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there are 2 new releases. tone casualties label sent me the finshed product of la luna and this time the cd sounds fine concerning the sound quality. the other release is a tripple cd on the ellipsis label and is called ohm with an excerpt of canaxis on. it is a collection of the history of electronic music from 1935! till 1980. strange coincidence: one day i had a cd with an exceptional booklet in my briefcase called manhattan research by raymond scott. if i could write a comment about it. what can i tell you - i didn't want to trust my ears what i heard. the development of electronic music has obviously its roots in different countries under very different circumstances. to make a long story short: most striking was raymond scott's sense of humour apart from all the mindblowing inventions he had made. time out magazine wrote a critic about ohm and manhattan reseach saying in a headline: "raymond scott and holger czukay are the only two composers here who sound like they cracked a smile during the fun filled 20th century." well, coming to canaxis i must say that this came into existence "illegaly" during a night shift in the electronic studio in cologne with its director karlheinz stockhausen. i never had told him about this action and concerning giving people a smile i am not sure if this ability got really developed in me by that time.