b l u r    p l a s t i q


        1. Intro
        2. Song thoughts and playing order
        3. Next things
        4. Contacting me
        5. Five Musicians
        6. Copyright and disclaimer

1. Intro
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        Hi. I'm Mellow-D. I made this.
        If you don't want to read all of this, then please please please
        atleast go to where I recommend a playing order and software.
        Cubic player sucks. Mod4Win fucks up with small bottle.
        
        Well, here it is, my second real musicdisk.  Like the previous
        time, these songs were made in a very brief period in which
        a person is considered to have a lot of inspiration and such.
        Fall has always been like this for me.

        I'd first like to thank everyone for their awesome and huge
        and endless and overgrown support, it's really where I've
        got my strength to do things from, from people telling me
        they want me to go on.  That's priceless, THANK YOU.

        And I'd also like to thank those who've told me to stop,
        abort, discontinue.  Without you I would have an even bigger
        ego than what I have now. :-)

        This disk is of course precious for me and all that.  It
        has a lot of influence from Underworld, and I mean A LOT.
        You can probably hear that.  And yes, all of those vocals
        are completely self made.  I'm actually surprised I got
        myself to sing in key in the songs, even if it was just
        one key!

        If you dig this disk, or if you hate it, please let me
        know.  I acknowledge the fact that everyone has room to
        improve and I'd like to hear how you think I should.
        Look below for contact pointers.

        Oh. And the songs are big intentionally.  I don't make
        small songs anymore, I don't care about the final size
        anymore. It's useless to turn your samples into crap
        just so that it's 100k smaller.

2. Song thoughts and playing order
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        Underworld. Very, very, very very very! Underworld.
        They've been such an inspiration on this disk.  Great
        stuff.  Awesome, new styles of groove.  Incredible.

        The songs are probably going to be played in alphabetical
        order, which is why I've renamed each of the files with
        a prefix number. :)

        PLEASE DO NOT PLAY ANYTHING WITH CUBIC PLAYER.  It just
        fucks up most of the songs.  Please atleast try using
        FT2. I can't think of any good players but ft2 itself.
        And don't forget that poetry in there. :)

        Random thoughts while listening to each song follow:

   Fade Away
        My good friend Tero Kokko (zapster) brought over some CD's
        one day for me to sample, which is where I got most of the
        loops from.  The "fade away" sample is from the AWESOME
        Apollo 440 song Liquid Cool. The man shouting is not me,
        it's someone from can't-remember-where.

        There's always a constant beat in the background, panned
        to somewhere so that it's not in the foreground when it
        isn't supposed to be.  The filtered samples (not 303)
        are from miscellaneous synths that I've borrowed or had,
        for example the Wavestation A/D.

        No personal feelings or such here, I had just been jonesing
        for a groove.  I like the way the bass and the filters
        talk to each other, along with that one (the short) pad.

        Ooh. Me didgeridoo. Them filters. Near the end.

   High Grounded
        Very much rougher than the rest of the stuff.  I actually
        turn down the amplification in FT2 because this is a bit
        overdriven :). More filters in the leads.

        Heh, do you hear that panning feedback thing?  Me and Mig
        made that by plugging a mic into my effects processor,
        plugging that into his set of analog effects, and going
        (just once) "ha" into the microphone. No kidding. Wow.

        This song has basically let off a lot of steam I had at
        the time.

   Self Angel
        See yourself as an angel.  This was done when I was
        still living in Brussels (I live in Finland again now).
        We went to see Seven with a bunch of friends, and when I
        got back home I started to track.  What a fantastic movie
        and what an inspiration!

        The sound is intentionally as it is.  The sound actually
        reminds me of a VERY dusty room with the walls in very
        bad shape, and everything has turned yellow from all the
        cigarette and other smoke.

        Made in summer 96, this song was also greatly inspired
        by Front 242.  The vocals aren't me again, they've been
        sampled in a random sampling session, FROM THE RADIO :)
        I got lucky.

   Small Bottle
        A huge part of this song, drums, hihats, bassdrums, etc
        were made by me on the microphone, thru the effects
        processor.  It started out as a test but ended up like
        this :).  It's quite minimalistic in the beginning, but
        all of a sudden it goes along with Self Angel nicely
        and turns somewhat loud, industrial.

        I am really surprised I could hold my voice in the same
        key (I'm definitely no singer) in all the vocal samples
        and it actually sounds good :)

   Potion
        I'd like to use the fucking gus, please.  Heh, that came
        from when I first ran FT2 under Win95 (yuck) and tried
        to sample something.  In the sample editor, I clicked
        Sample and started waiting for the sampling window to
        appear.  And waited.  And fucking waited.  For a LONG
        time!  Then the first thing I sampled was that ;)

        The vocal loops are a bit noisy.  Sorry about that.
        Fuck me with your love potion.

        This is definitely the most underworld of all of these
        songs, and that's intentional.  The pads are from the
        Second Toughest in the Infants CD, the song Pearls Girl.
        It's pretty much a tribute to underworld ;)
        And everybody just goes away and like, they never come
        back and stuff.

3. Next things
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        Thanks for downloading and listening to this production.
        It's very meaningful for me.

        Well, be sure to check out http://www.fm.org/ and the
        best scene ftp site at ftp://ftp.fm.org/.  We have some
        of the FM songs as Real Audio there aswell as some other
        stuff, check it out!

        My next disk will be called 'blur green' and will probably
        be released around summer 1997.  It will be the last in
        the blur series ;)  I am also making an Audio CD, but let's
        not say anything about that yet.

4. Contacting me
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        Here's how you can contact me, and please don't hesitate to!

        By snailmail, you can send mail to:

        Jaakko Manninen
        Pengerkatu 27 B 39
        FIN-00500 Helsinki

        By the net, you can reach me at:

        mellow-d@fm.org
        http://www.fm.org/~jak/
        IRC: Jak or Mellow-D

        By PSTN, you can reach me at:

        +358-40-585-3067.
        fax +358-0-5112-6556
        ATTN: Jaakko Manninen, or I won't get it.

5. Five Musicians
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        The Five Musicians are WAVE, Necros, Basehead, Zodiak and
        Mellow-D.  Please come and visit our site at http://www.fm.org/
        for more information!

        The Five Musicians FTP site is run separately from the group,
        and contains tons of demos, music and other groovy art! Check
        it out at ftp://ftp.fm.org/.

6. Copyright and disclaimer
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        Copyright 1996 Jaakko Manninen. All rights reserved.
        THIS PRODUCTION OR PARTS OF THIS PRODUCTION MAY NOT BE USED
        ON ANY PHYSICAL MEDIA WITHOUT THE WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE AUTHOR.
        The production may not be sold for profit, but may be used in
        compilations that cost nothing or that cost only the production
        costs of the physical media.
        Jaakko Manninen assumes no liability of direct or indirect
        damage resulting from the use of this production.

        :)