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really not feeling the kazoo in here or the washboard stuff - thats totally wack, but the carpenter esque stuff with mellotronage at the beginning is nice - overall comes over as knowingly bad goofy. some sounds in it are good - like deep acoustic percs, but its not really focussing on any in particular, like needlessly switching to the wrong instrument every time i notice a good bit. seems like they're not 100% sure what they like imo. cheers Rob, interesting views on these tracks! (tbh i'm not into music making at all, and ehm.. know very little of the technical stuff behind the process. but I really appreciate your thoughts and opinions, very interesing). . oh.. and ehm.. feel free to consider providing something on the other q's to in my post, I'm really curious about the pule track for instance! :) oh and one more thing, I'm sure many in here are curious about this: *** drumroll please *** who would win a match of arm wrestling between Rob and Sean?? and a match of pool (8-ball, etc)?? sorry for all the nagging, I'm just very eagerly excited about the fact that I'm even having an interaction with the mighty AE! it feels strange kinda... in a good way of course! yeah ok, sorry if i was too nitpicky - hot/cold those trax. oops but yeah re: norway 'pule' - its quite a slinky number too so could be deployed to good use? funny someone posted that æ means 'I' in finnish was it? so yeah theres probably a few i think seans lower arms more chunky so i'd put money there if i were u. i might win pool. we'll run that test next outing and report. no prob man, I don't think it was too nitpicky. What do you think of Biosphere btw, while we're on the topic of electronic music from Norw? hmm yes I suppose pule does have some seducing powers, I'll keep that in mind! while on the topic... any suggestions on how to have more luck with the ladies/dating scene? all kinds of tips is highly appreciated! ah haha, æ is actually Norwegian again, and yes it's a dialect variation of Norwegian "jeg" which means "I" (æ is pronounced as a combination of a and e, as the form suggests). I happen to speak that dialect actually. Lot's of the vocabulary in our dialect consists of single vowels, like for instance the sentence " æ e fra Norge" means "I'm from Norway" Actually the æ vowel existed in Old English, as in words such as æsthetic and encyclopædia. Reminds me off.. .isn't the track name "dael" from tri repetae actually an old English word, "dæl", meaning "part" or "unit". In Norwegian the word for "part" is "del". (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dæl) pretty cool stuff this I think :) Awesome! I'm eagerly awaiting that report! =) Thanks alot man for ur time!

really not feeling the kazoo in here or the washboard stuff - thats totally wack, but the carpenter esque stuff with mellotronage at the beginning is nice - overall comes over as knowingly bad goofy. some sounds in it are good - like deep acoustic percs, but its not really focussing on any in particular, like needlessly switching to the wrong instrument every time i notice a good bit. seems like they're not 100% sure what they like imo. cheers Rob, interesting views on these tracks! (tbh i'm not into music making at all, and ehm.. know very little of the technical stuff behind the process. but I really appreciate your thoughts and opinions, very interesing). . oh.. and ehm.. feel free to consider providing something on the other q's to in my post, I'm really curious about the pule track for instance! :) oh and one more thing, I'm sure many in here are curious about this: *** drumroll please *** who would win a match of arm wrestling between Rob and Sean?? and a match of pool (8-ball, etc)?? sorry for all the nagging, I'm just very eagerly excited about the fact that I'm even having an interaction with the mighty AE! it feels strange kinda... in a good way of course!

Greetings again! you still keep up strong, are you glad it's almost done, or could you keep on a couple of days longer? I must say this is fan-service like I've never experienced before, just super cool of you guys to do this! :) ok so just a a couple of follow ups from previous posts. - so Sean, while we're at the topic of Lost and SW.... any opinons on JJ. Abrams taking the SW franchise further with epVII? On imdb the original cast (Hamill, Ford, Fisher) is even rumored to reappear in their original roles. Will you watch it when it's released? or just forget that this whole thing is even happening? - and speaking of books/literature, were any of you guys into Roald Dahl as kids? He was my childhood favourite, Willy Wonka, The BFG, the Twits and so on... so many memorable characters! his adult fiction is pretty ace as well, read anything of that? some more random bits (a few questions from a post way back I think they were left unanwered): - Dali or Escher? (any thoughts why you'd prefer either) - Did you know that "pule" actually means "to fuck" in Norwegian? was that a conscious choice when naming the track or coincidence? I think it's pretty cool anyhow, and the track is great as well. It follow that pattern from Amber and Tri Repetae were you had one more ambient track towards the end of the album. It's almost like these albums (amber, tri repetae, chiastic slide) creates some kind of a narrative in a way (but then again I guess your whole discography taken as a whole, does :) - what do you guys think of xploding plastix? like tracks such as these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnJ998Trn7g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDz1Q_pxgc0 - What kind of teas are you mostly into? had noteworthy lately you'd like to recommend?

yay, thanks alot man for your replies! and thanks for your comment, (I made it myself :) ) wow, yeah Kubrick making AI would certainly been something. I really need to get around and see more of his films... anyway thanks man! oh.. and just one last thing... any chance to see you guys back in Norway for a future gig?

er hurley probably, at least he's the one i'd be most likely to hang out with the meeting scene when luke doesn't know who he is and yoda's trolling the shit out of him burton's (sorry but that first burton film was ace when it came out, i know it seems a bit shit now) nolan's are like, not serious enough to be seen as serious. they could have been a million times more serious imo. bane was shit as well, sounded like a bad impression of patrick mcgoohan brave new world ipa or ale, but I'm not much into beer, its alright i don't know any but i dunno maybe i just don't think the tastes compliment that well yay, Cheers Sean! - good choice, Hurley is a great lad! I'm a big fan of Locke myself! how do you think they managed to finish up the whole series? - haha yes that's a good Yoda moment, I second that I guess :) btw why do you think Lucas decided to add Jar Jar to the franchise? - Yeah I'm a fan of Burton's universe as well, but I really like them both. Burton's vision still stands the test of time I think. Haha I thought everyone heard a distorted Sean Connery in Bane's voice! - do you think our society today are "progressing" towards Huxley's vision of BnW? Or maybe we are there already more or less? - last dessert you had that gave you pleasant vibes? - what do think of Spielberg's AI? oh and here's a photo of me visiting some folks in Wales over a year ago. me to the right. Any comments? :)

a few random bits: - favourite character/moment in Lost (if you watched the series?) - favourite Yoda scene in any SW movie? - C. Nolan's or T. Burton's Batman? - Brave New World or 1984? - Favourite type of beer (ale, lager, stout, etc)? - Could you recommend a dessert featuring banana and chocolate?

oh and one more thing I wanted to ask: I was happy to discover that you included a few tracks by Yello in your Exai webcasts. Yello was the band who first triggered my music interest as a kid (when I for the first time saw the music video for rubberbandman on MTV, still remember it as it was yesterday.. ahh... memories... My friends thought my music taste was a bit strange. ah well anyway..) Any favouroite albums/tracks by Meier and Blank? And any favourite music videoes? :) What do you think of their last album, Touch? *sneaking out just as discreetely as I entered...* yeah get u - bumps being essential in a 4day thread this size and counting…. btw every question is read, but not answered not cos its shit or anything, just timing mbe. yello, shit yeah been into them since stella, more recently doing a backtrack for some others more rare. their idea of how to throw together the superfine grain and smooth sound of their use of the digital gear, the slick production with perverse 80s off hand arrangements back then was intense for me mostly sculptural use in tracks like Ciel Ouvert or Stalakdrama, lots of camps with cash doing it at the time like trevor horn and others with computer workstations n that. but this was the most oblique for me. cheers Rob, thanks! Haha Stella was THE first album I really played a lot and aloud on my first stereo system! ahh.. good memories! yeah been rediscovering the band again over the previous years or so. You just inspired me to keep on looking! Any specific rare albums you've found you'd like to mention? lots of ace tracks on their first albums like Solid Pleasure and Claro Que si. Really like their sense of humour as well, like they have a kind of cheezy image but still manage to keep it serious and cool at the same time. Guess it has to be their moustaches. I think no other band can beat their awesome moustache factor! :) Oh and btw, in the second part of your Exai webcast you gave me a pleasant surprise with the abrupt transition from Mantronix straight into Coast to Polka. And then you mix Meat Beat Manifesto into that again, just sheer awesomeness, surprises like that give me a great joy, cheers for that! :) ehhmm so..... anything you would like to say regarding my questions about the Confield tracks (Lentic Catachresis/Parhelic Triangle)? aaand..... Who is that female voice you used in Second Scepe? A sample from an album? A friend lending her voice to you? Sorry I'm just too curious to let these questions pass, so I'll try again! Thank you so much again for your time, this whole thing is just incredible cool you guys to do! oh... and it seems to be some kind of trend going on here, so I'll give it a shot. Could you please name my...... ehhm, lets see.. *looking around in my room* ah yes! Could you please name my new Kindle for me? Would be cool to name it something as I use it alot!

*just sneaking in discreetely to bump my post back to the surface" oh and one more thing I wanted to ask: I was happy to discover that you included a few tracks by Yello in your Exai webcasts. Yello was the band who first triggered my music interest as a kid (when I for the first time saw the music video for rubberbandman on MTV, still remember it as it was yesterday.. ahh... memories... My friends thought my music taste was a bit strange. ah well anyway..) Any favouroite albums/tracks by Meier and Blank? And any favourite music videoes? :) What do you think of their last album, Touch? *sneaking out just as discreetely as I entered...*

Greetings! Long time fan from Norway here. Big thanks to you guys for doing this, and of course thanks to watmm and Joyrex for making this happen! So some questions from the top of my mind (haven’t read through the whole thread so sorry if some have been asked earlier) So let’s jump straight in, shall we: - Which book(s) are you currently reading (if any)? Are you mostly into fiction or do you read non-fiction as well, such as philosophy/science/documentary stuff etc? - Any philosophers from any time period you are specifically into? - Salvador Dali or M.C. Escher? - Do any of you speak a foreign language? Do you know any phrases or longer sentences in Japanese? - Are the chopped up robot sounding voices in Lentic Catachresis (sounds like a bunch of droids/machines/robots having some kind party, then it goes mental) sampled from any album or is it like field recorded samples? Have you ever used your own voices in any tracks (if yes, do you mind revealing which ones)? And who are the female voice used in Second Scepe? - Did you sample any actual bell-like instrument for Parhelic Triangle? This track have so much substance, but yet a sense of creepy paranoia that I always get lost into it.. like I’m wandering around in a long dark corridor on some alien world with abandoned laboratories around me, where horrible experiments took place along time ago… and there’s some kind of lethal sentient entity (possible a result from one of those experiments) somewhere watching my steps… I see films have been discussed in the thread so here are some film-related questions: - Are you into Christopher Nolan’s films, like what do you think of Inception? And his revival of the Batman franchise? Opinions on Bane’s voice/accent? - What do you think of Blomkamp’s last film, Elysium? - What do you feel about R. Scott’s return to the Alien universe with Prometheus? - Do you like Monty Python, and if yes, would you like to mention any favourite sketches? - Who would win a match of pool (eight-ball, etc) between Sean and Rob? What about chess? Or othello (reversi)? - Will you ever come back to Norway for a gig? I really enjoyed your set in Oslo during the Oversteps tour. If I’m not mistaken that was the first time you ever performed in Norway? How did you like the visit? - Speaking of which… did you know that Pule actually means ”to f*ck” in Norwegian? (I really like the track btw, it has a feeling of rusty dryness to it, in a meditative calming way kind of) Ok that was that! I really hope you’ll take your time to reply, but I see you have a hell of a job digging through all these posts! (Oh and btw, I really appreciate your good sense of wit and irony you are expressing throughout this discussion! there seems to be a great vibe of light-heartedness going on between you guys and your fans!) Cheers! :) regards, Jan from Norway