Radio 1 Rescores Drive

Last week saw the result of Radio 1 Zane Lowe's ambitious project of rescoring the movie Drive premier on BBC3. 

As huge fans of the original movie & soundtrack we were apprehensive to hear this new interpretation of the film, both as fans and as fellow creatives. The concept of taking a 'completed' piece of cinema and prompting artists to reinterpret and respond to it in a fresh way has certainly captured our interest. 

Curating this project must have been an incredibly exiting but daunting task for Zane Lowe. We believe that there is a great amount of credit due for such an undertaking. We think that he has created a brilliant alternative soundtrack which can stand alone from the original. 

This exciting project has really inspired us. Although the rescored version has taken heavy criticism online, we at midsummer nights feel that any project promoting the creative exploration of artists can only be good. If nothing else it has inspired artists and bands to create some wonderful new material which otherwise may not have existed. 

Measuring the soundtrack against the original, to us, seems obsolete. It was not created to better the original, only to act as an alternative. This is often common place in visual curation and we applaud Zane Lowe for putting together a soundtrack which reflects his interpretation of the film. A couple of our favourite tracks from this soundtrack were contributed by artists like Bastille, Eric Prydz and Bring me the Horizon.

We were really impressed with this project, encouraging artists to cross over disciplines and collaborate in new and inventive ways. This is a value we hold as a high priority here at midsummer nights and we have several projects in the pipeline which do exactly this. More information about Zane Lowe's project and creative process can be seen in the video above: