26 Apr 2008

It’s all backwards!

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Way back in the smoke machine mists of time, music was delivered on large lumps of plastic … called vinyl … and a strange craze began.

Secret backward messages … in more recent times (i.e. today) we see history repeating itself, tsomla llew …

If you have no idea what i’m talking about … do your homework. Check Wikipedia now for Backmasking as they like to call it. Link Here!

Be this witchcraft?

Be this witchcraft ? … No … It’s Gnarls Barkley aka the odd couple and they’ve recently gone one better and provided their latest musical offering completely free and backwards!

You can download the mp3 at …www.fronttobackbacktofront.com

Listening to the tracks backwards is not entirely un-rewarding but also not ideal. So I used Audacity (a rather good, free audio app) to solve that little puzzle.

Maybe that was the point, a cunning plan by GB to get me interacting with the brand? Either way I now have their latest tunes to clog up my iPod and never listen to.

Here’s track one so you can make your own mind up …

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