#templestudios

[madameximon]

The amazing Alan Oakes of my favorite synthwave act @letemriot singing his heart out at #neonri. #retrowave #synthwave #rhodeislandnightlife #templestudios (at Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick (Airport))

[jdread365]

In the studio #templestudios A very Inspiring moment. I swear I'm the next #superproducer ! #california #northcarolina #redondobeach #mytime #viral #motivation #flstudio #flgang (at Redondo Beach, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8EjDbmnXOo/?igshid=t1y7wj75bk44

[realbodean-blog]

Dynamic Duo back at it. #TempleStudios get at my bro and engineer @mixmastamonsta for ya next project to get that industry sound. #studios #froppreciation #music #hiphop #stl #bovember

[drinkthehalo]

I became a SNM fan at 2016 so I had never experienced TDM. Is there any chance that TDM will be on stage someday?

Sadly, as much as I wish otherwise, this seems unlikely. 

You can wander through parts of the space with this virtual tour, look at fanart and photos (I recommend @templestudios fan blog), listen to my TDM youtube playlist (there’s also some video clips and news footage at the end), read writings about the show (I’ve linked some of my favorites here under “Awesome things from other fans”), or buy the official photo book.

Wander through my “the drowned man” tag here…

[saike33-blog]

福岡のあらゆるSHOPに納品完了致しました！皆さまのお陰で、なんとかここまで、辿り着けました！ 心の底から感謝致しております！ 宜しくお願い致します。 OYAFUKO JET CITY /催化 a.k.a PSYCHICMEN 発売日は2018.10.17日 OYAFUKO JET CITY 福岡取扱店！！ #trooprecords #darahabeats #ticromarket #stairrecords #squash_daimyo #alcoholic_jpn #op1 #juice092 #旭家 #templestudio (saike33@gmail.com) #allmyfriends 沖縄 #波の上music 大阪 #一二三屋 東京 #wenodrecords #jarbeatrecord #discunion 北海道 #bigboytoys 全国 #towerrecords #hmv #tutaya #andrespecttoarecordstore ■REVIEW 福岡親不孝を拠点に活動していたBIG BANG CREW本体の沈黙が続く中、紆余曲折を経て、 MCの催化がビートメイクに開花し、催化 a.k.a. PSYCHICMEN名義として初のソロ・アルバム 「OYAFUKO JET CITY」を発表!!! ソロとしては2枚のEP「THE 1st IDENTITY」、「JAPONICA BOM EP」を自主で発表、 破天荒な問題児に纏わる諸々の紆余曲折を経て、ここに復活!! 催化のビートに反応した 親不孝の馴染みのDOPE MC'Sが多数参加!!!! 中でも活動休止中の"RAMB CAMP"の参加は話題必至!! 同じく親不孝を代表するクルー"CUBE c.u.g.p"やINNO、脳発火 a.k.a. BRAINHACKER擁する"GENOCIDE CANNON"、 同世代の"PRIDE MONSTER FAMILIA"よりYUDAAID & WAPPERと座敷屋、数年振りの音源となる"信狂楽団"等、 催化ならではの人選・人脈により、他に真似の出来ない面子を召喚し、見事作品へと昇華させた。 催化が提示するHIP HOP純度濃厚で、この街のインパクトを詰め���んだ1枚!! ■PROFILE 2003年11月からラッパーとして活動、2008年にはBIG BANG CREWを結成。リリック、フロー、スタイル、 他には真似できない神髄を爆進中。2009年、レーベルGRAND CLASS RECORDSを立ち上げる。 2010年頃より、TRACKMAKINGも開始！！2017年、自身のスタジオ”TEMPLE STUDIO”を立ち上げる！！ ■TRACK LIST 1.INTRO～GETTO STREET OF DREAM～ 2.南海の黄金(UPPER CUT REMIX) / feat.CUBE c.u.g.p 3.マスオとコアラ / feat.DIOUF 4.MY STEP / feat.REIDAM 5.R.S.S / feat.DEPFROG 6.T3 / feat.JUNCRANKY 7.STAND ARONE / feat.SHABAZZ from B.S.E.C. 8.チョイ / feat.座敷屋 9.AME 10.WHEN I'M DRUNK / feat.＋/－ 11.DAY BY DAY / feat.信狂楽団 12.DISTENY / feat.NOZE CANDY 13.GRAVITY(BROTHE BROTHER REMIX) / feat.KOW a.k.a 功徳 ＆ILL BEPP MIC JOB 14.THE SOUL / feat.YUDAAID & WAPPER (SCRACH BY STRIKE) 15.ZONE / feat.GENOCIDE CANNON 16.ROAD / feat.RAMB CAMP (SCRACH BY SKINNY) 17.OUTRO～DREAMS COME TRUE～ All Tracks Produced by 催化 a.k.a PSYCHICMEN Mastered & Mixed by MATTO (＋/－) Total produced by 催化 a.k.a PSYCHICMEN Designed by SEVEN (M2D) MANUFACTURED by GRAND CLASS RECORDS DISTRIBUTED by ULTRA-VYBE,INC. Ⓟ&Ⓒ 2018 GRAND CLASS RECORDS https://www.instagram.com/p/BpN6S0gHmZv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1g4kiyj1xtcxd

[dragononmyback]

“There’s a redness in the West, blood on the Moon, fire raging in the sky”

[ahollywoodfable]

[saike33-blog]

［拡散大希望］ 遂に届きました‼︎！ 発売日は2018.10.17日 OYAFUKO JET CITY 福岡取扱店！！ #trooprecords #darahabeats #ticromarket #stairrecords #squash_daimyo #alcoholic_jpn #op1 #juice092 #旭家 #templestudio (saike33@gmail.com) #allmyfriends 大阪 #一二三屋 東京 #wenodrecords #jarbeatrecord #discunion 北海道 #bigboytoys 全国 #towerrecords #hmv #tutaya #andrespecttoarecordstore https://www.instagram.com/p/Boyj4gKnEx5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17t7gc7oemrvr

[thedrownedmancontraband-blog]

Amazing atmosphere....

[jyu13]

#Farewell/My #Finale: We live inside a dream. #13 is the end of the loop. I can never go back anymore. #templestudios😢 (at Temple Studios)

[druegindler]

The Drowned Man

London. Day 42. June 24th, 2014.

  Class was the usual this day, apart from a long assignment we were given. After class, I went back to Roehampton and started to get ready for the evening my roommates and I had planned. We had bought tickets weeks ago to see a play called The Drowned Man, and the day had finally come to see it!

  Because I’m in a later class than my roommates, I didn’t have much time to kill before I had to start getting ready for the night. I showered, got dressed and ready, and soon enough it was time to head into central London. We made our way to the place we were having dinner and met up with the others who had had enough time to go out into the city and do things before our evening plans. We had a great dinner and then made our way to the theater.

  None of us really knew what to expect in this play. It had been recommended to one of my roommates by a friend who saw it when she was here in London. She said it was strange, to not look it up, and to just go see it with no expectations. We tried to do just that; we looked it up a little before we went to go see it, though. We wanted to at least get a feel for what we were getting ourselves into because it really sounded so strange! We knew that The Drowned Man was a Hollywood murder mystery fable, that you had to be 16 years of age to enter, and that the play didn’t take place on a stage exactly; the stage or set for the play was the entire studio itself, and there was no auditorium. The audience is standing the entire time and moving through the studio with the cast. So, the cast would go from room to room, and sometimes they would go off in different directions. You could choose who you wanted to follow, and it was highly recommended at the play that you go through it alone instead of trying to stick together with your friends. So ultimately, everyone could see something else entirely and everyone could come away with something different. Being that the play was a murder mystery, this really made for a very interesting set up! You would be with one or a few members of the cast while something else was happening elsewhere in the studios and you would have no idea! The murder could be happening, and you would have no idea what happened, while the people who ended up following the characters involved in the murder would see exactly what happened.

  It was an extremely interesting set up, and really very eerie. We knew the set-up had to be a little extreme and scary, and the plot had to be a little mature and violent and/or graphic due to the age restriction of 16. And it really was! The plot was very, very dark and violent. I actually saw a woman try to drown a man in a fishtank, and while I knew they were acting, it was almost horrifying to watch that only 2 feet from me. I also have no idea how he held his breath for that long! Not only was it violent, but it was graphic in other ways too. I definitely saw two penises and another guy’s butt….

  The music was creepy and the rooms were dark. Sometimes even the set-up was a little terrifying! Because here’s the strangest part….everyone in the audience was wearing a mask! Yes, that’s right. Every single person, except the 10 or so people in the cast, was wearing a mask. And when I looked it up, the play said that they would allow up to 600 people into the studio per show. So 600 people wearing masks, and only 10 or so weren’t! It was all extremely unusual, but it did make for a very interesting and unique set up for a murder mystery! I’m still trying to figure out what exactly happened in the play because – due to the fact that you can follow whomever you choose – it is something that you could definitely see more than once and end up seeing something different every time until you finally have all the pieces of the puzzle.

  I think that I would highly recommend it to anyone who was looking for something different to see in London. It was just so unique! I had never seen or heard anything like it, and while it was pretty tarrying with the masks, the ambiance, and the fact that you were only inches from the cast and sometimes they would touch you, it was a very neat experience!

  Even though everyone was seeing something different, the climax did take place in the same room with every member of the cast. So no matter who you followed, everyone should have ended up in the same room to see the climax.

  I won’t say anything more about the plot or anything like that because I honestly think people should go see it! Like the girl who recommended it, I’m glad she didn’t reveal all that much because going into it knowing almost nothing at all made the experience all the better, in my opinion! Even if you have to travel to London to do so! Go do it! It was a terrifying and thrilling experience all at the same time! 

[ahollywoodfable]

[drinkthehalo]

What was the plot of The Drowned Man?

Oh hey you asked about my favorite topic.

The Drowned Man was set in 1962 Hollywood. Its narrative was a mash-up of Woyzeck (a 1836 play by Georg Büchner about a mistreated soldier who murders his lover) and The Day of the Locust (a 1939 novel by Nathaniel West about the dark side of Hollywood). Other prominent influences included Sunset Blvd & the works of David Lynch (especially Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks).

The space was twice the size of Sleep No More NYC, with 32 characters. It had two main stories, mirror image versions of Woyzeck, one “inside the gates” of the film studio, in which starlet Wendy murders her cheating husband Marshall, and one “outside the gates,” in which lowly janitor William murders his cheating wife, Mary.

As it took place both on and off a film set, with lead characters who were descending into insanity, it played with questions of what was “real,” orpart of a film that was being filmed, or a delusion or dream of a character. 

The space was huge and the narrative complex; you could spend forever exploring and still discover new surprises. Several of the 1:1s were epic, including one which took a single audience member into an immense darkness that seemed to go on forever (actually about a third of the basement level reserved just for this 1:1).

It had rich layers of narrative and a significant amount of dialogue, with nearly all of its characters fully fleshed out with stories that you could spend an entire loop on. So many of the characters were brilliant… Faye and Frankie, desperate to be “stars”; Andy and Andrea, struggling to save their best friends; Dolores Grey, the fading star; Dwayne, the drugstore cowboy; the Fool, a sad clown lurking among the outskirts of the studio; Romola Martin, trapped in a Mememto-style attempt to discover who she is and what was done to her; Conrad, a Scientologist actor with a secret; Miguel, a trickster summoned by the mysterious Dust Witch; the Grocer, trapped in a role he didn’t want to play; Lila, the foley artist for the film; several studio characters (Alice, Claude, the PA) who may have been demons; and of course Mr Stanford, the studio boss controlling it all. See the complete character list at @templestudios​ fan tumblr.

Recurring motifs included drowning, foreshadowing the ending; the red moon & the fire raging in the sky; Rorschach blots representing the dual narrative; eyes & blindness; stars; the horse as symbol of the studio; “we live inside a dream”; and of course the Grandmothers’s tale from Woyzeck, which is in every Punchdrunk show, with its theme of dreams turned to disillusionment - it was part of a 1:1 and there were individual rooms inspired by the withered sunflowers, the moon of rotten wood, and the stars as little golden flies stuck among a blackthorn tree.

It was my favorite show I’ve ever seen and probably my favorite place I’ve ever been.

If you go to the “highlights” page of my blog you’ll find links to some of what I wrote about it, and to some of my favorite things by other fans.

Here are links to photos from the show: 1, 2, 3, 4

In addition to the recently released Drowned Man walk through, you can still visit the Temple Studios website, which has some details about the show and Hollywood-style headshots of the performers (many of whom you’ll recognize from Sleep No More NYC & Shanghai). Also check out videos on YouTube, the blogs of @templestudios and @throwtherose, etc.

[thedrownedmancontraband-blog]

If somebody can bring this back to me right now I will worship at their Temple! 🚬👠🔫😭