![]() Its seven tracks toe a fine line between novel and nasty sidewinding from warehouse acid to brukkin' garage techno by the brutal close of "1073+snare", or basic channeling Autechre/Reich-ian chords with sole-melting synth juice in "Y", only to unexpectedly turn out a baroque scally bubble, Zomby style, with "1082_s". As bonkers as the narwhal-cavorting-with-a-rhino artwork, Doom Steppy Reverb is the skizzo brother of new beta, a 3D spec'd rally thru some of NHK's darkest, most driven material, done with a gangster swang in deft minor key arrangements that hint at a certain rudeboy vulnerability. After recent LPs from Not Waving, Elon Katz and Russel Haswell, Diagonal now excel in drawing out powerful album statements from some of the most distinctive musicians in contemporary electronic music. The original master had been erased, or got misplaced or lost.Kouhei Matsunaga's second album as NHK yx Koyxen - his label debut for Diagonal - is a pixel-pill gobbling, see-sawing wave of techno emotions presenting the Japanese artist at his most rugged and damaged. Incidently, the 4-track master for "See Emily Play" has never been mixed into true stereo. I'll have to try and pick up an original 45 to be certain I'm thinking the UK 7" 45rpm contains the dry vocal, unlike the reverb-rich vocal found on the US album. It was not intended for the album in the UK, though it did make it on the US release. "See Emily Play" was recorded at Sound Techniques studio, presumably after the album recording wrapped up at EMI. It is a fact that they recorded "See Emily Play" as their second single, and not at EMI (Abbey Road) like the rest of the album was. So the answer to your question could be simply that those cassette/CD comps used the reverb-free mix from the UK single.Īnd the Pink Floyd song more-than-likely appears as it's single "radio-version" on all the known compilations that I am aware of. Interesting about the differences in the UK version. Also the UK version doesn't have a fadeout in the end. Here's a link to a Flickr! album I made with tracks of old and new (that I made) for comparison:Īctually from 1958, the US single version has the reverb but the UK single doesn't. ![]() These songs are the reason why I seek out the earliest pressing I can find of songs / albums from I at first thought it may beĪn alternate recording of it, but it's not. The CD version, I was stunned by the rich reverb that is on the LP. Of the LP "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" a few years ago. I only knew this song by the Pink Floyd compilation CD "Works" until I bought an early US pressing Fast-forward to the late 1980's and early 1990's and I'm buying theseĬompilation tapes & CD's with that song on them, as well as hearing it on the radio, and there is Pronounced echo that I remember hearing on my parent's '50's compilation record when I was aĬhild in the 1970's. The deep voice that says "I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote." had a ![]() "Summertime Blues" - Eddie Cochran (1956) ![]() ![]() I ask, as I have noticed two instances where there originally was reverb, but on much later I had read somewhere, at sometime, that reverb dissipates. Tape? Does it maybe disappear as a result of digitally remastering? Is it possible that reverb fades with age or use, or disappears totally, from old analog audio A question for those in-the-know of the technical aspects of recording: ![]()
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