ok, that gets me through the first 6 tapes (that's 24 channels) from 1998, which were labelled. now i have another dozen that aren't. i think most of them are half empty, but there's a period in early 1999 that i'm hoping is in there somewhere. i think i should be done digitizing by the time the sun comes up.

listening through a few snippets, i seem to have bounced the drums together with sequencers and effects, meaning i have little space to play with what comes off the tapes. to me, the value in isolating the songs at this stage is to draw attention to the drum machine, which tended to sometimes get lost in the mix. but there's only a couple of tracks where this is really meaningful.

the more i think about it, the more i have to place it in proper sequence between inri004 and inri005 and there isn't anything that i want to really take out. so, how? well, on the one hand, i realize it would be useful for a consumer to get these appended to the end of inri004, which is otherwise only 11 minutes. it's about the same time frame, too. but i separated inri004 out for it's conceptual value, and this is necessarily a different concept as well. so, i might, instead, create a consolidated cd release with two separate downloads - inri004a and inri004b. inri004, then, is the fall of 2007, which is what it is right now - i'd just be looking at it two different ways. that's my leading mental concept right now, anyways. but i'm not likely to do this at all unless i'm convinced that the results are going to be substantially different than the reconstructed versions i'll do next year. if i think i'm just going to take the bases of these files and add stuff on top, i'll wait and maybe do a few singles when i get there, just adding the material on as bsides. i'll also want to take that approach if i only pull out two or three songs.

it's almost done; i'll make these decisions over night.