Ansum — A Hundred Days Off industry promo

[bryantm3]

and by the way, swift, THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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[TheBang]

Thanks so much for posting, swift! Can't wait to hear it.

[TheBang]

Well, it's certainly interesting. I never would have thought to mix the piano part into Mo Move. It's essentially Ansum, in reverse order though, tacked onto the end of Mo Move. To be honest, while it makes an epic length track, like Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love and Banstyle/Sappy's Curry, I'm not sure that they stylistically go together very well. And it definitely would've needed a slashed trackname (Mo Move/Ansum), rather than just a single name. Ultimately, I like Mo Move the way it is on the album, and I like the way Ansum turned out by itself.

Now "Twist," wow, that extended ending kicks ass! I think they should've left it on there for the album. Twist in general is kind of a boring track, but that ending totally gives it a different character. I'd love to hear them jam out that ending in a live version too.

What I've found on the rest of the promo:

Identical to album version:
Two Months Off
Dinosaur Adventure 3D
Luetin

Differs minorly:
Sola Sistim (just fades out a few seconds earlier than the album version)
Trim (fades out about 5 seconds before the album version. Also, missing the final chime hit at 3:01)
Ess Gee (album version has additional wind chime sounds starting at about 2:00, and the final bass note)

Differs majorly:
Ballet Lane (a lot of differences, subtly, starting at about 2:00)
Twist (extended ending)
Mo Move (Ansum mixed onto the end)

[holden]

Swift, thanks again, and again! Great new revelations, if only in listening to familiar tracks in a different order which creates a different feel entirely! I've probably listened to AHDO at least 50+ times, so anything unexpected or out of order makes me reevaluate and reappreciate the original.

TheBang, you beat me to it! I'm at DA3D and making notes! Definitely love the "Twist" drum outtro freak out-- they should have kept this, just to punch up a solid, but midtempo track! "Momove" - expected on the LP sequencing to be DA3D, in this sequence it has even more power than the original. The transitions into The "Little Speaker" piano feature and "Ansum" sounds make perfect sense.
'Ballet Lane" - always one UW's most subtly beautiful tracks, here gets some suble chances, and the closer "Luetin" - somehow sounds even more punchy, though fundamentally the same as the released version.

Could it be that listening closely for differences from the familiar version makes us take notice of bits we hadn't noticed before? Even shuffling the sequence of tracks can have an emotional effect!

Originally Posted by TheBang

What I've found on the rest of the promo:

Identical to album version:
Two Months Off
Trim
Dinosaur Adventure 3D
Luetin

Differs minorly:
Sola Sistim (just fades out a few seconds earlier than the album version)
Ess Gee (album version has additional wind chime sounds starting at about 2:00, and the final bass note)

Differs majorly:
Ballet Lane (a lot of differences, subtly, starting at about 2:00)
Twist (extended ending)
Mo Move (Ansum mixed onto the end)

[TheBang]

Originally Posted by holden

The "Little Speaker" piano feature

In my estimation, the piano part is from Ansum (in the works at least since 2001, when Quick Bit for Web was released), and was borrowed for Little Speaker (an apparent late addition to the album). The piano part is significantly longer in Ansum, and in this Mo Move/Ansum mashup, than the amount of the piano part used in Little Speaker.

Originally Posted by holden

Could it be that listening closely for differences from the familiar version makes us take notice of bits we hadn't noticed before?

Yes, definitely! I noticed bits of Ess Gee and Ballet Lane that I'd never "heard" before. It's given me some new appreciation for the album.

Some additional thoughts, I've had:

Has anyone ever seen it spelled "Sola Systim" anywhere else? Just wondering if that's a typo.

swift, do you have any information or sense as to when this promo made its way to V2? The album wasn't released until Sept. 2002, but it was being worked on back to 2001 at least.

The track order isn't too different from the final release. Ess Gee moves down a couple slots. Mo Move/Ansum becomes Little Speaker, and Mo Move goes to the front.

[negative1]

digging the longer 'mo move' ... and will listen to 'twist',
have to give the whole album a more thorough listen..

thanks again swift!

great to revisit what we thought might have a been rumor..

later
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[joethelion]

hey... any chance someone could hook me up with a dropbox link or whatever...

I really can't do torrents. I'm behind a firewall at my studio and I'm on shitty pay-as-you-go internet at my flat - so to download ANYTHING is reeeeaaallllyyyy expensive - like I downloaded something (scans of a few old comic books) that was less than 1GB a while back, immediately after I "topped up" to have 3GB of internet (£15) - and when it was done - I had to top-up again... costing me another £15

thanks in advance!

[ThingInABook]

dundundun!

i go away for a month and what a surprise was waiting here! (sorry to all, i've been eaten by the real world :/)

as i said to stimpee, i tried (actually, can't remember) joining RSTR, but nothing happened. he even checked my username there... and, of course i'm not there.

you're all sorts of awesome, swift! thanks so much for sharing

[testudo]

All respect due to Swift and RTSR!

[BrotherLovesDub]

Thanks Swift! This is great.