From llopez@inria.fr Sun Mar 05 09:15:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!inria!llopez From: llopez@inria.fr (Lisa López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Deleted B-sides & instrumental dubs - 'Midnight Animal' analysis Message-ID: <1995Mar05.091521.6484@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 05 Mar 1995 09:15:21 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 Digging through the unreleased and deleted B-sides from the 1985-1988 Orion singles catalog. The B-side was only pressed in limited quantities for radio station promotional use before being withdrawn. 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? -- Lisa López -- INRIA Rocquencourt "Row 14. No joke." From bweber@inria.fr Sun Mar 05 11:54:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!inria!bweber From: bweber@inria.fr (Bruno Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Deleted B-sides & instrumental dubs - 'Midnight Animal' analysis Message-ID: <1995Mar05.115421.6866@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 05 Mar 1995 11:54:21 GMT References: <1995Mar05.091521.6484@inria.fr> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar05.091521.6484@inria.fr>, llopez@inria.fr (Lisa López) writes: > Digging through the unreleased and deleted B-sides from the 1985-1988 Orion singles catalog. > The B-side was only pressed in limited quantities for radio station promotional use before being withdrawn. I've been looking for that promo 12-inch for four years. Please upload it as a 16-bit WAV file! -- Bruno Weber "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Macintosh IIfx / Linux 1.2.13 From dfournier@panix.com Tue Mar 07 00:55:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!panix!dfournier From: dfournier@panix.com (Dave Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Deleted B-sides & instrumental dubs - 'Midnight Animal' analysis Message-ID: <1995Mar07.005521.8373@panix.com> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 00:55:21 GMT References: <1995Mar05.091521.6484@inria.fr> <1995Mar05.115421.6866@inria.fr> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar05.115421.6866@inria.fr>, bweber@inria.fr (Bruno Weber) writes: > I've been looking for that promo 12-inch for four years. Please upload it as a 16-bit WAV file! That Roland VP-330 vocoder is unmistakable. The string ensemble section on that machine has a haunting, crystalline shimmer. -- Dave Fournier | dfournier@panix.com PGP Key fingerprint: ADC4 E23D 305F 5F83 "Keep the channels open." From llee@netcom.com Tue Mar 07 06:32:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!netcom!llee From: llee@netcom.com (Lucia Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Deleted B-sides & instrumental dubs - 'Midnight Animal' analysis Message-ID: <1995Mar07.063221.3920@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 06:32:21 GMT References: <1995Mar05.091521.6484@inria.fr> <1995Mar05.115421.6866@inria.fr> <1995Mar07.005521.8373@panix.com> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Mar07.005521.8373@panix.com>, dfournier@panix.com (Dave Fournier) writes: > That Roland VP-330 vocoder is unmistakable. The string ensemble section on that machine has a haunting, crystalline shimmer. Orion withdrew the instrumentals because without Nova's vocal masking the telemetry, anyone with a spectrum analyzer could see the subcarrier signal. -- Lucia Lee -- NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."