yeah, the remasters have to stand as they are. and they do generally sound punchier, and have better separation on the instruments. further, the higher mix is absolutely closer to the source.

there's a few tracks that do have one aspect or another in the originals that i like better, but dumping them in will pose continuity problems - because the tracks run into each other. it's kind of like the whole thing has to be done one way or another...

i know i'm going to revisit this again. as i stated before: it's probably impossible to get it perfect. but i'll wait until i do the reconstructions before i touch it further.

i'm going to end up trying to rebuild both of these from scratch. i fully realize that. but that's not a quick project, and i can't be doing it right now.

so, back to inri041...this shouldn't take too long to get up, maybe by the end of the night, even.

when i do the reconstructions, i'm going to be focusing on a handful of song suites rather than individual tracks. both the discs are split into 19 tracks. but i'll be interpreting it in runs of 5 or 6. so, it will be easy enough to sort of dump a mix out that i can shape back into an uplifted version of the source. but whether this is feasible or not is going to depend on how much i can phase shift out. i'm using different sound cards to take it in, they've been compressed...i keep saying i can't do this, but i sort of don't want to believe it, even though i know it's true. bah. out of mind. forwards!

....and my headphone braces just finally snapped back apart. it's been a little unstable since i fixed it with epoxy, it was a matter of time. this isn't something that affects the sound. and they'll stay in place when i put them on my head, they just fall apart immediately afterwards.

i'll try and stick it back in place before i go to sleep tonight. presuming i can get enough goop out of the tube and don't need to buy more...

i don't think i can find the right kind of braces anywhere. these headphones are almost as old as i am.

actually, i think they're standard sized. i'm probably better off getting new braces. although...actually...

yeah. i just took the braces from the other pair that i lost a few years ago and can't fix due to them being soldered on. it's a little snug, but it'll do until i get a new set of braces.

so, non-issue.

so, my initial logic with this stands...

i only had four tracks at the time to work with, so i generally bounced all the electronic things to a single track - drum machines, sequenced sound card playback, live synths, digital noise. i then put all the guitars on one track, the bass on the third and the vocals on the fourth.

the isolated "digital track" is often interesting it's own kind of way, some of it sounds like early autechre, but it creates something anachronistic if i'm trying to create an ep of stuff from late '97, because a lot of the stuff didn't come in until 1998.

in order to rebuild this little ep, i'd need to redo the drums and sequencers completely. and there's nothing stopping me from doing that. except that there's really only one song that i think it's worthwhile to do it for.

i'm going to wait until i completely reinterpret each of the songs, and then put a series of singles up.

so, there's no lost release. and i'm probably not going to touch the remasters, although i am going to spend the evening listening.

the digitization was useful, but i don't think this little lost ep is worth fucking the discography up over.

well, i'm not particularly convinced that collusion is not taking place, but i got the refill....

when i got there, he told me it wasn't in yet. so i yelled and screamed for a few minutes, providing the ultimatum to provide me a refund or get on the phone and call around to get it in right away. the owner just coincidentally happened to be in the back, and she took care of it - the refill was there in about twenty minutes. that's how you have to deal with shit like that...

the excuse they gave me was they thought they gave me seven days (but i take them twice daily, so they gave me 3.5). it's a bad excuse, either way, because they told me it would be in by monday....

so, i dunno. all the information to conclude incompetence is there, but it's not really sitting right with me. for the immediate moment, it's sort of irrelevant.