[Nettime-bold] story on spooky sleeve provoces net moralists..

[roya// <roya@girlfish.net>]

Salaam nettimers. Below the story on The Coups spooky album cover as
published by London based website AMMOCITY on Wednesday. The mainstream
media in their role as moral watchdogs picked up on the story in an
instance, and ammocity has been flooded with threats, abuse and and...
ever since. What is most disturbing are reports from various people
whose provider (AOL.. others?) refused connecting to ammocity. Hate to
be a scaremonger but I have a gut feeling that blacklisting websites is
something that is likely to happen. Did you receive any reports on
strange, similar looking incidents?

take care of each other, roya*


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Spooky sleeve precedes blasts by three months 

TWIN TOWERS ALBUM COVER

The album cover for hip hop group The Coup manages to even out-weird the
quotes from the Nostradamus hoax doing the email roundssince Tuesday. 
Designed more than three months ago, the original cover for 'Party
Music' 
shows group member ‘Boots’ Riley holding a detonator while the World 
Trade Centre explodes behind them. If you examine the actual explosions 
you’ll notice that they are around the same relative height on each of
the 
towers as the real explosions. There’s been no word from 75 Ark Records, 
The Coup’s label, on the subject, but on their website the artwork has
already 
been changed. If you want to see the spookiness you can link to the 
address http://www.ammocity.com/twintowers

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(this is todays update on the story by ammocity..)

Hip hop crew The Coup have responded to the extraordinary similarity between
their planned cover art for their album ‘Party Music’ and the attack on the
World Trade Centre. In a statement, frontman Boots Riley expressed
regret for
the ‘uncanny similarity’ between the cover, completed in June this year, and
the events of September 11. He also stated that ‘the original intent of the
cover was to use the World Trade Centre to symbolise capitalism and was not
supposed to be realistic in its depiction.’ Talking of the attack he
explained, "all life is precious and this tremendous tragedy is by no means
taken lightly by The Coup. This is a very unfortunate coincidence and my
condolences go out to the families and friends of the victims." The
album will
be released on November 5 with completely new artwork.


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