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Aja... [message #90752] Fri, 28 September 2007 19:53 Go to previous message
Nei is currently offline  Nei
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...is the fuckin' best recording EVER! OK, well, let's back off
a bit & say it could POSSIBLY be the best fucking recording
EVER. At the very least, it's definitely a candidate, yes? I'm
not talking about the whole album (although the whole
album is great, really, as everyone knows), I'm talking about
the seven-minute-and-fifty-five-second title cut that was
nailed on the 2nd take with no edits on the basic tracks.

Man, I'm sitting here listening to it, and I think that if
there was a way you could compare the best possible recordings
of all time from ANY genre and digest them down to some kind of
quantifiable "best sound/best playing/best execution/best
mix/best mastering" kind of combination and vote on it, "Aja"
just might win.

Freakin' GREAT sounds on every single instrument in there, as
pertains to the genre being recorded, NOTHING comes across as
abrasive, yet it's not so homogenized as to not grab your
attention, either (we've all heard mixes like that, right?).

Although, I must say "My Old School" rocks almost as hot in
that same voting contest. :D

(Yes, I'm currently in a Steely Dan mode - gotta get some
breathing space from the numetal stuff i've been spending so
much time on lately! lol)

Roger Nichols gets most of the credit for all the Steely Dan
stuff, but as I understand it, Elliot Scheiner really did most
of the basic tracks recording & also the mixdowns, so maybe
he's really the unsung hero here. Not sure if this applies to
Aja, as well, but nonetheless...

....GO LISTEN TO "AJA"!!!!

Neil
 
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