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Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 12:39:36 -0400
From: wlt4@mindspring.com
Subject: Re: Miles Reissues
>and, for the first time in the States, about 25 years later than >they should have, "Get Up With It".
Do you mean CD? I have a domestic LP release of this. But they're all great albums. Just think: in ten years there will be Super-Maxi-DVD releases of all the unedited 70s Miles recordings so we can make our own mixes!
Lang
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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:40:50 +0200
From: "Marcin Gokieli" <marcin.gokieli@mospan.pl>
Subject: Odp: Miles Reissues
Hi,
I see, Joseph, that i'm not the only '70s Miles maniac here... ;-) I must
say that this is the stuff that really excites me now.
Joseph Zitt <jzitt@metatronpress.com> wrote:
>Columbia/Sony/whatever
> last week released three Miles reissues, "On the Corner", "Big Fun"
> (with extra tracks), and, for the first time in the States, about 25
> years later than they should have, "Get Up With It".
Do you mean that there are extra tracks on 'on the corner'?! I think your
'extra tracks' refered to ' big fun', but still, one has to ask, you
understand me... that question is really critical...
And, BTW, is that record remastered in an interesting way? In fact: if i
have the 'columbia masterpieces' version, will i get any gain in sound
quality by getting that new one? (I'm alsolutely crazy about that stuff). I
have to say that the sound quality of that edition is really OK.
I have the 'bitches brew' boxed set, and there are a few unreleased tunes
coming from the sessions that 'big fun' is from. Are there any new tunes
compared to the boxed set edition? I hope not...
> "On the Corner" is essential stuff, his clattering funk explosion.
Well... I can't agree more. Seriously recommended. Really a reccord that
can't be overestimated.
And I feel i should really insist here. One of the best albums ever.
> "Get Up With It", beside including the noise fest "Rated X" and the
> propulsive "Calypso Frelimo", has the ambient masterwork "He Loved
> Him Madly", which inspired and influenced the ambient movement
> through Robert Quine turning Eno onto it (and Eno thus creating "On
> Land", which features members of Material, which gets vaguely near
> Zorn-relevance :-] ). It may be Teo Macero's masterwork.
I have the Japanese 'mastersound' miniLP sleeve edition of that (fabulous!)
one, which is great.
What is the Eno album you are referring to like? (I'm also a serious Eno
fan...)
> If you don't have them, get them.
RIGHT NOW ;-] And don't forget the live albums, especially 'black beauty'
and 'dark magus', still avaialble in nice digipack reissues...
>(If you do, does anyone know how they
> compare to the previous domestic release of "On the Corner" and the
> existing import CDs of "Get Up With It"?)
The boxed set edition of 'big fun' tunes are wonderful, as well as the
mastersound versions of 'big fun' and 'get up'. The 'columbia masterpieces'
edition of 'On the corner' is good.
Marcin Gokieli
marcin.gokieli@mospan.pl marcingokieli@go2.pl
Generally speaking, if a philosopher offers to 'dissolve' the problem you
are working on, tell him to go climb a tree - Jerry Fodor
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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:00:55 -0400
From: Joseph Zitt <jzitt@metatronpress.com>
Subject: Re: Odp: Miles Reissues
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 07:40:50PM +0200, Marcin Gokieli wrote:
> Joseph Zitt <jzitt@metatronpress.com> wrote:
>
> >Columbia/Sony/whatever
> > last week released three Miles reissues, "On the Corner", "Big Fun"
> > (with extra tracks), and, for the first time in the States, about 25
> > years later than they should have, "Get Up With It".
>
> Do you mean that there are extra tracks on 'on the corner'?! I think your
> 'extra tracks' refered to ' big fun', but still, one has to ask, you
> understand me... that question is really critical...
As I understand it, "On the Corner" has no extra tracks.
> I have the 'bitches brew' boxed set, and there are a few unreleased tunes
> coming from the sessions that 'big fun' is from. Are there any new tunes
> compared to the boxed set edition? I hope not...
Well, while the tracks on the "Big Fun" reissue are in the Bitches
Box, I'm told that the "Great Expectations" on it is several minutes
longer than the boxed edition.
> > "Get Up With It", beside including the noise fest "Rated X" and the
> > propulsive "Calypso Frelimo", has the ambient masterwork "He Loved
> > Him Madly", which inspired and influenced the ambient movement
> > through Robert Quine turning Eno onto it (and Eno thus creating "On
> > Land", which features members of Material, which gets vaguely near
> > Zorn-relevance :-] ). It may be Teo Macero's masterwork.
>
> I have the Japanese 'mastersound' miniLP sleeve edition of that (fabulous!)
> one, which is great.
> What is the Eno album you are referring to like? (I'm also a serious Eno
> fan...)
Eno mentions it in the liner notes to "On Land", which is what turned me
on to the album.
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