Mistletone

On the eve of his Australian tour announcement, Baltimore’s Dan Deacon is set to release the Ultimate Reality DVD (out Nov 20 on Carpark), a Deacon collaborative performance with fellow Wham City collective member Jimmy Joe Roche.

It combines an intense musical composition for electronics and drums with a psychedelic montage of Arnold Schwarzenegger films, projected at a monumental scale. The 40 minute composition, written by Deacon, blasts from three sets of loudspeakers during performance. Driving and cinematic, the electronic piece is accompanied by two live drummers (from Ponytail and Video Hippos). The film footage comes from Terminator 2 and Total Recall. Jimmy has transformed the violent struggles of these films into a mesmerizing sequence of fantastic images where popular science fiction icons seep in and out of mirrored layers of neon-coloured Nintendo-game-style music. Wild!

Watch a very brief preview here