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Eclectic Method

Eclectic
Method, aka BRK, Geoff Gamlen and Cutswift, are one of the
finest bootleg video creators and VJs around.  Video
Bootlegs are great in my opinion and are getting more popular
with Q-TV Mix videos and more recently MTV Mash.  The
only downside is the time it can take to make one!  These
guys have over 20 boot vids (available on the Boot106 KDX and
Eclectic Method site) ranging from Blondie vs Eminem to
Madness vs P Diddy!

Who are Eclectic Method and
where are you from?

BRK:
Me
Geoff
Gamlen: Me
Cutswift:
And me. We’re from North London

B.R.K.:
Dj/vdj/producer, used to live in Bosnia. Returned to the UK in
2001 and started working with Cutswift on multi-media
shizznizz and then met Geoff and formed Eclectic
Method.
Cutswift:
DJ/VDJ/producer. Only in it for the end of level bonus
points

Where did the name ‘Eclectic Method’
come from?

B.R.K.: Cutswift thought of
it.
Cutswift:
That's right, dear boy. Thank you. It's in the dictionary. And
there’s a perverted rhyme to it.

eclectic
method

n : making
decisions on the basis of what seems best instead of following
some single doctrine or style

Eclectic
is such an amusingly over-used word in club guides – it’s sort
of funny and I thought it would be real neat to use "method"
as a word for a group of people - like, you know, we're not a
collective, we're an approach or a technique - a method of no
one style - fluid and all that good shit. But then I realised
there's that dodgy band - The Crystal Method. So bollocks,
basically.

When and why did
you start making video
bootlegs?

B.R.K.: at the end of 2001
after touring the summer with Coldcut/PirateTV in
Ex-Yugoslavia and seeing their pioneering AV shit I thought it
would be cool to remix video clips up live in the club. We
made a video demo of Beastie Boy's "Intergalactic" with U2
"mysterious ways" as part of the company me and cutswift were
working at the time, just as demo to see what it would be
like. We sent a demo to boomselection under the name of the
company we worked for (modernorganisation) which is what
appears of their bootleg compilation.

Geoff: -
Collective work on the extended bootleg video mix started in
March 2002. Video remixing is the natural progression from the
audio remix - and with recent improvements in computer
processor speeds and data handling and new software allowing
video timestretching and repitching it's all become possible
on ordinary PCs.

Cutswift: It’s always effective when
you can see what the dj/remixer is up to – live or in the
studio. Christina shaking her ass is just a
bonus.

What hardware and
software do you use?

B.R.K.: Lot's and
lot's LIVE VIDEO: Vjamm, Arkaos, Vegas STUDIO: Vegas,
AfterEffects, Premiere, Combustion, MayaFusion formusic....
ACID, Sound Forge, Cubase, Buzz, Reason, some samplers and
keyboards and a lot of audio and video effects
plug-ins.

Cutswift: What he said. And we use Kazaa ++
(a version of Kazaa Lite) and a capture card to get all the
little bits and pieces.

How
long does it take on average to create a video
track?

B.R.K.: between 20 minutes and
18 hours.
Geoff: - A day or two
Cutswift: It takes me
ages.

What would you say is
your best video and why?

B.R.K.: The
videos we made for MTV we spent the most time on. From the
other one's my favourites are DrDre&Eminem VS IndianJones
OR Britney VS NWA was a collaboration I really wanted to see
happen.

Geoff - "Atomic Closet" - an inspired music
bootleg that works well from start to finish plus classic 80s
video moves from Blondie fitting smoothly over Eminem in
simple but effective composition.

Cutswift: I reckon
that the sweet dreams/song 2/teen spirit bit in the 24 minute
mix is pretty tight.

Have
you come across any legal problems making ‘illegal’
videos?

B.R.K.: Not as far as websites
or releasing bootleg cds but with a few promoters who have
booked us to play and then pulled out a day or two before from
fear of the venue getting in trouble for having video
mixing.

Cutswift: My biggest legal problem is people
constantly banging on about it. Legal this, legal that. I’m
not a lawyer.

Geoff - No lawsuits pending yet - but
it’s impossible to make a big commercial success of a
mainstream release without the permission of copyright
holders.

Can you remember
the first bootleg you heard and what you thought of
it?

B.R.K.: The two FatBoySlim
"Rockafella Skank" bootlegs in 98/99, the one with Rolling
Stones "Satisfaction" and the one James Hyman made with
Eminem. At the time I was living in Bosnia where everyone knew
all the songs involved so they went down really well, it was
something new for everyone. We couldn't buy records and I was
starting to just get cds sent to me or download stuff.and move
away from turntables to cdmixers, never looked back. That for
me was the start of everyone just cutting up many different
tunes and creating individual dj sets, I think cd mixers
helped kicked it all off.

Geoff: - Fat Boy Slim's
Rockafeller Skank remix of Rolling Stones Satisfaction - one
of the best dance floor fillers of all time.

Cutswift:
Mine was Kurtis Rush – Missy and the Cure. What did I think? I
guess it was like when Tim Westwood pushes that “da bomb”
button when he thinks something is “real, real
hot”.

What is / are your
favourite bootleg(s) ever and at the
moment?

B.R.K.: There are so many
bootlegs out there my favourite tends to change week to week.
I like Poj and Ultra396's stuff a lot from the bootleggers.
And Kurtis Rush was just very good. EBN's original video stuff
in the early 90's was fucking excellence.

Cutswift:
I reckon Go Home Productions is your man. If you trawl through
1000 boots and pull out the listenable 20, 10 of them will be
Go Home. Atmo (sweden) did that awesome Bush/blair endless
love video.

Geoff -
It's "Forgot About Jones" (Raiders of the Lost Ark meets
Forgot About Dre) - it always makes me laugh out loud even
though I've seen it loads of
times.

What makes a good remix,
bootleg or video for you?

B.R.K.:
Either good groove/funk or outright comedy. It's always good
to see musical matching done well but it's sometimes also good
to listen to shit fucked up beyond recognition. For me a good
video bootleg is one where the music is represented by
instruments being played or visuals that match
rhythms.

Geoff -
The best bootlegs are more than just the sum of their parts -
and the juxtaposition of markedly different styles (especially
with a cheeky sense of humour) helps to add the X factor - NWA
meets Britney Spears in "Straight Outta Britney" is a good
example.

Cutswift:
Just cleverness or fortune.

If you could work with
anyone in the industry, who would it
be?

B.R.K.: Fatboyslim, Dizzee Rascal,
Rahzel, Hexstatic.
Geoff:
Norman Cook, Beastie Boys, Cornelius
Cutswift:
Prefuse 73, Pink, Rodney P, Fingathing, Scratch
Perverts.

Thanks guys!

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