10th Anniversary Box (Flextone Plus Unreleased Material)

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Release Date: 2004-03

Label: Rather Interesting

Rather Interesting 1994-2004

Disc 1 originally released as RI 023 Flextone, September 1994. All titles were recorded at SEL I/S/C, Frankfurt/M., Germany.
Digitally remastered October 2003 at Mira, Musica!, Santiago de Chile.

Disc 2 (alternative versions, outtakes, unused and abandoned music 1994-1998)
Tracks 2-01, 2-08, and 2-15: unused and partly used ambient recordings for the album Machine Paisley, recorded circa 01/96.
Tracks 2-02 to 2-04: unused and abandoned tracks recorded between the albums VSVN and Interactive Music, circa 11/94. All three titles were slightly edited to the final versions you hear on this album, Oct. 2003.
Track 2-05 recorded between the albums BASS and Interactive Music, circa 10/95. Unedited version.
Track 2-06: unused recording for the album Interactive Music, circa 01/95.
Track 2-07: unused recording for the album Silver Sound - 60, circa 08/95. Edited version, Oct. 2003.
Track 2-09: unused recording for the album Señor Coconut - El Grand Baile, circa 12/96. Unedited version.
Track 2-10 originally intended for release on an accompanying 12" to the album Señor Coconut - El Grand Baile. The 12" idea was abandoned. The version you hear on this album was edited, using both the planned A-side and B-side. Mixes, Oct. 2003. Both versions recorded circa 03/97.
Track 2-11: unused texture generated out of the title 'Indeed', album The Roger Tubesound Ensemble - Pentatonic Surprise, recorded circa 05/97. Unedited version.
Track 2-12: unused recording, circa 06/97. Unedited version.
Track 2-13: early stage of the title used on the album Dropshadow Disease, ?/98. Unedited v.
Track 2-14: unused Electro, recorded and abandoned between the recordings for 'Schnittstelle #1' & 'Hallmarke v.1', ?/98. Unedited v.
Between 1994 - March 1997 all titles were recorded at SEL I/S/C, Frankfurt/M., Germany. From March 1997 onwards all titles were recorded at Mira, Musica!, Santiago, Chile. Transfer from DAT to CD was done digitally at 24-bit at Mira, Musica!, Santiago, Chile during October 2003.

Many thanks to: Samuel Jurcic, Christopher Miller, David De Almeida-Sampaio, Peter Kuhlmann, Jörg Strawe, Tetsu Inoue, Lisa Carbon, Vicente Sanfuentes, Matt Haines, Werner Schmidt, Friederika Schmidt, Catrin Weiss, Peter Weiss, Tobias Freund, Antonio Monasterio, Jorge Gonzalez, The Mother-List, Martin Schopf, Victor Sol, Cecilia Aguayo, Louise Schmidt-Aguayo and all those who supported Rather Interesting throughout the years.

Total playing-time: 02:01:10

Design Sampling by Linger Decoree, Milan.
Remastering at Mira, Musica!, Stgo, Oct. 2003.

C & P 2004
Made in EEC

Released in a slim double jewel case, with 8 page booklet.
Limited to 900 autographed and hand-numbered copies.

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