Dom Robinson reviews
Mocean Worker
Detonator / Diagnosis
Distributed by
Palm Pictures
- Cat.no: PPDVD 7003-2
- Cert: E
- Running time: 8 minutes
- Year: 2000
- Pressing: 2000
- Region(s): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (UK PAL)
- Chapters: 2 plus extras
- Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1, Linear PCM Stereo
- Languages: English
- Subtitles: None
- Widescreen: varies
- 16:9-enhanced: Yes & No
- Macrovision: No
- Disc Format: DVD 5
- Price: £5.99
- Extras : Scene index, Trailers, DVD-ROM content, Biography, Interview
Mocean Worker: Detonator / Diagnosis
is a DVD Video EP, created by Abbey Road Interactive, containing two tracks.
Both are drum-and-bass tunes, the first one, Detonator, featuring a promo
video containing footage of crash-test-dummy car crashes and the latter,
Diagnosis, is a similar track but not quite as good and features clips
of many different things - far too many to mention - all within a small window
with other, smaller, windows appearing all around it.
I checked my Guinness Book of Hit Singles for an entry from Mocean Worker,
aka Adam Dorn, but could find nothing.
The picture quality is very good and even if there were any artifacts, you
wouldn't spot them given the material on view, mostly comprising of the
aforementioned car crashes as well as bizarre camcorder shots. Detonator
is in an approximate 16:9 ratio and anamorphic, while Diagnosis is 4:3.
The average bitrate is an approximate 7.50Mb/s.
The sound is LOUD! just as drum-and-bass should be.
Options are available for Dolby Digital 5.1 and Linear PCM Stereo.
Extras :
Chapters and Trailers :
There are 2 chapters on this disc - one for each track - plus trailers for four other Palm
Pictures releases:
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense,
Baaba Maal: Live at the Royal Festival Hall,
Ghost in the Shell
and
Dancehall Queen.
Languages & Subtitles :
The only language that features here is English and only in the interview.
There are no subtitles.
And there's more... :
A 4-minute Interview with Adam Dorn, split into four sections each either
above or below a minute. The Biography is two pages long but doesn't
tell you a great deal.
The DVD-ROM content features music samples, info and rough-looking
video clips of a range of Palm Pictures produce: Sly and Robbie, Baaba Maal,
Mocean Worker, Ernest Ranglin and Kora Revolution.
Menu :
Silent, but hypnotic animation is the best way to describe it.
Fans of Mocean Worker will want a listen. As for me, while it'll wake
up the neighbourhood and is good stuff to dance to, it's entirely forgettable.
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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2000.
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