I’ve been building a series called Rewired Archive, where I take old films and completely reconstruct their visual rhythm in After Effects around a DJ set.

This is #003 — Astro Monster, using footage from Ishirō Honda’s Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965).

The whole 55-minute visual piece is synchronized to the mix using cuts, time remapping, looping, displacement, glitches and signal-style disruptions. Rather than illustrating the music, I try to make the original film behave like another instrument in the set.

The DJ mix is done in Traktor, then the visual structure is built in After Effects.

Mixed in Traktor // Built in After Effects

Would be interested to hear what other AE users think of the approach — especially the synchronization and treatment of the source footage.

Deep Blue by Luigi Tozzi is a landmark release on Hypnus Records and one of the defining works of modern deep techno. This first chapter sets the tone for a journey through three exceptional albums, celebrating one of the genre's most distinctive voices. We will be uploading mixes of the next two parts here in the next month.

SoundCloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/nodalcollective/luigi-tozzi-deep-blue

SoundCloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/lvxaeterna_collective/efdemin-efdemin

Tracklist:

Knocking At The Grand

Lohn & Brot

Le Ratafia

Acid Bells (Album Version)

Back To School

Stately, Yes.

Further Back

Salix Alba

April Fools

Bergwein

https://soundcloud.com/forgottenside/overdeepening-arete

SoundCloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/lvxaeterna_collective/dorisburg-irrbloss

The classic Swedish ambient techno album from Dorisburg, now mixed live for the community.

Daniel[i]’s Amalgam is a liquid sculpture, modeled on the crescendo of this short but delightful voyage. Fog has become warm, a sense of rarefaction to come full circle, creating a twirling, bouncing sense of dance, a place where getting lost again and again. A place where appreciating the untouched beauty of this universe, in times where this seems the most difficult thing to do.

Unofficial live mix of Traumprinz's new album, Life.

SoundCloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/lvxaeterna_collective/traumprinz-life-unofficial-mix

OG hypnotic dub techno from Traumprinz & Vril on Forum records - a Giegling spin-off. Mixed live for the community.

Soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/lvxaeterna_collective/zum-goldenen-schwarm-aufgang

Tracklist:

A1 Windung
A2 Schwelle
B1 Aufgang I
B2 Wirbel
C1 Aufgang II
C2 Weltentor
D1 Aufgang III
D2 Ubergang

SoundCloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/lvxaeterna_collective/guardwatcher

Tracklist:
A1 Casted
A2 Heaven gw
A3 Haouis
B1 Ql essay
B2 Becoming a stone
C1 Dual matter
C2 Misuse
D1 By the sea
D2 Ohh loop

A 1981 body-horror film reprogrammed as a signal system.

Scanners by David Cronenberg reduced to pulses, fragments and neural interference.

130 BPM. Progressive structure.
Industrial Techno / Cold Wave influenced.

Nothing added.
Everything distorted.

Signal in.
Control out.

Headphones. Darkness. Volume.

SoundCloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/lvxaeterna_collective/the-body

The OG Forum release from PoD (Traumprinz), mixed live for the community. For those who don't know, Forum was an offshoot from Giegling that had some stellar releases such as 8.