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B-vox in particular :-) ... thanks for the feedback

Result! Thanks Gaz

Plant-Based Rock

Last couple of records tend to have people checking their hardware :-P Amazing stuff

I've picked up a few audio tricks over the years and have become fairly handy at cleaning / editing / post-production in general. I can make unimpressive recordings sound much bigger or can apply transparent post-production to make your mixes louder / more widescreen without brickwalling them...

I get that the attitude influenced a lot of people, dark, literary, sometimes noisy (goth and post-punk) but I know very little that really sounds like the first album. I tend to think that the space rockers and paisley underground people sound more like an amped up version of the third album...

What would you point to particularly?

'The Velvet Underground Bootleg Series' (The Robert Quine tapes) was a real eye-opener for me as someone who had sort of written them off after Cale left. These tapes show them in action as a jam band in the Grateful Dead sense - extended improvisations that have this huge cumulative effect.

Beg to differ on the Sylvian / Fripp album ... I was hugely disappointed at the time but it came to mean a lot to me. Those first couple of Sylvian records are still exemplary high-wire acts of marrying experiment with incredible craft .. as with Eno, Gabriel, Walker, Bush et al in the same period

Tonight actually