The predicting theory is one of the funniest things I've heard all year... But really, I think maxolou's English is just a bit lacking, so it's hard to get the thoughts written properly. Maybe just a bit better in English than I am in French? (not very good )

Yes, inadequate language skills often hamper on your logical thinking as well.

Haven't you guys ever wondered why there aren't many French people on any international forums? Because not many there are fluent with English so they prefer to stick to French forums. Something wrong with their school system...

There's been at least couple decades of activism against English language from their government.

god. I'm so worried that I'll be in school during his tour. It's going to be cutting it close, I know that much

But yeah, that 40 second clip on youtube of Universe in a Ball has me rocking out constantly. I'm pumped for this album

i have this weird feeling, devin has changed everything, even what we've seen on youtube clips that its all just him playing a flute with some bongos and a banjo. haha

lets hope not but it wouldnt suprise me.

C'mon i want addicted NOW!

i have this weird feeling, devin has changed everything, even what we've seen on youtube clips that its all just him playing a flute with some bongos and a banjo. haha

lets hope not but it wouldnt suprise me.

C'mon i want addicted NOW!

God I hope not. No offence to Dev, but I don't think I'd enjoy an "unplugged" Addicted nearly as much.

No worries at all.

Dev propably just changed few things and added better quality to the whole record.

You guys are getting ridiculous ideas... Addicted is going to rock, I know it!

I can't wait to hear 'Addicted' in it's mixed and mastered state .... I know it's going to be epic and crushing song wise... . I just want to hear the finalized production by Dev... he always has awesome production every album but makes cool changes album to album to keep things fresh!!!! The anticipation is killing me. What I know for sure is that the drum sound he got from drums sounds fucking AWESOME!!!

Bring it...

RVP

I can't wait to hear 'Addicted' in it's mixed and mastered state .... I know it's going to be epic and crushing song wise... . I just want to hear the finalized production by Dev... he always has awesome production every album but makes cool changes album to album to keep things fresh!!!! The anticipation is killing me. What I know for sure is that the drum sound he got from drums sounds fucking AWESOME!!!

Bring it...

RVP

Surely you can get Dev to burn you a copy!...we'll you'll most probably hear it before us! lucky

man I can't wait.

You guys are getting ridiculous ideas... Addicted is going to rock, I know it!

i know it will ROCK! i was simply just saying it wouldnt suprise if he did change it all around.

that fucking kicks ass dev, you are SO welcome here in Australia. Stay with me, dev, play with me. see you in Melbourne?

Ryan! What happened to your Animal avatar!

Surely you can get Dev to burn you a copy!...we'll you'll most probably hear it before us! lucky

man I can't wait.

Yup... I will make sure of that! Dev is always awesome that way, we (participating musicians) will get a copy pretty quick and then I'll come on here and tease all you mutha fucka's!!!! Jokin'.... kinda'.....

Ryan! What happened to your Animal avatar!

The 'Animal' avatar has been up since I joined these boards 5 years ago or whenever they started. Thought I'd change it up and show myself while flashing some Pearl Drums. I love my drums...

Thats cool, I don't mind being teased. It'd be cool to hear your opinion of the final product also!

Ya, that's a sweet Pearl Kit Ryan! It's probably about time I put a picture on here, it's almost been 5 years since I joined the boards too!

Hey Dev and all. Digging Ki, anticipating Addicted. Just got into DT a little under a year ago, and I love lots of it (SYL, solo, DTP, etc.) for all different reasons.

Anyway, as far as I can tell this is the best place to ask this.

So I'm trying to explain the DTP in general to a fellow and I'm wondering if I can get input on this. Essentially, have I got it close, am I way off, dead on? Here's my explanation.


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Basically, the DT Project tells a story and has a single unifying message across all 4 albums. Ki, the first, is an introduction - and the 4 albums are sort of set up in a frame narrative style in that the ending is given away at the beginning... or sort of like a Greek tragedy, where all the audience, going into the play, is expected to already know what happens. Ki tells the entire story in summary, and then each of the following 3 albums goes into distinct detail about one period/act of that story. The album Ki itself follows this pattern, with the first few tracks (like Disruptr and Heaven Send... Heaven Send being right on the border) describing the second album, Addicted (thus a straight up record reminiscent of the music he was making while under the influence - a style that itself may be addicting), the middle of the album (like Winter if I recall correctly) describing the third album, Deconstruction (an instrospective look at what life is all about, philosophizing about what's important both in life and music, what it means to be happy, very heavy stuff with lots of metaphor and message), and the end of Ki (Trainfire, Ki, Quiet Riot) describes the contents of the fourth album, currently untitled, which basically says, "Hey man, you can search for your universal truths if you want, but you're never going to figure it all out, so let's just have a good time and there's a party if you want to come" (phrasing for that is largely stolen from the "Devin Townsend On His Inspiration And Influences" video on that site I linked earlier).

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Thoughts?