BIZ-EEE BOUY
Gosh, what a couple of weeks it's been!
I finally got around to moving on Easter Sunday (the 16th) but just a few days later David Byrne was in Brighton again to finish up what we're calling Phase 3 of the "Here Lies Love" project. We did 4 days of good but hard work, but because of the timing I still find myself surrounded by many, many boxes in my lovely new flat. The day I moved in I knew what all the cryptic codes on the sides of the boxes meant (probably because I'd been up til 3am the day before the move writing them on!) - here I am a week later though, and I suddenly have no idea where anything is. Oh well!
Not long now until the Greatest Hits is finally out there. I have CD promos of it and everything. Quite exciting I suppose - not perhaps in the way that a whole new album might be but still it's nice to have something out there again. As well as the new single, natch.
Right, I need to go and find a screwdriver....
Posted By Simon Thornton @ 10:52:31 PM
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COMPLETISTS SHOULD NOTE...
You'll probably want to pick up both the UK and the US versions of Fatboy Slim's "Why Try Harder" if you're one of those people that just has to have everything. I don't have any negative things to say about such a concept, as I still do that very thing with all things Tears For Fears...
Not sure I can say why I'm suggesting this at some point, but I'm sure it'll become clear soon enough.
Posted By Simon Thornton @ 10:47:48 PM
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Digging around the archives...
Now you all can understand that I've been digging through the FBS archives over the last few months to put the Greatest Hits together, so I should say that I've stumbled across some interesting stuff...
People that know/care about such things will notice/hear that the GH CD is mainly filled with "radio edits" - or perhaps we should call them "shorter versions than on the albums" for now - this is simply because 18 tracks of full-on-album-length FBS would be rather too long to fit onto 1 CD! So, I did take this chance to redo a couple of edits that have been bugging me for a long time. Off the top-of-my-head I've had a second look at the short edits of "Slash Dot Dash" and "Sunset (Bird Of Prey)" because I was never totally happy with what I'd done previously to make them shorter. Also, "Sho Nuff" and "Santa Cruz" are what you could call '2006 edit's as well. It's just a mood/timing thing when you've got 18 tracks all in a row...quite a different thing to editing one track in isolation to under 3 mins to get it on the radio/make a good video to etc.
Anyhoo, as I've been going through all my "work archive" CDs (which, frankly, 6 months back I probably wouldn't be able to find, but the impending move has actually helped me to know where every single one of my possessions live at the current time) I did stumble across a very interesting CD full of Rockafella Skank bits i.e. the unedited 10 minute version. All that slowing-down and speeding-up stuff in that track was done live, by me, on a different computer to the one I was using for putting the tracks together for the album at that time (the effect was created using a very early 1.0-type pitch/timestretch plug in, I think it was something by HyperPrism actually) and it was all then edited together afterwards to create the whole version you know and...er...love. This file I've found (Sound Designer II format, this is 8 years ago let's not forget!) has all the takes I did, pre-editing. It's rather fun!
One day I might put together the full 10 minute "bonkers as you like" version, just for the hell of it....
Posted By Simon Thornton @ 9:33:47 PM
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it....
It seems there's a Greatest Hits on the way.....
Like you didn't all know that already.
Posted By Simon Thornton @ 12:00:46 PM
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