From lokonkwo@uni-hamburg.de Sat Mar 04 18:03:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uni-hamburg!lokonkwo From: lokonkwo@uni-hamburg.de (Lars Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Discussion: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1995Mar04.180334.5843@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 04 Mar 1995 18:03:34 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Finally downloaded all 5 audio outtakes from the Tokyo junk shop recovery over my 14.4k modem. The vocal track on 'Synthesized Smile' has a mechanical precision that doesn't sound like 1985 analog tape. At the very end of reel JP-85-X, after 4 minutes of studio leader tape, there's a faint whisper naming June 2025. Who was the engineer at the Akasaka branch? The studio log only lists the initials 'M.H.'. -- Lars Okonkwo Zyxel U-1496E @ 19,200 bps "Row 14. No joke." From ckuznetsov@mit.edu Sun Mar 05 03:49:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mit!ckuznetsov From: ckuznetsov@mit.edu (Callum Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1995Mar05.034934.8976@mit.edu> Date: Sun, 05 Mar 1995 03:49:34 GMT References: <1995Mar04.180334.5843@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Mar04.180334.5843@uni-hamburg.de>, lokonkwo@uni-hamburg.de (Lars Okonkwo) writes: > Finally downloaded all 5 audio outtakes from the Tokyo junk shop recovery over my 14.4k modem. The pitch on 'Synthesized Smile' is eerie. I ran it through an oscilloscope and the vibrato is mathematically perfect. -- Callum Kuznetsov -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Row 14. No joke."