gths
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Posted: April 09 2009, 00:08 |
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I'll be interested to see what happens with Hergest Ridge.
I gather there's still probably a bit of controversy, but I think it'd be good if they put the original mix on an extra disc - if they decided that HR is worth a 2CD release. They could probably pad out the extra disc with the orchestral version or whatever, even though that was, by most accounts, awful, all the same I'd wouldn't mind hearing it as a curio.
I've got the original on tape, it was like the third one I ever bought in the late 80s, but I've only just got around to dubbing that onto the computer a month back so I could compare it with the remix again. I still prefer the remix, the original is just a little busy and blatant for me (I guess it turned out that way because it got a bit rushed in the race to get a follow-up to TB) and takes away from that pastoral vibe, for instance the last section of the remixed version puts The Fear in me every time.
Of course having the original as a tape transfer may not help with things like noise and saturation. Which is why I'd like it properly mastered on CD of course!
And of course I also hope they restore the original typography and all that when they deal with the covers of HR, Ommadawn and Platinum. I guess they'll have to lose the Roger Dean Virgin logo though.
Aside from that, I'm not sure what to expect. I've got a few of the Deluxe editions UMG have done for other artists (such as The Orb, DJ Shadow and Sonic Youth) and thought those were pretty good so I'd be pretty content for them to do something similar with the Oldfield material - especially if they do a lot of work on the liner notes as they'd done with the others. Though it'll probably send me broke if they put out the whole lot at once.
We'll know more before too long, I guess.
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