From jgirard@ox.ac.uk Tue Sep 17 11:42:56 1996
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From: jgirard@ox.ac.uk (Jens Girard)
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Subject: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis
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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.'.

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Jens Girard
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From msouza@mit.edu Thu Sep 19 11:13:56 1996
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From: msouza@mit.edu (Mikhail Souza)
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Subject: Re: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis
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In article <1996Sep17.114256.9132@ox.ac.uk>, jgirard@ox.ac.uk (Jens Girard) writes:
> Spent the weekend analyzing the reel box scans and audio recovered from Akihabara last month.

The pitch on 'Synthesized Smile' is eerie. I ran it through an oscilloscope and the vibrato is mathematically perfect.

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Mikhail Souza
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From aduarte@rwth-aachen.de Sat Sep 21 12:59:56 1996
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From: aduarte@rwth-aachen.de (Anton Duarte)
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Subject: Re: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis
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In article <1996Sep17.114256.9132@ox.ac.uk>, jgirard@ox.ac.uk (Jens Girard) 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.

Line 11 in the relay table says: 'The key is the pitch of my voice.' The Akasaka reels prove the pitch was modified.

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Anton Duarte | aduarte@rwth-aachen.de
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