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quoted 11 lines About 6 months ago I got the "AWFM" disk, released on Ash and put together

>About 6 months ago I got the "AWFM" disk, released on Ash and put together >by Richard H. Kirk. It's basically one long trip-hop track with tons of >vocal samples on top. Kinda simple, but nice to play video games too... >Anyways, it appears to have been recorded extremely, uh "loud" on the >disk, and it appears to suffer during the noiser parts from pretty heavy >distortion. It's so distorted I'm having trouble believing it was >intentional. Is it? Do others own AWFM and not have this problem? I've >ruled out it being a "hardware problem". Maybe it came from a bad batch >or something.... > > Brian

My copy sounds like it's at a high volume level compared to my other CDs, but I can't hear distortion as a result of it. I love the use of distortion in music but sometimes I just can't relax when I can't work out whether the distortion is intentional, because of a bad recording, or because my expensive speakers are crying out in pain. Sound familiar or is it just me? I tell you "Gatha" by Seefeel on the "Succour" album sent me flying to turn the volume down. Completely unrelated: Does anyone know why the first track on the Takkyu Ishino mix CD on React is called "D.D.T.V u-ZIQ INVADE"? (replace u with greek mu) I only bought the bloody thing because of the chance of another u-ziq track and it doesn't sound like it. I thought "u-Ziq" was a term Mike P dreampt up. Happy Listening -Ed