WOW..!!!!!!! :yikes
I'm guessing comps like this are one way of getting Quad mixes out on SACD track by track when there's no hope of the entire album making it to Surround SACD for whatever reason...
I'm hoping they are all NEW to SACD and not like an EWF track from Open Our Eyes, or a Mahavishnu number from Birds of Fire.. but maybe I'm hoping for too much!
Whatever it is, please let the tracks include things that were either only in SQ LP form or that have never quite sounded "right" in any Quad conversion (I've ever heard anyway), like..
Bob Dylan - anything from Desire (I'm not bothered about Nashville.. although Planet Waves could be interesting?),
Jeff Beck - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (an inky black background to this Quad masterpiece please!! unlike most of the rest of the Wired Quad which is very ping-pongy and flashy this one is classy and so much nicer than the stereo imho.. not something I can say for every track on the Quad of Wired, a couple of the mixes are processed a bit reverb heavy for my liking but this track is sensationally mixed),
Herbie Hancock - (maybe whatever the first track is on Sextant? The Quad mix is just AMAZING..! Not sure how palatable it is as a sampler track though, everything about that album screams DEEP CUT.. so maybe one of the more accessible things off Thrust? Probably best to avoid Secrets?),
BOC - whichever track it is on Secret Treaties that goes "DOMINANCE" in the front channels and then "SUBMISSION" in the rears, I forget the name of it at the moment but its a bloody hoot in Quad..!,
Isley Brothers - ANYTHING from The Heat Is On Quad -- PLEASE??? It feels like I will die before I hear anything from the Heat Is On Quad otherwise.. if it actually even exists!!!... Would particularly love to hear "HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER LOVE" in Surround.. failing that, then something off Go For Your Guns or Live It Up rather than Harvest FTW, please..,
Harold Melvin - either The Love I Lost (the backing vocals that flip from rear left to rear right and back again "sorry I lost it" = rear left, "sorry I lost it" = rear right.. fab!) or anything from Wake Up Everybody (stunning album, only on SQ LP),
EWF - preferably anything from Spirit - as its a late Quad would be lovely to hear it discrete from the mastertapes (no offence to Q8 or SQ but I just know this could be bettered being taken from the masters),
Santana - ideally something from Welcome or Santana III (plenty of excellent mixes to choose from there),
O'Jays - anything off Family Reunion as it was another SQ LP only Quad.. Living For The Weekend maybe? it just brings the biggest smile to my face everytime I hear it.. vamp it up baby..!!!
SO SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THIS ONE - WHEN'S IT OUT..?????