16. Come To Dust (4:07)

[North by North]

If you put it on backwards, you will hear "Greeting Traveler" at the beginning, repeated two or three times.

That, or whatever it is, is repeated quite a few times. Love the synths in reverse. Could go for a version of just that (w/o reversed or any drums).

[green calx]

Glad you've also noticed it. Cheers.

[Techboy]

what? could you isolate that and post it?

[green calx]

I'm not really into doing this kind of stuff, I'd rather you found it at your own, it is at the beggining when you put it on backwards (so at the end of standard version). It's voice of woman we all got used to, the words are somehow blurred so you have to listen carefully (a warm voice - "Greetings Traveler" propably something like this). Maybe will upload the fragment later.

it's easy to catch and comprehend, unlike the monologue at the end of Nothing is real, which is still goddamn enigma for me.

ah yeah, and use earphones

the whole album sounds surprisingly well this way, especially Jacquard causeway is my reversed-favourite. Sick times sounds almost the same! There are many voice samples that cannot be understood, which is a shame, because of lack of direct eyeblinking to the listener, like it was on Geogaddi...

[arvy]

[Negamuse]

I hadn't listened to this one backwards, but reading about the "greetings traveller" thing I did, and I thought this was interesting. The quiet synth choir parts at the beginning of the track (so the end of the track, when reversed) sound like they were actually recorded backwards. You listen to that bit in reverse and it literally ends with that... how to say in non musical theory terms... just after the higher notes have done their little twiddle, and the raspy synth is fading out, the high notes are holding on this chord and the lower ones do this high-mid-low-mid pattern. In church choral music, that's where you'd sing A-a-a-men. Fucked if I can find an example of this now, but maybe you know what I mean here.

[arvy]

[2020k]

There are definitely vocals buried in the end of this track. Do we know what they say? It sounds like "testing [something]" to me, but I can't discern clearly.

I kind of hear the greetings traveler thing, but nothing else in the sample is backward, which makes me speculate about it.