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                          g r e e n.

                       mellow-d/fm

                    ovenbakedcreatingthisdelicious.

        VERSION 1: Downsampled XM's.
                   This is a version where I had to downsample the XM's to make them
                   fit a meg of soundcard memory. to hear a better sound, please refer
                   yourself to:
 
                   fm-bglt.zip    This version of the disk.
                   fm-bgxm.zip    Full-sized XM files.
                   fm-bgmp3.zip   MP3 files of the songs. Some are actually smaller
                                  than the XM's themselves :)

        My future productions will probably be released as MP3 only. Trust me, you
        win on size. I've already crossed the 20 meg limit :)

1. Intro

	Hi. Welcome to blur green. It's one of my hardest work so far, a lot of time has
        gone into these tunes. This is my fourth musicdisk (kaktoos, blur religion,
        blur plastiq, and now blur green). It's also the last (finally!) in the blur
        series. I guess what the blur series was is a series of tracker experiments.
        I like them.

        The feedback on the previous disk was so amazing that I was a little pressured
        and hence worried about the level of this disk. It's like always when you're
        creating your third "album", or an album after a hit one, you get tense. I hope
        you will like it. And thank you a lot for the feedback! I would like to receive
        some on this disk aswell.

        Thanks to: Diablo, Dune, Stinger, Dennisc, Subliminal, zsazS, ior and
        everyone else on #trax. Very special thank you goes to Ozone. An extra-very-mega
        special i-owe-my-life-to-you thing goes to mikmak for writing xm2wav. The mp3's
        were made with that and I think that program is quite flawless :-) Also thanks
        to Fernis for the SoundBlaster AWE 32, Markonen for the sennheisers, Antti 
        Koskinen for the Korg 707, Hunz and MickRip for the music and music talks 
        and #trax for the mental support.

2. Songs
        
        Some of the songs are going to be on my CD, whenever that gets done. The sound
        quality on those tunes is better than on the rest, so take a guess. :) Most of
        the tunes were made around June-August 1997.

        Sound equipment used:
          
          miscellaneous win95 sound tools
          korg 707 (as a midi keyboard)
          yamaha tx81z fm-synth (rack)
          Yamaha VSS-200 (very nice toy synth)
          crybaby bass wah-wah
          realistic 10-band graphic equalizer
          digitech 256xl multi effects processor (rack)
          JPW monitors
          a sony discman
          a denon amp
          sennheiser hd 450
          sennheiser hd 25 sp
          ozone's voice (the speeches on cloud complex)

        I guess that takes me to the songs themselves. They are mostly inspired by misc
        dub artists such as The Orb. Some Underworld and Nine Inch Nails inspiration is
        there too. 

        Please try to play everything in FastTracker II, it's the only thing aside xm2wav
        that plays the songs correctly. 

        No comments on the songs themselves. 

3. Versions

        Why did I make three versions of the disk?  Simply because all but one of the 
        songs are over a meg in original XM size, and some people can't software mix
        the songs to hear everything. There's a downsampled version (with some samples
        missing), a regular version and an MP3 version. Suit yourself!

3. Next things

        Thanks for your time spent listening to blur green! I really really like to hear
        what people think, so email me! Also check out http://www.fm.org/ periodically
        (as soon as WAVE gets the site done) and http://www.scene.org/ for the best scene
        site!

4. Contacting me

        Here's how you can contact me, and please don't hesitate to!

        By snailmail, you can send mail to:

        Jaakko Manninen
        Pengerkatu 27 B 39
        FIN-00500 Helsinki

        By the net, you can reach me at:

        mellow-d@fm.org
        http://www.fm.org/~jak/
        IRC: Jak or Mellow-D

        By phone, you can reach me at +358-40-585-3067.

5. Five Musicians

        The Five Musicians are WAVE, Necros, Basehead, Hunz and
        Mellow-D.  Please come and visit our site at http://www.fm.org/
        for more information!

6. Copyright and disclaimer

        Copyright 1996 Jaakko Manninen. All rights reserved.
        THIS PRODUCTION OR PARTS OF THIS PRODUCTION MAY NOT BE USED
        ON ANY PHYSICAL MEDIA WITHOUT THE WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE AUTHOR.
        The production may not be sold for profit, but may be used in
        compilations that cost nothing or that cost only the production
        costs of the physical media.
        Jaakko Manninen assumes no liability of direct or indirect
        damage resulting from the use of this production. So don't blow off
        your ears.

        :)
