

	Jazz-Dm
	Winamp 2 Skin

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	SKIN INFO

Name			Jazz-Dm
Version			1.0
Features
			Main
			Equalizer
			Playlist Editor
			Minibrowser
			AVS (aka. WVS)

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	AUTHOR INFO

Name			Kimmo Laine
Nickname		Soulman
E-mail address		kklaine@surfeu.fi
S.O.			N/A, send offers

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	AUTHORS COMMENTS
	aka. mad thoughts 
	about da skin

The name of the skin is a nice thing to start with. What does it mean? Jazz means the jazz-mood the colors give me. It's this sort of ugly retro color that is coming strongly in fashion at the moment. The color theme, the stripes and stuff were just so retro and to me retro is hip and jazz. Dm, that's a chord in music, D-minor. So this is a the mood of a jazz-song written in D-minor. 

What's un-retro is the LCD-display-alike display, because they were not in so common use in the 70's, I think they came in the 80's and 90's. My Nokia Cellphone has a similar LCD-display, well, kind of.

I got the idea to this from a background image I made that hade the same color theme, and the image had just circles inside circles inside circles recursively, which was really jazz to me. Jazz is not just a music genre, it's also particular colors and shapes. Watch some 70's Tom and Jerry cartoons and you'll know what I mean. Those are magnificent, black backgrounds and bright saturated blue squares and perfect red circles and acoustic bass, smooth drums and a piano. That's lovemaking music.

Someone might take a wild guess and think I'm stoned, but actually I'm not and I have never been, this is just an effect that the prue beauty of music and video gives me. Jazz, it's a state of mind, it's... it's a divine feeling. it's jazz. Monk is Monk. 

The best musical piece to use with this skin might be something from T.S. Monk, Dave Brubeck or Count Basie. The U-Street Allstars would be magnificent, but they are a small Finnish group who haven't released any major hit records so far so we'll have to wait for their international breakthrough. It's also good for anything concidered retro or modern, because this is retro now, and retro is always in.
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	Kimmo "Soulman" Laine
	27.02.2003
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	THE LEGAL STUFF

THIS SKIN IS CONCIDERED AS A WORK OF ART AND THUS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT LAWS WHICH PROHIBIT UNAUTHORIZED COPYING. AUTHOR (Kimmo Laine) ALLOWS THIS PARTICULAR WINAMP SKIN TO BE FREELY DISTRIBUTED, PROVIDED THAT THE FILE IS UNALTERED AND INCLUDES ALL OF THE ORIGINAL FILES UNCHANGED AND NO OTHER FILES ARE ADDED. THIS SKIN MAY NOT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES BE SOLD TO THIRD PARTY FOR PROFIT NO MATTER HOW SMALL, UNLESS AUTHOR HAS BEEN CONSULTED AND HE HAS GRANTED A PERMISSION TO IT. 