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| FLA > World Domination > M'era Luna Festival > Bio-Mechanic Just Returned from Amphi Festival in Cologne, where i recorded the FLA show + Interview + Signing session, as part of the crazyclip.tv recording crew. Also recorded other bands like And One, VNV Nation, Eisbrecher, Skinny Puppy, Blutengel!!! and had a great time, even enjoying the last one. All went down pretty well, copyin footage to the comp now. Lookin foward to releasing the 'old' WD DVD via Jochen Schoberths label 'Etage Music', also looks like Jochen, who recorded the M'era Luna audio and now the Amphi show, will be the soundman for the IED Tour DVD. Could've been worse of an experience :) Affected page: FLA DVD > IED TOUR | ||
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| in demise youtube ferrotale youtube shade of shambles youtube shade of shambles akustik youtube divination of doom youtube outreech youtube fla body count (hd) youtube fla epitaph (hd) youtube fla vigilante mera luna youtube | ||
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| Since my information got deleted and i got banned from the Delerium.ca forum, i'd like to share this ugly truth on here at least... back in the day i collaborated with Nasty Byte on the FLA DVD. the collaboration ended when nb kicked me out of my own dvd project and had a record deal ready to sign for her part of the FLA DVD, featuring FLA live video NOT backed by FLA live audio, but by FLA studio album and FLA 'Live Wired' 2CD audio recordings, all not declared as such, and all not licensed from the recordings' rights holder Metropolis Records. thats the old story. the new story is that Nasty is about to release a Delerium live DVD - whoa, with real live audio this time - featuring 12 live songs. INTERESTING SIDENOTE is that the real concert featured at least 2 more songs than the live dvd of the show, that most likely had to be left off to save royalty cost. also you mightve noticed that the failure that is henrik bauer has by now sucessfully licensed and pre-paid all FLA and Intermix promo video clips (minus Mindphaser) for the FLA DVD. nasty byte however claims that she was unable to release more than 0 Delerium promo video clips on her Del DVD because she doesnt hold the rights to them. which sounds weird as I neither hold the rights to any of the FLA ones. Therefor I wish Nasty 'photoshopped fake' Byte all the best of success with her new fan screwage, and congratulate all the fans to consciouslessly applauding her for her selfless, entirely moneydriven efforts. My FLA DVD featuring 2,5 full FLA live concerts and all the licensed FLA clips remains in the works until release and free speech are established in healthy condition. heres a little spot of uncensored discussion at last. | ||
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| front line assembly - world domination - commercial dvd - setting up release on portion controls label Sigsaly Transmissions features: mera luna festival - the videos - bonus footage front line assembly - world domination - bonus dvd - re-processing + re-editing footage - free web release in time with commercial dvd release. features: artificial soldier tour - unconscious - noisescape interviews Affected page: FLA DVD > WD Main | ||
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| FEAR FACTORY + AFTER ALL - Mechanize Tour Columbia Club, Berlin, Germany, 24.02.2010. Recorded by Mega Mind Video Department. FF: 18 songs. 97 minutes, 8 cameras, 6 cameramen, 30 audio tracks. AA: X songs, 32 minutes, 6 cameras, 5 cameramen, 12 audio tracks. Affected page: FEAR FACTORY 2010 | ||
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| fla dvd done, still waiting for the millennium clip, advance paid, all done minus the usual one missing piece fuck you too. been in hospital in january, first time psychatry since i started working on the fla dvd. went home with my first working relationship ever. its official, i'm bi-polar. makes more sense than just 'depressions'. switched from goin nowhere pre 2009 to going foward and making a bit of money in 09. 2010 looks better. cheers. | ||
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| While the production of FLA's M'era Luna show FINALLY nears REAL completion, another piece has come to fit itself, and all FLA + Intermix promo video clips (minus the really unreleasable Mindphaser one) are added to the DVD again, permission from Roadrunner and the last missing hq recording of Millennium are in the pipeline. Huge thanks to Notanee Bourassa for financial support, this move would've been impossible without him. Bernd will submit the DVD audio pretty soon, I'm okay with the ML video and not worried about a high cut frequency because the 3D programming and fx engineering make this video work well based on different aspects than boring 10-second long shots that retired older FLA fans can sleep into. This goddamn DVD has weathered and sharpened its edges for a long time. I've said things like this too often, but I'm really set up to submit the functional masters to Metropolis before this decade is over. Not because its easy, but BECAUSE its industrial. For now a few of those fla promo clips and some outtakes and tv interviews can be seen at youtube.com/frontlineassemblyTV, the official FLA youtube channel. Final M'era Luna clips coming soon. Affected page: FLA DVD > WD Main | ||
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front line assembly - millennium - unconscious recorded live at columbiaclub, berlin, germany, 28.07.2007 front line assembly - bio-mechanic - unconscious recorded live at columbiaclub, berlin, germany, 28.07.2007 outreech - awakening - live at livezone recorded live at livezone, weisse rose, 14.03.2009 audio taken from "outreech - awakening" cd 2009 the cold - tba recorded live at wort und klang, kato, 26.06.2009 Faust Again - Voice Inside recorded live at slaughterfest, dot club, berlin, germany, 09.05.2009 song appears on "Faust Again - The Trial" cd 2009 Poostew - Daily Slave promo video clip using live video footage recorded live at slaughterfest, dot club, berlin, germany, 09.05.2009 audio taken from "poostew - lifelovers" cd 2009 more to come frequently | ||
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| Clawfinger is ready for sendtoband, so is Dropkick, FLA is in waitforreely mode, Krupps will proceed slowly anyways. So 2009 brought 25 amateur / minor sized bands so far that i've either filmed or filmed and produced live videos for. None of those have been mentioned on the website much until now, which is being corrected. Filmed 5 bands with 3 cams at the Bounce Night at Magnet Club yesterday. A lot of postproduction ahead. Affected page: Bounce Night 05-09 | ||
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| Production of the Die Krupps Berlin 2008 has now begun 14 months after filming, 14 minutes cut so far, 14 tracks will be produced, of which 08 are set for the dvd. more dk live footage to come. For something completely different heres a new Delerium video. Delerium - Self-Saboteur - Live Berlin 2008 | ||
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| I've quit working with Bernd recently. There was a bunch of difficulties building up over time, so at the end we both felt better about parting ways. Already busy arranging new things, it's pretty stupid that I just gave the FLA audio mix to Glen Reely now cause I could have done that 2 years ago, but then this is the FLA DVD project where everything needs to fail once or twice before the goal is archieved. I think that I'll end up handing the mixing jobs to the bands themselves in the future cause it obviously works best that way. Also Bernd has a day job that takes up too much time. I'm not as angry about him as I used to be when I parted ways with RGKP and Nasty Byte earlier though, maybe I'm just getting older, more relaxed, and more professional. Maybe we'll still work together for recordings in the rather distant future, but for now I'm taking other paths to proceed on this awesome action adventure that MMVD has suddenly become in 2009. | ||
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| All FLA DVD deals are cleared, authoring running, masters will be submitted to Dossier and Metropolis as soon as audio arrives, DVD will be released as soon as artwork arrives. First half of the Clawfinger show is done. In this good state of mental and physical health I'm also starting a mini job and delivering newspapers again as of today, to get a few bills paid, however I'm not quitting the video job, I just got a life now featuring the energy for both. | ||
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Watch in high quality and comment on this video on youtube its time for another Claw vid, to celebrate the final round in this video editing battle. watch this band exploding like a nuke. when it goes into your head! Affected page: clawfinger > twky | ||
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| FLA WD - 99,999% done, awaiting goddamn submission. Claw - back n the ring fuh tha final battle. DKM - 3rd grade priority, just chill. Krupps - tape 13 just arrived, woohoo. | ||
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| so here is 'front line assembly - the videos' in its youtube version. more to come. audio remastering for some clips needed. Philiae - We Are The Problem [live] k17, 09.02.2008, supporting Die Krupps recorded by MMVD + BA-Ton, produced by Patrick Debus + Alex Frank. | ||
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| fla tour 2dvd release on dossier records in jan-feb 2009. dropkick murphys video 3/4 done, all in january clawfinger 2.0 update begun 16.12.2008 die krupps production to begin in 2009. split screen editing. computer upgrade: from 3ghz cpu to 2x3ghz cpu camera upgrade: from 1ccd dv to 3ccd hdv + mini-hub mind upgrade: from 3/7 to 5/7 usable days a week | ||
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| 50 days ago i started taking meds against hypothyreosis. well, it works now. according to the diagnosis i've had this malfunction since 2005. but the effects of it were pretty similar to those of the depressions i already had, so it remained unnoticed until recently. the life i enjoyed until 2 months ago was basically a 40/60 mix between feeling normal and being freezed up, unable to actively perform anything. since the meds are taking effect this ratio has changed to maybe 70/30. life makes a lot more sense now. more work in less time from now on. hallelujah. | ||
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| FLA WD: label + distribution found, record dealing, content finalization Dropkick: advance cut finished, corrections, expected to finish soon Clawfinger: major restructure processing slowly, jocke audio mix in Krupps: preparing footage for production launch Delerium: rough cut will be finished but show will be archived for future use FLA TV/LW: financial suporter found, progress possible | ||
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Watch and comment on this video on youtube just kickin this one out. cause its comin along. enjoy. the end is near. mark my words, palin. Affected page: FLA DVD > WD Main | ||
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| could be that dossier release the FLA DVD... i'm tired of major label negotiations... people who have no time... who dont even manage to watch the advance dvds and tell me yes or no... who just wasted my time... while my camera guys wait for their payment... while bernd waits for his... while some fans wait for the dvd... and some wait for my suicide... maybe its time for redemption? for release? before 2009? on dossier? i would dig it. update: unless band says no fuckin way, we start workin on the deal next week. it took manfred one day to take the time to watch the advance. its all easy now, can you believe that? Affected page: FLA DVD > WD Main | ||
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| after another depression break i've begun working on the Leandra (Delerium support band) video. 2 tracks of Del and Lea will be broadcast on SchwarzTV, probably next month. Entire Leandra show will be produced. Proceeding with Delerium now, looks like collaborating against nasty lite is inavoidable so after whatever else i said on the subject i will calculate that in. Also proceeding with Dropkick Murphys and will submit the entire show to the band with remastered camera audio relatively soon. Doing this video is fun and so i'll finish the show even if theres an audio prob like this. Clawfinger 1.0 is still not submitted due to more updates needed. FLA DVD is still in negotiation, gimme redemption there, please. Affected page: leandra > meta 08 | ||
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| Portion Control - ColumbiaClub, Berlin, 28.07.2007 download DVD torrent. this is not professional work, this is a bootleg. cheers, t.reznor. | ||
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Watch and comment on this video on youtube well, this project deserves being mentioned lately. basically i focused on some weird aspects in the claw berlin video and updated the worst song of the bunch, so it was better but still one of the worst songs, then i thought i'd send that to the band and manager and it would make an impression like this video must be fantastic if even the worst song is as good as this. also pretty confused about the fact that theres also a claw video in front of 200.000 people now. had a difficult conversation with jocke, and then sent some of the best of berlin to get things back into order. and now we proceed a bit above level 1.0. lets see about that festival, sounds very interesting, lookin foward to that in some way. Affected page: clawfinger > twky | ||
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| and our funny little adventure approaches a crash. turns out that the dkm shows audio recording failed. maybe bernd can rescue the camera audio so at least a part of it makes sense, but a dkm berlin dvd? no way. the dream is dead, lets reanimate some of it. so i have delerium on the table and proceed slowly with it, and its become an arms race with familiar methods and honest and honorable people who failed to screw me and burn for the revenge now. and the campaign has begun weeks ago. maybe i'll do die krupps now if dkm fades out, but only if i get the missing tape 13 in after 6 months. but hey why dont i just shut up and celebrate the awesome fact that after 6 weeks of provider change my internet returned yesterday night? lets think positive. | ||
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| Went back to both shows, reinvented the 2 FLA tracks used on WD, added the shows intro to WD, and cut the entire PorCon set, which was easy since its just 2 cams. Will release the latter on torrent when my internet is back. Not that I expect it to, 6 weeks pause is normal. Last not least I wrote a review of the FLA Berlin 07 trauma for the page, you can read it. | ||
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| Just a note that I've begun workin on the DKM video for real now. Had to solve format issues so it took a while to get ready. By now the first 3 songs are rough cut, I'll be working on this one (including support act sets) til sometime near the end of the year besides Delerium. Feels different, about 30 songs, a lot of audience filmed as requested by the band. Affected page: dropkick murphys | ||
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Watch and Comment on this video on Youtube. Apart from that I worked for the market leaders in metal live videos on Metalcamp Festival. And while it was a doubtlessly fantastic experience to film Meshuggah and Ministry with Sony FX1 cameras, I strongly malfunctioned in regards to the malfunction in the company that wouldve required me to spineshank my colleagues. Like they did it to me on the way back home. I won't give in to that. I went there for metal. Not for kissing ass and acting stupid on command. | ||
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| Oops, firstoff I got entirely rid of internet and phone connection for at least a week to come (the usual torture that is a simple provider change), but then I'll just jump outta the country for the first time in years and film some freejazz festival in Slovenia... | ||
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| Clawfinger live show video 1.0 completed. will send it to the band soon. The Dont Wake Me Up video has made it to something realistic. A 2008 version of the FLA Prophecy video was just phoenixed from the ruins of the earlier video versions, consider the 2002 version a joke and the 2008 version systematic chaos. | ||
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| Front Line Assembly > The Videos (1987-2002) (56min) 01 Body Count (1987) 02 Iceolate (1990) 03 Virus (1990) *04 Mindphaser (1992) (usage still unclear) 05 The Blade (1992) 06 Laughing Pain (1992) 07 Intermix - Monument (1992) 08 Intermix - The Process (1993) 09 Millennium (1994) 10 Plasticity (1996) 11 Epitaph (2001) 12 Credits These videos will be added to the World Domination 2DVD due to record label request. It took me some time to make this decision but after all i can live with the fact of having live wired and my own unfinished fla videos unreleased. Also the label is okay with having a limited 2dvd with 3 hours playing time per disc, so I feel good about it in the end. I still need high quality dubs of Millennium, Plasticity, Epitaph, but that can be solved easily. Affected page: FLA DVD > WD Main | ||
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Watch and comment on this video on youtube about time that i let people see some fla m'era luna... hope you dig! Download VCD MPEG file Affected page: FLA DVD > WD Main | ||
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| FLA - workin on release; Clawfinger - version 0.9 now so what will i produce next? Die Krupps - endless preproduction, no release in 2008. 2 shows. Dropkick Murphys, Against Me, Deadly Sins - co-production by schwarz tv. Delerium - begins after all footage has arrived. | ||
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| I was busy organizing lots of things and had to run around, set up stuff, talk to everyone, get permissions and last not least film 2 concerts, but gladly i had a very good week before this show and so i was enjoying everything, and didnt feel much pressure from anywhere. thank you to all my crew and the bands. top 5 :) and regardless of holding a cam i had to give it away here and there and just bang my head to the metal. dont worry though, cause i've never before filmed as unshaky as i did yesterday (hopefully:), i just need to groove with it, and i always appreciated the beats in those tracks the most. so we had 7 cameras running, 2 tripod ones in the back, 3 in the front row, one at the right side, and me and the roadie on the staircase behind the keyboard. plus multitrack audio recorded by bernd. also had some nice chats with the band and got a real souvenir from kristy too. they had a couple tech problems especially during the first 15 minutes and the venue was small, but overall the show was tight and there was something goin on for real. i will begin working on this pretty soon. slower cut frequency than fla. less linear. Affected page: delerium > berlin 2008 | ||
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Watch and comment on this video on youtube and here's video number 3. video is almost finished now and audio 80% finished. we will have the entire show done before the end of may and send it to the band, and then we will discuss a dvd release and adding bonus footage and clips to it. also check zaks blog for a sensational post about it here. Affected page: clawfinger > twky | ||
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| FLA Tour DVD artwork duties go to delerium.ca webmaster Oliver Matthews aka Bahn. Artwork will be made from 2 gigabytes of 2006 tour photos. Release negotiations proceeding. its not that complicated if you know it, but i don't. | ||
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| I've made the decision to quit working with Nasty Byte. I personally feel like I've basically made the RGKP mistake for the second time in this regard. If Nasty Byte had been honest about a few things from the beginning, I wouldn't have asked her to produce her entire show anyways. If I work with an experienced person I expect them to tell me upfront that a double dvd is unrealistic, and if her show is filmed with bad audio recordings then I want to know upfront that her plan is to replace the live audio with studio audio. Hearing that she was working on releasing the DVD without me was the final straw. Goodbye Nasty, no one screws me! Jesus fuckin christ, what is it with this project? The 2DVD idea is pretty much off the table now, and I'm looking for a different record label. Meanwhile the Clawfinger live video nears completion. Lets see which one gets released first. Affected page: FLA DVD > WD Main | ||
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| Had a pretty awesome time on friday filming Dropkick Murphys plus Against Me! and Deadly Sins in the Columbiahalle in front of a sold out 3600 audience. Relaxed and energetic people, one big celebration. Lets see what happens to the footage. Good times, lets go Murphys :) Affected page: dropkick murphys | ||
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| Our record label doesnt want to release a Front Line Assembly 2DVD for financial reasons. So we will put out a single DVD with 3 hours playing time and 2 live shows. This DVD will be released commercially, while another 3 hours of footage will not be released. World Domination > Tour DVD will be the commercially released DVD made from professional live video and audio recordings, including the entire 'M'era Luna Festival' and 'Live At Nation' live videos plus 30 minutes of bonus footage. Release is in preparation. World Domination > Bonus DVD would be the DVD made from fan video and band audio recordings, including the entire Artificial Soldier Tour live video plus 80 more minutes of bonus footage. This DVD will not be released. | ||
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Watch and comment on this video on youtube okay here's another clawsong for you. now with noise reduction applied, and one of my personal top 3 videos of the gig. audio is still rough mix. Affected page: clawfinger > twky | ||
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| Mission accomplished. 15 cameras, multitrack audio, crazy fans, band almost perfect, stage on fire. Thanks to everybody involved! Is it insane to record a 500ppl club show with 15 cameras? I said yeah. But I liked something about the idea. We won't have this mega mega setup again at the next shows cause it didnt make everything easier, but its gonna give me a massive library of possibilities during the video production. This aint gonna be 3D, its gonna be SUPERVEILLANCE. I set myself a standard with 6 hours of FLA World Domination, so this time we went out to challenge the boundaries of 90 minutes in 15 perspectives. I couldnt sleep the night before the gig, so i had some trouble thinkin and organizing things. At least we did the interview before the show. And also recorded both support bands with half of the cams. Then for DK I had that huge pro camera and my arms fell off several times during the show. But we did win the battle, cause we play heavy metal. Lookin foward to start working on this gig in a couple weeks. Affected page: DIE KRUPPS > TOO MUCH | ||
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Watch and comment on this Video on Youtube alrighty, so here it is - hate yourself with style! DEMO VIDEO: video rough cut, audio rough mix please let us know how you like it and if you have any suggestions or dont like anything on it, we're still producing it, so feedback is welcome. but actually theres no need to take a closer look at the audio mix just yet, cause its really just the rough mix... i'm rather wondering if the speed of the video cut makes anyone insane :) Affected page: clawfinger > twky | ||
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| While filming Clawfinger we also recorded the support band. So sometime during getting lost in the Claw-gig I also went and cut one of the Cloon videos, and here it is. Give this band 2 listens at least, theyre way too jazz for love on first sight. Enjoy! or access it right on youtube! audio wasnt remastered by bernd yet on this one, better sound to come sometime. check the clawfinger dvd page for setlist n stuff. | ||
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| As of 21.01.2008 the FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY > WORLD DOMINATION > TOUR 2DVD is finished, I just came home from the post office, the band should have it within 2 weeks. As promised it features 6 hours of FLA video material filmed mainly on the Artificial Soldier 2006 Tour plus a bit of Fallout 2007 Tour footage. The DVD will probably be released on Metropolis Records, so it'd be available in the same places where you can find FLA CDs. But you know what? Thats all outta my hands from today on. Thanks goes out to Nasty Byte for the Live At Nation show and more, to CrazyClip+SonicSeducer for the M'era Luna material + Bernd for the audio mix, and to all the fans who helped me out with their bootleg footage, most of all Glen Reely:) Also thanks to Bill for the acceptance, Jeremy for the conversations, and Jared for the heads up. Dude, did I just make it into the Mindphaser.com news with this? :) Work on the Clawfinger 3d gig has begun as of 07.01.2008. Filming Die Krupps in a multi-angle live show capture setup is in preparation. | ||
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| Good news regarding one of the biggest reasons why the FLA > The Videos DVD is on hold. Gary Blair Smith has found maybe the last remaining high quality source tape of this clip somewhere in his archives. So this part of the problem is solved. Of course the clip will still need to be re-licensed cause thats part 2 of the MP video problem. But now I can at least try to clear a good-looking video instead of one of which all source recordings are gone. Thank you very much Gary! Oh, and today I finally added some biography text to this page: Affected page: MEGA MIND VIDEO DPT | ||
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| Finally got the footage from camera 4 of the berlin show and just quickly went thru liquid separation in a rough cut today. turns out pretty uptempo so far, needs more brightness and stuff. the 2 berlin songs are among the last bunch of tracks i'm doing, i'm also renovating that buried alive remix video, and i've done a lot of brightness-edits on the mera luna show. its all quickly coming together. closing the last 5 gaps. | ||
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| Washington D.C. and M'era Luna videos are both basically finished. Just a few more multi-location tracks and the 2007 stuff left to do. Audio mix of M'era Luna and the Clawfinger gig are now being outsourced to Bernd Abromeit at BA-TON. We will have stereo and surround audio for all the live footage. | ||
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| Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm extremely happy and proud to announce that yesterday nights Clawfinger Berlin show was very sucessfully recorded with 6 cameras and multitrack audio by the Mega Mind Video Department recording team. Everything was just unbelievable. I had the FLA Berlin gig in the back of my mind, the gig that unfortunately had everything going wrong, it was in the same location even, basically a nightmare. But this time it was the most beautiful dream. I can't wait to start working on this once the FLA 2DVD is off the table, and I wouldnt be surprised if thats gonna become a really good ClawDVD next year. Even the band interview was perfect, and we additionally recorded 'playback' performance for a music video of my fave Clawsong 'Don't Wake Me Up'. The FLA DVD was and is a battle, this experience is like a beautiful dream coming true in all its facettes. Heavy Metal Forever! FUCK YEAH! | ||
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| In regards to the usual dvd-bashing on that forum there, well, if someone tells me to throw half of my dvd into the garbagecan, add some completely new material to it and start from half-scratch again after a year... then I will say I'm sorry but I can't do that. We're having 3 full live shows here, and all 3 are completely different. M'era Luna is a daylight show on a festival with thousands of people, Widescreen and Multitrack audio, Washington DC is a club show with Nasty Byte's special way of editing live material, and at last the AS Tour footage was filmed by lots of FLA fans in multiple cities, with Reely audio and the best visual events from 28 cameras. Some other shows didnt work out at this point. Paris was never given to me until today! I've done the best I could do, and yes I couldve done some things different, but I remember the time before the soccer world championship last year where everyone believed that Juergen Klinsmann (german teams trainer) would ruin it, and then we ended up 3rd best team on the planet. Fuck you all. I believe. The 2DVD will be finished before the end of this year. Unless I'll have to do it all over again. If not, this deadline is promised. Word. | ||
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Watch and comment on this video on youtube FLA > Dead Planet > Artificial Soldier Tour 2006 > Advance Version | ||
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| Nasty Byte's Front Line Assembly full concert will be released as DVD1 on the upcoming Front Line Assembly Artificial Soldier Tour World Domination Double DVD . Recorded in Washington DC, this is (sadly) one of the last performances at Nation. FLA > ARTIFICIAL SOLDIER TOUR DVD > DVD1 > LIVE FOOTAGE: NATION, WASHINGTON D.C. > NASTY BYTE PRODUKTIONS. decision is made. full show. in production until end of october. Affected page: FLA DVD > WD Main | ||
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| Thanks everybody for driving the visitor counter of this stupid lil website over the 100.000 mark a couple days ago !!! Its great to see that - even though mindphaser.cock have refused to make any news item about the DVDs for one whole year now - people are still up and listening. I've seen this project crashing into walls multiple times, until the walls came down. There is no surrender and no way back. Thanks for the support!!! Heavy Metal Forever!!! Here We Go. | ||
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| Watch the Trailer on youtube. Slightly better quality version will be on this site soon. However this DVD is no priority for me by now, its just the new trailer. | ||
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| It's official: As of today, 'RGKP > Video Produktion' have quit working on the FLA Dresden 2006 DVD. Well, what can, what am I allowed to say about it at this point? Let me mention that I laughed about some lawyer-threats that I got from someone, but I think it's probably legal to just tell you people what really happened. Well yeah, 12 months after filming the gig I wasnt really satisfied seeing that -even at time of FLA's Berlin 2007 gig- the band and me had still not seen anything better from RGKP than an advance dvd from January 07, with rough unmixed audio and all that. My question as to why this was the case was 'answered' by insulting me, because I was supposed to have delayed submitting the bonus footage, and my email archive proof of these insults being NOT based on real events was also ignored. So I was called guilty for delaying a DVD that I basically had nothing to do with (apart from the extremely important bonus footage haha). I did not cut the video on it, didnt mix the audio, I never even had the source recordings in my hands. Actually my own Tour Bonus Disc just happened because I was 'working' on a DVD and had nothing to do on it, so basically with that bonus disc I just picked up something for myself to do in that whole game at all... As for the Dresden material that I got to see, I wasnt happy with it. MY mistake was to choke that down for a long time. It took me until the Berlin gig 2 weeks ago (a story for itself) to finally get pissed enough to stand up and say: I do not accept this work, I can do a way better video cut, this isnt good enough. As for audio, me and the band always wanted that part to be done by Greg or Glen Reely, however somebody in charge decided to let his buddies do it instead. So then recently I took a step, informed RGKP that I was not going to support this project any longer, and I would either be allowed creative control, and given the audio and video to re-edit, or I would exclude that Dresden thing from my FLA Tour DVD project and recommend to the band to forget about it too. This offense of mine of course turned the last week into a heavy email-battle between me and them. Today however, this is funny, today I took the bit of Dresden live footage that I DO have, which is a 6 cam recording of Unleashed, and made a live video cut out of it myself in 2 hours. Then I presented the 12 month professionally cut RGKP version, and my 2 hour amateur cut - both made out of exactly the same source material - side by side, and sent those two videos to some people. Well, 30 minutes after receiving that Email, RGKP informed me of quitting the project by their own decision. Unfortunately they threatened me not to post these 2 videos publicly, I'd have loved to do so to make you understand visually what I'm talking, and what I was worried about. So that's my little story. And here we are. Whats going to happen to the FLA tour DVD now? Well, the bonus disc is finished by now (apart from the 2 new 2007 songs), and for the Main DVD, well I'm prepared and I'm working on a good 'Dresden RGKP' replacement. Watch this space for news on that, probably within the next week. And well, let me end this with a word to you FLA fans: If anyone told you that Henrik never gets his DVD's done, and you still think so after this story, then just fuck yourself. You could blame someone else if you feel the need to. You're welcome to chill out when I say that NOW, FINALLY, I got things under control. Under my own control this time. The FLA Tour DVD is not cancelled, it's just never been my project - until today. I'm happy today. | ||
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| Had a clearing conversation with the band about the bonus footage setup, you can take a look at the tour dvd pages for changes. The previous footage is being tightened up and a portion of pro 2007 recordings is intruding, while Internal Combustion and Liquid Separation are going to enlarge the World Domination footage. | ||
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| Tour Support: Portion Control 28.06.2007 8:00 Villerbanne CCO, Lyon, France 29.06.2007 8:00 Bikini, Barcelona, Spain 30.06.2007 8:00 Sala Copernico, Madrid, Spain 04.07.2007 8:00 Rock for People, Hradec, Kralove 06.07.2007 6:30 Bierkeller, Bristol, UK 07.07.2007 7.30 Academy, Manchester, UK 08.07.2007 7:30 Electric Ballroom, Camden, UK 09.07.2007 7:30 Soundhaus, Northampton, UK 10.07.2007 8:00 Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany 12.07.2007 8:00 Arvika Festivalen, Sweden 14.07.2007 8:00 Red Club, St. Petersburg, Russia 15.07.2007 8:00 Club Ikra, Moscow, Russia 17.07.2007 0:00 Petofi Csarnok, Budapest, Hungary 19.07.2007 9:00 Röhre, Stuttgart, Germany 20.07.2007 8:00 Backstage, Munich, Germany 21.07.2007 8:00 F-Haus, Jena, Germany 22.07.2007 8:00 Amphi Festival, Cologne, Germany 24.07.2007 8:00 Moritzbastei, Leipzig, Germany 26.07.2007 8:00 Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands 28.07.2007 8:00 Columbia Club, Berlin, Germany 29.07.2007 8:00 Castle Party Festival, Bolkow, Poland 30.07.2007 8:00 Arena, Vienna, Austria Affected page: fla bootleg list | ||
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 Noisescape TV Live footage from Convergence Festival, Portland 2007 This footage will be added to the Tour DVD. | ||
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| This might be of interest for FLA /C1 /Delerium /Front 242 /Ministry fans... We got feedback from the band now and are going to change a few things about the bonus footage. There will also be some additional live recordings. | ||
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| -FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY - PLASTICITY - LIVE IN DRESDEN- on SONIC SEDUCER MAGAZINE incl. DVD ISSUE 05/2007 RELEASED 17.04.2007. also includes new FLA interview Sonic Seducer german website *audio mix on this video is not the same as on the tourDVD | ||
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| While waiting for everyone else involved to finish their stuff on the TourDVD I've been bored and got to funk around with the vids again, turned Comatose Prophecy and Fragmented into HDV and Widescreen format and tested some new stuff, also preparing new vids for Maniacal and Buried Alive... and tuned the Live Wired settings again. It was all blue and red in my last version (as seen in the Liquid Separation trailer), now I disabled some more blue so it's getting closer to what it probably looked like in the very beginning - red yellow blue - before it was accidentally turned all blue and purple for the VHS version. | ||
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| Done my fuckin homework, dude. Bonus Disc2 90% done. Just half a song left to cut, audio needs to be sorted. Bonus footage almost done too. Last big thing about this baby is the Mera Luna stuff. 2 more weeks for that. I finished negotiations for the ML material today, its official, the 2 songs are bought. Had to encounter delays with the main disc, however back at it now. Say 4 weeks. The end is near. | ||
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| Okay, now I got ahold of the audio recordings that Glen Reely made of some of the shows. Plus his video footage from Paris, yet more from Moscow and backstage stuff. There will be pro audio available from about 10 different shows on the bonus disc. The last missing pieces of material have arrived, only 2 tapes left to be received. I can finish this Bonus DVD within 4 weeks. Oh, the Dresden DVD... I'm responsible for the bonus disc on my own, but the main disc isnt worse or anything. I got the final cut of the Dresden show last week, and this is where its at. Its all glassclear and high-definition. 7 cameras, 24 audio tracks, the best stage light setup I've ever seen, it IS perfect. The final steps for me here are subtitling the interviews in multiple languages, finishing the soundcheck footage, then there isnt much more to be done but waiting for Greg Reelys audio mix and the final authoring. | ||
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| I received a mass of material in the last few days. 15 data DVDs from Moscow, thank ya Rush! Also got the Philadelphia and Malmö recordings, and a very good looking advance of the professional live cuts from the Washington show by Nasty Byte Produktions. And last not least I finally have High quality recordings of the videos Body Count, Iceolate, Virus, The Blade, Millennium and Intermix - The Process and Monument. | ||
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| The FLA Dresden DVD production should be finished by end of January, the bonus disc by end of February. As far as playing time goes, you should be floored: 3 hours maxed out on both discs. The Videos / Live Wired is on hold at this point of time in favour of the others. | ||
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| To all who filmed FLA during the tour: I just talked to Bill and we want to compile an additional LiveDVD from the 2006 tour featuring recordings from various different locations. So I'd like to get in contact with those people who filmed FLA live shows directly cause I'm going to compile the footage here. Please email me at bauerhenrik@gmx.de In addition to that, The Videos DVD and Live Wired DVD are definitely separated now, and chanches that FLA > The Videos (1986-2006) will be finished at the end of the year are around 90%. Great progress lately, business- and sourcetape-wise. | ||
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| ok heres the deal dossier say that a DOUBLE dvd is financially too difficult for them! this is simply based on higher production costs. so FLA > The Videos / Live Wired 2DVD couldnt be done with dossier. BUT we could release the DVD FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY > THE VIDEOS (1986-2006) DVD9 (120min) soon and if that one runs well then we can also release the DVD FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY > LIVE WIRED (version 3.0) DVD9 (120min) later btw, this whole issue doesnt affect the FLA 2006 TOUR DVD project. postproduction starts next week. what do you think? lemme know! http://forums.mindphaser.com/viewtopic.php?t=4800 Affected page: fla dvd > live wired | ||
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| Added the Alpha Centauri video once more. The project file of this baby was lost in one of the HD crashes, but I might go for a 2.0 the other day cause the footage is all still alive. Imagine this on MTV :) | ||
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 REALISIERUNG DREH „Frontline Assembly Tour DVD" Elektroheadz aufgepasst. RGKP | Videoproduktion realisierte nicht nur den Dreh am 20.08.2006 der FLA Show in Dresden. Nein, es folgt auf dem Fuße die Umsetzung der kompletten Tour DVD. Die Features werden reichhaltig. Frontline Assembly powered by RGKP | Videoproduktion. www.rgkp.de | ||
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| The Artificial Soldier Tour DVD will not be out in 2006, we had a meeting today and we will take our time for the production, means our deadline for this baby is 31.12.2006 for postproduction. Then give the label 3 months for release preparation, so look foward to this baby in Spring 2007. | ||
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| Filming the Dresden gig went down very well, good performance and enthusiastic fans, working equipment, and unlike during the Rostock gig I didnt even step on a switch that would reset Corndogs gear this time :) We also did loads of bonus footage, Interviews with all bandmembers, guided tour on Jeremy's stage equipment, funny stuff during the soundcheck, impressions from the location and fans, etc. Postproduction should begin soon, the whole DVD might be technically finished by the end of september, and since THIS DVD doesnt have the complicated licensing situation that the other one has, it might even land in stores before the end of the year. | ||
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| We are currently getting ready to film the FLA show in Dresden on Sunday 20.08.2006. 7 HD cameras and 24 track audio, not the worst setup. In addition to this I'll try to travel to Nürnberg the day after the Dresden gig and film more bonus footage (already got some of that in Rostock last Friday). The company we work with is www.rgkp.de | ||
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| When I filmed the Interview with Christian Poeck (the director of the original LW show in 1995) he mentioned that he had some old Rhys Fulber Interview on tape somewhere. He found the tape and oops, it also had some unreleased Live Wired footage, among that the recording of Plasticity that he put up on youtube now. There is more than that, maybe its even a complete camera track. So there'll be a big portion of previously unreleased original 1995 footage on the DVD. For now I cant say exactly what it is and where I'll use it, but its up to 4 hours of footage, and I think I'll be able to add it to the original show so theres a bit more band performance and less FX. LW 1.0 Plasticity on youtube | LW 2.0 Liquid Separation download | ||
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| HenrikBauer.com: New Website layout online now. FLA DVD: Page Updated. THE VIDEOS DVD: New Screenshots online. LIVE WIRED DVD: Christian Poeck Interview (Live Wired 1996 Version Director) was done recently and will be edited soon. 50 minutes of interview were recorded. FLA > Liquid Separation (Live Wired 2.0) available now. | ||
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| THE VIDEOS / LIVE WIRED 2DVD is 90% finished now, but the problem is that none of the record labels who hold rights for the official video footage (Roadrunner: 9 clips, MET: 2 clips, SPV: Live Wired) want to license and put out the package themselves. Means that I have to find, or rather found a label that does this. I have decided to do this rather than cancelling 2 years of work invested into the project, but since founding a label isnt totally easy I cant say much about procedure and timing yet. ARTIFICIAL SOLDIER will also get honoured with a music video, the song of choice will not necessarily be the same as the next FLA single, but it will probably be UNLEASHED. Additional footage for it will be filmed soon and will also include the band. All of the lights in the video are artificial, no sun- and daylight used. Video will be available for download on MP when ready and also land on one or both of the DVD releases. ARTIFICIAL SOLDIER TOUR DVD can be confirmed to happen now, filming should start in 2 months. Will either be financed by a record label so one show can be filmed professionally with multiple cameras; or be done like Ministry's Sphinctour DVD - multiple (maybe 10) shows filmed by 1-3 cameras. Audio to be recorded by Greg Reely, final result would be a compilation of the recordings, multiple audio and video tracks are possible. In addition to the liveshows: interviews, backstage, soundchecks, documentations and much more are planned. | ||
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| Its 2 months to go until this whole action starts, but I'll already let you know more bout this thing as far as I know it myself or whatever. It's gonna rule! | ||
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| After being in hospital yet again for the last 3 weeks (and having my appendix removed without complications) I have now returneth home and I'm in the new flat with internet. So 3 months of upside-down-nonsense have come to end now. Latest nonsense regarding the FLA DVD production itself is that I spent some time writing down the story of making the DVDs so far. Its about 20 pages of written text for 2004-2005 alone, gonna be interesting how much it'll actually get until the DVD is out... might end up as part of the booklet or free website feature. Latest nonsense regarding the DVD release is that I've been trying to deal with numerous record-labels such as SPV, Metropolis and RoadRunner, and they are all ok with licensing the clips to another label but none of them is ok with releasing the actual DVD themselves. Means that I'll have to make science on founding an own label or setting up the whole project in some way to make the release possible. Its very difficult however, and yet another big chapter opening in the story of this fascinating, now legendary, now 2 years old FLA DVD adventure. Last not least the good news is that the new FLA album is the best theyve ever done (seriously), and work on a video for the new album has just begun. And the FLA 2006 tour DVD appears to be just 10% as complicated as the other one, looking foward to that action. | ||
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| Been in that hospital, yup. And before going there I had to move out of my old flat at the end of February, so I carried all my stuff into a temporarily empty flat in the house. Then I went off for 3 weeks to that clinic, and when I came back home I still had to wait for my phone/internet connection to be installed for 2 more weeks. Now I'm having my last few days in the temporary flat, gonna move into the new one this weekend. And then this mess is done. Somewhere in between I also took the time to proceed with the FLAvideos. Comatose is almost done now, and while I dont expect everyone to like it, what I can say is that there is 5 times as much to see as in other video clips. Its not easy to watch at all, but you can watch it 50 times and still discover structures you hadnt realized before. The laws of nature. Prophecy and Vanished still need their fixes, but for my stuff the end is near, really. Bill has seen the latest version and likes it, but he rather wants it to have newer FLA material included (means the new album and tour this year); and after waiting for SPV to push this project foward for a year I'm currently talking to other labels. My apologies for giving out possible releasedates that went by so far, but theyve always been based on 'if everything runs well and quickly from now'. So here you can have me saying 'This should be out sometime in autumn 2006', and the more you learn, the better you get. | ||
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| While the 'The Videos / Live Wired' DVD is still waiting for tapes and going through some legal issues (more soon), another FLA DVD project is coming into sight now: 'FLA Live 2006' would be a documentation of the coming European FLA tour. This is just in the planning stage for now, however it would be done by a professional filming company and I'd be part of the filming and production team. Gonna be in hospital for most of March 06 and will work on the Comatose, Prophecy, and Fragmented videos via laptop over there. | ||
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| FLADVD remains priority. If I get all those damn tapes it's 2 months til I'm done. And looks like having the thing out til summer will be good timing along with the FLA tour. Its not up to me though to send me the tapes, so thats all I can say about the deadline. Will also take a break in February for getting a bit more healthy. With option on another one sometime in Spring. At least I've decided to get a laptop to keep myself busy with some developments. And I really want to restart making music soon. | ||
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| Had a good 2006 liftoff headbangin along to FLA's Mindphaser 12"Edit in club this morning. At this moment I'd say this year will finally make it all turn healthy and enthusiastic, so may this moment last longer than those of powerlessness. | ||
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| The longer it takes, the better it gets... no, I cant finish at the end of the year, but let me give you a lil insight. What I did finish was getting my part done almost as far as I could, but I'm still waiting for some elementary tapes to arrive. Please mind that this is a low-budget project, and the amount of time and work invested by the contributing bandmembers and me is all happening due to the fact that FLA rules, not big money. And this fact also means that a record company cant set this project as their big priority. Thats why it's taking so long. Plus, let me say that much about me, my state of health doesnt totally support a 40hours a week work ethic either. But you could always have a 'professional' FLA DVD with 9 instead of 17 FLA Video clips, and with the crappy, unchanged original Live Wired footage, and no bonus content, or you could have no FLA DVD at all. Since people will ask bout the releasedate anyway, I'm almost done with what I have, and when the tapes are in then it'll all be done here soon. Then it depends on the record company. Give those guys a few months. I'm all set for a late spring 2006 release. | ||
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| Welcome to the new php/mysql database-based version of this stunning website. This update would've been impossible without making use of the Mindphaser 3.0 code engine, so peace out to Maskfoder and Danny for that. Updating this site will be a lot easier now, so look foward to a lot of action here in the future. At the moment the new site is still under construction. | ||
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| High working speed on the FLA DVD. countless additions and updates to it lately. Comatose and Prophecy video clips are now restored lightyears far beyond their old versions. Footage from various FLA people situated in the US and Canada is in the final stages of development and is twice to 3 times as much as I ever dreamt it would become. I personally have set the date 31.12.2005 as my video work deadline to the whole FLA DVD project, means that 01.01.2006 would be the day when I send out the master tapes of the 2DVD to the record company. Until that point the FLA DVD will be the no.1 priority above all other projects. Affected page: fla dvd > live wired | ||
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