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Cassette Mix vs. CD/Vinyl Mix of The Clean's Odditties Album
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26686/arch.10684Keywords:
Clean (Musical group), Sound -- Recording and reproducing, Sound recordings -- Remixing, Odditties (The Clean), Audio-visual archives, Hopu reo, Puoro rakatū, Rōpū puoro, Alternative rock music, Sound recordings, Sound archives, National Library of New Zealand, Sound recordings -- Collectors and collectingAbstract
Originally published in Cheap Thrills, a music magazine published by Ilam Press, Christchurch, this essay outlines Dunedin indie rock band The Clean. It is reprinted here because Archifacts is interested in what makes material unique – and this piece explores the differences between iterations of the ‘same’ item held by the National Library of New Zealand. More specifically, this will be of interest to practitioners working with audiovisual material. The essay describes how The Clean album Odditties was recorded under primitive conditions and released on cassette in the early 1980s, re-released by Flying Nun Records on cassette in 1985, remixed and remastered on CD release by Flying Nun in 1994, and this later version released on vinyl by US label 540 records. This essay compares a 1983 cassette version of the album and the digitally remixed CD/vinyl version, noting audio and mixing differences on a track by track basis.
Metadata reused from the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa under a CC BY 4.0 license.
