well this thread kinda blew up. the diffrences are intresting.
There are HIS rips at the link I posted (http://nindestruct.com/music.html) and they should be good.
Oh yes, of course there are no problems with those rips (in comparison to the TPD rip). But still it might be possible to get nicer copies, depending on how the vinyl replay chain here stacks up against the one that was used then. Of course, it may be that I can't improve on them, but no harm in trying.
Genuine question - how do you guys find OUT about all these ultra rare tracks? How can you know that some weird one off release was distributed to Iceland or something?
Knowing this forum, if that existed, you'd know about it, but how? How does nincollector for example find out about these hundreds , maybe thousands of different releases /formats /remixes?!
Well, as a rule of thumb, the different mixes are usually titled in a distinct manner, the record companies take care of that. Compiling information is easy, that's what internet is all about.
I mean, there's kind of a self-sorting process already in place to attract obsessive collectors when the artist institutes their own catalogue number (Halos). And yeah, the online fan community has been gathering this info together for over twenty-five years now. There used to be very active Usenet Newsgroups about NIN, long before web-based forums took their place (as a nerdy kid getting into this stuff, FAQ lists from those groups were a great way to figure it all out quickly, even before peer-to-peer file trading made it very easy to grab everything you didn't already have).
Back when NIN was signed to a major label, they would put out a press release in each market when something new came out, so you could often spot those if you were a fan, by looking through music magazines or trade listings. Otherwise, just trawling the record stores. Nowadays, it's all different!
so, who's gonna mention the super rare stuff, like the Top of the Hour track, or the demo version of In The Hall Of The Mountain King? or are we keeping this to just vinyl and cassette exclusives?
that is true.
I listened to these, and there's a lot of audible surface noise in these rips (clicks, pops, etc.) The MP3's from remix.nin.com are comparatively better, with less noise to begin with or cleaned up better.
Although it's off-topic, I don't know about this. Details?
Having just compared the two HIS 'Sherwood Slave' rips, the flacs seem better overall, even with the extra noise. But the PK Slavery Mix mp3 from remix.nin sounds very good - is it definitely sourced from vinyl?
Great - thanks! Will add that to the pile then...
I would love to hear those demos released in some capacity....
I could be remembering things incorrectly, but I believe it was allegedly inferred that it was TR who put in and subsequently won the bid in for those tapes so it wouldn't be released.
Again, I could be very wrong about this and I have no way to confirm it at all so take what I'm posting with a grain of salt.
Quick question in case anyone knows: For the extended mixes of 'Heresy (Blind)' and 'Closer To God', do these only appear on the US edition of the Closer promo, or are they also the versions on the UK edition?
The versions on the UK edition are the same versions that are on the halo Closer To God. Not sure if that answers your question or not.
EDIT: Never mind, I see what you're asking. If the times on the packaging of the UK promo are accurate, then it's not any different than the non-promo version.
Last edited by zecho; 10-14-2019 at 09:10 PM.
Wasn't Martin the one selling the tape though?
Actually if I remember correctly, heh it's been a while...
I think somewhere on this forum or the old one, someone posted that they reached out to the seller directly to see even if they didn't win the auction that they could possibly to get a copy of the tracks or whomever won to share them. They said that someone else, alluding to Trent, but it could've have been someone from management, which, I don't know. It could've been Interscope, TVT, or whomever had publishing rights, that would allow the sale of the tape on the condition that those demos not be released to the general public because then Martin Atikins would be in legal trouble and then it went quiet.
Again this is all based on bad recollection of what happened along with little information as to what actually happened.
Sorry for the confusion and any false hope I may have given anyone.
OK, here it is, ripped directly from the disc. It's 48 KHz stereo Dolby Digital @ 192 Kbps.
In the Hall of the Mountain King (First Draft):
http://www.mediafire.com/file/0s1fyf...dio01.ac3/file