"The Sound of Violence" is a song by French electro duo Cassius from the album ''

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''. It is their only single to reach number one in the United States dance charts. Vocals were provided by Steve Edwards.

Track listings

12"

CD

# Original radio edit #

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Dancefloor Killa remix

2011 version

From Discogs # The Sound Of Violence (2011 remastered version) – 7:12 # The Sound Of Violence ( Cassius Rawkers 2011 remix) – 8:24 # The Sound Of Violence ( Franco Cinelli Remix) – 9:20 # The Sound Of Violence (Luciano remix) – 8:22 # The Sound Of Violence ( Aeroplane remix) – 7:02 # The Sound Of Violence ( Tha Trickaz remix) – 5:10

Music video

The

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is particularly noteworthy for its use of stop animation. The film was produced with heavy use of digital editing techniques and CGI. Some of these examples include

rotoscoped Rotoscoping is an animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action. Originally, animators projected photographed live-action movie images onto a glass panel and traced o ...

patterns in the grass and the continuity of the sky and clouds between the frames. At many points CGI is used to enhance the landscape to a fantasy-like level, and by the end of the film the landscape is completely replaced by abstract blobs and cubes.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

Discogs.com entry for Cassius
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sound Of Violence, The 2002 singles Cassius (band) songs 2002 songs Virgin Records singles Songs written by Steve Edwards (singer)