Black Secret Technology

[version]

"And the one thing they all have in common is that to me they sound like a copy of something. Req - it isn't hip hop. You could never play a track off Black Secret Technology in a club at the time. It sounded tiny, it sounded like it was recorded in a matchbox, compared to the ferocity of Dillinja or something."

It's got something, hasn't it? There's this wispy, ethereal quality to it, like looking at jungle through a keyhole or a misted window, you can make out what's on the other side but it's obscured and thin and slightly off.

 

[firefinga]

I never got around to buy it - when it was released it was rare as hen's teeth and there were no online-stores yet. If I remember correctly there was a rerelease 2, 3 years later with better mastering and a slightly different playlist. I remember though reviews lamenting the sound quality of the initial release.

 

[version]

There was a reissue in '08 then I think the remaster appeared in '12. I've got a copy on CD, but think it might be the '08 one.

Black Secret Technology (Remastered), by A Guy Called Gerald

13 track album

aguycalledgerald.bandcamp.com

 

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[luka]

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Just quoting this in case I want to read it before version deletes

 

[version]

I want to know why that one section is purple.

 

[mvuent]

has he done anything nearly as good since this?

 

[version]

Nah. It's all been bland tech house and cheesy vocalists since then.

 

[version]

This is was the follow-up album...

 

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The pre-BST 12"s all sound amazing but the CD was really badly mixed wasn't it? Didn't sound right at all - that is, it sounded like it should sound amazing but was underwhelming somehow.

 

[version]

Apparently it was the mastering, not the mix. I've never been able to find much on it though, it's always just general stuff about it being poor quality, e.g.:

Previously, though, listeners had to imagine an ideal version of this music, squinting their ears to hear past the (diametrically flawed) murkiness or limp politeness of the mastering on the album's two prior releases. Thankfully, this new remaster of the original 1995 release achieves the best of both worlds, capturing the density of the original productions with a sharpness and force that was hitherto missing.

 

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So is that remaster still available to buy?

 

[version]

Yeah, it's on his Bandcamp and there are CDs around.

 

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I'll try and get it for the car. I was listening to Hard Leaders 3 on the way home today which is how I ended up posting that 'Drug Me' track on the sick and insane sonics thread. Mostly when I post songs here it's because I've been playing them on my commute home from Swansea and they sounded amazing for a minute.

 

[version]

has he done anything nearly as good since this?

I take back my previous comment, his remix of Can came out two years later.

 

[version]

I'll try and get it for the car. I was listening to Hard Leaders 3 on the way home today which is how I ended up posting that 'Drug Me' track on the sick and insane sonics thread. Mostly when I post songs here it's because I've been playing them on my commute home from Swansea and they sounded amazing for a minute.

If you pick up the CD, make sure it's from 2008 at the earliest. That was the first issue of the remaster.

 

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Yeah, that's the trick, isn't it? I tried this before but it's not as easy as it should be (I am purely physical media, CDs, records, DVD, blu-ray, useless at sorting out technology)

 

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I take back my previous comment, his remix of Can came out two years later.

Wow, never heard this!

 

[version]

Yeah, that's the trick, isn't it? I tried this before but it's not as easy as it should be (I am purely physical media, CDs, records, DVD, blu-ray, useless at sorting out black secret technology)

 

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:crylarf:

It's a fair paradox!