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Yes, they all look pretty good. I was listening to the Japanese SHM version earlier and it sounded great. TBH, even the XRCD version is not horrific by today's standards. /damning with faint praise. Looking back in this thread, I see I mentioned 3 releases I never around to analyzing. After I other work done today, I'm going to see if I can dig them up:

Decent as in not brickwalled all to hell. The whole point of this thread is avoiding modern remasters that ruin classic albums.

I spoke to Don recently on FB and he said the following: The following is not remotely ambient or IDM, but it's pretty important in the history of electronic music. 22 years ago today, the KLF released a unique mix of one of their most famous tracks, under the name The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu. They pressed a very small number copies on a single-sided gray 12" and never re-released it any form. In the vinyl era, and in fact until quite recently this version was was complete unobtanium. Copies still change hands for hundreds of dollars. Miraculously, it has never been bootlegged. Thanks to a well-connected friend of mine, I have a FLAC of a vinyl rip done with considerable skill. All of this would be moot if the song was lousy, but as it turns out it's a bit of a timeless masterpiece. The Original Club Mix is deceptively simple, oppressively dark and does not remotely resemble what UK 'ardcore rave music sounded like at the time. To really appreciate it, one must hear it on a HUGE sound system, preferably at an illegal party in a dingy warehouse. Failing that, a good pair of headphones will suffice. The theme of the track, the economic and urban decay of the northern cities in the UK, is of course irrelevant in today's world. Oh, wait... Grooveshark version, which has much higher quality audio. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96nBBHvq4bM

I've been looking for a decent remaster of Dire Straits - Brothers in arms. Here's four versions of the title track. 1985 original: 1996 Mercury remaster: 2000 JVC XRCD: 2008 Japanese SHM: There's also a 2005 20th anniversary SACD and a 2005 DVD-A in 5.1, both of which I lack.

There's a fair amount of useful info in the voiceover bits, and Kai being his usual self the rest of the time.

I think my favorite part of this is how defensive Henry is of his record collection.

I mighta picked up a thing or two about sequencing from being a DJ. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMaBmik4VYg&hd=1 (Very) attentive listeners to my show have heard me sample the second part of this clip. Look at the file name.

Say it out loud.

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Yo dawg....

This was the top post on Reddit last night. It's from 1-12-11.

Sup, Heads? My radio show is on the air a couple hours early (right now), in Case you wanted to listen. Also, AmhCol's IT dept occupies both side of Hanlon's Razor.

In the words of the late, great George Carlin Some people are really fucking stupid.

Addendum to my previous post:

It had over 15,000 shares before FB removed it.

Sup, Heads? Just got the word that I'll be on two hours early tonight, from 8-10PM Eastern.

^ Shitfuck. The zoom is underwhelming but the D600 is probably the best camera on the market right now that's under $5000.

Now that I have a machine that can actually run KF at a decent frame rate, I should give it a go. Of course, to do that I'd have to stop playing Starcaft II for a minute...

This might take a couple views to get. The new version of the forum software is really temperamental with YouTube links.

Man, this live version rocks so much more than the poppy original. Also, lol 80s.