I've heard that one – I definitely thought it was overaggressive noise reduction from recording a vinyl pressing. As to the ending, it felt swapped in from something, maybe the Live @ Oz version of WTIL? On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 3:48 PM Mike Brown <mike@hyperreal.org> wrote:
I have another mystery from rutracker, thanks to the same gentleman who posted those fake promo CDs.
He posted a torrent with two versions of the Space album on it: https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5003797
Just to preface, I personally only own the 1993 bootleg CD and the 1995 bootleg vinyl. They're exactly the same, other than the fact that the vinyl cuts off the "10" in the opening countdown (you can only hear part of the echo of it).
One of the items in the torrent purports to be the original 1990 CD, but it is in fact, other than a slight sample offset difference, an exact copy of my 38:21 bootleg CD from 1993 spurious clicks in the left channel from 0:26 to 0:29, and a click at 37:37. I asked on Discogs, and other people with this CD do not have the 0:26 clicks (I didn't ask about the other). So it seems he got my rip, which I had shared on Souleek, burned it to CD-R and re-ripped it, and is pretending it's the original CD. OK, fine, whatever.
The mystery is the other version of Space in the torrent. It purports to be the 1993 bootleg, but it's certainly not. It's a 38:57 sonically processed version, possibly a vinyl rip with excessive noise reduction.
It's hard to describe what the extra processing sounds like, but it makes all the swooshy noises (like the passing car sound at 24:30 and the ocean at the end) sound "hollow" and resonant. There's also significant added harmonics, e.g. the bassy part at 1:40 is kinda buzzy. The left & right channels are also swapped, as compared to my bootlegs.
The real mystery is the extra 36 seconds of running time. There is a brief gap at the side switch around 19:00, but the main reason for the extra length is that it has a different, longer outro: the dolphin/ocean sounds continue for a bit longer, and to my surprise, the "whirling" synth sound (the one that's around 2:00) fades in for the last 47 seconds.
So now, setting aside the strange sonics, I am wondering what the deal is with this extended outro. Is it that way on the original, official releases? And what are their running times?
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