From: Mark Pulley <mrpulley@tpg.com.au>

voice, although a little rough at times, she did stay in tune (which a lot of modern pop singers can't do).

Maybe she was auto-tuned just like many pop singers today? In any case, those songs are among best songs in the album. They could be much longer. Planet Dada and Tiger Dust are mastered to higher level than the songs between. Like somebody wanted them to be more important. I have to turn volume down when the player switches to Tiger Dust.

disappointed. Most of the song I enjoyed, but once the vocals about Buddha appeared it lost something. Taking a single word and repeating it in a sampler was something I thought Yello had grown out of before samplers even existed, yet here it was used on this track.

I think they differ enough from "ni-ni-nineteen". They sound ok to me. Instead of vocals there could be some rezo synth sound, guess.

sections where the melody modulates into a couple of unexpected keys, but still manages to find its way successfully back to the original key. (Non-musicians can feel free to ignore that sentence!)

Could you explane and give time ranges of those sections? What is a "key"? The selfmade songs announced here have been quite good. I have just played those by Arno and would like to know how one keeps the songs non-dull for so long time. Why Boris succeed to make a few minutes remixes and they sound good from beginning to end, and even gets more intensive toward the end? I have Mounted by the Gods samples and my remix just stays dull and messy no matter how long or complex the remix is made. (Though, I have no reference mix as I don't have the soundtrack CD.) A long time ago I found a Keyboard or EMusician article on remixes but it dealt only with sound positioning in frequency and stereo space. Could anyone find a guide for remixing with loops?

The 'whistled' tune in the background of Soul On Ice from 0:35 to 0:50 sounded 'wrong' to me. It reminded me of amother tune I've heard somewhere

Cannot help here. Boris has used many times such pitch-sliding nice sounds. Regards, Juhana