Added on Thu 10 Jan 2008
Technologic
I’ve started to change just a little how I do these. It turns out to be better to start one of these one day and finish it the next. Best to sleep on most decisions including the one deciding when a pai.. oops picture is finished.
Technologic is a track that’s lived on past the album. Is it one that some American used in their hip hop music?? I think so. I’ll look that up before the end of this.
Then there’s all those great youtube vids for this song. Ok that’s it.. I have to get up and come back to this in a few more moments with all my sources in place!!
Ohh ok - it was Busta Rhymes with Touch It which was bloody excellent song if I remember it right.
Youtube - here for one.
The real video clip here. Let it play in a new window while you look at the picture (press on the picture to see a full size version)
I was reading that initial reports on this album was that it sucked. But since then it’s been a grower on the world’s conscience, one of those albums that just keep on getting better.
Obviously this song has a bit more of a message. Tapping into that was easy. Actually it’s like they had collected lyrics from a few of the other songs… removed them and then stuck them all in to this one. They don’t stop. Albeit, it’s still repetitive don’t mistake a Daft Punk song on this album, even one with lots of words as not being repetitive!
So where did I go with it? Well, they have taken note of the lingo that we all use these days, really a lingo that is still only a few years old. How things change so rapidly at this point in time. So many aspect of our lives are run in a different fashion to even a few years ago.. (and it continues to change at the same rate). I’m not sure if they were going on about this very same point in their song, but it’s what I’m going with.
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The next step for me was to take that and turn it into a disguise of things changing so fast that sneaky changes make it into our psyche without us noticing. A different way of thinking. A way that leaves behind some morals, but amongst the busy changes we don’t notice something worthwhile has gone missing. It’s the distance between us as real people and the things we do on the net and with computers. So much happens online, which is sort of invisible to anyone who can’t be bothered actually tracking you individually. Which people are scared of loosing their anonymity and their privacy. However, at the same time too much privacy let people go about acting in ways which they never use to act.
So before I go on and on about this, I’ll just say that I’ve tried to put that into the picture. You can have a look at it for yourself and hopefully see how I’ve depicted those things?
You can also buy it here (for the next week) on eBay. Not any more sorry, that one ended and it didn’t sell! So you’ve missed your chance to have it for a dollar! Now if you want it you’ll have to pay me $40 000 to get your grubby mitts on it!