I have a track ID request, this has been bothering me for years. I'm not sure if anyone even remembers this, but let's give it a try... If you watched MTV Europe in the nineties, you probably remember that they sometimes used run these inserts between the ad breaks and the shows. They were kinda like the famous MTV logo animations, but longer, and they often used pre-existing tunes, sometimes mixed together. Now, one of these inserts featured glowing, flickering, black & yellow images of guys in commando ski-masks, urban landscape, skulls, electricity, etc - rather industrial type of imagery. The music playing during the clip was a fast acid house tune (with 303) with the guitar riff from Metallica's "Unforgiven" mixed on top of it. I really liked the acid house tune, but I never found out what it was, so I wonder if someone else might've seen the same clip and recognized the tune?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 21:12 (seventeen years ago)
I've been trying to find the actual video clip online, but so far with no results. I guess there's no archive site for old MTV inserts?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 21:16 (seventeen years ago)
MTV Europe was so much better than MTV UK and Ireland - sometimes you'd get a video from some random Czech industrial metal band or something played in the middle of the day.
Sorry, I have no answer to your query.
― chap, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 21:31 (seventeen years ago)
Okay, I just realized that the riff wasn't actually from "Unforgiven" but from "Wherever I May Roam" - the jangly bit in the beginning of the song.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 21:37 (seventeen years ago)
I guess it's pretty much hopeless to try find this tune without the video clip, but it doesn't look like the clip is available anywhere either...
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 09:46 (seventeen years ago)
bUMP.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 12:59 (sixteen years ago)
for some reason i just went on a 20 minute long search for you, tuomas. nothing. sorry.
― the table is the table, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 13:03 (sixteen years ago)
Thanks for the effort anyway!
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 22:53 (sixteen years ago)
i dunno but i fucking loved this one
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 22:57 (sixteen years ago)
shit didn't realise it's only the first 7 seconds for some reason - it's the drum n bassy one tho
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 22:58 (sixteen years ago)
Yeah, I remember that one, it was great! In fact, would you happen to remember what was the second tune to play in that insert? The one which came after the intro, when the camera panned downstairs and people were dancing? I remember it had a pretty, kinda trance-like synth line and a jungle beat.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 23:03 (sixteen years ago)
i don't actually know any of the 3-4 tunes they used (thought first one was a Roni Size thing maybe).
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 23:08 (sixteen years ago)
I think the insert had a snippet from "Let Me Be Your Fantasy", the bit where the voice says "underground is where we wanna go moving".
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 23:12 (sixteen years ago)
The one which came after the intro, when the camera panned downstairs and people were dancing? I remember it had a pretty, kinda trance-like synth line and a jungle beat.
Ah, I found the tune I was looking for, it's "A Better Place (DJ Crystl Remix)" by DJ Tamsin & The Monk. The bit that played in the MTV promo starts around 2 minutes and 50 seconds into the tune. It's weird how well I remembered it even after all these years.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 23:54 (sixteen years ago)
DJ Tamsin & The Monk - A Better Place (DJ Crystl Remix)
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 00:02 (sixteen years ago)
Bump.
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 July 2009 13:45 (sixteen years ago)
here's the full version of the one embedded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5jWie495Tc
― mdskltr (blueski), Sunday, 15 November 2009 17:15 (sixteen years ago)
Cool, that brings back a lot of memories! I wonder if we could identify all the tunes in that insert? The first one is "A Better Place (DJ Crystl Remix)", as mentioned above, but I can't tell the rest... Though the beat in 0:39 - 0:45 sounds incredibly familiar, anyone know what it is?
― Tuomas, Sunday, 15 November 2009 21:46 (sixteen years ago)
I still haven't found the insert nor identified the tune mentioned in the first post though. :(
― Tuomas, Sunday, 15 November 2009 21:47 (sixteen years ago)
i think i know the mtv ad you mean (only video i can remember being used in it now is a few seconds of The Shamen's 'Comin On Strong')
can't find that one but here's another from the same time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfquX6bPjs4
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 16 November 2009 00:18 (sixteen years ago)
keep finding all but the one in question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNAoqjWB51g
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 16 November 2009 00:33 (sixteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk8npJHnbXw
― ♘ (blueski), Friday, 4 March 2011 01:07 (fifteen years ago)
Bump. Still looking for the "Wherever I May Roam" + acid house MTV insert, or at least the name of the acid house tune used in it.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 9 February 2012 13:25 (fourteen years ago)
― Tuomas, Friday, 1 August 2014 11:27 (eleven years ago)
Hey Tuomas. Apparently this person uploaded a shitton of MTV Europe commercial breaks from 1995. I don't have time to look through them at the moment, but maybe they will be helpful to you.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUgSbcfM9RWqUU4XQkQaW8TQ
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Friday, 1 August 2014 12:34 (eleven years ago)