A DOCUMENTARY WITH A DIFFERENCE
Genre Salon likes to think of itself as electronic music’s best kept secret. A genre-bending underground act incorporating everything from bone-shaking techno, dark house to hypnotic dub. The music once heard is difficult to define or forget. Imagine Massive Attack meets Orbital, meets Giorgio Moroder, or stumbling into Apocalypse Now via 2001 A Space Odessey.
Asunder Films is bringing the music and ideas of Genre Salon to a wider audience in a powerful experimental documentary that combines artist commentary with compelling feature-length visual montage. DREAD describes the obscure and often controversial ideas that gave birth to Genre Salon and that have helped shape its unique music philosophy.
This abstract, experimental and at times uncompromising film takes the viewer on an eye-opening and thought-provoking journey that is hypnotic, nightmarish, and weirdly life-affirming. See the trailer here.
A STUNNING VISUAL MEDITATION.
In 2018 electronic music act Genre Salon set out to make a chill album with a difference. Drawing on various influences, the album Inner Space moved beyond the expectations of the down-tempo genre to create something more sonically challenging yet deeply uplifting. Mixing everything from opera and trip-hop to metal and dub, the producer pushed the boundaries to redefine the ambient genre. Now filmmaker Patrick Astwood and editor Simon Myers have collaborated to produce a unique experimental documentary bringing the music and ideas of Inner Space to life.
This powerful and moving music and visual performance reminiscent of Godfrey Reggio’s groundbreaking 1972 film Koyaanisqatsi, and Ron Fricke’s seminal, Baraka, takes the viewer on a stunning and thought-provoking journey. The resulting film challenges us to rediscover the everyday world and go inwards to that quiet place inside of ourselves that most of us overlook. As the saying goes, If you don’t go within, you go without. See the trailer here.