Re:Generation Music Project , the documentary that features footage of The Doors ' three surviving members collaborating with dubstep producer/DJ Skrillex , will be screened in select theaters across the U.S. on Thursday. The film focuses on five electronic DJs/producers working with artists from various other music genres.
Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek told ABC News Radio recently that he really enjoyed interacting in the studio with Skrillex, who picked up a pair of trophies at the Grammy Awards on Sunday. "That worked out great, man," said Manzarek of the collaboration. "He was just a ball of dynamite…a whirling dervish of a person -- all five-foot-six of him. I don't know what [age] he is, 25 years old. So, we had distant generations working together."
Skrillex melded the contributions of Manzarek and Doors guitarist Robby Krieger , as well as some percussion tracks recorded separately by Doors drummer John Densmore , into a dance number titled "Breakn' a Sweat." The driving tune features Manzarek yelling out various phrases, including one that should be more than a little familiar to Doors fans: "Come on, baby, light my fire!"
"[Skrillex] laid some beats down, and Robby and I went in and put some stuff down to his beats," Manzarek explained. "And then he proceeded to work some magic on it -- his knob-twisting and slide-potting and sound effects that he would put in, and the modulations and the incantations and the elongations and elevations…[It] just came out fabulous, man."
Manzarek added that he and Krieger hope to collaborate with Skrillex again, if he "ever gets any time" -- pointing out that in-demand DJ and producer is "working with Lady Gaga now."
An encore screening of Re:Generation Music Project will hit cinemas on February 23.
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