Minimal Wave Records

same skip here.

I have the two versions : I am lucky to have in my collection the original 1982 LP on Short Circuit Records (the Holy Graal :D) and the new VOD release (#201). I never noticed this skip on the VOD copy before, so I listened to the both versions and yes, there is a very, very small skip on my copy too. But honestly it’s really nothing at all.

PS : the VOD sound is really better than the original. Incredible remastering. Thanks Frank :wink:

Never had the original version but I noticed a bit overcompressed sound on the VOD one. Am I the only one to mention that?

ps. Listened to this record for three days in a row, fantastic stuff!!

After everybody found the skip I compared my record with a MP3 I have of that song. And indeed there is a skip. But it is really very small.

it’s a great release indeed!
also received the severed heads boxset to go with it, and although i like that one as well, i wonder why it’s part of the minimal-wave membership. Should have been part of the industrial / exp. membership IMO.

Tuned-In….!

[quote author=“reactorlgtn”]I got my copy today, after paying through the nose for it on the internet after it sold out (to get the single of course - if I buy a record, I want it complete)...

But what’s this I hear?

There’s a SKIP in one song - If you listen to the track “New Project”, towards the end, after the “when times look hard” lyric - it can’t be just my copy, surely?
I checked the vinyl, there’s no marks or anything. Maybe it was mastered from an original vinyl that skipped?

Did anyone else notice? If it skips only on my copy (no 45/600) it’s at least better than if every copy has this flaw.

Still, it didn’t manage to put me off “the Addict”... what a smasher.

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Who could ask for a better group of listeners…? My fav. people…!
Nothing gets past your well tuned, insightful ears… does it…?

It’s not a skip in the vinyl…
The VOD masters were sampled from the original 1982 1/4” mater tapes…
These PROTOTYPE master tapes had been knocking around with me
for the past 26 years…
The tape acquired a 1/2 measure flaw on New Project…
Thankfully it draws no attention, except to the most perceptive… ~

The VOD reissue and the original do have their own unique sound…
I believe the original master plates were manipulated a bit ( EQ…? comp/limit…? etc ) by the engineer when plates were cut in 1982… It’s sound is very subtle…
But talk about disappointing vinyl… 300 low level, noisy pressings…
The VOD pressing is a much “hotter” version… No doubt…
But I believe it’s a truer version of the master tapes… More detail is revealed… ie. Reverb of vocals and instruments… etc
The bass synths have more growl… And the vinyl is top shelf…

The PROTOTYPE - GARAGE TRACKS VOD release fulfilled my visions nicely…
The tuned-in listener was always the target…
 
MG