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Posted: July 09 2023, 17:08 |
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Quote (shenry @ July 07 2023, 13:03) | - Hergest Ridge - yes, I'm a Boxed lover for this one. The sparseness just works for me. I find the original mix gets too repetitive otherwise. That said, the surround mix from 2010 is a good one for getting an immersive experience with sounds flying out from all around. |
I bought Hergest Ridge on vinyl in 1983, and it was of course the 1974 mix. It was the first record that I bought with my own money, and I loved it to bits.
I never bothered getting "boxed", so the first time I heard the 1976 mix was when I bought HR on CD, as a replacement of my LP. I was NOT prepared for a different mix of the album. I was actually checking my speaker cables and balance settings, because some instruments just seemed gone (I had a traumatic experience of listening to "A Saucerful of Secrets" on a set with one speaker dead, where the vocals were missing for certain sections! .
I agree that the Boxed remix has its moments, as it's more soothing and less busy. But the trumpets were such a big draw for me, and I can't stand them being turned down. With the original mix, HR part 1 was a piece of music about war and revenge. The Boxed remix is just Popol Vuh style tranquility.
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