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International News Title: Beatles fans are in for a tremendous surprise But Beatles fans are in for a tremendous surprise. PLEASE PLEASE ME A couple of weeks ago Giles Martin stopped in New York on his way to London, and invited me to hear his Love mixes on a five-channel surround system at Magno Studios. I was knocked out by some, but I was absolutely floored by the pristine quality and fine definition of the sound. With the compression of the original 1960 s productions stripped away, voices and instruments seem real, as if they were in the room. The new mixes wrap you in the groups arrangements and let you hear long-buried interplay that illuminates the Beatles brilliance. This is a level of detail that simply hasnt been heard outside the Abbey Road studios until now. On Yesterday you can hear Paul McCartneys pick hitting the strings of his guitar and the strings snapping against the neck. The guitar solo and the orchestral strings on Something had similar clarity and presence, and in the surround version of I Am the Walrus the whole kaleidoscope of textures including an extraordinarily crisp drum sound made the song quirkier than ever. The mixes of Revolution and Come Together are incomparably more powerful than the familiar versions. Starrs childlike Octopus Garden gets a fantastic restructuring that begins with the string introduction to Good Night and then places Starrs vocal, unaccompanied, in a foggy ambience (using effects from Yellow Submarine and drums from Lovely Rita ) before the full band kicks into the more familiar arrangement. And a juxtaposition of the drum figure from Tomorrow Never Knows and the vocal line from Within You, Without You creates a link between those mystical songs, recorded nearly nine months apart. The new recordings were made under the close watch of Apple. McCartney, Starr, Ono and Olivia Harrison occasionally dropped in on the Martins to hear the mixes. It was a little terrifying, said the younger Martin, who is 36, born a few months before the Beatles broke up. (His father is 80. ) When Ringo came in, the first thing he said was, Have you done Octopus Garden yet ? Paul said he liked what he heard, but that we could go even farther out than we have, and weve gone pretty far. And we were very concerned that Yoko and Olivia feel we were treating Johns and Georges songs well, but they were both very pleased.
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