Kai Hugo performs with a band as Palmbomen, on his own as Palmbomen II, or as Betonkust, all of which let you wander off into a wistful, dreamy world.With both of them out for revenge against drug lord Calderone (the late Miguel Piñero, who spent most of his teen years behind bars for committing violent crimes, before breaking out with his hit play on prison life, Short Eyes), who eventually gets away, Tubbs decides to leave the concrete jungle all the way up north behind for a life of fighting crime against the pastel backdrops and hot babe filled, jai alai playing landscape of Miami, while seemingly always followed around by the hottest pop tunes of the day (such as the now iconic introduction of Phil Collins’ moody 80’s electronic masterpiece In the Air Tonight, with our somber pretty boy heroes zooming along the watered-down streets in Crockett’s souped-up convertible, that could easily hilariously play, if you slightly – and I mean, slightly - shift your perspective, with their open fetishizing of the large guns they firmly hold in their grasps as they steal furtive glances at each other, with Crockett pulling over to call his ex-wife to be assured that ‘what they had was real’, as a scene of his dawning realization his feelings for his ‘partner’ extend a bit beyond just as a fellow crime-fighter, with them on their way to consummate rather than fight bad guys – not that I’m judging, by any means). Kai Hugo works with minimum means, often on tape, bringing his collection of old synths to take his audience on a surrealist trip to an imagined retro paradise, an otherworldly state of mind drenched in SF spheres. Palmbomen II performs live after the screening of the legendary, pioneering TV series' pilot episodes. Prior to Miami Vice, Eye screens the video clip Carina Sayles by Palmbomen II, featuring influences from vintage Chicago house albums and European electronic music, and early episodes of the SF series The X-Files. The director was not Michael Mann himself but Thomas Carter, who did a lot of television work and would go on to make films like Metro starring Eddie Murphy and Coach Carter starring Samuel L. The two-part pilot of Miami Vice first aired on 16 September 1984. Elvis, Crockett”s pet alligator, is already in on the action. We see Crockett and Tubbs cruising downtown Miami at night in their Ferrari Daytona Spyder to confront a sinister and brutal drug lord, with the soundtrack of Phil Collins” In the Air Tonight providing a surrealist take. This first episode is already vintage Vice, with its revolutionary use of music and cinematography giving the series the look and feel of one long video clip. The pilot won two Emmy Awards: one for Outstanding Cinematography and one for Outstanding Film Sound Editing. The official title of the Miami Vice pilot was Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper Part I & II.
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