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Thanks Alkali. Interesting point about the music.
The music was picked based on what fitted the riding, and also to a certain extent the lyrical nature working as a double meaning as a comparison between the hip-hop "street" life and street bmxing. I personally have a preference to early 90's hip hop, the range of styles within it and the passion contained within it makes it a pleasure to edit to. That and the UK just doesn't have music legends like Pharaoh Monch, Old Dirty Bastard and The Artifacts. The choice to then include some of the completely contrasting songs was a throwback to Scerbo and his ability to include tracks like "Blondie - Hanging on the telephone" and make it seem right when thrown in the mix.
One of the recent LurkNYC (skateboarding) videos achieved this musical link perfectly by using East Coast hip hop on the NYC footage and West Coast hip hop on the SF footage. I would have loved to have done something similar but it seems like there is still quite a strong DnB and Grime scene around here, and it just wasn't the direction I wanted the video to go.
I hadn't really considered that the music being very US centred is quite different to the fact that all of the footage is very much local and contained. Even down to the cctv footage, which was a local post office, and Joe Ward's intro, which was a chopped up advertisement for a local security firm.
I've begun work on a mixtape and the few songs I've put to one side to maybe use are UK based so maybe I'll go that route this time.