Life In The Simulacra: A Mondo Vanilli Story
Channel: SatoriD
Date: 2023-05-24

wait until the 4chan kids try to decode Mondo Vanilli, what will happen then? or not happen...

I saw the 2nd best minds of my generation destroyed by 4Chan dragging themselves to the living room couch at dawn in search of an angry tweet

Mondo Vanilli; The idea behind the album was extremities. Once we put a mantle on for a certain song, we weren't thinking, "oh we can't go too far in that direction." 

So there was this idea about being a Virtual Reality band. it was definitely something that was blowing in the breeze at that time. Mark Canter had a virtual band concept going. Todd Rundgren had a virtual CD that had like random element thing that would remix itself in some way. It definitely seemed like the next set of bands were gonna be sort of like digital chucky cheese animatronic things. And that's something I really dug about the whole Mondo Vanilli concept —once R.U. presented it to me... this idea that not only was it a band... it was a band that anybody could be. This was a franchise able group that could play Holiday Inns. Mondo Vanilli was not just a sum of its parts. It was like a concept band. I came from kind of the traditional concept of a rock group, so it was all very new to me. 

Playing with peoples expectations. This punkish edge but it was ridiculous stuff. Taking music into virtual reality, life in the Simulacra, digital chucky cheese animatronic thing. First Dada Franchise Corporation. Mondo Vanilli meetings tended to be kind of apocalyptic. 

The world is Full of shit and needs to be saved. Sim 1 "We're undoing the Mason curse!" Magical piss, The Cyberpiss Goddess ceremony at The Ol' Tate Mansion. Some Kind psilocybin synchronicity happening there.  

Space people, enjoying Mondo Vanilli. Making computer-based music on the down and dirty ideal basis. VR as means of creative expression in a technical way. Remix itself in some way - new creativity, expression of creative ideas through technology that did not exist before. An orphaned act of creativity. Another day in the life of the Simulacra. 

Reznor's label ultimately signed "Mondo Vanilli", but then refused to release their first (and only) album. IOU Babe by Mondo Vanilli: https://mondovanilli.bandcamp.com/album/iou-babe

R U Against NFTS(Hubs): https://hubs.mozilla.com/qtbpzkg/r-u-against-nfts