"You are sleeping, you do not want to believe..."

smithsfanrr1 asked me what that voice sample in "Rubber Ring" was, but I think this would be interesting for the other Smiths fans, too.

I've often wondered where that sample was from, till I read it in Simon Goddard's book "The Smiths: Songs That Saved Your Life". Here's what it says:

"Morrissey's own voice from the dead is echoed in the unnerving sample culled from an obscure EP originally distributed with Dr Konstantin Raudive's 1971 book Breakthough: An Amazing Experiment in Electronic Communication with the Dead. Often referred to as EVP - the Electronic Voice Phenomenon - these 'Raudive Voices' were allegedly recordings of the deceased collected by the Latvian phychologist on special laboratory equipment. The woman's voice heard on 'Rubber Ring' is that of Nadia Fowler, Raudive's English translator, interpreting one such message from his former collaborator, the Swedish para-psychologist Professor Gebhard Frei who had recently died. Frei's message to Raudive is a mixture of Swedish and German: 'Du sovas, willst nicht glaube!'/ 'You are sleeping, you do not want to believe!'. 'It was always very exciting when Morrissey brought in these little ideas', comments Street. 'He'd just bring in these records and say "I want this on" and we'd experiment with it, cue it up and drop it in when it sounded right. I think Johnny in particular really appreciated these little soundscape ideas that set them apart from other bands'."

In the meantime, I found something even better: the complete sound file of the side 1 of the EP "Breakthrough: An Amazing Experiment in Electronic Communication with the Dead", which this sample comes from. It was uploaded by someone on Morrissey-solo. Apparently, the EP came free with an issue of a UK magazine (I can't remember which one) in the late 1970s. Thank God for Smiths/Moz fans who are Morrissey's age. ;)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/8pzfh2

bump. Nice info. :)

wow!
amazing info ^^