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Dune 2's UNEXPECTED Musical Connection
🕑 Added 2024-03-12 16:00:09 +0000 UTCThe movie Dune 2 is out, and features Christopher Walken as the Emperor. This is crazy not only for Dune fans, for Christopher Walken fans, but also for fans of early 2000s big beat electronic music!
Today we're diving into the Dune Cinematic Universe (albeit, a loosely connected one) to see the connections between the new movie and the 2001 song "Weapon of Choice" by Fatboy Slim. Then I'll be breaking this song down because it turns out, it's FULL of great samples, famous bass players, and 90s hip hop references.
Note: this video is slightly longer than the YouTube edit, and includes longer sections of music that had to be cut for YouTube
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Leslie Gowdy
Never knew this song was linked to Dune….i wasn’t that sure Walken was doing all the dancing
Brandon Shaw
Yes! One thing I love about hip hop and electronic music, and any sample based music, is a knowledge and appreciation for other genres of music, as well as rolling multiple unexpected things together, like this song with 60s samples and 90s hip hop.
Justin O
As a dance music DJ / bedroom producer since the 90's, I can't express how much I dig when you occasionally dip into electronic music for video topics! While I've loved Hip-Hop since I was a young kid in the late 80's...beginning in my teens, Electronic Music (House specifically) is really where most of my life's obsession with music has been spawned from & most of my time with music has been spent. Combined, they've served equally as the path to my love of ALL their shared lineage genres (Disco, Boogie, Soul, Funk, R&B, etc etc), so I love these forays into things outside of Hip-Hop, just a little more than everything else you do. ;) Appreciate you and what you do, more and more all the time... thanks again for all the hard work!
