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          CHINESE WHISPERS (2013-2015)
A copy of a copy of a copy
A picture of a picture of a picture
rumours based on lies and hearsay
everything's turning into Chinese Whispers
A remix of a remix of a remix
A dogma based on stories based on…
        
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          The Dutch painter Mondrian was apparantly a fervent dancer to Boogie Woogie and that image stuck because he seems such a stiff guy otherwise. So I thought that would make a funny subject for a dance-tune. Normally I wouldn't make a song about…
        
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          Midlife crisis? I'm not going to reflect too much on these lyrics. It might be interesting to myself to hear again 5 or 10 years from now. I used a guitarnoise with a EH Graphic Fuzz and Hardwire RV-7 with a reverse reverb (I used this too in…
        
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          I had programmed a drumtrack based on Can's Vitamin C at the end of january in preparation for RPM. Last week I read that the drummer Jaki Liebzeit died the 22th of january. The other idea was to stay on one chord for a long time and use reverb…
        
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          I set this up to be like a Madchester/early 90's-track. When I took out the drums in the verse (as an experiment) it suddenly reminded me of the German 60's hit Marmor, stein und Eisen bricht. Those lyrics go like "Marble, stone and iron break…
        
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          Lyrically it's about this dream to live another kind of life as in Tim Ferriss' book. The last three years I had managed to live on working in a bar in the weekends, being a guinea pig for medical tests, travelling the world as an On Board Courier…
        
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          CHINESE WHISPERS (2013-2015)
A copy of a copy of a copy
A picture of a picture of a picture
rumours based on lies and hearsay
everything's turning into Chinese Whispers
A remix of a remix of a remix
A dogma based on stories based on…
        
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          These four songs were written for the RPM Challenge 2013 (which I didn't finish, I finished these songs for RPM 2015) My idea for lyrics of the record was not to use the words You an I. So that's where this came from. 
        
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          I was in Beijing for two weeks and I had seen a documentary called Beijing Bubbles shortly before.  When I heard a band rehearse in a bar near my hotel I walked in and saw it was the guy from the doc.
        
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