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LOST AND FOUND
(THE VANDROID STORY)
The year was 1984. Van Halen’s “Jump” dominated the charts. It was a dark time for music.
But 6000 miles away on the outskirts of Melbourne, something entirely different was in the works.
In a windowless warehouse building on the dreary outskirts of town, an unknown purveyor of grind-house cinema was beginning principal photography on what would be it’s last film ever. That summer, in that same warehouse, a young audio engineer named Fujiyama was contracted to record a visionary album as a companion piece to the film using a preproduction test unit of the latest synthesising equipment from Sansui in Osaka.
But sadly, the film and the soundtrack created for it, would not be completed according to plan.
A few weeks later, a freak fire raged out of control, destroying the studio. The barrister found the owners innocent. Insurance checks were cut. And the masters for the film and soundtrack were presumed gone forever.
In the Summer of 2009, Police were called by county court to open a rental-storage locker in the San Fernando Valley, CA with payments long overdue registered to a man by the name of Fujiyama Matsumoto, deceased, as confirmed by LA County Coroner’s Office, 2007.
SYNOPSIS
VANDROID, THE MOTION PICTURE, 1984
FILM TREATMENT
Chuck Carducci made his name as one of the top builder/mechanics of the mid-70’s in the custom vanning craze sweeping the nation. His artistic and award-winning designs were seen across the country.
Then came the money. Then came the women. And then came the drugs.
At the height of the custom vanning craze, Chuck Carducci was on top of the world. But by the 80’s vanning is all but dead. What nobody had reckoned was that Chuck Carducci still has one more bullet left in the gun. Now, still hooked on dust and broke as a joke, Carducci jury-rigs together a salvaged mainframe from NASA’s JPL, a garage full of leftover high-performance van parts and a plutonium ion dubiously procured from Moscow to build a robot so human, yet so powerful, it can only be called: VANDROID.
Carducci barely gets to appreciate the fruits of his labor. For that same night he is brutally murdered by the robot of his making. And VANDROID is more than happy to assume his maker’s identity. Even Carducci’s wife has no idea. Other than her husband’s sudden prodigious sexual appetite, everything seems completely normal.
But truth be told, time is running out for VANDROID. Now his only hope is procuring the 10,000 units of high-end perfume necessary to replenish the plutonium ion battery which powers his mainframe. For if his plutonium ion dies, so will VANDROID.
MOVIE CREDITS
- Executive Producer:Ivor Powell
- Original novel byJoseph Stevens
- CinematographyGeorge Dodge Production
- DesignWilliam Sandell Jnr
- CastingStanzi Stokes
- Costume DesignBobby Mannix
- Original ArtSan Julian
- Original MusicFujiyama Matsumoto
- Re Mastered ScoreNic Nicola
Fred Falke - ScreenplayJoseph Stevens
Nicolas Randall - ProducedLarry A Franco
- DirectedNicolas Randall
(RE)MASTER AND SLAVE
(THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)
Presumed lost forever, the visionary unfinished concept album was found in a sealed box in the back of the storage locker and now this epic soundtrack from this unreleased film is about to be released over 25 years after it's creation.
Re-mixed and mastered by Fred Falke & Nic Nicola, this presumed lost gem will be finally released featuring re-mixes from a growing que of contemporary dance music luminaries.
The first track of the forthcoming fully remastered album has been released!
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MASTER & SLAVE (VAN SHE TECH REMIX)!
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