The Appliance of Science (a) - Keith Mansfield Track 06/24 - Komputer Cast 1 (parsed edition)
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Komputer Cast 1:
Komputer Cast 2:
Komputer Cast 3:
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Komputer Cast 8:
Library Info:
Label: KPM - Catalog#: KPM 1261
Com Truise's Komputer Casts are basically a love letter to library music. Never heard of library music? I guarantee you have heard it. There's been a world of interesting music right under your nose! If you're interested in hearing more by these fantastic artists, check out the link for more information.
The Story:
I've loved Com Truise's Komputer Casts since I first heard them, but I've always wanted to break them apart. I wanted to skip the songs I didn't like. I wanted to jump to the songs I couldn't get enough of. I wanted to share parts with others, but the hour-long single-file format kept it from reaching its potential.
I started looking for others who had already done it. I was surprised so few had tried, and discovered that simply cutting the mix into tracks wasn't good enough.
I started looking into the tracklists provided by Com Truise. I was surprised they were so incomplete and filled with errors. Sites like discogs.com mostly copied the errors, so there wasn't a place to get the definitive tracklisting with title and artist.
So, it started looking like I was going to have to do this myself.
Research, crate digging, collecting tracks, discovering artists, falling in love with library music... and here we are. 8 mixes' worth of the original tracks and extras.
Bonus Tracks:
By this time, I was already down the rabbit hole, so why not make everything available? Extended movie clips. VHS distribution company bumpers. Reversed music. Italian commercials. Sesame Street. I feel like every question has been answered.
Modifications:
Because the sources for these tracks were literally all over the map, I had to make some decisions - I apologize in advance. I added one second of silence to the start and two at the end, with some fades in and out to make things neater. I re-sampled all tracks to 320 kbps, just to prevent some tracks from bombing out on older systems and cars. Lastly, I manually balanced the volume of most tracks to be as equal and as loud as I could, while trying not to damage fidelity. Com Truise's tracks were already at 11, so I mostly left those alone. Hopefully, I did a good enough job for you not to notice.
Cheers!
Abe Froman
Chicago, IL
Komputer Cast 1 (parsed edition)
01 - Newsmaker (a) - Andy Clark
02 - The Starting Point - Andy Clark
03 - Rockin' It In The Pocket - Weeks & Co.
04 - High Profile - Keith Mansfield
05 - Komputer - Com Truise
06 - The Appliance of Science (a) - Keith Mansfield
07 - Breathless - Todd Rundgren
08 - Carefree Days (a) [bonus track] - Keith Mansfield
09 - Challenger - Grand Prix
10 - Transmission - Joy Division
11 - Galactic Melt - Com Truise
12 - Dienyddio - Airliner
13 - Just Can't Get Enough - General Johnson & The Chairmen of the Board
14 - Cardboard Lamb - Crash Course in Science
15 - What Is The Law - Brass Construction
16 - The Dead Walk - John Harrison
17 - BASF Ace - Com Truise
18 - Kcurts Rewop [bonus track] - Yours Truly
19 - Power Struck (b) [bonus track] - Andy Clark
20 - Clip from 'They Live' [bonus track] - Roddy Piper
21 - Clip from 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' [bonus track] - David Anderson & Roy E. Richards
22 - Sea (excerpt) [bonus track] - Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange
23 - Running (excerpt) [bonus track] - Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange
24 - Clip from 'Videodrome' (a) [bonus track] - James Woods, Deborah Harry, Lally Cadeau & Jack Creley
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