From agirard@netcom.com Thu Feb 01 10:11:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!netcom!agirard From: agirard@netcom.com (Amy Girard) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1996Feb01.101107.2910@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 10:11:07 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 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. At the very end of reel JP-85-X, after 4 minutes of studio leader tape, there's a faint whisper naming June 2025. Kamome sysop says there were three more reels in the box that haven't been dumped yet. Keep checking the FTP! -- Amy Girard -- NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From twatanabe@titech.ac.jp Fri Feb 02 02:07:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!titech!twatanabe From: twatanabe@titech.ac.jp (Tyler Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1996Feb02.020707.6613@titech.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 02:07:07 GMT References: <1996Feb01.101107.2910@netcom.com> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Feb01.101107.2910@netcom.com>, agirard@netcom.com (Amy Girard) writes: > Spent the weekend analyzing the reel box scans and audio recovered from Akihabara last month. That whisper at the end gave me chills. It's in English, but with an inflection that sounds almost synthetic. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- === Tyler Watanabe === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From lkarlsson@cern.ch Sun Feb 04 00:27:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cern!lkarlsson From: lkarlsson@cern.ch (Lars Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1996Feb04.002707.2674@cern.ch> Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 00:27:07 GMT References: <1996Feb01.101107.2910@netcom.com> <1996Feb02.020707.6613@titech.ac.jp> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1996Feb02.020707.6613@titech.ac.jp>, twatanabe@titech.ac.jp (Tyler Watanabe) writes: > That whisper at the end gave me chills. It's in English, but with an inflection that sounds almost synthetic. > Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. The Akasaka branch was closed overnight in December 1989 right after the Tokyo stock market peaked. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Lars Karlsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0 From msilva@kth.se Mon Feb 05 11:13:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kth!msilva From: msilva@kth.se (Matthias Silva) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1996Feb05.111307.2901@kth.se> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 11:13:07 GMT References: <1996Feb01.101107.2910@netcom.com> <1996Feb02.020707.6613@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb02.020707.6613@titech.ac.jp>, twatanabe@titech.ac.jp (Tyler Watanabe) writes: > That whisper at the end gave me chills. It's in English, but with an inflection that sounds almost synthetic. The pitch on 'Synthesized Smile' is eerie. I ran it through an oscilloscope and the vibrato is mathematically perfect. -- Matthias Silva "Hold for relay." Macintosh IIfx / NEXTSTEP 3.3