HYGIY CD9
"Distorted View"
PINK FLOYD with SYD
Out of Phase Stereo (OOPS) mixes
length -- 77:48
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
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.