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velvet-station-digest Thursday, May 3 2001 Volume 04 : Number 020
Today's Subjects:
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RE: [VS] iTune mistakes Kings of Convenience (ii) [Philippa.Demonte@bmg.c]
Re: [VS] iTune mistakes Kings of Convenience (ii) [Wmvrrvrrmm@aol.com]
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Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 14:00:38 +0200
From: Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk
Subject: RE: [VS] iTune mistakes Kings of Convenience (ii)
Heh heh heh
Oh my gawd - wouldn't it be like a game of musical Chinese whispers?
Or like remixing a song until eventually the memory of a song has been
passed around so many people that it'll end up sounding completely different from the original?
Dominic - you should find yourself an inventor and get your memory-tapping machine patented
As for that original Kings of Convenience EP - it took me aaaaaages to get hold of it.
It was late coming into the shops because of the petrol strikes we had over here in the UK
at the time, and even then I had to go to about 5 different record stores before it finally
came out in HMV Piccadilly Circus in London.
As for the album - I gave up trying to find that in the shops over here, so I waited until
I was over in France, where albums are half the cost and they have a better range in the record stores.
(The French had a rebellion again pop music and boy bands a couple of years back, so they only
have alternative, credible music in their record stores - so much better than on this side of the Channel)
- -----Original Message-----
From: Adam Walter [mailto:awalter1@prodigy.net]
Sent: 01 May 2001 21:15
To: velvet-station@smoe.org
Subject: Re: [VS] iTune mistakes Kings of Convenience (ii)
I would never have mentioned this if the subject hadn't come
up. But I frequently tap into Dominic's memories of song's I've
never personally heard. :-)
~Adam
>--- Original Message ---
>From: Wmvrrvrrmm@aol.com
>To: velvet-station@smoe.org
>Date: 5/1/01 8:38:19 AM
>
>In a message dated 01/05/2001 12:13:16, Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk
writes:
>
>>tutt tutt tutt - you shouldn't be turning peoples' music into
MP3 files,
>Dominic!
>>That's stealing their music without paying them, and by that
I mean stealing
>>money from:
>
>I've just got an idea, if my brain is going to be able to reproduce
Kings of
>Convenience's music as faithfully as it did in my dream the
other morning, I
>can get rid of my MP3 playing program and take all my CDs back
tomorrow, and
>hope that I never suffer from brain damage that might cause
me to forget the
>music and I can be content about my own brain's reproduction
of their
>material.
>
>That could sure save me a lot of money!
>
>And then one of these days, there'll be a computer than will
access people's
>minds, and people can listen to memories of KOC without having
to pay for the
>CD or whatever. That will be the next stage when maybe the "Soulcatcher"
>microchip or something like it is in use.
>
>all the best from Dominic
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Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 16:57:45 EDT
From: Wmvrrvrrmm@aol.com
Subject: Re: [VS] iTune mistakes Kings of Convenience (ii)
In a message dated 02/05/2001 13:01:00, Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk writes:
>Heh heh heh
>
>Oh my gawd - wouldn't it be like a game of musical Chinese whispers?
>Or like remixing a song until eventually the memory of a song has been
>passed around so many people that it'll end up sounding completely different
>from the original?
>Dominic - you should find yourself an inventor and get your memory-tapping
>machine patented
>
It looks as if Adam Walters has evolved a step beyond the need for such a
thing, the whole world will follow suite and the memory tapping machine will
be out of date soon. Kings of Convenience will think of a few songs and
before they've finished recording, Adam and everyone else who have evolved to
his state of mental recption will have heard it over a thousand times and
will be onto the next thing. It might be just a fact that I have to stop
having thoughts, I might become the next generation Napster all in one skull
If you saw what their music does in my head, you might think KoC were quite
spooky and unexplainable as if they've been experimenting with warping brick
walls with purposely driving the idea of banality into people's brains as if
to split peoples minds in to, so that the left side and the right side of
their bodies might be doing two different things at the same time, or simply
that would be the Wmmvrrvrrmm remix of a few of their tracks. I don't know if
I'm able to naturally produce the effects of LSD in my head without thinking
too much about it these days, since I've never tried LSD, but these KoC
reactions are strange, like a child's nightmare that might involve ornaments
such as a Bambi on the shelf leaping around, it might be like the pink
elephant dream in the Dumbo cartoon, there's something very 'subliminal'
about them.
The memory tapping machine would be a great way to get people to experience
this strange sensation. I've been having some weird experiences listening to
Velvet Belly's "The Man with the Child in his Eyes" that involves a champagne
coloured singing opaque laser beam that change shades and colours i and
texture in a soothing way from time to time and then turns into glowing white
hot liquid, and a pulsing machine with pistons that plays the music, and the
light display from last years gig flashing away in the clouds
>As for the album - I gave up trying to find that in the shops over here,
>so I waited until I was over in France, where albums are half the cost and
they have a better
>range in the record stores.
The album now on the British shelf is very cheap considering. There's another
one available in the shop that's a bit older, with a white cover, and I
believe it has the Toxic Girl track on it. I haven't bought the album yet
because I've been scooping up the singles, I have 3 KoC singles now
>(The French had a rebellion again pop music and boy bands a couple of years
back, so they only have >alternative, credible music in their record stores
- - so much better than on this side of the Channel)
We need a rebellion!
The Wmmvrrvrrmm Place !
http://members.aol.com/wmvrrvrrmm
The art and writings of myself, Dominic (wmmvrrvrrmm) Kulcsar
The Velvet Belly Page
http://www.geocities.com/velvet_belly_uk
My unofficial fansite dedicated to the Norwegian band Velvet Belly
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