- Addictive TV
Addictive TV was formed in 1992. The UK DJ/producers and audiovisual artists are the team behind
Optronica - thevisual music and VJ festival held at the NFT andBritish Film Institute IMAX inLondon , UK.In 1998 they produced Transambient for
Channel 4 in the UK and from 2000 - 2005 produced the ground-breaking DJ:VJ music seriesMixmasters for the UK'sITV1 . In 2003, working closely with the R&D area of Japanese manufacturerPioneer Electronics they became instrumental with the testing and development of their DVD turntables, the first being thePioneer DVJ-X1 released in 2004, the follow-upDVJ 1000 was released in 2006.As artists, Addictive TV have performed in places including the
Pompidou Centre inParis and theRoyal National Theatre inLondon to festivals likeRoskilde Festival in Denmark and theSan Francisco Film Festival in the US.They are known for their bootleg film remixes, and in 2006 they became the first group to officially
remix aHollywood film, reworkingNew Line Cinema 's dance-centricTake the lead into an audiovisualViral video . In 2006 they also worked onSnakes on a Plane remixing the film for its TV commercials. Then in 2008 they cut a remix for Paramount andMarvel 'sIron Man film . [cite news | author = Miller, Neil | title = Officially Cool: Iron Man Trailer Re-Mixed | publisher = Film School Rejects |date =2008-05-02 | url = http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/officially-cool/officially-cool-iron-man-trailer-re-mixed.php | accessdate=2008-05-02]Also in 2006, they performed at
Siggraph '06 - the world largest digital arts events.In the same year, in the international publication
DJMag annual poll, Addictive TV were voted #1 VJs in the world for a second time (the first being in 2004 in the magazine's first ever VJ poll alongside their Top 100 DJ poll). [(DJ Magazine is home to the world's biggest and most important DJ Poll - DJmag's Top 100 DJs - and annually hundreds of thousands of dance music fans vote for their favourite DJs through the website. In 2004 the magazine began an annual VJ poll too)]Discography
From 2001 to 2005, Addictive TV were signed to US label
Moonshine Music , releasing nine DVD albums of theirMixmasters and Transambient projects. They also release through Naive in France, Absolut viaUniversal Music Group in Germany and Pinnacle in the UK.Titles include: (2000) TRANSAMBIENT / (2001) SPACED OUT / (2002) MIXMASTERS #1and (2005) AUDIOVISUALIZE
References
External links
* [http://www.myspace.com/addictivetv ADDICTIVE TV MySpace page]
* [http://www.addictive.com ADDICTIVE TV WEBSITE]
* [http://www.optronica.org OPTRONICA WEBSITE]
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