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I love this. Such a beautiful, literal example of how the way we record things changes them forever from what they originally were.

“I Believe has a saxophone solo in the middle. And when I was recording my TDK C90 cassette version, the needle got stuck and repeated the same circular groove three times before I gave it a nudge. It added a perfect two bars to the solo and they became part of the song. I always miss the extra beats when I listen to it now.”

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Bloody Algo! :D

The album of my life is The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails. It too has an opening track that I swear is designed to throw the undiscerning/unready off the scent!

But God, what would my life have been without it..?

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listened to it....INTENSE....brought back memories of my very first band. Three fourteen year olds. Me wrecking the finely tuned jazz kit of my music school teacher (who allowed us to rehearse in his classroom for a very short period) a guitar player with all knobs set on destroy and the son of the church-organ teacher. He studied the cello, wrote death metal songs and sang exactly like Trent. Thanks a lot...I’d just about forgotten that....;)

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