All language subtitles for Vinylmania.When.Life.Runs.at.33.Revolutions.Per.Minute.2012.SUBBED.WEBRip.x264-ION10

(eerie music)

Voiceover:In the beginning,
there was silence.

Then came sound.

Voiceover:Humans searched
for a way to entrap it.

Hoping they could
keep it and tame it.

At the dawn of the third
millennium, music seemed to be

all around us, in every
place, at every moment.

But where does music come from?

(music crescendos)

(stylus scratches on vinyl)

("The Champ" plays)

Voiceover:Have you ever
listened to a vinyl record?

Music comes from here, from
the grooves, turntable,

amp, speakers and all
thanks to a diamond needle.

Simple click is not enough
to listen to the music.

But let's go back and
start from the beginning.

I fell into music at an
early age, my mother used to

always wake me up
to a Mozart record.

From that moment on,
records have been my life.

12-inch, 10-inch,
7-inch, colored discs,

picture discs,
flexi-discs, any discs.

I have more than 3000
records in my collection,

and I like to keep them clean.

Uncommon behavior, maybe,
in the digital world,

considering vinyl's
dead, isn't it?

On the contrary,
it's very much alive.

Figures online confirm
that there are others
like me out there.

I'm not alone.

Man:Hey, bud, I think you're
supposed to hang your back.

(classical music)

Voiceover:They say
the things you love

bring out the best in you.

When I'm at a record
fair, I'm not so sure.

The need to get your
hands on that rare cover,

that one record that
completes your collection,

overpowers even the
most generous of souls.

It's quick, it's stealth,
it's business, it's a mania.

And, if you know what you want,

you never go home empty-handed.

You have to seize the moment.

Girl:Oh, no, I want that one!
Boy: I'm done. All right,

Girl:He got "L.A.
Woman," oh, well.

Voiceover:I seized mine when
spiralling these aisles.

It's here I met Chris,
a vinyl veteran.

(speaks French)

Voiceover:I began to follow
him, year after year.

And we became good friends.

Like me, he can't
resist vinyl's call.

(speaks French)

Voiceover:I contemplate
Chris' words and I ask myself,

"where does the pleasure
he speaks about come from?"

How does this old
format still survive?

It's time to travel to
the core of the grooves.

(electronic music)

Voiceover:Music is the
landscape of our lives.

A records collection
is like a train.

You keep adding wagons
as you go along.

Landscape after landscape,
memory after memory.

Record after record.

GZ printed their
first record in 1951.

One of the oldest
pressing plants in Europe,

now it is the
biggest in the world.

Here, for the first time,
I've seen tangible sound

becoming concrete.

Voiceover:We can see
here, this is the music.

Here, it is the music.

(techno music)

Voiceover:Gazing
at these grooves,

I feel like I'm
traveling inside them.

Man:was white as snow,
and everywhere that

Mary went, that
lamb was sure to go.

Ha, ha, ha, ha!

Voiceover:I see Edison imprison
sound in wax cylinders.

I see Emil Berliner's
Grammophon, the first

to record music onto records.

I hear the whistling of
the bombs blend in with

the sounds of the first vinyl
records brought to Europe

by the American soldiers.

Since then, the craze
has not stopped.

This is the substance on
which music is engraved

on for an eternity, vinyl.

Over 25,000 records are
pressed here every day.

But wasn't vinyl killed
by the compact disc?

London, an easy place
to find my bearings.

GPS:After 100 yards, turn
right, cross the round-about,

second exit, then turn right,
take the exit, then keep left.

Then, right turn ahead,
then turn left, turn right.

Then you have reached
your destination.

Fresh like a flower, after
a night of DJ-ing, I meet

Eddie Piller for a
pint, it's 2:00 PM.

(rock dance music)

Voiceover:Eddie
is a DJ, like me.

He only plays vinyl, and
he fights for the cause.

Eddie:CD is a lie, the
groove of a record through a

magnifier is a sound wave,
that's what you're playing.

On a CD, you're playing
a computer-generated

copy of a sound wave, and
a CD doesn't have a fast

enough ability to recreate
an actual sound wave.

So this is the big lie that
the major record companies

and the people who have
vested interests in making CDs

this is the lie that they
told you, CDs sound better.

They've never sounded better.

The people who told you
that 20 years ago were

lying, and they knew
they were lying.

Nothing sounds
better than vinyl.

Voiceover:With his clear
thinking and diplomacy,

Eddie had pushed me to the
other side of the planet.

(voice over PA system)

Voiceover:Today's not
just any day, today is

record store day, a
world-wide celebration for

independently-owned
record stores.

And a great excuse to
buy a couple of records.

(speaking Japanese)

(heavy bass music)

Voiceover:Here, in the
land where new technology

goes hand-in-hand with
tradition, analog sound

prepares its vendetta.

I have an appointment
with the future.

I'm about to meet the
creator of a new system

that plays vinyl records
without a needle.

Sanju:Here, we have been
manufacturing laser turntable.

What we do here, is
optical system production

and final assembling production.

Voiceover:Could you show me?

Sanju:Sure, could you follow me?

Watch your step.

Here, it is a facility for
laser-assisted production.

He's Mr. Setazuka, in charge of
laser-assisted manufacturing.

He has 12 machineries,
starts from here through

over there, then using
each machine, he proceed

manufacturing laser system.

We keep every customers
by file, one-by-one.

We have about 1,500
customers, including

Japan, USA and many
other countries.

(voice in background)

Sanju:Watch your step, please.

This table is
better than analog.

Tiger and lion,
which is stronger?

Analog sound quality is
better than digitized sound

because analog means
'natural' such as a

conversation right now, is
natural, nothing computerized

For me, listen to the
analog music makes me

peaceful and relax.

Now let's enjoy music.

(instrumental music)

Voiceover:I'm mesmerized
by the sound of this

laser turntable, it's
really clear, pristine.

But something is missing.

The record disappears in the
machine, just like any CD.

(speaks Japanese)

(classical music)

(beats recording)

(mixes recordings)

(speaks Japanese)

(mixes tech beats)

Voiceover:one, two, three, four

Voiceover:I'm not as
talented as DJ Kentaro

but, I too, enjoy
making music with music.

My parents wanted me
to play the piano,

but I preferred the turntable.

Life in my hands.

(dance music)

Rich:You have to really
be gentle with them,

because if you treat
your kid disrespectfully,

your kid is going to disrespect
you in public, right?

I think records
are the same way.

Jerome:You're in the club,
it's many people, it's packed,

you're under pressure, it's
like, "let's go, let's go."

If I pick up a record, I
look at the record and I'm

like, "ah! that one!"

It's different from
going through your CD,

I don't go "that one" or
that one on the computer.

It's like you have a personal
relationship with the vinyl.

It's a love affair,
it's a love affair.

G. Rina:Physical response,
convenience, feeling

atmosphere, noise.

(speaks Japanese)

The Millionaire:The
difference is like being

in the bed with your girl
or boyfriend or, you know,

whoever, or like
cybersex or something.

You've got to have
your hands on.

(electronic music)

Eddie:I DJ all over the
world every week, okay,

and one thing I cannot
bring myself to do,

which so many DJs do now
today, is they have a laptop.

They get the laptop, they
open the laptop, they press

'play' and then
they stand there.

This is not DJ-ing, DJ-ing
is choosing a record that

fits with the record before,
get - uh! - that's DJ-ing.

Forget computers and CDs,
records that's what it's

all about, personally,
from my perspective.

Martin:Hey! Come in. James:
Hi, Martin, how are you doing?

Martin:Fine, come in, come on.

Voiceover:It's tea time.

Martin and James are
two inseparable DJs.

Martin:They're yours.

Squeaky chair, you've
got a squeaky chair.

(inaudible)

James:Terrible.

Martin:Squeaky chair.

James:Yes.

Martin:Still buying vinyl,
still DJ-ing Matts in London.

So, it's been good, ten
years, it's been good.

James:Still managing to
find records, you know,

so that bubble burst, I
guess, quite a few years ago.

But there is, you know, still
records, too, to be found

without having to spend
too much money, either.

Martin:We try to get the
records as cheap as possible.

James:Bargains.

Voiceover:Paladins in
the lounge music revival

even inspired me as a DJ.

(rock music)

Martin:I think we're a bit
refreshing now, because

one, it was so heavy, we
have to get our trolleys,

and we have to walk down
the road with this box of -

James:You do.

James:A laptop or something,
that would be great.

You do find people
staring at you when

they see you rolling a
record case behind you or,

you know, you have a
little singles case.

It does turn heads.

Voiceover:But for all of us,
using vinyl can be a problem.

Martin:I know no DJs
who turn up with CDs.

It's never really attractive,
the thought of turning up

with just a case of CDs.

James:It's not the same, is it?
Martin: No.

Recording:As in all
things, you must make your

own way through life.

Voiceover:Sure, carrying
the records around the world

isn't easy, but we still do
it, because we're hard core.

Vinyl's heavy.

Eddie:No, it was
different, is in the 1970s,

music was not disposable.

If you bought a record, you
owned that record forever.

You can take it out, you can
smell it, you can throw it,

you can play it, you can
do it, you can bend it -

Now, culture is disposable,
"hey, I don't like that"

Throw it away, delete,
you don't own anything

When you buy a download,
you do not own a download.

You can't take it off your
computer, you can't take it from

from iTunes to your hard
drive, this is illegal.

With a record, you own it,
you almost own that record.

It's a great scam by
the music industry.

Voiceover:Welcome to
Midem, the world's most

important market for
the music industry.

But who knows for how long?

Here, everything
revolves around one word.

But where is the music?

Woman in Center:The music
industry has changed so

Woman at Right:Globally

Woman in Center:globally,
we're now, it's an internet

Woman at Right:It's an
internet music industry now.

Woman at Center:Digital
is the way to go.

Voiceover:It can translate
to something you can

listen to in English,
to Italian, for example.

Then if you push a button,
it takes you to YouTube

and you can see the
video on YouTube.

And I can show you on a
map what kind of music

is playing now in Moscow, whoop!

Or New York City, nice.

You get the lyrics,
this is the chat.

Voiceover:In the catalog at
this store is 9 million tracks.

We have an ala carte
store, so you can purchase

per track, and then we have
a (inaudible) music offering,

which, again, is unlimited
free downloads for a year.

So, a really good package.

Voiceover:And what
about vinyl today?

Man at Left:Oh, I love vinyl -

Woman at Right:You
can't get rid of vinyl.
Woman in Center: The DJ

Man:I miss vinyl, vinyl is
so hot, so warm, so noisy

with some crispy scratches
that I miss so much.

Man:I wouldn't throw
away your vinyls

away just yet, I haven't.

Voiceover:It's four in the
morning and my coffee's

spinning at 45 rpm.

For my friend Chris,
there's no time to lose.

We're on a mission.

(speaks French)

(speaks French)

(speaks French)

Voiceover:When life runs at
33 revolutions per minute,

nothing can stop you, not even
the tentacles of New York.

There's a gold mine
of vinyl stores here.

And I've got my sites
set on a very exotic one.

Joel:I used to have
a disco in Brazil.

I lost everything,
so America was the

first place I
thought to restart.

I got here, did all kinds
of work, like dishwasher

shoe shine, deliver,
all kinds of stuff.

And to start finding Brazilian
records and figured out

the Brazilian records were
worth the money and I say

"Well, maybe it's a good
way to stop shoe shine."

Woman:Hey!
Joel: What's up, baby

Woman:Sorry I'm late.

Joel:Don't worry, I don't
worry about anything.

Woman:All right.

Joel:Okay, so today you're
going to do that thing,

fixing the records there,
because it's kind of messy

put it a little bit
more, from new arrivals

to the regular, you
know, side, because

it's kind of messy.

So when the CD came out
- phew! - people were

crazy, people want the CD.

But, when the time passed
they realized "I used to

have all these records and
then I just threw it out."

A lot of people just threw
them out, it's crazy.

They now want their
record back and it will be

really hard to get that.

Voiceover:Record stores,
if you had a keen eye,

you'll find them in places
you'd never imagine.

(rock music)

Voiceover:Everywhere I
go, the first thing I do

is look for a beautiful
island to land on.

My place in the universe.

Vendor 1:I run the Roughtrade
East, which is the, I believe,

biggest record store in Europe.

Vendor 2:We had about a total
staff of about a 150 people.

Vendor 3:We sell vinyl
only here in shop.

Vendor 4:Specializing in vinyl -

Vendor 2:Classic rock from the
70s, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin -

Vendor 3:Funk,
soundtracks, 60s stuff -

Vendor 4:Haus Techno,
disco, electro -

Vendor 1:Indie, obviously -

Vendor 5:Classical,
showtune soundtracks -

Vendor 3:Punk rock stuff
and new wave stuff -

Vendor 1:Hack and hip-hop -

Vendor 5:Spoken word -

Vendor 2:And also a lot of jazz.

(Sonny Bono's "I
Just Sit There")

Voiceover:It's islands
like these where I can

touch, view and smell
records up close

that makes digging
such a pleasure.

In San Francisco, as in
Prague, Toyko, Berlin,

everywhere, I never invite
a girl back to my house

to show her my
digital collection.

It would be like
offering her a cracker

instead of a delicious
chocolate truffle.

A shameful thought, right?

Perhaps other people
are thinking like me.

American sales of vinyl
have recently topped almost

3 million, an increase
of a million records

compared to last year.

Vinyl is back.

It's thanks to this
record that I met

Philippe Cohen-Solal
from Gotan Project.

Backstage, Tango
gets its facelift.

(tango music)

The group continues to
release their music on vinyl.

Despite the digital revolution.

I'm curious to know what
role records have had

in Philippe's life.

(speaks French)

Voiceover:With over
20,000 records in his

collection, we're at
no loss for words.

(speaks French)

(band tunes up)

(speaks French)

(Astronaut Frank Borman:
"what the sky looks like,

"what the stars look like, do
they still twinkle, or are they

"a steady light when you get
outside the atmosphere?")

Voiceover:Records, you can
hold them in your hands.

Gaze at the sleeves,
irresistible works of art.

You can read them like a book
or watch them like a film.

You can travel into
the music with them.

The world's most
valuable zebra crossing.

(Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band")

Tourist:Sorry, yes,
there probably was that.

I was just trying to look
in the record and the street

and to find the
position to display me.

Local Man:Well, the
position's a bit further down

this direction
here, towards there.

It makes it look, where it
is on there, if you can look

he's closer towards the actual
wall of the actual studio.

Tourist:Yes, so they
moved something.

Local Man:Yeah, they moved
it further down, because

they felt it was a bit
close to the actual gate.

Tourist:But you
stay here all today?

Local Man:No, I just have
a walk out while I'm out

for fresh air in London.

Tourist:How many
people you say here?

Local Man:Probably about
three or four thousand a day.

(Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band")

Voiceover:I brought
some records with me.

Peter:Some similar ones, yeah.

Voiceover:So this is -
Peter: Yeah, it's very rare,
(inaudible) "Transmission".

Voiceover:And this is -
Peter: Yes, that's the
original "Unknown Pleasures".

Voiceover:This is a -
Peter: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah -

Peter:That's the reproduction
one, that's the original.

You have a "Blue Monday" with
silver, that's the first one.

I have one in black.

Voiceover:Is this original?

Peter:Ah, what's that?

Ah, okay, that's -
my god, who did that?

Yeah, that's the Italian
- it's really weird.

Okay, that I've
never seen before.

The biggest mistake, really,
is this should not be

magenta or pink, it
really should be red.

And so pink is not
right, pink's too "pop".

Far too pop, too feminine
and it's too pop.

It should be red, it
should definitely be red.

(techno music)

Voiceover:My adolescence
was marked by

Joy Division and in New Order.

Their records were my daily
calling when I dressed

in black and searched
for the meaning of life.

Their covers were so
mysterious and enigmatic.

I didn't understand "The Craft,"
but they deeply touched me.

Now I'm sitting in front of
the cover's art designer.

Peter:"Power, Corruption
and Lies" from 1983 and

I was trying to suggest the
new visual codes that were

coming as a result of our
relationship with computers.

I chose to transform the
alphabet into colors.

So these sequences of
colors spell things out.

This is the catalog number
of the album FACT75,

this says 'new order,'
this says 'power,'
'corruption,' and 'lies'.

This juxtaposition, this
represents two extremes.

I still think of this as
my mother's living room.

This is the industry and
the technology that was

actually outside in the
landscape around me.

Voiceover:Record covers
were my contact point

to another visual world that
existed out there somewhere.

Peter:We didn't need to put
the picture of an artist on the

front so that the people would
know what they look like.

It wasn't taking me
anywhere, well, I wasn't

learning anything, but
what I saw of Kraftwerk's

cover of the "Autobahn"
in this country, it opened

my eyes to another
universe of possibilities.

So I saw cathedrals and I saw
factories and I saw mountains,

I saw 5000 years of
history in a motorway sign.

I mean, whenever I listen to
Kraftwerk, you know, I see

a BMW traveling at high
speed past a cathedral.

That's Kraftwerk.

(punk music)

Voiceover:I always found
manipulating reality to create

another meaning irresistible,
it's fun, like punk.

But punk is no fun.

Winston:Iggy Pop, that's
Ricky Sleeper, Patty Smith,

Joe Strummer, boy from
Devo, some of these
people are dead now.

Sid Vicious, also dead,
here's Joey Ramone.

Johnny Rotten,
Biafra, here's Klaus.

So this is my 'Last Supper'
of the punk rock world.

And now it's a new skateboard.

Voiceover:With his fantasy,
San Francisco-based artist

Winston Smith has
challenged conventions and

subverted mainstream culture.

Winston:There's one picture,
we use on the back of

the original Dead Kennedys
"In God We Trust, Inc."

which was a picture of two
little old ladies from a

gasoline ad from the 1930s,
and I had a whole pile

of things that I was cutting
out, and as I cut them out,

I threw them on the
ground behind me and kept

cutting and threw it on
the ground behind me,

and kept cutting,
threw it on the ground.

And a friend walked into
the place, the room and saw

this picture by accident
that had formed by accident

by dropping this picture of
the little old ladies looking

out window onto a picture
of the Ku Klux Klan

at a rally with a burning cross.

He said, "oh, that's very
good, that means a lot."

And I said, "What?" and looked
over and realized oh, cool!

Each picture represent a song.

This is a record made
in 1995 for Green Day.

This is a piece done
recently for Ben Harper.

This is the inside, kind of
a surrealistic nightmare.

This one is an old one
from Dead Kennedys.

The use of the cross and
dollars on a record cover

shocked many people, but
for me it seemed like

something that was an obvious
statement: religion, money.

Censorship, they wanted
to censor images from

young people so they
wouldn't see these things.

But it wasn't because they
were bad or naughty pictures,

or, you know, disturbing,
it was because they had

ideas that would make them
think about our social

systems and how everything
is set up to a certain

advantage and who profits
from it and who suffers

from it, and so in that
way, record covers can be a

mirror to society, because
the combination of the two

imagery and music, something
you can sink your teeth

into it, you can bite into
it and chew on this and

think about this big picture.

That's an opportunity for
us to change the world.

Voiceover:Censorship, a
simple synonym for oppression.

The word takes me back
to Czechoslovakia and

the Russian invasion of 1968.

(military march music)

Prague, a great place to buy
records, but also a place

to learn something
about vinyl's dark past.

Man:285

(speaks Czech)

Voiceover:While, in East
Europe, they were battling

for a bit of rock 'n'
roll, in the summer of '68,

I was kicking in
my mother's tummy.

(Martin Luther King, Jr.'s
"I have a dream" speech)

Voiceover:There's not
just music in records,

but history, too.

(Neil Armstrong's "One
small step" quote)

(Margaret Thatcher's
Falkland Islands statement)

Voiceover:Have you ever
watched the vinyl spinning

from above?

When I was a child, I would
watch it for hours, and I

would dream of leaving
for some space galaxy and

travel and time
into the unknown.

(dramatic music)

(garbled voices)

Philip:Here we have
Wagner to Burundi Black

to Montovani, to
there's a bagpipe

music provoked from Scotland.

To pop record from
the '60s, so this is -

I'm working with history.

What I'm using is all
those noises and scratches

because the patina of all
the thing that's arrived

on these records, and I
think I feel that I'm part of

I'm a new part of the
history of this record.

Everything that's ever gone
before informs what I do.

And maybe I will be part
of the things that inform

people going after.

(applause)

Voiceover:Staring at Philip
Jeck's vintage plates,

one thought breaks my ecstasy,
where is my friend Chris?

(speaks French)

Voiceover:(in French)

Voiceover:But Vinylmania doesn't
always share the same symptoms.

The Archive of Contemporary
Music is a public place in

New York, a sanctuary for
record collectors and the

haven for those searching
for the impossible-to-find.

Its director, Bob George,
takes care of more than

2 million records.

Bob:This is a collection of
vinyl, classical records.

Right now, this is mostly
Reggae material, this whole area

is Brazil, this is Latin, this
is the Reggae all moved here.

And then this is African
and then Middle Eastern

is on the other side.

These are records that
illustrate dance crazes.

So we'll have things like,
you know, The Bird, The Frug

Surf, anything that has to do
with a particular kind of dance.

This is a whole section on
records about God, He is a

very popular artist.

Outer space covers, this
is my favorite one, this is

Authentic Music from Another
Planet, because there

are so many fake musics
from another planet.

This is the authentic one, so
that's the kind of stuff we

really love and really go after.

Records about strip and girls
and we have a gay section

and things with
just sexy covers.

Record collectors
are very lonely.

They like to have sexy covers.

These are just Christmas
records and you'll see you

have a whole section just
on Reggae Christmas records.

Oh, I have to show you one
good thing here, it's like one

of our favorite sections on
mimes and ventriloquists.

We never lose the audio from
the vinyl record, it may get

dirty, it may be hard to
retrieve, but it's always there.

And you can't count on
that with any kind of

electronic format, but the
vinyls will always be playable.

If you have a bicycle wheel,
a nail, a cone of paper and a

rubber band, you can play a
LP or a 45 because this is a

mechanical medium, it has a
better chance of surviving.

Voiceover:These
records stare at me.

Each have something that
goes beyond the music,

beyond the cover and even
beyond the story of their

printing, a personal
locker of memories.

(speaks French)

(children singing)

Voiceover:This is "My First
Kisses" one of parties we danced

cheek-to-cheek in the dark.

It's not really my
favorite music genre,
but it had good taste.

I could never afford this
record, and my parents

wouldn't buy it for me,
now I have two copies.

This is my father's collection,
he left it when he left home.

I was only four years old.

(needle scratches on vinyl)

(speaks French)

Bob:There's a certain feel
and a certain quality and a

certain color to these older
things that are very human.

And, until humans become
more electronic and more

digital, I think these things
will still have appeal.

But we always have to be
ready for the fact that

it could disappear completely.

I say "I am the buddha"
and must not want anything.

And the purpose of this is so
that I don't start collecting

records again, that I give
all my records to the archive.

And if you see on my desk
I have a little statue of

the Buddha and in his hands,
he has a little piece of

the World Trade Center.

The World Trade Center
is four blocks from my

house, so when it came
down, my apartment and my

roof was covered in pieces
from the World Trade Center.

So I have this to
remind me a little bit
how fragile everything

is and how important it is
to try to preserve things.

And how silly it is to try
to hold on to things because

it's all very,
very, very fugitive.

Man:It's all going with
me, so it's good seeing you

guys again, I'll see
you again soon, Bob.

Bob:Thank you so much,
we appreciate it.

Voiceover:Maybe you
find my passion somewhat

fleeting, but I can't resist
the summoning of vinyl.

Before returning home, there's
a place I have to visit.

To buy a couple of records.

Man:33s are in there. Woman:
I just want to look at 45s

Woman:We don't have a 33 player.

Man:(inaudible)
Woman: Yes there is.

Man:Hey, what's up, buddy?

(drum music)

Voiceover:Oh, my god, I'm
kind of lost, I can't go out.

(city sounds)

Voiceover:In the beginning,
there was silence.

Today, music is everywhere, in
every place, at every moment.

But where does music come from?

(rock music)