Please Tell Me About Alan Parsons' I Robot

This is definately not true. In a very recent interview published in SOUND & VISION magazine, Alan Parsons states that as a purist he would never allow his back catalouge to be re-mixed into 5.1.

 

According to some people who used to own the LP AND the original CD, the best version of those songs can be found on The Definitive Collection (although the original CD is not bad, by any means).

 

Which original CD? I have the first pressing Japanese and the HDAD beats the heck out of it.

 

Imo, I think the mofi aluminum is pretty darn good too.

 

Look for the British Arista LP.

 

I second this. The British Arista sounds real good!

 

Not quite. The "Projectron" was a custom-built sampler keyboard using voltage technology, a precursor to the Fairlight CMI. The Mellotron was different in that it used tapes of actual instrumental sounds whenever its keyboard was played - a far more primitive synthesizer.

All the strings on the album are real, if I'm not mistaken, though there may be string samples on the instrumental "Nucleus."

 

Well, since he told me HIMSELF, IN PERSON, after his show in Copenhagen two months ago that he is working on 5.1 releases for 2005 of "A Valid Path" and possibly the rest of the back- catalogue, I rather take his word for it than Sound and vision magazine!

 

Yes, I agree. I think the songs that benefited the most from the remastering on "The definitive collection" were the ones from "Pyramid".

This is what Alan had to say about "The Definitive Collection" around the time of its release in 1997:

"With the latest "Definitive Collection" from Arista, I am going back to the original analogue masters and use the very best available technology to get it onto CD. This collection should be the best sounding of all".

 

I like Tales And Mystery the best followed by Turn Of the Friendly Card, I, Robot and then Eye In the Sky. I have a pretty good APP LP collection (no MFSL' though) with the first 9 LP's.