This Christmas, if you are looking for an eccentric gift for a hardcore Hip Hop head who loves animation, turntablism, and WTF moments then Wave Twisters on DVD is it! DJs Q-Bert, Yoga Frog, D-Styles, Flare, with Buckethead (including animators Syd Garon, Doug Cunningham, and Eric Henry) went to town on this video. Watching this video is if the ill animation style of The Yellow Submarine met the Hip Hop culture with a soundtrack blessed by its aforementioned scratch DJs. Just simply dope!
Wave Twisters is one hell of a ride to trip off of with your peoples. Yeah, it is quite acidic in taste in the same vein as a cult classic film playing at midnight on a Saturday, but that is the beauty of this video! It is edgy, ill, and classic with its Hip Hop aesthetics. There should be more animated presentations created out there for the Hip Hop culture, and thanks to flicks like Wave Twisters there may be a filmmaker out there inspired to do just that!
Hopefully this piece and other films in the past will stir up some creative juices for someone to step forward. For example, I personally love the roughly syncopated intro to Wild Style, the animated graff transitions to Planet B-Boy, and the storytelling variety in Heavy Metal. What if the funk, aesthetics, experience, and politics of the Hip Hop culture (and its people) were injected into a full blown animated motion picture to further tell our stories. Now that would be really dope!
Quit searching and buy this DVD as a special present, and then get one for yourself. Your Hip Hop DVD library will thank you! It comes equipt with additional DVD extras, too.
Enjoy!
