2009/04/20＊Takuro
「Before & after mastering」
The CD I talked about last time has been completed!! …is what I’d want to proudly proclaim, but we just finished mastering it today. (laughs) First off, I’ll skip the explanation as to what “mastering” is. My knowledge and vocabulary isn’t adequate to explain what it actually means. However, you can hear a clear difference listening to it before & after. Listening to it over again in its entirety, there’s something I realized: among 9mm’s CD’s, this one is extremely long. Even longer than any of the albums. (laughs) We’re troubled over the fact how, because of the length, the (what’s supposed to be the) lead track “Black Market Blues” isn’t able to do what we intended it to. Not that I mean to say it’s bad (it’s awesome) but to put it simply, you’ll completely forget what you were actually listening to halfway through because of the length of the live track. You’ll go “Huh? I was sure I was listening to a single……” and you’ll look at the display of your stereo to find it saying “2 30:54 (30 minutes and 54 seconds into the second track)”. I think that’s going to happen a lot people.
That’s right, we’ve included the whole Free Live in its entirety. The length easily exceeds that of the similar “Discommunication e.p.”. The petty mistakes, the stupid quips during our performance, even the MC’s, everything’s included. Thinking about it now, there was a huge price drop at the time of “Disco～” which I think caused a stir. Most of the copies were sold like hot cakes. However, as I think everyone’s memories of that are getting fuzzy, this time we’ll stealthily return to a more normal price, guhehehehe…… that was the plan anyway. But, listening to it at mastering today, it again feels right to sell it with a huge price drop. Thinking about it carefully, selling this for 1500 yen can’t be good… maybe something that cheap won’t even sell in the first place… perhaps we’re just idiots… we’re idiots?! Hooray! We’ll just forget all about that stream of thoughts and the CD shall be released as planned.
The song we call “Black Market Blues”, it’s a really good one so look forward to it please. To those of you who attended Free Live, how about you wait for the release while making speeches to your walrus and somehow playing songs to him intracerebrally? Oh, and a truetone or something is on sale as well. Listening to it through the speaker of your cellphone might feel kind of lonely, but I’m just saying it’s an option. With ringtones and truetones being so popular, I wish BOSE or someone would collaborate with all the cellphone makers to develop cellphones that have speakers with never before heard quality! Then all the music lovers would go and…… not get one, nhahahaha. With that, later.
