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Different mix of Dark Side Of The Moon
MQR production

01 Speak To Me
02 Breathe
03 The Travel Sequence
04 On The Run
05 Time
06 Breathe (reprise)
07 The Great Gig In The Sky
08 Money
09 Us And Them
10 Any Colour You Like
11 Brain Damage
12 Eclipse

Re-edited in 2013 by }{eywood using the following sources:
Quadrophonic mix - 5.1 mix - Alan Parson's early mix - DVD menu mixes - Audio from screen films - Roger the Hat interview
(the above sources are from the 2011 Immersion box set)
- Another Side Of The Moon (ASoTM) - The Record Producers BBC special -
Stereo mix as we've all come to know it over the last 40 years (Japanese black triangle release) - Live At Pompeii.

Technical notes:

In case you're wondering what we did here's a list of most of it. Virtually none of the original stereo mix was used here. For that matter neither was the 5.1 because it's too muddy and has shit separation. Everything is in all channels, so it's no good for isolating instruments. The quad mix, however, is great for doing this and is a major source for a lot of this.

Speak To Me: The 1975 screen film mix, edited and with additional voice elements. Note the unused "I think it's basically about the elements, probably. You know time, money and all that" voiceover I added around where Clare starts shouting (found at the end of ASotM), as well as the Roger The Hat comment about getting his gold disc if he participates in this effort and his trademark laughter.

Breathe: The 1972 Parsons mix but with portions of the slide guitar cranked up and panned (taken from the quad mix). The organ behind "run rabbit run" is centered and cranked up as well, as is the electric piano. We prefer the 1972 version because the slide and the harmony vocals are louder. The final note is taken from just the rear channels of the quad mix so as to not have the drum machine of On The Run conflict with those of TS.

The Travel Sequence: EQd to match a bit better (less high mids and super low bass) and the end section is looped in a couple spots to have room for a slower fade out. A couple of noises are added in from the unused parts of the 1974 Speak To Me screen film.

On The Run: Begins with the screen film mix, but somewhat rearranged and with the channel balance altered, then segues into the quad version similarly altered. We also added a few extra sounds and the ramping up from Pompeii before the explosion. Laughter before the explosion enhanced from the Roger the Hat interview.

Time: Going from the screen film mix for the clocks to the 5.1 mix for the intro. The DVD menu mix is added to the intro to get the extra synth and the girls in there. For the verses it's the quad mix synced with the back channels 3dB louder so as to make the rhythm guitar and electric piano slightly louder. The guitar solo was isolated from the 5.1 mix and pasted over the quad mix to make it stereo yet retain the loud backing instruments. The BG vox during Rick's vocal parts are turned up, and without the wishy-washy effects. The low end was taken from the stereo mix because it's not that full on the quad mix.

Breathe (reprise): Continuation of the mix from Time with the rhythm instruments up louder and the low end flown in.

The Great Gig In The Sky: Clare's unused vocals found on The Record Producers special added to the intro. The spoken voices were isolated from the quad mix and added back into the mix, but with echo added. The NASA Apollo tape from the Parsons mix was isolated and added to this mix as well, but with heavy effects added. The final chord was taken from the stereo mix and has some additional hiss compared to the rest of the track, but it was necessary to construct a long, slow fade out. The part where the final chord changes tuning/speed was altered so that it doesn't go up in pitch like normally, but rater goes down slightly.

Money: The extended change sounds from the screen film now overlap GGitS as in the live versions of the day. The sounds of money that set up the beat are doubled in length. The intro guitar and bass are extended by using a fragment of the DVD menu mix, and rhythm guitar elements from within the song are overdubbed onto them. The gritty sounding rhythm guitar was taken from The Record Producers special and added to the choruses louder than on the official mix. The DVD menu was used for the backing to part 2 of the guitar solo and the lead guitar was isolated from the quad mix and edited so it plays half as frequently. The extra guitars at the end of the solo are from Another Side Of The Moon, as is the extended ending. The spoken voices were added in afterwards from the DVD menus. I couldn't get the fade to go far enough to hear Dave's "Lawdy lawdy" vocal. It's there, but it's buried by the organ from Us & Them by the time it appears.

Us And Them: This was probably the most work, and once finished actually had to be completely redone from scratch because the team wasn't satisfied. The organ at the start is a sync of the ASotM mix (in mono) with the FR channel of the 5.1 mix, the RS channel of the quad mix (panned back and forth) and the AP72 mix. When the song starts it's the 72 Parsons mix with both ASotM and the front L & R channels of the 5.1 mix. This gives us some extra sax parts and the louder piano, plus alternate piano parts. By the time the singing starts the ASotM mix is gone, leaving us with a sync of the AP72 mix and the 5.1 FL & FR, but ASotM reappears in spots to add sax parts like the harmonies after "...and who is who" and the scale leading into the first chorus. The echo on the vocals was recreated by extracting individual words from the center channel of the 5.1 mix, echoing and reverbing them, and placing them into the song where they belong. This is to give better panning to the echoes. For the piano solo the front left of the quad mix is added in (but on the right side in our mix), mostly so you can hear it behind the sax solo. Also in this part is the take shown in Live At Pompeii, mixed to center. There's four piano tracks going at times in the song. It's really thick now (as if it wasn't before). By the time the sax solo is over we're down to basically just the 72 mix, but throughout the song the choruses have been beefed up by adding the rear channels of the quad mix in to bring the female background vocals up (and it also boosts the guitar and organ a bit). All the interview bits were cut back in from the Roger the Hat interview, edited to match what was on the record, but with a little extra. The sentence originally began "...I mean, they're gonna kill ya". It now has the full sentence "when you've got a person who's that fuckin' rude, I mean, they're gonna kill ya."

Any Colour You Like: Begins with the DVD menus for a few bars. Because of the reverb used on this I added similar reverb to the rest of the song (although without the super tight compression that's in the intro). Extra guitar parts during the first part are from both ASotM and the quad mix, as are the last keyboards as the guitar solo part starts. Extra kbds near the end are from ASotM.

Brain Damage: The 5.1 mix with the center channel cranked up to bring one guitar track up more. Synth riff at the start from ASotM. Lead guitar from Pompeii throughout.

Eclipse: 5.1 mix with the back channels boosted to bring up the girls. A couple extra vocals added from the DVD menu. "There is no dark side of the moon really..." dubbed in from ASotM over the heartbeat from the screen films.

Project and Re-mix by }{eywood
Artwork by WRomanus
Released the 31th December 2013