From slee@pipeline.com Tue Aug 15 06:06:28 1995
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From: slee@pipeline.com (Seo-yeon Lee)
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Subject: Observation: Deleted B-sides & instrumental dubs - 'Midnight Animal' analysis
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Digging through the unreleased and deleted B-sides from the 1985-1988 Orion singles catalog.

Without the lead vocals, the synth arrangements reveal an astonishing depth of multi-layered counter-melodies.
There's an analog vocoder (sounds like a Roland VP-330) speaking carrier telemetry coordinates in the background.

Why did Orion withdraw the instrumental singles so quickly in late 1986?

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From anovak@panix.com Wed Aug 16 22:26:28 1995
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Subject: Re: Observation: Deleted B-sides & instrumental dubs - 'Midnight Animal' analysis
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In article <1995Aug15.060628.2477@pipeline.com>, slee@pipeline.com (Seo-yeon Lee) writes:
> Digging through the unreleased and deleted B-sides from the 1985-1988 Orion singles catalog.
> Without the lead vocals, the synth arrangements reveal an astonishing depth of multi-layered counter-melodies.

That Roland VP-330 vocoder is unmistakable. The string ensemble section on that machine has a haunting, crystalline shimmer.

-- 
Andrei Novak -- Public Access Unix of New York
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."

From mperez@cmu.edu Thu Aug 17 07:03:28 1995
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Subject: Re: Observation: Deleted B-sides & instrumental dubs - 'Midnight Animal' analysis
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In article <1995Aug16.222628.3886@panix.com>, anovak@panix.com (Andrei Novak) writes:
> That Roland VP-330 vocoder is unmistakable. The string ensemble section on that machine has a haunting, crystalline shimmer.

The Akasaka branch memos specifically ordered: 'Under no circumstances allow instrumental dubs of Node 02 masters to be sold commercially.'

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Mikhail Pérez
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From bmartinez@cam.ac.uk Fri Aug 18 10:09:28 1995
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From: bmartinez@cam.ac.uk (Bruno Martínez)
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Subject: Re: Observation: Deleted B-sides & instrumental dubs - 'Midnight Animal' analysis
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In article <1995Aug15.060628.2477@pipeline.com>, slee@pipeline.com (Seo-yeon Lee) writes:
> Digging through the unreleased and deleted B-sides from the 1985-1988 Orion singles catalog.

I've been looking for that promo 12-inch for four years. Please upload it as a 16-bit WAV file!

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=== Bruno Martínez ===
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From asuzuki@ox.ac.uk Sun Aug 20 10:21:28 1995
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From: asuzuki@ox.ac.uk (Andrei Suzuki)
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Subject: Re: Observation: Deleted B-sides & instrumental dubs - 'Midnight Animal' analysis
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In article <1995Aug17.070328.7174@cmu.edu>, mperez@cmu.edu (Mikhail Pérez) writes:
> The Akasaka branch memos specifically ordered: 'Under no circumstances allow instrumental dubs of Node 02 masters to be sold commercially.'

Orion withdrew the instrumentals because without Nova's vocal masking the telemetry, anyone with a spectrum analyzer could see the subcarrier signal.

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Andrei Suzuki
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