Sick-Love

**Sick-Love** is an album by V/Vm released in 2000 on V/Vm Test Records. It consists of songs about love, distorted heavily in order to convey the message that love is temporary and not real.

## Sick-Love Vinyl Version

### Label

V/Vm Test Records (OFFALP03)

A vinyl version of Sick-Love was also released. It was pressed on pink vinyl and features a modified track list including 2 tracks exclusive to this version of the album.

### Liner notes

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Sick-Love compiled and produced by V/VM.
Executive producer Loin-El Glitchie.
thanks and sick-Love to Animal for audio-sick and to all who enable the V/VM test to continue, remember Sick-Love never dies, if destroyed still true, spread Sick-Love with our love, V/VM xxx

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THE PHENOMENON OF SICK LOVE HAS SPREAD FAST SINCE ITS INITIAL RELEASE ON COMPACT DISC. THIS LIMITED EDITION VINYL COPY OF SICK LOVE AGAIN ILLUSTRATES THIS STRANGELY APPEALING NEW BREED OF LOVE SONG. ORIGINALLY THE SICK LOVE FILTER WAS CONSTRUCTED BY MYSELF AND SOME OTHER TECHNICIANS WITHIN THE V/VM LABORATORY. INITIALLY IT WAS CONCEIVED TO EXPERIMENT WITH LOVE SONGS TO IDENTIFY THE SPECIAL FORMULA THAT GOES ALONG TOWARD CREATING THAT EXTRA SPECIAL MOOD OR FEELING. THE FIRST BYPRODUCT OF THE SICK-LOVE FILTER WAS OF COURSE CHRIS DE BURGERS "LADY IN RED" AND RESULTS WERE STAGGERING.  OF COURSE THE MACHINE MALFUNCTIONED, BUT THE END RESULT EACH TIME A LOVE SONG WAS PUMPED THROUGH REMAINED THE SAME, NO MATTER WHAT THE TRACK WAS IT ALWAYS ENDED UP SOUNDING LIKE A SICK AND TWISTED SHADOW OF ITS FORMER SELF. ALTHOUGH NOT FEATURED ON THIS VINYL EDITION "LADY IN RED" CAN BE FOUND ON SEPARATE 7" (BUTCHER01) AND THE CD (OFFAL03) VERSION OF THIS LONG PLAYING DISC.
BEFORE YOU NOW IS A COLLECTION OF TEN EXPERIMENTS UNDERTAKEN BY THE SICK-LOVE FILTERING PROCESS, ALL TRACKS WILL BE RECOGNISABLE IN THEIR ALTERED FORM TO MOST OF YOU. THE INTERESTING THING TO NOTE IS THAT THROUGH EACH APPLICATION OF THE FILTER TRACKS ARE ALTERED IN DIFFERENT WAYS. INDEED SOME TRACKS ESCAPE THE PROCESS REMARKABLY WELL WITH ONLY PITCH AND SUBTLE FREQUENCIES ALTERED, OTHERS SUFFER A MUCH WORSE FATE ENDING UP CHOPPED OR BROKEN AND IN SEVERE CASES AUDIO CAN BECOME DISTORTED. OF COURSE AS OUR STUDY INCREASES WE WILL BE ABLE TO DETERMINE AND UNDERSTAND THE LINK BETWEEN THE END PRODUCT AND THE AUDIO INPUT. MAYBE WE WILL EVEN BE ABLE TO PREDICT THE OUTCOME BEFORE PROCESSING TAKES PLACE AND DETERMINE ALL THE POSSIBLE FACTORS WHICH AFFECT THE SAID OUTCOME OF THE AUDIO.
OF COURSE OUR STUDIES CONTINUE AT PACE AS WE FEEL IT OUT DUTY TO INVESTIGATE THE LOVE SONG FURTHER BY USE OF OUR SICK-LOVE FILTER. AFTER ITS INITIAL RELEASE THE SICK-LOVE CD WAS SEEN BY MANY AS BEING A MERELY FUN OR STUPID RELEASE, ON THE CONTRARY OUR TECHNICIANS ARE CURRENTLY WORKING NIGHT AND DAY TO CONTINUE THEIR PAINSTAKING RESEARCH ON YOUR BEHALF WITH SOME INTERESTING RESULTS. I PERSONALLY HAVE TO THANK V/VM AND LOIN-EL GLITCHIE FOR PRODUCING THIS AUDIO DOCUMENT YOU HOLD IN YOUR HANDS, AND OF COURSE VVMCPS WITHOUT WHOM THIS RELEASE WOULD HAVE BEEN MADE IMPOSSIBLE. FOR NOW OUR RESEARCH INTO LOVE SONGS AND THE SICK LOVE FILTER CONTINUES, HOPEFULLY YOU'LL ENJOY OUR EXPERIMENTS FOR SOME TIME TO COME IN THIS PARTICULAR FIELD. PLEASE NOTE THAT I CANNOT AND V/VM CANNOT BE HELD LIABLE TO ANY SIDE EFFECTS YOU MAY EXPERIENCE WHEN LISTENING TO THIS DISC OUR RESEARCH SHOWS THAT MILD SIDE EFFECTS MAY BE EXPERIENCED BY SOME. MANY THANKS TO YOU ALL FOR SUPPORTING THIS PRODUCT.
PROF. BROXBURN.

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## Sick-Love Web-clusives

### Label

V/Vm Test Records (OFFAL03web)

After the release of Sick-Love, several extra tracks were posted as a free download on the V/Vm Test website. All of these were posted as 128kbps mp3 files. Only one of them, "Up Where We Belong", would see wider release; it appeared in slightly modified form on The Green Door.