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| | | |_ / _ \/ __| '_ \ / _` | '_ \                
| | |  _|  __/\__ \ |_) | (_| | | | |               
|_|_|_|  \___||___/ .__/ \__,_|_| |_|               
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/ __|/ _ \| | | | '_ \ / _` | __| '__/ _` |/ __| |/ /
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|___/\___/ \__,_|_| |_|\__,_|\__|_|  \__,_|\___|_|\_\
                                                    
& Other triva


LIFE SPAN is a rather unknown dutch sci-fi movie directed by Alexander
Whitelaw from 1975 starring Klaus Kinski and a lot of dutch actors speaking
english in a heavy dutch accent. Its about a doctor that invents a serum
that can prelong life and all kinds of mysteries surrounding it. It seems
like a f*ckin amazing deep movie from the trailer -  watch it here 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv8YnyelHkw] - I have
unfortunately never  seen it, it seems very rare but I am familiar with the
soundtrack [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFYjbwrN9DU] 
which is by none other then TERRY RILEY. If you are unfamiliar
with Terry Riley - he is an influential minimalist composer playing endless
patterns of swirling looped melodies by hand. Mostly using a modified Yamaha
YC45D organ and his self devised Time Lag Accumulator which is basicly a loop
recorder made out of 2 REVOX reel-to-reel recorders. Around 1978 Edgar Froese
showed him his Korg PS3100 synthesizer and he subsequentely bought 2 Sequential
Prophet 5 synths which he used on "Songs for the 10 voices of 2 prophets"
(also a very cool album check here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkb5BPoDglc])...

     o  o
  o    o                                    _______
    o                                      /       \
     ___--'\                               \ ____   \
    /__  \ /\        ________________       |___ \   |
   /  / __|| |      |. o        . .  |      /_   |    \
   |  |   \| |      |. .. o  o     _____     |\  \     \
   /  \  -|  |      |. .  o  ::     -__ /\   /__/ \/\/\/
  /   /__/   /      |.    o  ::        \  \    |__/    \
 /\//\  \   /       |. :   o  o         \  \__/     ___|
 |  |    |_/        |________________|   \____|     |  |
 |  |    |          /                 \       |      | |
 |   \   |         /_///////|||||\\\\\_\      |      | |

Terry Riley's signature sound will however often be ascociated with
the Yamaha YC45D which is all over the soundtrack.
The YAMAHA YC45D is a cult Japanese combo organ with 2 keyboards first
introduced in 1972:
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     |                                                         |
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     |                _______________________                  |
     |_______________/ ....'''.. ... '' ...' \_________________|
     ||  _  _  _ _ _   _    _ _    _    _ _    _  _ _  _ _  _ ||
     ||  =  =  = = = = = =  = =  = = =  = = =  =  = =  = =  = ||
     ||   o  o o   o  o     _____________________________     ||
     ||_______________________________________________________||
     ||     |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||       ||
     || ||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||| ||
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     ||_____------------------------------------------________||


If anyone can hit me up with that Lifespan movie let me know! I will
trade records/tapes/zines whatever! SW