From: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org (Monkey Digest) To: monkey-digest@valinor.eldar.org Subject: Monkey Digest V1 #686 Reply-To: monkey@valinor.eldar.org Sender: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org Errors-To: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org Precedence: bulk Monkey Digest Saturday, February 26 2000 Volume 01 : Number 686 In this issue: Re: [monkey] New audio files [monkey] No more techno on Monkey!!! Re: [monkey] New audio files [monkey] Monkey Magic demo?! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:59:40 EST From: "Adrian A" Subject: Re: [monkey] New audio files Hey, i was wondering where i can get the Gandhara MP3 not a re-mix like the one below me. thanks Bye ^_^ <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Adrian Andreacchio ad_69@hotmail.com icq:19354595 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> >Here's some new Monkey-related audio files: >1) Gandhara (by THE SPIRIT OF GODIEGO) >http://homepage.mac.com/monkeymusic/g2.mp3 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - --------------------------------------------------------------- + To unsubscribe, send an email to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with 'unsubscribe monkey' in the body of your message + Need help? Send an email to: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:27:06 +1100 From: Shen Flindell Subject: [monkey] No more techno on Monkey!!! No more techno on Monkey!!! - --------------09AC78E3AA58C76D8097A5C5 From: RecoveryTV@your.abc.net.au Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:01:45 To: Shen Flindell Subject: Re: Monkey Hi Shen, Thanks for your comments. Monkey will no longer have dance track played underneath. Recovery At 23:31 24/02/2000 +1100, you wrote: >To ABC Director of Programming, > >I am writing to suggest that "Monkey" be screened unaltered on Recovery >or otherwise be transferred to another timeslot or alternatively to SBS. > >My friends and I have enjoyed watching "Monkey" on Saturday mornings for >the last year or so, but the latest decision by the Recovery staff to >mix electronic music into the program has been very distressing. I >quite like some electronica, but regardless of the artistic merit of >their choice of music, it is surely obvious to any reasonable person >that mixing music into an already completed program is not an >improvement. > >The original program has it's own charming retro soundtrack, and at >times one must now tolerate two independent music tracks running >simultaneously. And of course there is now never a silent moment, >despite the original director's intentions. This is a great obstruction >to being able to relax and sink into the story and atmosphere. > >I have written to Recovery several times and been given the following >standard response : > >>Please remember that Monkey is a small component of the Recovery >program >>and not vice versa. Now that Recovery is focused closely on dance music >we >>have had to tweak different areas of the show to fit in with the >current >>format. > >Others who have written to Recovery have also been told that they will >continue to mix techno into the program, despite viewer complaints. > >It seems to me that Recovery doesn't care about Monkey, only about their >concept of a continuous "dance music" theme on their program. Perhaps >they are trying to encourage their main audience to stay tuned while >Monkey is screened. If this is their attitude, I suggest that they keep >their dance music theme and that the programming of Monkey be shifted to >another timeslot. > >Alternatively and possibly even better, perhaps SBS could take over the >screening of the program. I've heard that there is another series of >Monkey which was never dubbed in English - maybe SBS could also screen >that series, with subtitles... and no techno of course! >________________________________________ > > Shen Flindell > > EthnoSuperLounge > > Music is Bliss, Dance is Ecstasy - --------------------------------------------------------------- + To unsubscribe, send an email to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with 'unsubscribe monkey' in the body of your message + Need help? Send an email to: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:03:23 GMT From: "Howell Parry" Subject: Re: [monkey] New audio files >i was wondering where i can get the Gandhara MP3 not a >re-mix like the one below me. You can get it, along with other Monkey-related MP3s, from here: http://www.q-net.net.au/~maquis/mp3/ Howell ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - --------------------------------------------------------------- + To unsubscribe, send an email to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with 'unsubscribe monkey' in the body of your message + Need help? Send an email to: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:40:54 GMT From: "Howell Parry" Subject: [monkey] Monkey Magic demo?! This page has an MP3 called "Monkey Magic demo only": http://members.tripod.com/~Dogmilk/home.htm I'm guessing it's a cover version of "Monkey Magic" done by this guy? Could someone download it and let us know what it is? Thanks, Howell ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - --------------------------------------------------------------- + To unsubscribe, send an email to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with 'unsubscribe monkey' in the body of your message + Need help? 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