Re: (idm) Re: idm-digest V2 #497

From Sebastian Herrfurth
Sent Thu, Jan 28th 1999, 12:56

Hi,

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Jeremy A.Smith wrote:

> In the recent Autechre album on CD, wasn't there a whole chunk of silence
> in one track near the end? Could it be that they made a 74-minute CD, and
> then when it came to pressing it, the record label/mastering people padded
> it out with several minutes of silence near the end, to deter bootleggers
> by making them think it was an 80-minute CD?

Yes and no. Yes, there was a gap of some minutes, but no, it surely 
wasn't meant to prevent bootlegging. It would be stubid and dumb from the 
mastering people to add some minutes of silence into an album which was 
designed to be listend.

The gap quite surely was a decision made by ae themselfs, and I guess it
the usual 'hidden track' thing. Well, in this case more like '(not so)
hidden bonus beats' (there are other and 'better' ways to add hidden bonus
tracks: I heard of a (to be exact of 2) CDs where you have to rewind
*before* the beginning of track1, which most people don't do ('cause
normally thats not possible) so they don't know about this hidden track
'til anybody tells them... 

Bye

Sebastian

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