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[holden]

Very nice find and share, especially as it is a harbinger not only to BF, but also the dirtyradio broadcasts and other internet mixes that UW treated us to throughout the 00's. The version I had from way back from the rtsr Ftp site seemed to be just the UW snippets, ending with Wichita Lineman.

It is hard to tell from the low bitrate aliasing, but Cups sounds rather different from the LP version to me, more techno, less jazzy...if I recall from a radio interview around the release of BF (the one with the acoustic Born Slippy and speculation about collab with U2 as mofo plays), the interviewer says a year ago (97?) Cups sounded like this.... And a snippet is played, very cold electro. Karl mentions the vocoder being up too high, a happy accident leading to the final version.
So, at least Cups still sounds unfinished in this mix.

Good spotting, theBang, on Are you Rockstar, a decade plus early. I'm not surprised, though, given how long tracks like ALAF and Beautiful Burnout/ biro took to evolve and make it to albums. That said, what other snippets from old radio shows might become incorporated in the next LP? Or, as you said and Karl has recently alluded to, maybe it will be a fresh start from scratch?