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Artificial Intelligence (AI) : First Contact
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Geek/Progressive rock with SF and Singularity themes out of NY...original vinyl EP was recorded in and around 1983. CD remaster, including additional track "You'd Better Sit Down", released in 2000.
Genre: Rock: Progressive Rock
Release Date: 2000
First Contact
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Record Label: ENC Media
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Preview Song Name Time Buy
1. Robot Heart 5:58 + MP3 $1.99
2. Stars and Children 5:06 + MP3 $1.99
3. Harvest 7:59 Album Only
4. The Last Word 6:04 + MP3 $1.99
5. You'd Better Sit Down 4:48 + MP3 $1.99
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Album Notes

This is, with minor exception, a studio band.

Video for "Robot Heart" (trk 1) was broadcast nationwide in 1985 on Hunt/Jaffe's TOP 40 VIDEOS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zAEYlv_S2A

Were the Wachowski Bros watching? You decide...an A/B comparison of the salient scenes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmmbWA_3rqM:

musicians:
keyboards : Rory Young
bass & vocal : Stuart Staley
guitar : Al Orlo
guitar : Andrew Bloch
drums : Rowen Caplan (trk 2)
drums : Bobby Leonard (trks 1 & 4)
drums/percussion : Joe Bonadio (trk 3)
saxophones : Daniel Wilensky (trk 3)

Recorded @ Acme Studios, Mamaroneck, NY

The "Robot Heart" (trk1) video is featured on musicvideosthatsuck.com : "Is it possible for a band to be nerdier than Rush, the Buggles, Devo and Jethro Tull combined? Artificial Intelligence proves that the answer is yes."
"This sort of 'pan' warms the mechanical cockles of my robot heart", opines composer Rory Young. "I think music that challenges--and I hope ours does--should never leave you luke-warm. You should love it or hate it--like the Law of the Excluded Middle." :
http://musicvideosthatsuck.com/wordpress/?p=354

MIT savant and AI pioneer, Danny Hillis bought ten of the original EP's to give as Christmas gifts in 1985 : )

Other early video work (and tunes) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKgo6D3lW8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RaZly9KE48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L6QftLS-Us


for more info, contact : jay@encmedia.com

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