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Re: Re: [Rabbits] music for demo

  • From<paxdraxus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • DateSun, 30 Jul 2006 19:34:45 -0400
I find Vangelis's Direct and The City albums go really well with the theme.


> 
> From: Dan Efran <efran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2006/07/30 Sun PM 07:33:51 EDT
> To: Rabbits Discussion List <rabbits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Rabbits] music for demo
> 
> Christopher Hickman wrote:
> >> It's not specifically "hippie music" in that sense, but if you're 
> >> playing *Icehouse* specifically, it's traditional to play futuristic, 
> >> ambient "new age" music such as Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, 
> >> and the like.
> > 
> > Why is that?  Shouldn't you play absolutely ancient music?  Icehouse is
> > 100,000 years old. ;)
> > 
> > (http://www.wunderland.com/icehouse/MarsAd.html)
> 
> Indeed. But as it happens, Martian music of 100,000 years ago sounded 
> pretty much like the electronic/instrumental New Age music of the 1970s 
> on Earth.
> 
>      -- Dan Efran
>          Martian Ambassador
>          efran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>          http://www.efran.org/embassy/
> 
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