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Altered State Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: Jan. 2001 Posted: Jan. 16 2001, 10:56 Can anybody tell me, why in the beginning of HOSTAGE a germanvoice is include. And (this is a special question for german members) why is it a radio broadcast about the highway between Hannover and Oberhausen. THANX AS Back to top

Archangel Foster Group: Members Posts: 215 Joined: Oct. 2000 Posted: Jan. 16 2001, 13:45 In Hostage, too? Never heard it - but then I hardly ever listened to EM (although it's good). But we've had that - look into the Amarok forum! Back to top

CarstenKuss Group: Musicians Posts: 362 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Jan. 16 2001, 17:18 I have answered this question before - in the EM section of this forum: Mike intended the intro to sound like a radio report about the "Gladbecker Geiseldrama". (Which the song is about.) Well, I think he couldn't find such a report, so he just used a routine traffic jam warning from a German radio station. -Carsten- -------------- -Carsten- Back to top

Archangel Foster Group: Members Posts: 215 Joined: Oct. 2000 Posted: Jan. 17 2001, 04:05 Oh. I thought it was on Amarok - sorry... Back to top

KE9 Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: Feb. 2001 Posted: May 07 2001, 07:48 Ironically, I first listened to Earth Moving on my CD walkman in the back of a car, whilst in Germany (it was much cheaper there, and I wasn't gonna pay much for an all-vocal MO album). When I first heard the song, I thought it was the radio, which was switched on in the car at the time! Took me a few runthroughs to suss it all out. Back to top

Scot Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: May 2001 Posted: Aug. 31 2001, 21:17 The germanvoice is: "Auf der Autobahn 2 von Hannover in Richtung Oberhausen, zwischen Autobahn ..." Back to top

mirwais57 Group: Members Posts: 188 Joined: Jan. 2002 Posted: May 01 2002, 03:39 i read somewhere that it was a newsreport about some guy who had driven down this highway holding someone hostage. or something like that. i'll find the actual thing....... -------------- http://www.mp3.com/57_13/ http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/57_ttpo_13/ NB: Avatar = Mirwais himself. Back to top

mirwais57 Group: Members Posts: 188 Joined: Jan. 2002 Posted: May 01 2002, 03:46 ah. From Stephen Bryne's FAQ: 4.4 What is the German guy saying on the beginning of Hostage? Auf der Autobahn 2 von Hannover in Richtung Oberhausen. It continues with "... zwischen Autobahnkreuz", followed by a few words that can't be understood because the music starts. By the way, these German words mean something like On highway 2 from Hannover going to Oberhausen. It's from a news report about an incident which started as a "usual" bank holdup with taking of hostages in Gladbeck (which is in the Ruhr area in Germany) and ended up with the death of a hostage, a young girl named Silke Bischoff, several days later. Silke was shot by one of the two hostage-takers in the getaway car while the police tried to free her. The German media made a kind of Saturday evening entertainment show of the event; they did interviews with the gangsters while they were sitting in their getaway car, pressing a pistol against Silke's temple. The police had several opportunities to end the drama, but they couldn't because wherever the gangsters appeared, they were surrounded by a bunch of camera men and reporters. The connection to the news cite in Hostage is, that the gangsters drove from Gladbek to Oberhausen, to Bremen, even to the Netherlands. Credit: Wolfram Roesler (who used to be at wr@bara.oche.de), Joern Brackhagen, j.brackhagen@itzehoe.netsurf.de, Wolfgang Koch, wolfgang.koch.koeln@t-online.de. you can find this FAQ at http://www.amadian.net/faq.htm -------------- http://www.mp3.com/57_13/ http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/57_ttpo_13/ NB: Avatar = Mirwais himself. Back to top

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