8/24/2023 0 Comments Perfect harmony series![]() It shows The Matrix’s kinship with techno’s strange marriage of the futuristic and the ancient. That scene invokes the exhilarating sense of freedom one feels at an underground club night, when the everyday world vanishes. The fashion is muted-tone tunics with bald heads, beaded wrists and swinging dreadlocks. In a cavernous space lit by naked flames, hundreds of sweating bodies dance to a techno track (Fluke’s Zion) mimed by drummers. The Matrix Reloaded’s most striking sequence occurs at a subterranean rave in Zion. Photograph: PictureLux/The Hollywood Archive/Alamy Momentary release … Nona Gaye and Harold Perrineau in The Matrix Reloaded (2003). ![]() Many trans and queer people experience this truth in underground party scenes, where the techno club is a safe environment to explore who they really are. Co-creator Lilly Wachowski recently revealed that, in the original screenplay, Switch was supposed to be a trans character who in the matrix was a woman and in the real world a man. The Matrix is also based on such a distinction between the apparent world and the real world. “Everything you see may not be real,” UR sang on their 1998 album Interstellar Fugitives. UR sought to harness techno’s power of anonymity to de-programme people from what they called the “dominant mindbeam”: the false reality by which, through mass media, we’re conditioned to accept an untrue sense of who we are. ![]() Along with Mike Banks, Mills was co-founder of the Detroit techno collective Underground Resistance (UR). “I’m becoming the third person,” he told the Wire, comparing his productions to robot probes of alien territories. Techno artist Jeff Mills similarly speaks of shedding his human form through music. “When they go into the Matrix, they create their persona, which is how they see themselves,” said Matrix costume designer Kym Barrett of the characters, with their PVC coats, heavy boots and micro sunglasses (by Richard Walker). Similarly, the fashion in the film is not unlike stereotypical Berlin techno clubwear. It’s telling that The Matrix’s character names (Neo, Trinity, Morpheus) all sound like the monikers of techno producers (Function, DVS1, Cadency). “I extrapolated the necessity of interfacing the spirituality of human beings into the cybernetic matrix,” said Cybotron’s Rik Davis (using the word “matrix” before the film existed), “between the brain, the soul and the mechanisms of cyberspace.”ĭirector Lana Wachowski at the premiere of The Matrix Resurrections. Cybotron’s dystopian 1984 track Techno City was inspired by Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and the Tokyo of Yellow Magic Orchestra’s track Technopolis. When club techno arose in 1980s Detroit, African American producers were reimagining the deindustrialised city as a site of futurist fantasies. Techno continues to inspire the franchise’s aesthetics. Its director, Lana Wachowski, goes clubbing at Berghain, the Berlin techno club where Dettmann is resident and where, cut off from the everyday world, people have surreal, liberating experiences. ![]() “We can’t see it,” says a character in The Matrix Resurrections, “but we’re all trapped inside these strange repeating loops.” Small surprise techno producer Marcel Dettmann was commissioned to write music for this latest film in the franchise.
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