Their releases cover a wide range of styles, from cut up vocal hip hop by their most prominent artist Machinedrum, to central IDM by artists like Proem, Mr. Projectile, and Deru, to indie-influenced electronic music like Tiki Obmar or Lateduster. They also release a wide geographical range of artists, from all over Europe and the US, as well as Australia, Russia and Japan. Also Merck is somewhat known for only putting forth minimal artist images, and not promoting the label in the traditional music industry push style.
Merck had produced 51 CD releases and 50 vinyl records by February 2007, at which point it ceased releasing new material.
A sublabel, Narita Records, has been set up by Merck to put out more dancefloor-oriented music.
Underground is built upon the skateboarding formula of previous Tony Hawk's games: the player explores levels and completes goals while performing tricks. The game features a new focus on customization; the player, instead of selecting a professional skater, creates a custom character. Underground adds the ability for players to dismount their boards and explore on foot. The plot follows the player character and his or her friend Eric Sparrow as the two become well-known professionals and grow apart.
The game was developed with a theme of individuality, which was manifested in the extensive customization options, the presence of a narrative, and the product's characterization as an adventure game. Real-world professional skateboarders contributed their experiences to the plot. Reviewers praised its wide appeal, soundtrack, customization, multiplayer, and plot. The graphics and the controls for driving vehicles and walking were less well received. Underground's PlayStation 2 version had sold 2.11 million copies in the United States by December 2007. A sequel, Underground 2, was released in 2004.
The series premise was to feature a new kidnapping each season, with a core continuing cast who investigated the kidnappings, and additional cast members who changed each season, consisting of the kidnappers and the people affected. The show told the story from the discrete points of view of the victim, the parents, the investigators, and the kidnappers. However, this idea of a semi-rotating cast became moot after the show's cancellation.
The core cast included ex-FBI operative Knapp (Jeremy Sisto) offering privately contracted services to retrieve kidnapping victims, his technologically adept coordinator and assistant Turner (Carmen Ejogo) and FBI Agent Latimer King (Delroy Lindo).
Timothy Hutton and Dana Delany co-star as an affluent New York couple whose teenage son Leopold (Will Denton) is abducted. Other characters include Gutman (Mädchen Amick) and "The Accountant" (James Urbaniak), Leopold's bodyguard (and King's brother-in-law) Virgil Hayes (Mykelti Williamson), and FBI agents played by Linus Roache and Michael Mosley. Interesting fact: Hutton's character's first name in this series was Conrad, which was the same first name of Hutton's character in the 1980 film Ordinary People which garnered Hutton an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Rabid Dogs is an Italian film directed by Mario Bava. It was made in 1974 but the film was seized by the courts during the final stages of production when the producer went bankrupt after the main investor in the film died in a car crash. It was not released until 1998.
Filmed originally as Semaforo Rosso (translation: Red Light), the film was released in 1998 on VHS as Rabid Dogs / Cani Arrabbiati, and re-released in 2007 (in a slightly reedited form) on DVD as Kidnapped. The original Italian title referred to a key scene in the film in which the characters make a fatal stop at a traffic signal, an occurrence that triggers all of the events of the plot, which involves a group of bank robbers and the hostages they take who they order to drive them from Rome to another location.
Plot synopsis
Four ruthless criminals wait outside the gates of a pharmaceutical company to steal the pay wages from an armored truck which will arrive at the gated complex. Upon the truck's arrival, the heavily armed thieves hold up the truck, killing a number of people in the process. But during the getaway, the thieves' car is riddled with bullets from the company's security guards which kill the getaway driver, and damage the car so that it's leaking fuel. The clean-cut, cunning leader of the group, known only as Doc (Maurice Poli), and his two vicious and scruffy cohorts, the knife-wielding Blade (Aldo Caponi) and the hulking seven-foot tall Thirty-Two (Luigi Montefiori) are overjoyed at the stolen cash they now have. But when their car stalls in a downtown part of Rome, they are forced to flee on foot into an underground car park, pursued by the police. The criminals grab two women as hostages, and when Blade accidentally kills one, the police, seeing the other female hostage Maria (Lea Lander) in danger, back away, allowing the criminals to steal her car and make an escape from the car park.
5. The protests demand Hamas return the hostages it has held since its murderous Oct ...First, Assad has gone ... 8, 2020 ... Givari pointed to the picture on a MilitantLaborForum flyer of 19-year-old Naama Levy being kidnapped by a Hamas thug during the Oct.
The U.S ...Anyone holding a U.S ... passports ... Under U.S ... Torpekai Momand, an Afghan immigrant who looks in on the boys, explained that there are thugs in Afghanistan who have kidnapped the relatives of someone who now lives in the U.S., and demanded ransom.
The U.S ...Anyone holding a U.S ... passports ... Under U.S ... Torpekai Momand, an Afghan immigrant who looks in on the boys, explained that there are thugs in Afghanistan who have kidnapped the relatives of someone who now lives in the U.S., and demanded ransom ... .
Ihsan Ali, 44, and his wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, were charged with attempted murder, attempted kidnapping, and assault after the attack on October 18...Barnes claimed 'tried to kidnap his son'.
... caught on a doorbell camera of armed gang members entering an apartment across the hall went viral in August of this year, recently kidnapped an illegal migrant couple who also lived at the facility.
For decades, the Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad built his power on a single, relentless narrative of survival ... [Graeme Wood. The end of a 13-year nightmare] ... Kidnappings for ransom became common, and checkpoints operated as cash grabs for local thugs.
Kraven/Sergei steps out of his brother’s apartment for a nap just as a bunch of the Rhino’s thugs come to kidnap him; Kraven calls a now-grown Calypso (Ariana DeBose) to warn her that the Rhino is ...
The video features Neeson as Thug, an aging mobster who brings his grandson to one of his jobs, which involves driving a big truck to an unknown location ... who have been kidnapped for human trafficking.
When Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris reopens visitors ‘will be stupefied, awestruck, by the interior – it will be a shock’ ... more videos. 1 2 3. Watch video ... Watch video ... Watch video ... Watch video. Shocking moment thugs attempt to kidnap Brit in broad daylight.
... women and children, wounded thousands and kidnapped 250 hostages ... One was YardenGonen, sister of Romy Gonen, who was kidnapped at the Nova music and dance festival, a special target of Hamas thugs.
But human rights experts have previously warned that innocent Palestinians have been kidnapped from their homes and tortured by Hamas thugs who have ruled Gaza with an iron rod since 2007.Read More.
Kidnap and torture ... kidnappings and beatings and threatening to kill them," he says ... "They're thugs with weapons who ride motorbikes and bikes and chase and kidnap children, threatening their lives.".
Walker & Catoosa County News
15 Nov 2024
Walker & Catoosa County News
15 Nov 2024