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quoted 16 lines kent@cadsi.com (Kent Williams) writes:

>kent@cadsi.com (Kent Williams) writes: >> Say, what's the deal with track 9 of the 'Artificial Intelligence' >> comp (Fill 3 by Speedy J) and the last track on 'The Orb's Adventures >> Beyond the Ultraworld' ? >> >> They sound as though they're either based on the same source material or >> sampled from each other. Which came first? > >Hmmm... I'd always assumed that the track order on the AI >liner notes was incorrect. The track you're talking about >definitely *sounds* like the Orb live, but it's credited to >someone else (Speedy J, I guess. I don't have the disk with >me to check). Also, the track credited to the Orb sounds >nothing like the Orb. > >-Sho

This is clearly a misprint: Track 9 is obviously an edit of A Huge Ever Growing....., and track 10 sounds very speedy j-ish. I have a lot of cds that screw up their track listings and times. Doesn't anyone proofread the liners before they print out thousands of copies of the mistakes? Among the discs with errors on them: LFO - Frequencies (Tommy Boy/Warp) Twitch CD 2 (Twitch) Artificial Intelligence (TVT/Warp) Trance Europe Express (Volume) B12 - Electro-soma (TVT/Warp) Dragonfly - Project II Trance (Instinct) ....to name a few. -bob

From the cyberdesk of: rweisend@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu (Bob)

quoted 3 lines kent@cadsi.com (Kent Williams) writes:

> >kent@cadsi.com (Kent Williams) writes: > Doesn't anyone proofread the liners before they print out thousands of > copies of the mistakes?

Of course not. That would mean that somebody is actually doing their job. Not to mention the probability of the person with that job having obtained a college degree at some point in their lives.....makes you think about exactly how much BS is in a BS. (OK, I'm a GeneX slacker, in case you missed that little bitter resentment of the "establishment". Don't get me started about Social (in)Security....) I've actually gotten return envelopes from McGraw-Hill, a very large *PUBLISHING* concern, to enclose the payment for books I've ordered. And in the section on the flap you're supposed to tear off and fill in if you have any address changes, there are *count 'em*, 7 boxes for your *5-digit* zip code and since there are only seven, it can't be designed for your *9-digit* ZIP+4 code either. I would have thought a company whose very existence is based upon publishing, proofreading, and editing would have someone able to count the number of digits in a postal ZIP code. Oh, and the rest of the text clearly indicated the envelope was for US distribution only, so foreign concerns need not feel we're being US-centric here. I'm sure they had their own envelopes with 14 boxes.... (Hey, Larry, how many letters in the Rwandan postal code? Uhhh, I don't think they *have* a postal code anymore. Use six. R-W-A-N-D-A. Yeah, six is fine.....) But I digress, hehe.... ObIDM: What happened to the Ambient Dub series? Is #3 the last one? I apologize in advance if "Ambient Dub" doesn't fit in *your* definition of "IDM". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael King mike%delta1@rex.cs.tulane.edu Delta Systems New Orleans, LA 70002-4938 Voice: 504.837.9835 Fax: 504.837.9838 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peterson's 1st rule of programming: If you can't have it the way you want it, want it some other way. -mikep@allegro.amf.com What a truism in the light of our little flap over "true" IDM, eh? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

On Wed, 25 May 1994, Michael King wrote:

quoted 12 lines From the cyberdesk of: rweisend@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu (Bob)

> >From the cyberdesk of: rweisend@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu (Bob) > > >kent@cadsi.com (Kent Williams) writes: > > Doesn't anyone proofread the liners before they print out thousands of > > copies of the mistakes? > > Of course not. That would mean that somebody is actually doing their job. > Not to mention the probability of the person with that job having obtained a > college degree at some point in their lives.....makes you think about exactly > how much BS is in a BS. (OK, I'm a GeneX slacker, in case you missed that > little bitter resentment of the "establishment". Don't get me started > about Social (in)Security....) >

Actually, any design work I've done for cds happens way before the discs are mastered and pressed. The plant one of my clients uses (DADC) won't work on the discs until they have all the printed material. And yes, this stuff gets proofread by everyone and their mother and their dog. Chances are there was a last minute change as the disc was being pressed or an error at the plant. By then, all the booklets and insert have already been through their expensive printing process (especially for a release as large as the AI series). So it was probably just left as is. jmar. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bandwidth Hogging via the kind courtesy of DesignLink FCBBS (1) 510 933 96 76 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ J M R T N K O D S G N E T C S F C A | t h e t h i r s t y f i s h . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John A. Martinko, west desk chief, Illegibility Engineering Division <martinko@netcom.com> mmoooon...yipyipyipyipyip...uhhuh...uhhuh... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------