Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother to be released in Japan with bonus Blu-Ray

Got a shipping notice about 10 minutes ago, supposed to be here by Friday the 13th.

 

I completely forgot I pre ordered this

Just got an email from Amazon Japan saying I should get it by 10th august

6 days from japan to the uk seems pretty quick….

£60 on something I’ll probably watch once, a fool and his money etc….

 

Why on Earth is this not a hybrid SACD (plus Blu-ray) with the original quad mix included? As kinda cool as this package already is it would have been impossible to resist had the quad mix been included.

 

I still haven't pulled the trigger myself. I promised myself I was going to reduce my spendings in records, but that's proving to be harder than I thought

 

None of this looks much value to me, but please someone correct me if I've missed something (I didn't scour the release notes). I love Atom Heart Mother, but isn't this mainly that same album played over newly cleaned up Super 8 or 16mm footage, itself with no live audio of its own? As I say, I might be wrong, but I haven't yet cottoned on to what's worth having in this release.

 

Well the sound and pictures doesn't seem to match, but it's not the album version, for sure:

 

That's the old one from TEY. Supposedly you have new audio on this release which was recorded in Hakone (audience recording I would think). Probably out of synch too.

 

Yes.
But as I understand it, they restored only the picture quality.
Well the original announcement by Sony Japan is vague. They're not talking about the audio at all. They're not even saying how long the Bluray feature is.

 

I'm proud of myself for not buying this. Since I didn't buy it, it will turn out to be awesome, so you're all welcome.

 

Ooooh Kay, so now I understand less about this enigmatic release than I did when I knew next to nothing!

 

Ordered mine through, CD Japan, got an Email off the this morning, to say it’s been sent. Really looking forward to this set.

 

IIRC, there is new audio as well.

 

I was working with the best sources I had at the time. I guess they felt my work was good enough to release professionally.

 

I was not criticizing that work, I was responding to a poster here who asked if it was the studio version on the video the bluray.

Congrats on you having a part on the video material provided in TEY
Didn't know that.

 

I realized that you weren't, I just used the opportunity to make a joke at my own expense.

 

Received mine today, super cool! I love the 7” packaging

 

Got mine too, very cool packaging.

 

is the audio synched to the video?

how long is it?

 

Would somebody please comment on the audio of the blu-ray?

 

It's a "loose synch" as expected. Image quality is quite stunning especially considering what we've been seeing for decades. Audio may be the source originally used for the film but cleaned up. Might just be a new source. It's as long as the original film. The extra footage is treated as an independent clip.

 

I bet you're in hog heaven right now. Hope so.

 

Cow heaven, surely. Hog heaven was '77

 

Yeah I thought about that. Just trying to be nice.

 

I appreciate that.

 

I appreciate the work you've done. Tip of the cap to you.