It has been close to a month since the release of Mutiny‘s Let’s Get Mystical, and I’m just now getting around to the review. I wish I could have got this done sooner, but due to how good this video is it took a while to get it back from a friend I let borrow it. I was almost scared I’d never get it back! Alright, now that you have forgiven me and quite possibly stopped reading by now, back to the point of all this.
Let’s Get Mystical is Joe Simon’s latest full length video, and given the amount of respect and talent he has, I held the bar pretty high. I expected HD, smooth shots, and music that fit in with some solid riding from the Mutiny team. That isn’t asking for too much is it? I think that is the standard for any DVD these days anyway.
The video does feature all those things for sure, and a lot of 16mm film shots, also.
It seems like you get about a year or two of trailers or updates about a video coming out these days. I will admit it does help get the word out and get people excited. Mutiny did the exact opposite by basically announcing the video two weeks before it would become available. I’m not sure of how that method worked for getting pre-sales and everything, but it seems like a lot of people caught on pretty quick that the video was out.
Let’s Get Mystical features Josh Bedford, Brandon Hoerres, Hanson Little, Matt Roe, Justin Simpson, Ryan Smith, Randy Taylor, George Boyd, Andy Martinez, Robbo. It also features some clips from Morgan Wade and Niki Croft who both recently left the team prior to the videos release for their own personal reasons. The team travels all over for trips to the Northwest, England, Pennsylvania, Chicago, and Texas. There aren’t any individual parts, but just mixes from each trip.
The music in the video is for the most part untapped artists (in my opinion...) that give a great vibe to the video. I honestly busted out laughing when I heard Soulja Boy’s Turn My Swag On since it was unexpected and doesn’t go with the rest of the music in the video really. I’d like to thank Mutiny for posting up the soundtrack on their website, which you can find below.
INTRO
Spiritualized - Broken Heart
NORTHWEST
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Eight Days Of Hell
Placebo - Slave to the Wage
Wolf Parade - Kissing The Beehive
ENGLAND
The Horrors - Primary Colours
PENNSYLVANIA
Dead Meadow - Greensky Greenlake
Brian Jones Town Massacre - Nevertheless
MIDWEST
Broken Social Scene - Lucky Ones
Soulja Boy - Turn My Swag On
TEXAS
Tom Petty - Mary Jane’s Last Dance
Electric President - Robophobia
Pink Floyd - Time
M83 - We Own the Sky
MONTAGE
The new pornographers - Hey, Snow White
Justin Simpson
Spiritualized - Soul On Fire
CREDITS
Discovery - Orange Shirt
Overall, the video has a real good vibe, as I said above, and the team really seems like they are more of a family than a company’s team. Joe Simon did an amazing job of capturing the riding and random moments while out on the trips. I was really into the England and Pennsylvania sections the most. England for its amazing and unique street, and Pennsylvania for the incredible trails that are home to that area. Tom Petty is another personal favorite, so that scored pretty high in my book in the music department, also. The Glidecam shots were phenomenal.
The only negative I really have are that I wish some of the guys on the team had more clips. Given the budgets for the trips, riders personal schedule, injuries, and a few other things probably came into play, it would have been nice to see more Brandon Hoerres for example. I would have liked to see some clips of Gaz and Joe, also.
So, if you haven’t seen the video yet, I’d advise you at least borrow it from a friend to check out once. It is available pretty much everywhere through online mail orders, and at shops. If your shop doesn’t have it, I’m sure they can get ahold of a distributor that has it. It goes for about $14.99 or $29.99 if you want it in Blu-Ray.
