The Soundtrack for Deep Shit is very important for the story. Not only did I try to run through pop music history from -say- the 40s to the 70’s; the music shows that we have different interpretations of what we hold for the truth. Two bands wrote the same song accidentally but their execution is very different. One is a punk rock version in English while the other one is a synth wave version in French. This concept foreshadows the idea of a Platonic ‘Ideal World’ where ideas are pure and we tap into that world to work with derivates of the original and pure ideas.
In the animated short, the animated characters travel to the world of the artist creating them, to ask him to design them as more successful. They get help from the devil, making the music even more fun: popular music and satanism always went hand in hand.
The music was written by me and performed by the Spinshots, Boyd Small, the Van Dijck Sisters and Edwin Slothouber.
(Shut Your Trap and) Sell Your Soul is sung by Boyd Small, a friend who happens to be a fantastic singer. He did the voice for ‘Lucifero’ in my animated short Deep Shit.
It’s a given fact famous people sold their soul to the devil, and in this song the devil explains why that isn’t as bad as it seems: ‘effortlessly making waves!’ – and what is your soul worth anyway? (In Deep Shit, God is dead long time, and everybody goes to hell. The devil has a merely ceremonial job and he is really, really tired of it).
‘Sell Your Soul’ was sung by Boyd Small. I wrote the song for my animation short ‘Deep Shit’ and performed it with the Spinshots. Boyd did the voice of ‘Lucifero’ in the film and since he is a great blues singer – I asked him to take the lead on this one.
‘Sell Your Soul’ (and shut your trap) is the key tune from Deep Shit, an animated short I did with quite a team. (check the film here)
We performed the song with the Spinshots, with the Van Dijck Sisters at the backings. It turned out to be a great tune so we made a videoclip for it as well – in Jelle Mulder’s studio around the corner of mine.
If you swipe to the right you’ll see the 10 minute animation movie with more music by the Spinshots and friends!