HYGIY Number 9.... Number 9.... Number 9.... "Distorted View" PINK FLOYD with SYD Out of Phase Stereo (OOPS) mixes length -- 77:48 These would comprise nearly every currently available stereo Floyd track Syd is either on or ever been rumored to be on. Alternate mixes were left off for reasons of space (and if the alternates didn't produce an interesting OOPS mix). "See Saw" and "Jugband Blues" were also left off, because in OOPS much of the track is very quiet, with occasional jumps in volume. It all has to do with where things were panned originally, and that can't be changed. In the left channel of each track is an OOPS mix produced by inverting the left channel of the original, and the right channel contains a right channel OOPS inversion. As it turns out, these produce the same mix, and one channel is a mirror image of the other. (Identical, but with the polarity reversed.) Therefore, although an OOPS mix comes out in mono by definition, these tracks are in stereo, technically speaking -- the term of art being a "dual signal expansion." The wavform for a standard mono file would show an identical graph in each channel. The wavform for these looks like an inkblot, but horizontal. It's the same (or very nearly), but in symmetry. They sound like mono, but with more depth and ambience than would be possible from a one-channel mix. (If played through QSound, Carver Sonic Holograph or any similar stereo-wide function, they will appear to pan further to the left and right simultaneously.) In place of "See Saw" and "Jugband Blues," we substituted two left-channel mixes from "Piper." The final two tracks are "Scarecrow" and "Astronomy Domine." Incidentally, these mixes were first heard on the Capitol Records Radio Show in December 1976, beneath an interview with Peter Jenner. (This can be heard on HYGIY6.) At the time, people thought they might be outtakes, but they're simply the left channel of "Piper." They make viable and interesting tracks nonetheless, and so here they are without the voiceover. 01 Astronomy Domine 4:12 02 Lucifer Sam 3:07 03 Matilda Mother 3:08 04 Flaming 2:46 05 Pow R Toc H 4:26 06 Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk 3:07 07 Interstellar Overdrive 9:42 08 The Gnome 2:13 09 Chapter 24 3:42 10 Scarecrow 2:11 11 Bike 3:22 12 Scream Thy Last Scream (1974 mix) 4:41 13 Vegetable Man (1974 mix) 2:31 14 Paint Box 3:29 15 No Title (04Sept67) 1:36 16 Apples and Oranges 3:06 17 Remember A Day 4:33 18 Set The Controls 5:28 19 Corporal Clegg 4:13 20 Scarecrow (Left channel, not OOPS) 2:08 21 Astronomy Domine (Left channel, not OOPS) 4:05 L A U G H I N G M A D C A P S ---------- Disc #9 "Distorted View" (length -- 77:48) Syd / Pink Floyd OOPS (Out Of Phase Stereo) Mixes These are fan-created remixes. These are NOT session outtakes. OOPS is a process by which a home user can remix a stereo track, thus revealing musical details that were less evident in the commercial mix. Depending on how the original track was put together, the differences may be subtle or dramatic, varying from song to song and in different parts of the song. To better understand the OOPS effect, go here: a href=http://www.beatletracks.com/btoops.html and then here: http://www.beatletracks.com/btoops2.html This CD consists of nearly every available stereo Pink Floyd track Syd is either on or ever been rumored to be on. (We left off "See Saw" and "Jugband Blues" because there were volume jumps and and other oddities that wouldn't hold up to repeated listening.)