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Subject: [Mellotronists] Yes but Epsilon in Malaysian Pale

From: tron@...
Date: 2005-01-17

In the recent message <000901c4fb53$3082eac0$87d76351@catweasel>
you wrote...

> > Exactly. And whatever he chooses to do with 'Epsilon' has to be an
> > improvement on the original. It's maybe the most aimless bit of drivel
> > I've ever heard, Mellotrons or otherwise.
>
> Eh?! It's ∗meant∗ to be aimless -
> it makes it more hynagogic,
> the listener's brain-state finally passing beyond delta-waves
> into a previously unknown ∗epsilon∗ state :-)

So if I make a crap CD and tell everyone that it's meant to be crap then
it's actually alright?

Hmm. That would make it non-crap, which would make my assertion
meaningless and hence would never change the CD's crap-state. This is
the sort of paradox that 1960s TV computers with big spinning tape reels
would listen to, digest and then explode about.

> PS - I heard your favourite Tangerine Dream album was 'Cyclone' :-)

Oh ∗isn't∗ Steve Joliffe just the greatest singer ever?

Mike Dickson (tron@...) M400 #996
The Official Cynic of Streetly Electronics
Streetly Sample Library http://www.blackcat.demon.co.uk/tron/