HW: honestly!

Mark Edmonds mmje at MMJE.DEMON.CO.UK
Thu May 15 06:07:17 EDT 1997


In article <s379bf42.066 at novell.com>, Alan Troup <ALAN_TROUP at NOVELL.COM>
writes about Space Ritual

>And now I'm going to show my ignorance once again.  On the album, the
>music ends and the applause fades down at the end of each record side,
>and fades up again at the start of each record side.  This is normal for
>those days, but it always annoyed me (especially on "Orgone Accumulator."
>(By the way, can anyone tell me what Hawkwind's connection to orgone
>accumulators was?  This isn't a quiz - I really don't know!))    When I
>bought the CD, there were 2 CDs, and I fully expected solid noise - not
>fade-downs and fade ups.  Boy, was I disappointed!  It seems to me that
>the original recording would not have that.   Is a "remastered" Space Ritual
>CD one that does not have these fades?  Or is it just a better recording?

Basically, the One Way Records CD of Space Ritual is faithful to the LP
format in that it contains the fades whereas the remastered version is
continuous although if you know the LP format, the joins are obvious -
but well done none the less.

Mark Edmonds



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