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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 12:10:49 -0500
From: Nat Kone <bruno@yhammer.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tech: I Have Seen The Future
At 03:16 PM 2/26/99 -0500, Ross Orr wrote:
>
>By weird coincidence, two things happened to me today which blew my mind
>about how far digital audio tech has gone. . . After this, it's really
>clear to me that the whole music distribution business is going to get
>turned inside out within the next few years.
>
>Man, if somebody can figure out a working business model for this brave new
>world I would sure like to hear about it. . . The old concept that you are
>going to pay to own the object looks to be in real trouble here. . .
I think the object will always be important to me and to others as crazy as
me. On the other hand, you can get to the point where you just want to
hear so many different things that you can't insist on the object anymore.
For me, even breaking down and buying a reissued CD represents giving in to
the fact that I can't always have the object. But it's always better for
me when I have the object. I know that on some level it doesn't make sense
but the music is never really enough on its own.
I'm not sure I see how a different mode of music delivery will change the
music business that much. There will always be a group of people who go
out of their way to find the specific music that pleases them and another
group who take what's offered. The music business is mostly about the
latter group, I think.
Maybe when "searching out" music becomes easier - assuming that online
shopping IS easier - a few people will leave behind the group that accepts
what's offered and will become the searching types. But for that to happen
in significant numbers, I believe would require quite a significant change
in the culture in general.
In 2030 or 2010 - whenever it will happen - and people can come into their
house and just say the name of a song and have it play, it'll still
probably be the lovely tones of Celine Dion that emerge from their
invisible speakers.
Nat
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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 10:01:27 -0800
From: Jack <jack@jackdiamond.com>
Subject: (exotica) New Peter Thomas ?
Anyone have/heard this 1 yet ?
<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>THOMAS, PETER: Kriminal Filmmusik CD
(PRUD 6533).=20
"Original soundtrack recordings by the Peter Thomas Sound-Orchester for a
series of Crime Dramas by noted director Edgar Wallace (keep repeating to
yourself, mantra style, 'Klaus Kinski... Klaus Kinski... Klaus...') dated
1961-1966. This music predates the already proven Raumpatrouille themes
by quite a few years, and fails not to raise a few hairs/hackles within
the dermal structure/spinal column of prospective auditioneers. Those w/o
a taste for the finer points in life (bumper cars, ripe malangas, flag
day...) need not shed an ounce of moisture pining over the relative
importance of these leitmotives as compared to, say, Can. I can't think
of a single individual who can resist crime-related mouth emittance
(screaming, death moans, gangster yalps, etc..) & their resultant
overtones (post-echoplex) gracing the 'space' throughout druggy/spiralled
(& often dissonant) beat-jazz/plated E-bass epics. No one. Completely in
it's own element/orbit. You're all looking ten years to late for the
'meat'. Classy.</fontfamily>
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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 21:36:30 +0100
From: Moritz R <exotica@munich.netsurf.de>
Subject: Re: (exotica) New Peter Thomas ?
Jack wrote:
> Anyone have/heard this 1 yet ?
>
> THOMAS, PETER: Kriminal Filmmusik CD (PRUD 6533).
If this is the music of the Edgar Wallace films it has been available on vinyl for quite a while. It came in a greyish cover that showed a big eye painted by M.C.Escher - quite unfitting. My judgement on the music is rather positive, in general I like the Edgar Wallace pieces better than the Raumpatrouille things, except for the title melody of course. All in all it is giving a very good example of early German post-war "Krimi"-film-music of the 50s and 60s.
Be glad you haven't seen Kinski playing in those films. What a bad actor!
- -Mo
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