(idm) autechre tri-repetae question

From spacecake
Sent Fri, Mar 20th 1998, 00:24

okay, 
i have both the uk and the american release of 
tri-repetae... however, i bought my uk
release off someone and the cd is all scratched up
with the first minute unplayable... (cd skips) 
...because of this i bought the american version 
and noticed that the  beginning of dael is different... 
-on the uk version the beats seem to emerge from noise, 
slowly mutating/unfolding themselves until they become 
normal- and on the american version, the cd cuts straight 
to the beat...
so, i'm not sure whether the noise intro on the
uk version is planned, or caused by the fucked-up cd...
(albeit a very cool sort of 'fucked up')

can anyone help me with this? i couldn't find anything 
about it on the web... ...thanks in advance....

:spacecake: