The music in ‘Kick Drum Mayhem!’ was inspired by a Black Lung distorted kick drum and then given the Shinjuku Thief treatment with Korean percussion and Wagnerian brass. The end result is so overblown that it was felt that it could provide an interesting counterweight for the zany playfulness of Ivan Gaal’s ‘Applause Please’ from 1974. Freshly edited for the millennial attention span.
Content notification
Our collection comprises over 40,000 moving image works, acquired and catalogued between the 1940s and early 2000s. As a result, some items may reflect outdated, offensive and possibly harmful views and opinions. ACMI is working to identify and redress such usages.
Learn more about our collection and our collection policy here. If you come across harmful content on our website that you would like to report, let us know.
How to watch
This work has been digitised and can be viewed in the display above.
Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
B2004747
Language
No spoken word
Subject categories
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour