I only discovered Anders Enger Jensen and his Retro Grooves albums recently and instantly fell in love with the modern/retro disco sound!

I love this track, DiscoVision, from Retro Grooves Vol.3 the most, as it appeals to my love of vintage technology, in this case the laser disc which was developed by Philips, MCA Inc., and Pioneer Corporation.

To create this track, Anders has sampled from the film 'Operating Instructions for the MCA DiscoVision PR-7820 System' which was available on a demonstration video disc for use in commercial (rather than consumer) applications.

Presented by actor J.D. Cannon, the film describes how to use the MCA DiscoVision. In doing so, J.D. access a disc in the player called the 'US Demo'. Both films are here on YouTube, and so I decided to create a video of the DiscoVision music track with video samples from both films.

I needed to lip-sync J.D. Cannon from the 'Operating Instructions' film with the samples of his narration embedded in the DiscoVision music track, which I have achieved to the greatest extent, I hope!

Anyway enjoy, and hopefully YouTube will detect the music and issue a copyright claim to benefit Anders Enger Jensen. In any case you should seek out his music - a real find!

To make this video, I sourced a high-quality recording of the music, and sampled the two videodisc films in realtime at 1920x1080 using a BlackMagic HyperDeck Studio Mini recorder connected to an Apple Macbook Pro HDMI interface and recorded using Apple ProRes 422 codec at over 200Mbps. A timeline of size 1440x1080 (4:3 aspect ratio) was then created in DaVinci Resolve 17 and this video assemble edited. The output file was delivered at 1440x1080 in H.264 at 15Mbps with PCM linear stereo sound and uploaded to YouTube.


DiscoVision
from the album Retro Grooves, Vol. 3
by Anders Enger Jensen
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Operating Instructions for the MCA DiscoVision PR-7820 System
filmed in 1978 and presented by actor J.D. Cannon
The Media Hoarder
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1978 DiscoVision "US DEMO" laserdisc
The Media Hoarder
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More on presenter J.D. Cannon (John Donovan Cannon)

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