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News Hot Buttered Soul Art-Tertainment Series to be released by X-Treme Video
X-Treme Video continues to blend top-level free sports art with high quality film entertainment
by Howard Swanwick
07/03/2008:// Hot on the heels of the success of the first Art-Tertainment Series, X-Treme Video continues to blend top-level free sports art with high quality film entertainment, by releasing the limited edition HOT BUTTERED SOUL series.
Hot Buttered Soul was a revolutionary four track LP released by Isaac Hayes and the Bar-Kays in 1969. A few months later, 20-year-old Terry Fitzgerald, fresh from an Hawaiian winter season and a big fan of funk and soul rhythms decided to identify the name for his new surfboard company with this multi-layered music genre. But all three words didn’t quite fit on the rainbow sash logo.
Thus Hot Buttered Surfboards were born - and with it one of surfing’s true originals.
But the third word never went missing. Instead it’s lived in the handmade, hand-painted HB surfboards and the styles that arose from riding them, over three decades, in the best surf on the planet.
Hot Buttered Soul: The Movie draws on a deep well of surf cinema heritage to present the surfing of the HB extended family. Choice selections from HB’s “Sultans of Speed” series, along with surf flick classics Morning of the Earth, A Winter’s Tale, Fantasea, Storm Riders and more, are expertly intercut by editor Mick Waters, with interviews and commentary from Andrew Kidman and Derek Hynd.
Wherever they went, “Sultans” trips always had the knack of scoring amazing waves.
Viewers will be stunned by the NSW north coast sessions of ’88, when in an outrageous 10 day binge, Poto, Simon Law, Cattle and Deaney surfed all the classic pointbreaks at their maximum size and shape.
They’ll also freak at Joel’s hair-raising couple of bombs at a terrifying Irish reefbreak, and wallow in the pleasure of perfect Periscope Point on Sumbawa, Indonesia, before the surf camps arrived.
Then the movie swings to a down home sequence that sees Terry, Kye and Joel head back to Jeffreys Bay on a family trip with some timeless TF equipment, including Driftas and wing pin single fins, and ride ‘em into the ground at J-Bay and the rarely glimpsed Cape St Francis.
Yet underlying it all is the still-astonishingly fresh lines and torquing style of TF in the 1970s, blowing away the world at Jeffreys, Rocky Point, Uluwatu and various lesser known locations. It’s a sublime treat watching today’s power surfing at its moment of invention.
The unique soundtrack, featuring ex Tamam Shud guitarist Tim Gaze in front of a six piece band, was written, practiced, and finally recorded as a single 59-minute free-flowing piece, in sync with the movie’s final cut. It’s an inspired enhancement to inspired footage.
The unique packaging will feature two photos which can either remain in their original frame or be removed as individual collector’s items. The first 3 different series of artworks will be limited to 600, 600 and 800. A limited numbered edition of 42 units, of each design, will come with hand signed photos by the Sultan of Speed himself.
The movie will be released on March 15th 2008 simultaneously for download via surfnetwork.com and x-tremevideo.com for download, and via Mutiny Media in the US and X-Treme Video in Europe for hard copies and limited edition packaging.
For more information please visit www.art-tertainment.com or www.x-tremevideo.com
About Hot Buttered Surfboards:
Hot Buttered is an underground surf label that originated in Sydney in 1971. Now in 21st century, the HB Team includes wakeboarders, skateboarders, BMX'ers, snowboarders, dj's and bands, as well as their internationally reknown surf team. More info on www.hotbuttered.com
About Art-Tertainment:
ART-TERTAINMENT is literally a cross between Art and Entertainment. Art contained within art. A film is a work of art, but a DVD is a very functional object. The idea is to make every DVD a unique work of art for people to collect.
Each ART-TERAINMENT DVD will be one of a limited edition series containing original, hand made, signed or numbered photos or artworks from top artists from within the culture surrounding each sport, such as Thomas Campbell, Andrew Kidman, Ed Templeton, Marc Mc Kee, Pasi Salminen or Andy Davis…
About X-Treme Video: www.x-tremevideo.com
X-TREME VIDEO is a leader in extreme sports content distribution, with a focus on supplying high-quality visually dynamic and culturally interesting film and video through every kind of physical and digital media platform.
The brand has built a solid reputation among extreme sports fans as a seal of quality due to its privileged relationships with over 200 of the worlds finest film producers and its relentless quest for the insane.
Founded in 1994 by Val Martin and Franck Bywalski, X-TREME VIDEO was born out of the action sport industry and identified potential in providing sport enthusiasts with footage rarely seen on TV.
The company started by selling surfing and snowboarding video, and later broadened its catalogue to, include other extreme sports. The full range now also includes skiing, wakeboarding, skateboarding, windsurfing, kite boarding, motocross, road bike stunt, BASE jumping, body boarding, BMX, mountain biking, long boarding, jet skiing, snowmobile, rock climbing and many more.
X-TREME VIDEO manages what is considered to be the best and most current library of extreme sport’s footage in Europe.
For more information visit our website at www.x-tremevideo.com or contact us at this address
X-Treme Video SAS 9 Rue de la Negresse 64200 Biarritz France contact@x-tremevideo.com +33 559 43 86 00
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