Comments on: Solitary Sister, is Seal a Cyberpunk?

By: q gauti

q gauti — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:25:37 +0000

seal is also notable for being a devout fan of c. c. poell’s work.

By: Zoetica

Zoetica — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:41:51 +0000

Bianaca – I have to say I am a zeitgeist believer, especially since we started this Coilhouse thing.

By: bianca alexis

bianca alexis — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:13:25 +0000

Adamski became a regular old techno dj named Adam Sky. He has 2 girls and still djs in the UK. Zoe, I swear Zeitgeists do exist. I was on an Adamski kick all last week for some bizarre reason, I was missing my Doctor Adamski’s Musical Pharmacy #8 cd and I had to listen to it.

By: Terra Trouvé

Terra Trouvé — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:23:53 +0000

touché, a very good point. I didn’t see it like that before.
Though I will stand by Adamski to the end. By the by, whatever happened to him after that. Did he do anything else worth a note?

By: Nadya

Nadya — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:25:12 +0000

Oh my god, Seal with dreads... that was a totally different universe we lived in! I think between Seal, Janet Jackson and Kanye West, black pop stars definitely do cyberpunk better than their Caucasian counterparts (Billy Idol? WTF was that?).

By: Zoetica

Zoetica — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:57:33 +0000

See, Terra – I also think that other video is just as cyberpunk! It’s like being plugged into the Metaverse, Seal’s version – Tron suit an all. My only question is – why a dolphin instead of a… seal? Ooh!

By: Coligny

Coligny — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:50:12 +0000

Yeah, it’s the dolphin, a walrus would have been a much more sensitive choice.

By: Terra Trouvé

Terra Trouvé — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:26:17 +0000

It would seem that Adamski is the Cyberpunk power behind the Killer throne.
When Seal broke out on his own and rereleased this song under his own name he made another video. And unfortunately it is terrible.
Seal, wearing what seems to be a laserquest outfit, rocks out on the side of an Escher-style portico suspended in a crazy space.
wait… reading that back to myself it sounds like an awesome video. maybe it’s just the dolphin that appears halfway through that puts me off.

decide for youself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_lvGfGwLNA

By: mono

mono — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:12:25 +0000

Also, first music video broadcast in 3D that I’ve ever seen. Sadly, you still needed the red/blue glasses to watch it.

By: c.p.smith

c.p.smith — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:33:45 +0000

I would venture to agree that he certainly is. The original mix of the song had a video with a similar theme and if the original one isn’t cyberpunk then I don’t know what is. Surrealist landscapes are computer generated, Seal wearing some kind of Tron-like suit. It’s all there. Even his ‘Lord Nikon’ dreadlocks.

The last time I heard this song Sven König was using it to demo sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!, his musical granular synthesis program.

At 1m07s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlhKaxcKpA

Also, here is the original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_lvGfGwLNA