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On 3 Jul 2000 idm-digest-help@hyperreal.org wrote:

quoted 8 lines idm Digest 3 Jul 2000 18:58:39 -0000 Issue 513

> idm Digest 3 Jul 2000 18:58:39 -0000 Issue 513 > From: "Irene McC" <substar@iafrica.com> > Subject: herr X > Message-ID: <396062D8.14560.6186C@localhost> > > Among a batch of MP3's borrowed from a friend, there's a mystery > track with no ID tagging titled "Herr X" which sounds very Kraftwerk- > y. Is it? Does anybody know this track and its history?

If that is the mp3 from the old bleepbloop site, that is from my copy of the Vienna 12" (it is a b-side). I didn't make very good tags on those mp3s, sorry. You can get this track on vinyl also through the "new Europeans lp, which is a Japanese pressing of b-sides from around '81. The weird echoey swirling wail is electric violin played by Billie Currie who also was on Gary Numan's lps at the time. This Ultravox is from just after John Foxx left, and I highly recommend any Ultravox from '78-81 and Foxx from '80-'81 if you like this track. I have recently made an electro mix cd that happens to include this track mixed out of Kraftwerk (ironically, as you compared them), as well as Kit Builders, Egyptian Lover, Octagon Man (J Saul Kane), Human League, Twilight 22, Le Car, Keith Tucker, and lots of other early-80's electro mixed back-to-back with recent stuff. I'd made it for Gil (Gilly) on the electro-breaks list, but it is decent enough that I'd like to make copies to trade with other people mixing electro...(anyone game?) Irene, if you have the other mp3's that were with that one, they were also untagged. They are "A Wonga Dance Song"-Ryuichi Sakamoto, "Night Club 1 & 2" from the Liquid Sky soundtrack lp, "The Dignity of Labour Pt 2" from the same-titled Human League ep ('79), "Breakdown(remix)" by DJ Unknown, and "Dr. No" by John Foxx. All of this stuff is available on cd via the artists' official web pages with the exception of the Liquid Sky and DJ Unknown.

quoted 3 lines Wants:

> Wants: > > Aspen

Emanate (www.syncopated.net/emanate) will be releasing a vinyl lp of Aspen titled "Sugar & Spice" in a few months. You can see the tracklisting and cover up on the web site.

quoted 15 lines From: Coil <john@loci.demon.co.uk>

> From: Coil <john@loci.demon.co.uk> > Subject: crowley recordings > > He WAS recorded . Onto a set of 16" acetate discs.This was a standard > format for the time. Not intened for sale but for circulation to radio > stations and archives These discs were then reproduced in an edition of > approximately no more than 6 sets. Gerald Yorke has a set as is believed > Jimmy Page does too. It was his copies that provided the recording that > circulated first on cassette and then onto vinyl and Cd more recently.JP > attempted to 'clean' up the sound by using the filter of his recently > perchased Moog modular system.I am in the process of locating copies of > the original discs and remastering them for a new releae. modern technology > is infinately more cpable of producing a clean ,much improved sound > quality. There are rumours of other AC voice recordings. Interviews on reel > to reel etc.But there I must leave you.

Yay John! Yes, eq-based compression/expansion can do wonders. I recently recorded some Anais Nin recordings from a 1947 Sound Portrait original vinyl into a pc and coaxed out quite a listennable version. This really helps bring the voice above the artifacts of the recording medium for making mp3s, as I just did for Eugene Ionesco's "Rhinocerous" (Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel, Karen Black), which has been out of print for decades now. I'm finding that boosting around 2.2k-2.5k really pulls up the "ssss" and "zzz" which are easily lost to the noise floor on magnetic tape recordings and which are crucial to recognizing speech. I slope off most everything above 6.5k and below 180Hz for pre-1965 voice recordings. If anyone has a copy of Robinson Jeffers reading "Shine On Perishing Republic" or E.E.Cummings readings -- I'll trade you copies of my electro mix! I kinda doubt I'll get any takers! ;) I wonder if Osman Austin Spare was ever recorded/interviewed...? I'm still trying to get "the Book of Automatic Drawing" is some shape or form! <sigh> Is there a listserv for people into old spoken-word records? Caedmon being the "Warp" of that scene, I suppose! Solenoid --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org