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Prophecy + Progress is a double CD compilation focusing on UK electronic music from between the years 1978 and 1990. Over the two-disc, there are twenty-eight tracks- with a good mix of tone and type of track- going from the grey ‘n’ grim, onto the experimental, through to more formal tuneful/pop-bound fare.
Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku is probably best known for his turn-of-the-century dystopian epic Battle Royale, which not only prompted a brand-new phenomenon of films and games centred on one survivor death battles but also spawned a new generation of young actors. However, in truth, his key body of work is centred around the yakuza film, a subgenre he effectively kickstarted with his five-part Battles without Honor and Humanity a.k.a The Yakuza Paper movie series, made between 1973 and 74, and which he swiftly followed up with the three-film instalment, New Battles without Honor and Humanity. Despite this burst of activity, within five years his days of yakuza filmmaking were over, in no small part due to the tragedy-cum-controversy that followed the release of 1977’s Hokuriku Proxy War.
