Spacetime?

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Apologies if this has been discussed previouslty, but does anyone know anything about the current Sisters intro music. It's listed on my Pukkelpop boot as 'Spacetime', but I haven't seen this anywhere else.

There is a full recording of it on the glorious Frankfurt 2003 bootleg, and as a track itself it's marvellous. Sits in yer head for days. And has now displaced Gift as THE Sisters tune to get stoned to.

I was wondering if it might be from the legendary Leeds Underground material? It certainly comes across as the sort of techno with intelligience that you'd expect from :von:

Any ideas? Or facts?
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Is it not the Tangerine Dream track?

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There was a track called Space Time on the Shaman's Boss Drum album. It might have been the one with Terence Mckenna rambling over various ambient noodlings, or possibly something about "A fusion between the concepts of space and time ..."

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No idea Karst. Is it? Or do you mean Fly And Collision, which it certainly ain't.

I hope it's TD rather than The Shamen. Saw them at the T&C once, where they were dutifully blown off stage by their support...Utah Saints. 8)
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Dave Whelan wrote:No idea Karst. Is it? Or do you mean Fly And Collision, which it certainly ain't.
That's what I was think and you're right that certianly isn't it. Not sure.

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Personal opinion here, but if that play on music is a cover, how bad was the original piece?

I much prefer a fanfare to a noodley little thing like that. Come on with gusto
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I've seen it listed as Spacetime too. Maybe the idea is (a bit like having s**t pop music playing before the gig) that the audience is so desperate for the beat to kick in that they go wild when the first few notes of Temple of LOve start (or whatever).
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I do like it though.
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I really liked the twittering noises subsiding into what sounds very like Hawkwind's Hall Of The Mountain Grill at the start of the Philadelphia 97 boot.
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i've written this before, but have a go at dead can dance - bird

it's fairly close in sound


http://mp3-d.mp3pm.com/mp3-albums.html? ... 244&sym=32
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paint it black wrote:i've written this before, but have a go at dead can dance - bird

it's fairly close in sound


http://mp3-d.mp3pm.com/mp3-albums.html? ... 244&sym=32
I'd have a go, Paint, but the server is down. Would Von really come on to a DCD track?
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I tried the DCD link last night, but it wanted me to pay for it, now how shocking is that?

Pay for an mp3? OMG... I prophesy disaster.
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Pay for it? PAY...for IT?

Blimey. Hope Von is reading this, it might give him ideas.

Hmm, Von reading this. Now there's a thing. Not bloomin' likely.
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Dave Whelan wrote:
paint it black wrote:i've written this before, but have a go at dead can dance - bird

it's fairly close in sound


http://mp3-d.mp3pm.com/mp3-albums.html? ... 244&sym=32
I'd have a go, Paint, but the server is down. Would Von really come on to a DCD track?
Nah :eek:

it's just sorta samey feel to it IMHO ;D
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A reliable source told me that the intro that they used for the tour 2000 and the new intro that they started to use 2001, is some songs from vons obscure techno project.
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Listening to it, spacetime that is, loud and on repeat is kinda hypnotic. I did that for 15 mins before I noticed I had the cd-player on repeat. But by then I was hypnotized and couldn't do anything about it.

I've also heard that it's a Von production from a "intelligent techno" project.
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Cool. I figured it probably was one of his own. Techno with tunes and intelligience indeed, it would sit quite happily in the Narcotic Suite IMO. And it is certainly hypnotic, with or without herbal accompaniment.

When is someone gonna leak those damn techno albums of his?
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Does it sound like anything of SSV?

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What, Spacetime? No siree. SSV is erm..poor, and Spacetime is ace.

That said, the music for PaperKnifeStoneGun has potential.
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