From adubois@inria.fr Wed Aug 07 20:08:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!adubois From: adubois@inria.fr (Anja Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1996Aug07.200858.7791@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 20:08:58 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Spent the weekend analyzing the reel box scans and audio recovered from Akihabara last month. Every single tape box is stamped 'VOICE PRINT: GEN-3' in purple ink. That matches the Ashford memo from 1989. 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.'. -- Anja Dubois "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Sun SparcStation 20 / Linux 1.2.13 From agonzalez@clari.net Thu Aug 08 09:53:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!clari!agonzalez From: agonzalez@clari.net (Anja González) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1996Aug08.095358.6790@clari.net> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 09:53:58 GMT References: <1996Aug07.200858.7791@inria.fr> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Aug07.200858.7791@inria.fr>, adubois@inria.fr (Anja Dubois) writes: > Spent the weekend analyzing the reel box scans and audio recovered from Akihabara last month. > Every single tape box is stamped 'VOICE PRINT: GEN-3' in purple ink. That matches the Ashford memo from 1989. I downloaded the .au files yesterday. Kamome FTP was crawling at 300 cps because everyone on Usenet is hitting it. -- === Anja González === Dept of Electrical Engineering, ClariNet Communications Corp "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From msouza@clari.net Fri Aug 09 18:03:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!clari!msouza From: msouza@clari.net (Marisol Souza) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1996Aug09.180358.7553@clari.net> Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 18:03:58 GMT References: <1996Aug07.200858.7791@inria.fr> <1996Aug08.095358.6790@clari.net> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Aug08.095358.6790@clari.net>, agonzalez@clari.net (Anja González) writes: > I downloaded the .au files yesterday. Kamome FTP was crawling at 300 cps because everyone on Usenet is hitting it. 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! -- Marisol Souza -- ClariNet Communications Corp "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From jhughes@inria.fr Sat Aug 10 12:22:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!inria!jhughes From: jhughes@inria.fr (Jens Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Akasaka Master Tapes recovery (May 1995) - full tracklist analysis Message-ID: <1996Aug10.122258.8000@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 12:22:58 GMT References: <1996Aug07.200858.7791@inria.fr> <1996Aug08.095358.6790@clari.net> <1996Aug09.180358.7553@clari.net> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug09.180358.7553@clari.net>, msouza@clari.net (Marisol Souza) writes: > The Akasaka branch was closed overnight in December 1989 right after the Tokyo stock market peaked. The pitch on 'Synthesized Smile' is eerie. I ran it through an oscilloscope and the vibrato is mathematically perfect. -- Jens Hughes *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0