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11 Aug 2014

Red Hot and ACTing UP

Documentary excerpt, Interview, Media excerpt, Movie trailers, Music, Playlist, Sound effects, Soundscape

Marking the closing of the Melbourne AIDS 2014 Conference. A soundscape of ACT UP archival material and interviews with music from the Red Hot AIDS Benefit compilations, songs about AIDS and from AIDS related movie soundtracks.

BED: Thunderstorm
Documentary Excerpt – ACT UP (early sample of ‘How to Survive a Plague’)
Pavement – Unseen Power of the Picket Fence (No Alternative – 1993)
Erasure – Too Darn Hot (Red Hot and Blue – 1990)
Mobb Deep, L.E.S. and ACD – Street Life (America is Dying Slowly – 1996)
Interview excerpt #1 – Democracy Now celebrates 25 years of ACT UP and talks to ‘How to Survive a Plague’ Film maker David France and AIDS Activist and long-term survivor Peter Staley
Tomandandy – Catridgemusic (Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip – 1996)

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Neneh Cherry – I’ve Got You Under My Skin (Red Hot and Blue – 1990)
Lou Reed – Halloween Parade
Interview excerpt #2 – Democracy Now
Crystal Waters – Gypsy Woman (Joey Negro’s Mindmix) (Red Hot and Dance – 1992)
Interview excerpt #3 – Democracy Now
Michael Franti & Spearhead – Positive (Stolen Moments: Red Hot and Cool – 1994)
Laika – Looking for the Jackalope (Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip – 1996)

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Sonic Youth – Burning Spear (No Alternative cassette bonus track – 1993)
Archival footage #1 – Radical Queer History – ACT UP
Umar Bin Hassan and Abiodun Oyewole with Pharaoh Sanders – This is Madness (Stolen Moments: Red Hot and Cool – 1994)
Archival footage #2 – Radical Queer History – ACT UP
Crent – A.I.D.S
Sebadoh – Spoiled (from ‘Kids’ soundtrack)
Archival footage #3 – Radical Queer History – ACT UP
Ani DiFranco – On Every Corner

BED: Thunderstorm
Cesária Évora + Caetano Veloso + Ryuichi Sakamoto – E Precisco Perdoar
Interview excerpt #4 – Democracy Now
Wu Tang Clan – America is Dying Slowly (America is Dying Slowly – 1996)
Jonsi and Alex – Happiness (Dark Was the Night – 2009)
Interview excerpt #5 – Democracy Now
Neil Young – Philadelphia (from ‘Philadelphia’ movie soundtrack)

BED: Thunderstorm
United Future Organization – Stolen Moments