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RE: [ZTT] Any comments on the 808 State "Opti Buk" DVD + CD?
by Ian Peel 20 Feb '02

20 Feb '02

Here's my review, as published in the current edition of DJ magazine (www.djmag.com) Lots of banter about it on the 808 msg board (discussion.808state.com/disc7_toc.htm) too... New 808 State DVD - 'Opti Buk' We first mentioned this DVD last April, when 808 State were asking fans on their website what they'd like to see if they were to produce a DVD archive. The people at GlobalState, as their fan site is known, put their heads together and you can still see the outcome of the debate on their message board (at www.808state.com/news/ztt808dvd.htm) The finished result is finally released this month and is a feast for both fans of the band and anyone who's ever asked themselves, "is the UK capable of producing it's own Kraftwerk?" 'Opti Buk' is divided into four main sections - promo videos (all 17 ever), a documentary about their groundbreaking Manchester G-Mex gig in 1991, home movies and a discography. The home movies are an especially cool inclusion. Handheld camera antics of the band in the studio show how some of their tracks are built up - and the silliness they get up to in the process. The promo's videos include classics like 'Plan 9', 'Pacific 707' and 'Tunes Splits The Atom' and rave cheese-fests like '10x10' and 'Lift'. But it's disappointing to watch videos for 'Time Bomb' and 'Ancodia' only to find the visuals are montages of clips from the others. Why watch someone else's 10-year-old video re-edits when DVD is the platform to let you do it yourself? It's not a case of getting pro software either, as the VJing games at websites like Shockwave and Smirnoff Ice (yes, Smirnoff Ice) prove. Also included is a bonus CD of new music - which should be a lesson to all other bands putting out DVDs! The last time I saw 808 live was in Bristol in 1999 and they ripped the place apart - so the inclusion of some tracks from then on what they call 'State to State Volume 2' is a welcome addition. But given the fact that these are only unreleased demos and that it's now almost six years since the last proper 808 album, I can only say, boys, get your fingers out! As with any archive project, trainspotters will have a field day. There are at least 20 mistakes in the discography for a start. But properly unsettling to trainspotters and normal people alike is the complete omission of one of the band's videos ('Primary Rhyming', a collab with MC Tunes). Its inclusion would have made a fitting tribute to the track's vocalist, Noel Cockshutt, who was murdered in his home in Wolverhampton last May. -- Ian Peel http://www.ianpeel.com

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Any comments on the 808 State "Opti Buk" DVD + CD?
by Christopher Robin Zimmerman 20 Feb '02

20 Feb '02

I haven't actually cracked it open yet, but I couldn't NOT buy the "complete collection of 808State videos made by ZTT," could I? (No! :) ) Also, since I'm a completeist nut, I HAD to get a "State to State vol. 2" to go with my Vol. 1... ;-) I was wondering if anyone else had purchased this set and would care to provide a capsule review. I hope to offer mine pretty soon... Ref: https://Vault1.secured-url.com/securespace/acatalog/ZTT_SHOP_NEW_RELEASES__… Thanks, CRZ PS I'm also making sure I can actually send mail to the list! Cheeky and sneaky! PPS Oh, and NA folks will need a "region-free" DVD player - why didn't they just make it Region 0 anyway? -- Christopher Robin Zimmerman - <http://CRZ.net/> Hey, only 2,212,843 seconds before WrestleMania

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M: Pre-Propaganda Demos
by Hirschberger Karl 18 Feb '02

18 Feb '02

Hi all, check out the new release of Andreas Thein & Ralph Dorper: M: - The secret tapes of Dr. Mabuse as a limited edtion 1000 only. Find the full information on the Propaganda Fan Page: www.p-fan.de under the news section. Even you find there a small mp3 taster of Disciplin dub. bye Karl

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rare ZTT items on E-Bay
by Goedseels, Emmanuel 18 Feb '02

18 Feb '02

Hi all, I am currently selling many rare ZTT items on E-bay including the mega-rare CD and CDS "Glam Metal Detectives" a Lol Creme (Godley & Creme) and Trevor Horn project. Other bands : Honky, Shades of Rhythm, Hoodlum Priest.... To bid on the item, go to: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1514550900 Cheers Emmanuel

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OptiBuk in the US
by Larry MacGregor 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

I just wanted to report that I received a package from ZTT yesterday containing both the FGTH DVD and 808 State's OptiBuk. Testing indicates that both DVDs play just fine in my slightly modified DVD player, although I plan on watching everything very closely tonight. State To State Vol 2 is very nice as well. -- L --

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808 State DVD released today
by Markus Arnold 31 Jan '02

31 Jan '02

The long-awaited 808 State DVD 'opti buk' was commercially released today. It includes a bonus audio cd with unreleased tracks entitled 'state to state vol. 2'. For more info see http://www.808state.com/news/ztt808dvd.htm and http://www.ztt.com. Markus http://www.808state.com

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FW: Avalanche Thoughts
by Ian Peel 30 Jan '02

30 Jan '02

Following a successful premiere in New York AVALANCHE THOUGHTS by Andrew Poppy & Julia Bardsley opens the NEW TERRITORIES Festival Featuring TANIA CHEN, piano Wednesday 13th & Thursday 14th February 2002 Exhibition open from 7pm Performance starts 7.30pm Tramway One, 25, Albert Drive, Glasgow G41 2PE Box Office: 0141 287 5511 www.newterritories.co.uk What they said in New York: 'AVALANCHE THOUGHTS, a work by the leading collaborative team of UK sound artist/composer Andrew Poppy and visual artist/filmmaker Julia Bardsley, "is a hybrid and heterogeneous work that combines the experience of the gallery, theater and concert hall, balancing video projection with live recorded music, sculptural objects, photographs, and text as object and sound." Yes, the combination might sound like an overkill, but this performance/installation is a commixture that brilliantly blurs the lines of space and memory, capturing stillness in the palm of tireless labor, as a traveller lost in a blizzard fights with oblivion and certainty. The piece features excerpts from Bardsley's short film, SNOW, with a partially trenchant otherwise soporific score by Poppy. It is nostalgia, glorified through moments of pleasure and destructive impulse - the embodiment of all that transforms the moment into eternity, saturated with agonising and erotic deliberations of the mind that incessantly press into the consciousness and finally surrenders to the articulation of the piano (performed live by Tania Chen) while the blizzard is kept at bay, still haunting, waiting, breathing into the rims of rationality. The only symbol of certainty is a chair, a chair that embodies the ghost of human experience - sensuous, scarred and hauntingly beautiful. I would encourage you to resist the urge to close your eyes and revel in the unfolding musical performance, lest you miss the breath-taking subtlety with which the space melds into the fingertips of the pianist... AVALANCHE THOUGHTS will leave you lingering - in the blizzards of your mind, in the images of your memory, luring you to indulge in the tangential fabrications of your own senses.' Ahmet Sibdial Sau FOILMAGAZINE ("http://www.foilmagazine.com") AVALANCHE THOUGHTS commissioned by GAle GAtes et al. New York & New Moves International, Glasgow [Ian Peel]

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Fwd: new propaganda reissue
by Alex Veronac 27 Jan '02

27 Jan '02

from lexicon: (Unconfirmed) PROPAGANDA - "OUTSIDE WORLD" 1. Das Testament des Dr Mabuse (13th Life Mix)6: 34 2. Lied 2:48 3. p.Machinery (Beta Mix)9:33 4. Duel (Bitter Sweet)7:38 5. The Lesson 4:18 6. Frozen Faces (12Ã® version)5:30 7. Jewel 6:54 8. Complete Machinery 10.56 9. Das Testament des Dr Mabuse - DJ promo version 9:52 10. Femmes Fatale (The Woman With The Orchid) 3:24 11. Echo Of Frozen Faces 10:28

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Re: (ztt) Outside World tracklisting
by Ernie Longmire 26 Jan '02

26 Jan '02

Robert Marston wrote: > The tracklisting, according to the the Blue Board (if your not on it > already, why not?), should be as follows. I don't know where this info > comes > from but it looks reasonable. > > PROPAGANDA > �OUTSIDE WORLD� > > 1. Das Testament des Dr Mabuse (13th Life Mix)6: 34 > 2. Lied 2:48 > 3. p.Machinery (Beta Mix)9:33 > 4. Duel (Bitter Sweet)7:38 > 5. The Lesson 4:18 > 6. Frozen Faces (12� version)5:30 > 7. Jewel 6:54 > 8. Complete Machinery 10.56 > 9. Das Testament des Dr Mabuse - DJ promo version 9:52 > 10. Femmes Fatale (The Woman With The Orchid) 3:24 > 11. Echo Of Frozen Faces 10:28 The one thing that would count against this being the real tracklist is that AFAIK, "Frozen Faces (extended)" is *part* of "Complete Machinery," so including them both would be redundant. Otherwise it's a good choice of tracks! Here's hoping they keep this release pattern up for a few more issues.

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Propaganda
by Juan Lopez 17 Jan '02

17 Jan '02

Propaganda 12" mixes collection called Outside World (though this may later change) should be available late March or April according to latest news. Tracks include the DJ Mix of Dr Mabuse, the Beta wrap of pMachinery as well as other very tasty items. Don't give up hope just yet... Propaganda may well be officially dead as a group but this collection is on its way and worth waiting for ;) >From: Andrew Robinson <andrew(a)bml.co.uk> > >No sign of the rumored propaganda rarities CD there, or I would have >paid the Â£100 for it. _________________________________________________________________ Descargue GRATUITAMENTE MSN Explorer en http://explorer.yupimsn.com/intl.asp.

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