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Breakbeat Era - Ultra Obscene (Limited Edition Deluxe) - 15-Oct-09 08:37 AM
I was really starting to get into electronic music in high school when this album came out and love every track on it. I wanted to own it on vinyl but the only vinyl copy I ever saw for sale was this deluxe version, which I couldn't afford so I bought the CD instead. Even only being 15 and having been into this type of music for a couple years, the excessiveness and arrogance of drum 'n' bass groups like this to release their album on these box sets with only one track per record-side really seemed ridiculous to me. What makes Breakbeat Era think that every track deserves its own side? It's a waste of plastic really, Past a certain point the music doesn't sound any better the more and more you space tracks out. And now, the only track I listen to anymore is "Rancid" now and again. I'm glad I didn't waste a fortune on the 7xLP only to have 6 useless records a few years later after the novelty of drum 'n' bass wore off. We get it, your songs sound great loud, they're awesome, but 7xLP is just stupid and wasteful, especially now that drum 'n' bass had gone down the toilet is nothing more than a relic of the 90's.

Orbital - Radiccio - 15-Oct-09 06:59 AM
Not sure of the story of the naming behind this track having anything to do with a certain prescription medication the Hartnoll's mom was apparently addicted to, but the drug is spelled 'Halcion', the word 'Halcyon', like the song title, basically means 'tranquil' which I guess is where the drug's name comes from. But the medication is spelled differently from the song title, either because of copyright I guess, or because the song is peaceful and blissful just like the meaning of the word.

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart - 14-Oct-09 12:41 PM
It's my fault for not more closely looking at the sleeve to see the phrase "Alternate Versions", though to be fair it is printed in red on black and hard to see if not looking for it. But these are truly awful versions of these two classic tracks. I thought I was getting these two amazing songs one on new blue 7-inch, instead I get worthless, nearly unlistenable "Alternate Versions", not much different from the originals but somehow terrible, that were probably not widely released before for a good reason. Cleopatra records has done it again, tricked me into buying an absolute piece of crap I could have done without, by using a slick sleeve, deceptive labelling and gimmick like a pretty piece of blue vinyl.

Skinny Puppy - Bites - 13-Oct-09 03:56 PM
The cd version of this album is extremely dissapointing. I have the original LP, and the original 9 songs work perfectly together. I bought the CD for the bonus tracks, and not only are all of them worthless, but the order of all the tracks are rearranged, ruing the original "continuity" and feeling of the LP. I don't know whether this is Skinny Puppy's fault or their label's fault, but the original album only had 9 songs for a reason. The 17 track re-release is a waste of money and time spent sifting through the garbage "interlude" like tracks to find the original ones that you really want to hear.

Richie Hawtin - Decks, EFX & 909 - 08-Oct-09 10:27 AM
The vinyl version of "Decks" which has three excerpts of the mix is all I need anymore. I got the cd right when it came out when I was 15 and it propelled me even further into techno than I was before and opened my ears to alot of other artists (like Nitzer Ebb for one). But the 12 inch has a 5:45mins excerpt where Richie mixes all of his "Orange" version into Nitzer Ebb's "Let Your Body Learn" creating an amazing remix/mash-up of the tracks that's better than any of the originals. It'd be great in a club, or for instance as much as I love Nitzer Ebb, the version here with the "Oranges" is better than the original, and here it's one concise track.

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