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Acts to watch out

Couple of items found in the mail to our slightly neglected trainspotting department.

Another Netflix series made use of a Purple track. This time it’s Smoke incorporated into the trailer of The Waterfront, premiered in June:

Speaking of, the Stranger Things superhuman Child in Time mashup was released as a single on Spotify and YouTube:

Meanwhile in Britain, Deep Purple’s alter ego got mentioned in satirical magazine Private Eye:

Thanks to Benjamin Martin-Cocher, Tobias Janaschke, and David Black for the heads-up.

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Posted by Nick on Friday, August 1st, 2025, filed under Blog. You can follow comment on this post through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a comment. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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    Uwe Hornung says:

    For the purpose of being the atmospheric soundtrack of a Spielberg’esque NETFLIX series (I have begun watching it, it’s entertaining, but really very much aimed at a young adult audience) bathing in 80s nostalgia, coming-of-age small town Americana, high school movie sitcom, sci-fi + body horror/creature flick esthetics, that beefed up version of Child in Time is extremely well done though it cleverly cites/embeds only minuscule parts of the original song (i.e. initial verse rhythm, haunting melody, intensifying Spanish bullfight/bolero rhythm, Gillan screams, Ian‘s anguished “I wanna hear you sing” as the only lyric plus snippets of Jon’s and Ritchie’s Gorgan work towards the end).

    August 2nd, 2025 at 15:04

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