Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Terminal City Ricochet

This uber-obscure 107 min. film was made for Canadian TV in 1990. It’s a somewhat heavy-handed satire of pollution and political corruption, most notable for a completely over the top performance by Jello Biafra as the head of the secret police. The soundtrack features several well-known DIY punk acts such as DOA and Nomeansno. It was apparently shown a couple of times on late-night TV around 1990, and then promptly disappeared, never to be released on either VHS or DVD. Given that fact, the high-generation tape copy I’ve posted here is the cleanest one I could find. A technical note: I mastered the sound in AC3 format, and it’s pretty clean. However, QuickTime users probably won’t be able to hear the audio-I’d recommend you download VLC if you have any problems.

Like the Nomeansno album listed above, the fine folks at Alternative Tentacles have brought this obscure item back into print. You can buy the DVD plus the soundtrack CD in a single package here. I've deleted the original download link.


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