Hehe.... I got that text (it's the original text as sung/pouted/shallalalalad in the song by Alicia Keys) from a lyric page. It's that bad. But it's perfect to transport that cheeseyness into video format without putting any effort in it which makes it perfectly marketable... Never seen the video though, haven't got a television.
I would love to see some Drexciyan dance party video scene, but I don't know if any video could really manage to capture the party that goes on in my head!!!! Has anyone seen the cover art work of the detroit Grand Pubahs new album on Poker Flat? It's called "Galactic Ass Creatures from Uranus" and had two-legged ladies bottoms that look a bit like retun of the Tripods and shoot lasers out of their eyed sexual organs perched between the legs... the grafix remind me very badly of "Fred Come To Bed" and ", these totallly senseless Eurotrash Dance videos from the early Nineties - dunno if anyone saw those, but they were baaaad! Good enbough reason to get rid of the telly (UK slang, sorry)... -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. März 2004 14:49 An: 313@hyperreal.org Betreff: RE: (313) Techno's Voice <snipping cool points...> Katrin said: breakin' up, hold up... Can you hear me now? Yeah. So what day did you say? Oh yeah. Thursday's perfect, man. -- Oh no, is that the video!? Man, I hate it when videos try and be a movie! And yes, that sequence is cheesy as hell! I haven't seen or heard it but it really annoys me when artists try to make the video more than it is AND FAIL! (Thriller is the classic example of the approach working.) Hip-hop/R&B videos are a massive culprit, I remember that Fugees vid for 'Ready or Not' when they're in helicopters, and flying around an sh*t! A cool thing about techno is that it never went down that path, although a truly visual representation of techno is probably waiting to happen - I always pictured the coolest scenes from Drexciya making it into videos, kind of a window into that world, an underwater dance party... and I guess it's people like Jeff who are leading the charge with his DVD. Andrew -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. März 2004 13:49 An: 313@hyperreal.org Betreff: (313) Techno's Voice (WAS - RE: (313) what's your favorite track/album right now?) So anyway, back to the discussion - does anyone think there is common ground in the feelings evoked by what I call 'soul' music and techno? There are obviously excellent examples of this in techno (the Relics EP by Abacus immediately springs to mind). Without degenrating into the old soul vs. machine 'debate', is there more to the fact that these separate styles exist, in that they express different emotions or feelings? A lot of techno is basically saying 'Come the f*ck on!', and all the better for it. Is it merely the distinction between lyric-laden music and 'tracks'? I guess what's on my mind is - what the f*ck is techno music SAYING?? Hope this is a suitable question, Andrew -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 March 2004 12:31 To: Andrew; 313 Detroit Subject: RE: (313) what's your favorite track/album right now?
