Second Toughest In The Infants Deluxe/Super Deluxe 2015

[TheBang]

That comment is wrong (as pointed out by a couple people responding to the comment)

[TheBang]

The iTunes links have been added, if anyone was waiting for them. I added all the purchasing links to the first post also.

[ultradave]

Banstyle // Sappy's Curry Remastered... need I say more?

Just unwrapped this... glad to be able to d/l the lossless WAV files. Much easier to encoded to ALAC than ripping each CD.

The remastered tracks sound amazing. I find it too hard to be super excited about their new LP since I'm into this right now... but at least once the STITI buzz subsides I'll be ready.

[negative1]

Originally Posted by ultradave

Banstyle // Sappy's Curry Remastered... need I say more?


The remastered tracks sound amazing.

maybe it's just me.

but the remastering to me, is very subtle.

so much so, that i can't really tell what if anything was done to them.


i've listened through headphones, in a car, and on home speakers to all the tracks.


in fact the demos, sound a little noisy, with hiss, and other background sounds.

the album and b-sides sounds pretty much identical to the old cd, i havent done a
critical comparison, or with vinyl. but at some point i might check.

later
-1

[ultradave]

Originally Posted by negative1

maybe it's just me.

but the remastering to me, is very subtle.

It is very subtle that I can hear. I think my only gripe on the original release was that the tracks were mastered at too low a volume. For example with Banstyle - from the original Lossless track I had to boost the volume setting up 25% to get it at the same level as the remastered version. Other than that, STITI was flawless. Still my favourite UW LP.

btw - digging the Born Slippy evolution disc... I had thought I heard every version possible!

[potatobroth]

love STiTI. that said, I can barely notice any differences in the remastered. Here and there maybe.

The NUXX bonus disc is a total waste on me tho as that version is easily my least favorite version of the track. Its the most unrealized version. Listened thru each one once but I suspect that disc will get no more play on this end.

The unreleased track, however, will! Didn't expect to love them as much as I am after my first listen. Its hard to jump into that STiTI mindset after so many years but when it finally clicked, it all felt so right.

[darkvoice]

Just downloaded the digital package which comes with the deluxe package.
Aparently there is a new track on CD2 called 09-CD2_1644_Underworld-Deeply Pizza.WAV

Sounds a lot like the deep pan mix ;-)))

[darkvoice]

Didn't hear this version of Stagger before?

[Troy McClure]

Originally Posted by darkvoice

Didn't hear this version of Stagger before?

That version of Stagger is from when Rick and Karl were releasing tracks to the underworldlive.com website. I think there were 12 tracks. I can't remember the year though. There were some great versions of Air Towel, Oich Oich and Skyscraper, among others.

Jason

[Mike]

The remastering is very subtle on Disc 2. Born Slippy certainly sounds different, compression is different exposing distinct layers in the track. In particular, there is a bass drone starting at 2:37 and every 4 beats that is more prominent.

The biggest disappointment for me is Tin There which sounds more of a mess than ever. As soon as that "mesh" comes in, its just brick wall distortion all the way. The original version sounded warmer, with the softer drums slightly masking the distortion.

Deep Arch and Deep Pan are crisper, but I don't see the real benefit in remastering these tracks.