"Doing some remastering of older songs for Century Media. MAN, lots of my older records sound bad... it's like nice demos. Future records ftw"

I wonder if he is talking about some of his older albums? If he is, I will wait until the remasters come out to buy them

I thought it was for the long awaited vinyl release of Terria and Ocean Machine. That was me jumping to conclusions though

My guess is that the label may want to release a some sort of compilation, like a "Best of" kind of thing.

My guess is that the label may want to release a some sort of compilation, like a "Best of" kind of thing.

would be interesting. like strappings chaos years cd.

With Devin's many projects and names (DTB, DTP, DT, Ziltoid), I can see the label wanted to make a type of sampler that basically says "Forget all these other names, it's all Devin Townsend. Here's a taste of each!"

i don't see why he would. and they already had a free sampler of 1 song from most of his solo albums when he opened for btbam.

The same reason any band releases them. Something else to sell, and a way to get older music out there again.

the only Dev albums that have lackluster production are Ocean Machine, HAARHT, Punky Brüster, and Physicist — and most of them would have to be fixed in the mixing stage, not remastered. with so many of the original tapes soggy from The Great Flood™, idk how possible that'd be.

tl;dr version: remastering won't help those albums sound like his others

[The Dev]

A video game asked us if they could use 'Fucker' from SYL with no vocals...

So I rerecorded it and remixed it with guitar instead of vocals, and it sounds great!!!

Just finishing the mix tonight.

...maybe I'll call it 'Hugger'

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Hah! That's awesome!

No vocals *might* make that song enjoyable...

But yeah, I thought The New Black as a whole sounded pretty weak production wise.

I love that song! Even the vocals/lyrics. It reminds me of the late 80's, early 90's and Tipper Gore's attempts at music censorship. Everyone started just throwing 'fuck' into all their songs, for no other reason but to protest it all. Bands with members that probably never even cursed in their day to day life were suddenly dropping f-bombs on their albums. It was a goofy time.

No vocals *might* make that song enjoyable...

But yeah, I thought The New Black as a whole sounded pretty weak production wise.

FFFFFFFFFUCK YOUUUUUUUUUU

I remember lying in bed one night listening to Notes from Africa with my iPod on my Devy playlist (on shuffle mind you). I was drifting off into an intense sleep to the rainforest ambiance at the end of the song, and then Fucker came on right afterwards. It was uncanny how amazing it fit together, despite scaring the shit out of me.

Haha and the same thing happened last night while listening to Terria. Earth Day may have woken me up, but it's still one of my favorite songs of all time

I thought it was for the long awaited vinyl release of Terria and Ocean Machine. That was me jumping to conclusions though