*re-upped to fix tracker problems.  the folder contents are the same.

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'the fragile' was originally released in 1999 in three variant versions; the cassette, vinyl lp, and compact disc releases contained subtly different track listings and edits.

in the early 2000s, a rogue fan attempted to combine the three different editions into a 'complete' mix - its unfinished draft work has circulated among folks who share those sorts of things for the years since.

*WHAT DID YOU DO TO THE TRACKS?

mostly it's just small-to-moderate edits for flow and consistency / track seperation - ie. no heavy remixing or (very much) editor's graffiti.  

this edition has also been expanded into a series of six, including an overview of the majority of the album's ephemera - remixes, b-sides, session recordings, a few rarities, and an entire live album.

'appendage', the three semi-acoutsic session tracks, and the untitled no.s01-10 have a compressor and EQ taken to them.  

everything else is volume modulation, cross-fades, and sometimes a bit of sampling patchwork.  

you're not supposed to notice we did anything, unless you're extremely familiar with the different versions.

['] indicates minor tweaks only, ie. precise seperation between tracks ( PLEASE use a gapless player! ); nothing more substantial than a tiny volume fade.

[-] indicates some sort of custom edit; again, nothing too major.

the only change on 'left' is 'the day the world went away' being made into a hybrid of the album version and the single version.  

'right' uses the incomplete 'complete' draft as a basis.

fixed the track seperations between R04-R11. used crossfades and a couple of loops to make it smooth.

the transition between 'starfickers' and 'complication' uses the KISS sample from the CD single version of farstuckers.

there's about ten seconds of silence added to the end so that 'slipping away' doesn't start abruptly.

[4] down _ is the 'odds and ends' disc.  ie. [-,'] the studio tracks are mostly just tweaked for sequence and seperation; the semi acoustic live-in-the-studio radio session tracks have been more heavily wrangled with effects to get them balanced - ish.

again, i'm not a professional and the processing is still sort of rough.

there's tons of li'l semi-errors and artifacts in there that i'll leave for the next gumpo.

[6] out _ is the DVD audio of 'and all that could have been...' - we adjusted the initial fade-in, spliced disc one and two together for continual flow, cut a little silence from after (outro), and spliced together two of the bonus feature extras with crowd noise as a quasi-encore.

the untitled bits at the end of [5] in _ (still) are mostly the dvd menus from [acronym]

IS THERE FLAC -

of left and right, yes.

of the whole box - missing three of the full-length remixes that came out in the remix dot nin dot com days, plus two of the li'l instrumental bits.  

these are only publically available [ie. the way you got these files] in 320 mp3, so no, there's not quite any CD resolution FLAC of the whole thing.

ANYWAY - we hope you enjoy the hypercube.  with a little practice, you can follow these protocols to form a basic 'haiduken', should you ever find the need to do so.

THANK YOU - Rchl.  

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