has anyone realised this track is actually a complete rip-off of Kayashi- Furio (released in 1997 on Incentive Records)?

no not really. Cos even that version was a remake of the theme tune from the film Merry xmas mr lawrence, which is where the melody comes from

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Hmm...I didn't know that. I like the song, though. Isn't watergate = an alias of DJ Quicksilver?

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Few of my all time favorites:

Benz & MD - Oneric
Madoka - Plataforma
Solid Globe - North Pole
Quivver - Space Maneuvers Part 3
Digital Witchcraft - Brindavan (Grayarea's Purge the Inventory Mix)

it was a colaboration. think there were/are 3 ppl but yeah DJ Q is one of them.

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The original track is Ryuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours and it's vocal version , if i remember correctly, is known as Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence from the 1983 movie with the same title. The movie is starred and music composed by Sakamoto as well.

DJ Quicksilver = Orhan Terzi (the visible part of the team) and Tommaso de Donatis
Watergate = Orhan Terzi, Tommaso de Donatis & David Haid

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quote:

Leslie Nielsen: Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

It's the other way around

Vocal: Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian - Forbidden Colours
Intstrumental: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

The trio version from his "1996" album is very nice - features Sakamoto himself on the piano accompanied with the violin and cello.

There's also a piano solo version played again by Sakamoto [from the "Coda album].

Funny enough, Sakamoto did compose a song called "Heart of Asia" in the 80's which sounds totally different to MCML.

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American composer John Cage on his aesthetic of silence

I thought Hemstock & Jennings were somehow involved with Watergate as well?

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They made a new remix for the double vinyl Postiva aniversary re-release of the track.

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" I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need "
American composer John Cage on his aesthetic of silence

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Originally posted by [ groovypants ] They made a new remix for the double vinyl Postiva aniversary re-release of the track.

Ahh, that's why I had them in mind

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Isn't it a ripoff off from some traditional oriental melody that's hundreds of years old?

I don't know about you guys, buy when i heard it, i thought it sounded just like all those traditional oriental strings.....

My guess is, that's where the inspiration for it came from.

I wouldn't call any one track a "complete ripoff" of any other. Sure, artists feed on one another's originality... but it's not exactly easy to come up with something completely original that's never been before in one form or another, let alone something that people are going to want to hear.

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1. Utah Saints - Lost Vagueness (Oliver Lieb's Main Mix)
2. Klea - Tic Toc (Paul Van Dyk's Re-Edit)
3. Alibi - Eternity (Inner City Mix)
4. Cirque de Soleil - Pokinoi (Sasha Mix)
5. Chris & Kai vs. Levin - Gone to Heaven

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Originally posted by [ groovypants ] It's the other way around Vocal: Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian - Forbidden Colours Intstrumental: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Heh, thanks for correcting. I remembered wrong then just as i doubted.

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quote:

Leslie Nielsen: Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.