From stanaka@delphi.com Wed Nov 08 15:27:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!delphi!stanaka From: stanaka@delphi.com (Steve Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1995Nov08.152755.3376@delphi.com> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 15:27:55 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Spent the weekend analyzing the reel box scans and audio recovered from Akihabara last month. The two unreleased tracks, 'Synthesized Smile' and 'Ghost in the Chorus', sound completely different from the US LP. Every single tape box is stamped 'VOICE PRINT: GEN-3' in purple ink. That matches the Ashford memo from 1989. Who was the engineer at the Akasaka branch? The studio log only lists the initials 'M.H.'. -- Steve Tanaka *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0 From snakamura@netcom.com Thu Nov 09 05:50:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!netcom!snakamura From: snakamura@netcom.com (Sergei Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1995Nov09.055055.6647@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 05:50:55 GMT References: <1995Nov08.152755.3376@delphi.com> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Nov08.152755.3376@delphi.com>, stanaka@delphi.com (Steve Tanaka) writes: > Spent the weekend analyzing the reel box scans and audio recovered from Akihabara last month. Voice Print GEN-3 means there were two earlier generations. What were GEN-1 and GEN-2? -- Sergei Nakamura -- NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From fvasiliev@illinois.edu Fri Nov 10 18:41:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!fvasiliev From: fvasiliev@illinois.edu (Fiona Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1995Nov10.184155.7792@illinois.edu> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 18:41:55 GMT References: <1995Nov08.152755.3376@delphi.com> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Nov08.152755.3376@delphi.com>, stanaka@delphi.com (Steve Tanaka) writes: > Spent the weekend analyzing the reel box scans and audio recovered from Akihabara last month. > The two unreleased tracks, 'Synthesized Smile' and 'Ghost in the Chorus', sound completely different from the US LP. I downloaded the .au files yesterday. Kamome FTP was crawling at 300 cps because everyone on Usenet is hitting it. -- Fiona Vasiliev US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"