Re: (idm) Coil

From Mark Kolmar
Sent Tue, Nov 18th 1997, 22:05

On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Noah wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Mark Kolmar wrote:
> > Strangely, the sound quality of the Hellraiser tracks is much better on
> > the CDEP than on Unnatural History II.  The latter contains an unusual
> > amount of disortion, which wouldn't seem to be intentional. 
> 
>         It's also ironic, considering Coil usually have a perfectionist
>         approach when it comes to releasing anything.

I wrote to ask about this at the time, but got no reply.  I was thinking
the same thing -- did I really have a better copy available than Coil, was
the distortion deliberate, or...?

>         What about the other stuff on Unnatural History?  Notice any
>         differences there?

"Another Brown World" and "Contains a Disclaimer" were the only other
tracks available on CD already at the time (well, "The Hills are Alive"
also, but I don't have that comp).  Those 2 seemed fine to me.  I may even
have compared them closely, given the distortion on the Hellraiser tracks,
but I don't recall.  The other tracks were on 7" vinyl, which is a problem
to start with, sound-wise. 

--Mark