cyanotic - Alternating Dilemmas
03. HexRx vs BlakOpz - Terminal Monster
04. Mindless Faith - Minerals (Eroded Remix)
05. Bella Morte - The One Beside Me
06. Informatik - Deliverance
07. Plasmodivm - Your Memories
08. Deathproof - Grimetown
09. More Machine Than Man - Stranger Than Fiction (Razed in Black Remix)
10. Berlin Babylon - Night And Day (ES3 Mix)
11. Blank - Weak Machine (1.2 Remix)
12. Sensuous Enemy - Take You Out
13. Chemlab - Chemical Halo (Burnt Demo Version)
14. Life Cried - This Isn't Happening (Worms of the Earth Remix)
15. Xiescive - Feel The Light
16. XuberX - Ruin
17. Battery - Nevermore (Version 2.0)

This June, Arrow Video will be celebrating its 5 year anniversary with a host of special announcements being made in the coming weeks to commemorate its 5th birthday.

To kick the celebrations off, 6 x specially re-packaged Steelbooks will be released exclusively via Zavvi starting on 23rd June with the release of Maniac Cop and followed by Day of the Dead on the 30th June. Shortly thereafter Arrow Video will release Black Sunday, Inferno, City of the Living Dead and Phenomena as part of this special commemorative Steelbook re-issue. 

In one of these Limited Edition Steelbooks, Arrow Video will place a Golden Ticket, for which one lucky fan will win the entire Arrow Video back-catalogue and all upcoming 2014 titles*.

This will be followed throughout the year with a host of further celebrations including talent-led fan-events, unique merchandise and exciting interactive competitions for fans to take part.

Stay tuned for further announcements and some very exciting content in the coming weeks.