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[META/SPEC] Viard album - track 5 - Culture Shock
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fabs_uk
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[META/SPEC] Viard album - track 5 - Culture Shock

Ok, i'm not sure if this is quite the right place for this but let's see what y'all think:

As a lot of you probably know by now, track 5 on The Silver City, Viard's album from Perplex City, is titled Culture Shock. It begins with the voiceover we all (should) know and love from the video that got us kicked off with the newspaper ads (see here and here if you don't remember this) I've also attached the video, in case you want to see it again (mods, if there's a problem with this let me know and it'll disappear).

I was wondering, if that video was just released to us on Earth, how did it wind up on a Perplex City album? Presuming that the album was all recorded, edited and produecd in PXC (which i think is reasonable from Sentinel articles like this and this) does this mean that the video was also available in Perplex City? Does Viard (or Hesh) have ties with the academy? Perhaps it's part of a Perplexian news broadcast about Earth? Is more being told to Perplexians than we know about? I doubt this last explanation, especially as there was a certain amount of concern over the lack of news on the hunt for the cube (the articles have expired, but snippets are here)

Perhaps it's just a slight continuity slip on the part of the PMs, but part of me wants to make something of it Smile
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Was the album actually made in Perplexcity though? I know the Earth based OOG interviews with the guy from Mind Candy who is also a DJ doing a project called Viard for Hesh Records are exactly that, out of game, but the guy mentioning Hesh Records so blatently seems to me that they are blurring the lines slightly, taking the 'it is not a game' mentality into places where it doesnt even need to go.
Added to the fact that every Sentinel article to do with Viard has mentioned how they couldnt get hold of him for a comment, I don't reckon anyone is even pretending Viard is from PerplexCity, or that the album was made there. Music can be transferred from here to there digitially easy enough, they only had to press the records there if they were to sell it to the Perplexians, or press it here for our benefit. The technology involved with all the mood effects, maybe its not so much actual tech thats needed, more a certain manipulation of musical notes that could technically be realised through traditional Earth instruments, or synths?

Still, that leaves us with the matter of whether it was Viard/Hesh or Viard/MC/Academy that released the intial video, OR if Viard just got hold of it and sampled it? Or as you say, both of them may have been sampled from something already existing in PerplexCity media.

rach =)

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good point. Viard actually being an earth-based artist (IG) wasn't something i'd considered....

hmmmmm......

*hawk's head asplodes
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i'm a little bit deaf i guess but what is said right at the end of the last track -- when we were young -- a few minutes after the main track is (seemingly) finished?
right at the very end of the album
EDIT -- i trout myself
sorry

btw -- i love the stuff -- specially that last track -- where can i join the fan club ? Smile
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tanner wrote:
where can i join the fan club ? Smile
I think you're already here, eh Smile
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