"I'm a Big Sister..." thread.

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This one seems to blend better from one song to the next, and the quality of the music is pretty great. Definetely could go for more stuff like this...I think it's up there with the last one in terms of quality. But the 160 kbps makes me angry...why can't we even get 192 again, if not even better?

But good stuff, regardless!

[the mongoose]

Not only is the "Sister Princess Girl" mp3 file in 160kbps.........it's 48kHz as well......meaning it won't burn to cd (without converting it and making it sound EVEN SHITTIER!!!!!)

[Liam]

Do you think that last piece involves Gabriel Yared? It doesn't sound like their usual style and I know that Yared is a pianist, which, to the best of my knowledge, neither Rick or Karl are.

[mmm skyscraper]

I like it. If they put this and LBT together it would be about as long as AHDO and probably just as good.

I would buy this as a cd release.

Personally, the 160k doesn't matter. I think the 96k radio broadcast sounds ok. It took me 3 hours 3 min and 40 sec to download, so the higher birate would have just taken longer. Now maybe if they left the slideshow off it wouldn't have been so bad . The joys of 56k.

LBT - UWR-0500003-1
P4E - UWR-0500004-1
TOKYO CD - UWR-0500007-3
I'm a Big Sister... - UWR-0600013-1

on my PFE track the ID3v2 tag lists it as track #2, so maybe the cat number and track number do not match. I don't have LBT on this computer, does anyone have its track #?

so we're missing 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 (or we have Factory numbering and some of these are stationary and statues)

Too many technical issues with the slideshow. The audio works, but I can't the pictures yet. Oh well.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Liam

Do you think that last piece involves Gabriel Yared? It doesn't sound like their usual style and I know that Yared is a pianist, which, to the best of my knowledge, neither Rick or Karl are.

I heard that they have a small pianist

[stauff]

Nice. I like this chilled stuff.

Does anyone speak Japanese? UW have been putting in a few spoken Japanese bits recently. In the piece at about 22:30, the girl says 「俺のせいじゃない」 or "ore no sei ja nai". This is a fairly masculine phrase, so it seems weird to hear a woman saying it

Just thought I'd mention.

- Matthew

[the mongoose]

After trying to convert it and getting nothing but sped up garbage.......

I tried the program Nero which allowed me to burn it at 2x speed only. At least now I can listen to it for the first time on something other than crap computer speakers.

If I can make an mp3 in 320kbps then holy crap I know that master Rick can....so this is just crazy!

[BeautifulBurnout]

Maybe the whole purpose was to make it difficult to burn to CD, so people couldn't bootleg it and sell it on eBay/Japanese Yahoo/whatever?

[Bargo]

I'm on my third listen now, and christ this is good. Finally I have something to replace Ansum with when I want a nice, long UW ambient piece to listen to.

I didn't honestly notice the 160kbps thing until the forum went up in arms about it, but it doesn't worry me. It's not like I'd know the difference anyway.

If anyone has trouble viewing the art, try playing the MOV in VLC, that worked for me no worries.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Originally Posted by Liam

Do you think that last piece involves Gabriel Yared? It doesn't sound like their usual style and I know that Yared is a pianist, which, to the best of my knowledge, neither Rick or Karl are.

Style-wise, it made me think of Keith Jarrett when I first heard it. But it has got its own uniqueness about it that I like very much indeed. Who knows?