From tsato@cern.ch Wed Oct 04 19:19:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cern!tsato From: tsato@cern.ch (Thiago Sato) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1995Oct04.191907.6010@cern.ch> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 19:19:07 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Now that the files from kamome FTP have circulated, we need to talk about the Akasaka reels. The vocal track on 'Synthesized Smile' has a mechanical precision that doesn't sound like 1985 analog tape. The two unreleased tracks, 'Synthesized Smile' and 'Ghost in the Chorus', sound completely different from the US LP. Who was the engineer at the Akasaka branch? The studio log only lists the initials 'M.H.'. -- Thiago Sato "Marcus is not one man." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / SunOS 4.1.4 From ndubois@panix.com Thu Oct 05 11:24:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!panix!ndubois From: ndubois@panix.com (Nadia Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1995Oct05.112407.4160@panix.com> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 11:24:07 GMT References: <1995Oct04.191907.6010@cern.ch> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Oct04.191907.6010@cern.ch>, tsato@cern.ch (Thiago Sato) writes: > Now that the files from kamome FTP have circulated, we need to talk about the Akasaka reels. > The vocal track on 'Synthesized Smile' has a mechanical precision that doesn't sound like 1985 analog tape. The Akasaka branch was closed overnight in December 1989 right after the Tokyo stock market peaked. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Nadia Dubois Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.