"Breakthrough: An Amazing Experiment in Electronic Communication with the Dead

[Ian_s]

OK, long one this. Sublove took the sample from a tune by The Smiths called "Rubber Ring", but this is the original source.

 

"Dr. Konstantin Raudive of Latvia was a researcher investigating the "electronic voice phenomenon" which supposedly captured the voices of spirits of the the dead as researchers read statements to them in controlled environments. Raudive's research was documented in a 1971 book called "Breakthrough: An Amazing Experiment in Electronic Communication with the Dead." Included with the book was a flex-disc (phonograph recording) of excerpts of the research, including both audio of the (supposed) ghostly voices, and then the narrator reading the English translation (the ghost voices are in Latvian, German, Swedish and other languages) back to us.

 

What we hear at the end of "Rubber Ring" is the narrator (not one of the ghost voices, thank god) translating back for us what the researcher's former mentor, Swiss parapsychologist Dr. Gephardt Frye (deceased) supposedly said from beyond the grave (in Swedish and German)... "Du Sovas Vilt Nicht Glauben" (anyway, that's what I think she said the ghost was saying; I can't type German/Swedish well : ). The translator only says "You are sleeping" once; on "Rubber Ring", Morrissey repeated the sample to make it "You are sleeping, you do not want to believe. You are sleeping." I am giving Morrissey credit for the sampling; I don't know who is actually credited for doing the sampling, but it's a good bet that Morrissey was the source for the sampling material in the production of the song."

 

Sublove - Dark Side - [Earth Recordings]

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFLGTfns0VA