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it's just some special cd packaging that's shaped like a pillow... really nothing special...
yea just got mine today at bestbuy for 10$ w00t. i had to ask one of the people working there to get me a copy since they didnt stock them up.
went to tower and saw the pillow case. is there anything else different besides the case?
yes, sasha's promoter was showing it to me last night... it's has a card for each track with a comment on it by sasha. it's pretty cool.
the involver art is very nice
hey, anyone have a source online to see sasha's comments on the tracks in this pillow pack thing?
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| Originally posted by Galapidate Yes, and its friggin sweet  |
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| -Limited Edition Sleeve Notes- 01. Grand National - Talk Amongst Yourselves I picked up this record at the end of the summer (of '03) and it lived in my stereo for months. I fell in love with it because it reminded me of so much music from my childhood... bands like America and The Police. It's quirky British pop at its best. When I spoke to Grand National they gave me free choice of anything from the album, which was a really tough decision... there is so much great music to choose from. 02. Shpongle - Dorset Perception Dorset Perception will be familiar to anyone who saw me DJ last year; it was the last song in my set for a lot of the tour. This track is more of a rearrangement than a full remix. Apart from the guitars and vocals there were a lot of sounds in the original that I thought were electronic. But, when I got the parts I realised it was all live instrumentation. Even the bass was made from a cello. The original parts are all so amazing and there are so many of them that it will probably spawn some dubs. 03. Petter - These Days This record was one of my favourites from last year. I could have taken These Days off in many different directions. It could have been an ambient intro to the album or I could have done a much more banging version at its original tempo, but when we dropped it to 124bpm we realized it was the same tempo and key as What Are You To Me? The original sounds I got from Petter were so rich that we ended up taking a lot of time nerding around with sound design. Petter is a remarkable young producer who has quite a future ahead of him if he keeps turning tracks out like this one. 04. UNKLE - What Are You To Me? What Are You To Me is a bridge track, altered very little from the original. The acapella part fell in perfectly over These Days and carries the record into... 05. The Youngsters - Smile Smile has been in my box since it was released a couple of years ago and it always comes out on those special nights. When I got the idea for Involver, Smile was one of the first tracks that came to mind. The bass line from the original is absolutely killer so I left that alone, left the vocals as they were, but we reprogrammed the drums and Charlie spaced it out with some beautiful keyboards. Again, the original sounds were so full and rich that we had a lot to play around with. 06. Spooky - Belong Another record that has been in my box for a couple years... Charlie May's original mixes had two distinct directions. One had a summery house vibe - which I absolutely loved - and my original idea was to turn that up and make it a much bigger track. But when we started playing around with all the original parts we got such amazing sounds and textures from Charlie's ambient mix that the remix went off in a much more spaced out and melancholic direction. I'd still like to do another version of his house mix. 07. UNKLE - In A State I originally remixed this record in 2003 and I didn't want to just include that remix as it was from last year. Initially, my thought was to use it as a bridge track, dropping in the acapella vocal and the guitar part to carry the Spooky track into Burma... However, I really wanted to mess around with the vocal as the song was already pretty we knwon in clubland. I broke the vocals up into about 1,000 pieces and then put it together. Once I'd done that to the vocal I really felt like we should finish it as a full dub. 08. Lostep - Burma I absolutely love Lostep's original. Definitely one of my favourite tracks from last year and another one of the tracks that I thought of immediately when I came up with the Involver idea. Once Luke and Phil had sent me the original parts I realized it had potential to be a much bigger sounding track than their quite laid back original mix. At first I had it in mind to do a straight up four to the floor club mix. We played around with a few different directions but couldn't seem to get it right. Simon came up with a wicked bass hook, we went back to breakbeats and the track came alive. 09. Felix Da Housecat - Watching Cars Go By I pulled this track from Felix's upcoming record. The whole album has a quirky, eccentric 80s pop vibe but I picked this track because of its punk house edge. This one turned out to be more of a rearrangment than a full remix, but we got some great results doing some mad processing to the vocal, which has given the remix a unique flavour. At the end I was struggling a bit to get the beats up from 132 to 140bpm which is where the Ulrich track is at. Most of the transitions between tracks on the album have bpm rises in them. I spent a lot of time when we were pulling the final master together trying to disguise those increases in tempo. However, doing an 8bpm rise smoothly was going to be impossible so we decided to speed Felix's track to 560bpm turning the whole track into high hats and allowing Ulrich's track to drop perfectly in. 10. Ulrich Schnauss - On My Own On My Own was the first track I worked on and it started out as a mash up bootleg. I just pulled the original master off his album, we chopped it up, processed it, and wrote a track to fit underneath it, basically beefing up the drums and bass from his original. I sent the results to Ulrich and he loved it. He then sent me all the original parts to work with so we gradually went through the track and replaced noises bit by bit with the original parts. Ulrich's production is amazing... you'd think it was full of guitars but when I got the original sessions I realized everything came from synths. He has a really unique way of programming and processing synths to sound like warm fuzzy guitars... sort of the inverse surprise we got from working on the Shpongle track. |
i think im goin to tower just to get the pillow case version. heh
i got the regular for 10$ so why not! 
its all about his remake of grand national.
bassline hook fucking insane? 
Why don't they tell us about bonus editions in advance? Urgh, so frustrating. Anyways, I picked this up the very first day it was released (the original, no pillow case) on the 22nd, and plan on seeing Sasha @ Virgin Megastore in Hollywood on the 3rd of July to get my copy signed! There was count only one copy of this @ the CD store I visited.. and it was $12.99! How'd you get it for $10.99!? Until the 3rd, I'm planning on returning the version I already have (luckily it's still unopened), go to tower and get the pillow-cased version
What's the price difference?
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The pillow case special version was $13.99 at virgin here in new york during the record signing...
got it for 9.99 at best buy and I've been hooked on it all day..good lord this cd is amazing!
Received my Limited Edition copy today over the mail. Amazing music, this is what it's all about! 
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| Originally posted by Choobak smile has such a good bass hook towards the end... |
Returned my copy for the Limited Pillow case version yesterday. Luckily, it was only a $1 difference. All it requires now is Sasha's signature! This case is so fluffy and comfortable, makes me want me want to lie my head down and doze off on it... *ahh... so soft.. /knocks out. Zzzzzzzz.
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| Originally posted by refuge.01^ Returned my copy for the Limited Pillow case version yesterday. Luckily, it was only a $1 difference. All it requires now is Sasha's signature! This case is so fluffy and comfortable, makes me want me want to lie my head down and doze off on it... *ahh... so soft.. /knocks out. Zzzzzzzz. // rez |
Nice chilled mix, even more laid back than i expected it to be. It builds nicely throughout with a cool finish. gets better every time i listen to it.
ordered my 2xLP yesterday.. Now all I need to do is sit tight and wait for it to arrive Lostep - Burma (sasha edit) is the sweetest track at the moment..
Listening to the full cd got me thinking that this is like the first mixalbum for me that sounds as a whole. The transitions between the tracks are literally impossible to tell. The mix flows perfectly and leaves an impression that its not mixed but its rather a single track symphony The only thing I dont like about this mix are the vocoded-robotized-benny benassi'sh-vocals on the Felix da Housecat's tune.. But I guess thats not a big flaw
Oh my GOD....
listening for the first time and loving it
smile is owning me right now 
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| Originally posted by cryo smile is owning me right now |
picked it up last night at Best Buy for $9.99 - and they had like 40 copies there! why? i think only like 3 people in Wisconsin have ever even heard of Sasha before.
Grand National, Shpongle, and Lostep tracks are my favorites currently.
ALBUM OF THE YEAR.
and Sasha just owned me harder tonight then I've ever been owned. He destroyed Boston.
I feel like I have a second bunghole...
Definitely one of my top picks for album of the year.
Did anyone else notice similiar music elements used in both Airdrawndagger and Involver? Listen to Immortal (Airdrawn..) and to Dorset Perception (Involver).
Sasha is absolutely brillant! He is transforming this music culture.
My top tracks on this album:
"Smile" The Youngsters
"Belong" Spooky
"Talk Amongst Yourselves" Grand National
"Dorset Perception" Shpongle
Cheers,
Lesley
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I just bought it yesterday. it is really good. i like
grand national - talk amongst yourselves
the youngsters - smile
and lostep - burma
in the cd. i wish i had bought tickets to go see him in LA.
I guess i'll have to get there really early.
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