From ppopov@inria.fr Sat Apr 06 05:00:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!ppopov From: ppopov@inria.fr (Pavel Popov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Apr06.050018.4343@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 05:00:18 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. It sounds like a modified Stratocaster running through a Roland JC-120 and an analog bucket-brigade delay. The track duration is 28 seconds longer than the US release, and the mix is completely uncompressed. Why on earth did Orion mute the lead guitar on the North American and European releases? -- Pavel Popov Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From nlaurent@tum.de Mon Apr 08 06:22:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!tum!nlaurent From: nlaurent@tum.de (Nadia Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Apr08.062218.2930@tum.de> Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 06:22:18 GMT References: <1996Apr06.050018.4343@inria.fr> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Apr06.050018.4343@inria.fr>, ppopov@inria.fr (Pavel Popov) writes: > PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. > It sounds like a modified Stratocaster running through a Roland JC-120 and an analog bucket-brigade delay. YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite. -- Nadia Laurent *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0 From jkowalski@kiae.su Wed Apr 10 06:28:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kiae!jkowalski From: jkowalski@kiae.su (Joachim Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Apr10.062818.6685@kiae.su> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 06:28:18 GMT References: <1996Apr06.050018.4343@inria.fr> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Apr06.050018.4343@inria.fr>, ppopov@inria.fr (Pavel Popov) writes: > PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. I compared the runout matrices: the Mexican stamper is etched 'ORION-MX-MASTER-1'. It wasn't a bootleg, it was pressed from studio tapes. -- === Joachim Kowalski === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From sschneider@mit.edu Wed Apr 10 16:43:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mit!sschneider From: sschneider@mit.edu (Sven Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Apr10.164318.1409@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 16:43:18 GMT References: <1996Apr06.050018.4343@inria.fr> <1996Apr08.062218.2930@tum.de> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1996Apr08.062218.2930@tum.de>, nlaurent@tum.de (Nadia Laurent) writes: > YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite. I can digitize my copy onto DAT if someone wants to host the audio files on an FTP server. -- Sven Schneider -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Marcus is not one man." From ffischer@ox.ac.uk Thu Apr 11 20:24:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!ffischer From: ffischer@ox.ac.uk (Freya Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Apr11.202418.4266@ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 20:24:18 GMT References: <1996Apr06.050018.4343@inria.fr> <1996Apr08.062218.2930@tum.de> <1996Apr10.164318.1409@mit.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Apr10.164318.1409@mit.edu>, sschneider@mit.edu (Sven Schneider) writes: > I can digitize my copy onto DAT if someone wants to host the audio files on an FTP server. Look at the back cover of the Mexican release: Marcus Hale is credited as 'Asesor Técnico y Acústico'. -- Freya Fischer US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."