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The website says after their 3 year license period expires, the artists are free to do whatever they want with the audio files and covers. Some of us might just want to wait until 2024, then.

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Huh. I seem to remember Bent hinting about a 10” rerelease happening whenever they would get their hands on «a decent copy» of the original release. That was back in 1998, if I’m not mistaken. Only took ‘em 23 more years, then!

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Come to think of it, could that circle thingy be from one the vinyl sides of the 3 Songs for Rut single?

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Behind the Sun-era, perhaps? If so, 2014.

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Well, he wrote it, didn’t he? It’s high time he got to sing it w/o the cheeky pitched down effect.

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Came for the MP article, stayed for the Kate Bush bonanza. Thanks, man!

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Holy cow! I just found the poster up in the attic, along with some other old gems I’d completely forgotten about. The poster and the concert ticket read «Felix tirs 5. mars», which indeed dates the poster to 1996.

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Thanks for the enlightenment, Rolf! I’m a bit confused now. The poster does indeed look AADAP era, but for the reason mentioned above I’m 99 per cent sure I got mine one year earlier. Sorry if I’m wrong – and hope you find yourself another one, Hercules!

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Oh, wow! I used to have one, too, remember sneaking out a late winter night in Lillehammer to grab it from a wall. I actually think this one is from the Blissard era, because when AADAP came out I had moved out of town (and missed out on that year’s gig at Felix).

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It’s kind of interesting to see Bent’s statements on the matter over the years. From «we could have made Demon Box 2, but that would be the easiest thing in the world» (from 1994ish) and «every album is a counter-reaction to the previous one» (from late 90s and onwards) to «we tend to dig deeply into things for 2-3 albums, and then we’re done with that» (recent years). The last really radical change of direction and way of composing from one album to the next, I think, was with Little Lucid Moments. But within the «frames» of what they’ve been doing since 2008, they’re still able to surprise me at least (the single didn’t at all, as I’ve said before). Not by going trance or reggae or any such, but simply by making awesome new stuff within those frames. I dont’t love it all to death, but then again neither did I 20+ years ago.

Ehm, where was I? I think I was trying to say that us old psychonauts are kinda used to drastic changes from one year to the next. I don’t really think we’ll have much more of that, but of course: they’re more than welcome to surprise me in that department as well. And yeah, changing the drummer from time to time honestly seems kind of necessary in retrospect.

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Rain Song, Ten Years Gone and Kashmir. They’re all in there! No ripoffs, but definitely and tastefully present. From MP’s own catalog I hear echoes of Triggerman (groove), Ratcatcher (melody), Gullible’s Travail (groove) and probably more, but again, no self-plagiarisms. Except for a couple of tracks that feel like what an AI would have produced if you fed it with the latest 5-6 MP albums and had it make songs. Love the album, and N.O.X. just leaves me speechless. I mean, what the bloody hell? Must be something in the water at Ocean Sound Recordings. Or maybe not, I actually drink the same water (I can almost see the studio from my house).

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This is actually from a documentary about Svartlamon that was aired on NRK back in ‘95 or early ‘96. Quite possibly an «U» production, yes. Two songs from that performance were used, the other one was Sonnyboy Gaybar – I sure wish they had included that one as well on the DVD. Apart from the tusslin’, I don’t recall any other MP content in the documentary except a b/w still photo of Geb in his apartment, posing with two or three banjos.

Edit: The documentary was called «Rivende utvikling – eller ruskende galt?» and was aired on December 19th, 1995. Apparently it was made available in the NRK archives in 2015, but now it’s gone again. Damn, I’ve wanted to watch the whole thing again for nearly 25 years, and I missed out! :evil:

Edit 2: typos

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Thanks, otherdemon! I just remembered that Bob originally posted it on motorpsycho.no, so it’s probably somewhere in that news archive, too.

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I see what you did there! :STG:

Fantastic stuff, Flu! I sure wish I wasn’t broke. Btw, I seem to rember it being possible to rewatch the animated short somewhere. Is it still out there?

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I will, as always. Come to think of it: to me, just about every single and the majority of the albums MP ever released have been slightly disappointing at first listen since … hmm, Another Ugly EP? :lol:

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