Biggie And Tupac (2002)
Nick Broomfield examines the lives and murders of rappers Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur and the rivalry between East Coast and West Coast music that culminated in their deaths. The film looks at the former friendship of the two artists and also investigates possible cover-ups and police corruption.
TweetEpisode 5 | The Music Machine: The Technocrats
Karlheinz Stockhausen tells Dick Witts what he thinks of the music of ambient composers Aphex Twin, Plastikman, Scanner and 17-year-old Daniel Pemberton. The programme also discovers that a few eminent electroacoustic composers have been taking their work to the chill-out rooms of clubs such as Megatripolis in London.
Episode 4 | The Music Machine: The Technocrats
Through the increasing use of modern technology, the rock music industry is having to re-examine the terms "composer", "producer" and "DJ". Four young ambient composers create a piece of music and invite comment from Stockhausen, who no longer teaches composition. Dick Witts asks him why.