cut and paste from a posting by triton@somewhere.com incl. his
remastered afx mp3's . it only reminds you of what a great
piece of work Drukqs is compared to all that crap and sleepy stuff
released .
oh and ......btw....the tracks can be found right now at : alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.electronic
or slsk find the nice guy called :i KISS you
aRTiST : Aphex Twin
tiTLE : Melodies From Mars
sTYLE : early idm / video game sountrack
lABEL : (unreleased)
cAT-nR :
fORMAT : unknown
tRACKS : 11
sOURCE : 24bit / 44.1KHz / 256k mp3
eNCODER : Audioactive 2.0.4j
qUALiTY : 160k CBR, ISO, 20kHz Cutoff, MS-Joint Stereo
coMMeNTS :
I remastered these old bootleg recordings, they deserve to be heard
in the original sound quality, while also being mastered for the
digital age. i think you will find these selections to be of finest
sound quality, possably like hearing again for the first time. =)
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Aphex Twin - DrukQs (Hard Tracks Remaster)
I love this record, and the original master. But after listening to it a few
(too many) times I started to really hear the typical "Warped tin can" sound
that Warp almost always has on thier records. Sounds really flat and stale.
None of the tracks really sound like they go together as much as they could.
So I pulled out all my tricks on this one. Pre-emphasis, gentile stereo image
enhancement, bass shuffling, multiband dynamics processing, and a new trick I
found called MaxxBass (www.maxxbass.com) Using it, the clarity of the bass in
the recording has been greatly improved. Besides the bass sounding better on
small speakers, these play (way) louder before distorting and have more punch.
'Gwety Mernans' & 'Orban EQ Trx 4' were already distorted, fixed what I could.
This is pretty funny, Orban is the name of a Pro Audio company that makes high-
end DSP units for the radio industry. (www.orban.com) I wouldn't pay us$8500
for something that adds distortion to any of my tracks, would Aphex? Probably!
m o n e y t o b u r n
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