Sunday, October 20, 2019

so, i realized earlier this evening (it's the morning, now. wow.) that my links for the month of november, 2013 are all out of sync, and i'd have to go back and correct them as best i can. i just want to post a short clarifying update about that.

what happened was that my headphones broke in the first week of november, when i was in the process of remastering inri001, the second cassette demo. i clearly remember just putting the last few tracks through the same izotope patch i'd been using, uploading inri003 without touching it and then waiting for the cord to come in - which didn't happen until early december.

so, i had a month to wait, and no way to move forward on the remaster. what i had at the time was a pair of traveling sennheisers with noise cancellation in them, which were useless for mastering.

so, i focused on the write-ups, and just uploaded everything mostly raw, focusing mostly on editing the tracks to remove simpsons samples. the actual remastering didn't happen until the first week of december, and i deleted a lot of posts when that happened, something i regret.

a few months later, i lost a hard drive and the raw data for the remastering i'd done over the previous months. as the tracks i uploaded in november were transitional, i didn't have them saved anywhere. so, they ended up entirely lost.

i'm trying to be as accurate as possible, which means i want links to the exact tracks i uploaded over the month, which were neither the originals from 1998/1999 nor the remasters i did in december. the tracks are closest to the files from 1998, which are mostly only available as bonus tracks, if they have vocals. if they're instrumentals, i should have original streams available.

so, many of the links i'm going to post for inri015 and inri021 over november are either going to be to "download only" bonus material or to actual dead links, and it has to be that way because the actual data is lost.

that flips over when i get my phones back in early december, but i didn't repost anything when i uploaded it. so, this is going to be awkward - i'll need to do a full album update, all at once on top of all of the dead links....

i want to finish updating the file before i stop to eat.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this