From tsuzuki@panix.com Mon Jan 08 15:29:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!panix!tsuzuki From: tsuzuki@panix.com (Takeshi Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Jan08.152917.2586@panix.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 15:29:17 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. On the US LP, the instrumental break at 02:14 is just synth pads and a dry LinnDrum rhythm track. 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? -- Takeshi Suzuki "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From mreyes@stanford.edu Tue Jan 09 14:59:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!stanford!mreyes From: mreyes@stanford.edu (Marta Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Jan09.145917.5450@stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 14:59:17 GMT References: <1996Jan08.152917.2586@panix.com> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1996Jan08.152917.2586@panix.com>, tsuzuki@panix.com (Takeshi Suzuki) writes: > PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. > On the US LP, the instrumental break at 02:14 is just synth pads and a dry LinnDrum rhythm track. The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Marta Reyes Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 14,400 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From vlarsson@berkeley.edu Wed Jan 10 03:07:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!berkeley!vlarsson From: vlarsson@berkeley.edu (Valeria Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Jan10.030717.9032@berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 03:07:17 GMT References: <1996Jan08.152917.2586@panix.com> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan08.152917.2586@panix.com>, tsuzuki@panix.com (Takeshi Suzuki) 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. -- === Valeria Larsson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley Department of EECS "Marcus is not one man."