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Thread started 04/22/20 8:43am

RobotFix

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New Release: Sananda Maitreya - Pandora's Playhouse

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Givin' up food for funk.
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Reply #1 posted 04/22/20 11:04am

jn2

Serious smile

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Reply #2 posted 04/22/20 11:48am

RobotFix

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Givin' up food for funk.
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Reply #3 posted 04/22/20 11:54am

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Mr Skeleton is actually the first song of his since Wildcard that i can kind of fuck with cool

and true love lives on lollipops and crisps
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Reply #4 posted 04/22/20 2:33pm

TheFman

straight out of Depeche Mode's first works....

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Reply #5 posted 04/28/20 5:04am

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I've never picked up the 'chapters' when he's released them in the past, always just gone for the album when it's released. Does anyone know if these have historically included different mixes to what appeared on the finished album? Different mastering?

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Reply #6 posted 04/28/20 6:48am

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Catchy chorus..I like it. Fits right in with the craziness that's going on right now....I want to hear his "Prince" song.

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Reply #7 posted 04/28/20 6:43pm

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Catchy chorus..I like it. Fits right in with the craziness that's going on right now....I want to hear his "Prince" song.

It's not really a "song" as such, just an instrumental piano piece. Most likely a tribute to Prince.

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Reply #8 posted 04/28/20 8:55pm

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anc282 said:

SPYZFAN1 said:

Catchy chorus..I like it. Fits right in with the craziness that's going on right now....I want to hear his "Prince" song.

It's not really a "song" as such, just an instrumental piano piece. Most likely a tribute to Prince.

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Interesting. He did a similar such thing in tribute to Whitney Houston on Return to Zooathalon, the keyboard instrumental titled "Last Train to Houston."

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On his site you can read his origins description of each piece of the Chapter One series of material, wherein he explains that the work is indeed a tribute to Prince Rogers Nelson.

peace prince

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Reply #9 posted 04/28/20 9:03pm

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TheFman said:

straight out of Depeche Mode's first works....

I've also picked out The Cure, The Rolling Stones, Fishbone, Funkadelic, George Clinton, Prince, James Brown, Sam Cooke, The Beatles, Ludwig V. Beethoven, etc. in his works.

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He finds some pretty cool sounding people to emulate, LOL. And add puns!

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Reply #10 posted 04/29/20 4:28am

EmmaMcG

IstenSzek said:

Mr Skeleton is actually the first song of his since Wildcard that i can kind of fuck with cool



Same. Big fan of his work up to and including Wildcard. After that his music just got boring to me. Hopefully Mr Skeleton does well enough for him to consider doing more like it in the future.
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Reply #11 posted 04/29/20 2:28pm

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Cool, but his voice sounds rough (sacrilage to say it I know) and it sounds more like a demo than something finished. Maybe thats the intended effect though smile.

And I speak as a TTD/ Sananda fan who has explored and enjoyed post-Wild Card albums 'Angels and Vampire' and 'Nigor Mortis' (so far with more to come).

Also glad that he's done something more electronic sounding again, as his one man band thang has definitely yielded mixed results musically post Wildcard.

He definitely did not 'jump the shark' post Wildcard imo, he just changed his music styles, turned down the funk rock/ r'n'b side and turned up the singer-songwriter.

Would be cool though if he did soon return to a slicker funk rock style though, as he's been doing the indie singer-songwriter one man band thang for like 20 years now eek smile.

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Reply #12 posted 06/15/20 12:52pm

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I've never picked up the 'chapters' when he's released them in the past, always just gone for the album when it's released. Does anyone know if these have historically included different mixes to what appeared on the finished album? Different mastering?

I know in the early days (Angels & Vampires era), the chapters were not mastered.

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Reply #13 posted 06/16/20 8:29am

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leecaldon said:

player said:

I've never picked up the 'chapters' when he's released them in the past, always just gone for the album when it's released. Does anyone know if these have historically included different mixes to what appeared on the finished album? Different mastering?

I know in the early days (Angels & Vampires era), the chapters were not mastered.

Thanks lee. Shame those aren't still available as the completist in me is regretting not going for them now sad

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Reply #14 posted 06/16/20 12:57pm

leecaldon

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leecaldon said:

I know in the early days (Angels & Vampires era), the chapters were not mastered.

Thanks lee. Shame those aren't still available as the completist in me is regretting not going for them now sad

The difference is fairly minimal - they just don't sound as good. Have them sitting at home somewhere, but what with one thing and another in the world right now, I haven't been home (or even that continent) since February.

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Reply #15 posted 06/16/20 3:35pm

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Listened to Mr Skeleton.

Same boring Sananda.

The Slave years were glorious for the art.

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Reply #16 posted 06/17/20 3:59am

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leecaldon said:

player said:

Thanks lee. Shame those aren't still available as the completist in me is regretting not going for them now sad

The difference is fairly minimal - they just don't sound as good. Have them sitting at home somewhere, but what with one thing and another in the world right now, I haven't home since February.

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I hear that. Most of my music is boxed so I've had an old iPod and some recently purchased vinyl to see me through. There's more important things going on right now I know but damn I miss music; streaming just doesn't cut it!

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Reply #17 posted 06/19/20 12:19pm

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I for one am waiting for the completed album to purchase. I haven't been bored by any of his output (maybe "The Sphinx" at first, because I couldn't sympathise with it when it dropped), although "Mr. Skeleton" is pretty mundane. It's one for the timecapsule of our current pandemic, and our universal fear, still.
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Post-Millenium-Rock is cool with me!
I'm sure that Sananda has electronic-produced material to present for the time he sees fit to stitch into the product stream. There' plenty o' that shizz going around for realz, anyway.
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