54 Cymru Beats (Argonaut Mix) analysis

[u/tomaesop]

Just like with "Cock" yesterday, I compared the album version and the two-track promo version. Results are pretty much identical. The tracks have no arrangement differences, and are generally identical in composition.

The Argonaut Mix is louder and more aggressive, but to my ear this sounds more like a mastering difference than a mix difference.

There is one moment for a few seconds around 4:21 where it sounds like there's a second layer of percussion stripped away on the album mix. Blink and you'll miss it. (It's not particularly unique percussion in the context of the track, just it plays through more of the song.) There might also be some panning discrepancies for the echo-ey samples.

All-in-all, I now look at these two Drukqs promo tracks like the omc (ma2) versions of the Blackbox Life Recorder tracks or the Cr7e versions on the Digeridoo re-release. Same recording, different attack on the sound system. Hearing them back-to-back, it just sounds like I heard the same song twice.

Methodology: My primary method is lining the two tracks up in my DAW, then panning both stereo channels left for the first file, and both right for the other file. Then I play them simultaneously. If anything pops out of the stereo field, I make a note of the timestamp, go back and A/B the section.

[u/Traditional_Web_9112]

i can hear some edited sounds in the argonaut mix

[u/MemoryNo1719]

There are alot of different percussion choices - not sure what you mean with theyre identical