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Syd Barrett - Pink Floyd - Have You Got It Yet? Vol 09 (1974)

Track listing:
  1. Astronomy Domine 4:12
  2. Lucifer Sam 3:07
  3. Matilda Mother 3:08
  4. Flaming 2:46
  5. Pow R Toch 4:26
  6. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk 3:06
  7. Interstellar Overdrive 9:42
  8. The Gnome 2:13
  9. Chapter 24 3:42
  10. Scarecrow 2:10
  11. Bike 3:22
  12. Scream Thy Last Scream (74 Mix) 4:41
  13. Vegetable Man (74 Mix) 2:30
  14. Paintbox 3:29
  15. No Title (04sept67) 1:36
  16. Apples & Oranges 3:06
  17. Remember A Day 4:33
  18. Set The Controls 5:28
  19. Corporal Clegg 4:12
  20. Scarecrow (Left Channel) 2:08
  21. Astronomy Domine (Left Channel) 4:05

Notes

HYGIY
Number 9.... Number 9.... Number 9....

"Distorted View"



PINK FLOYD with SYD

Out of Phase Stereo (OOPS) mixes

length -- 77:48



These would comprise nearly every currently-
available stereo Floyd track Syd is either on
or ever been rumored to be on. Alternate mixes
were left off for reasons of space (and if the
alternates didn't produce an interesting OOPS mix).

"See Saw" and "Jugband Blues" were also left off,
because in OOPS much of the track is very quiet,
with occasional jumps in volume. It all has to
do with where things were panned originally, and
that can't be changed.

In the left channel of each track is an OOPS mix
produced by inverting the left channel of the
original, and the right channel contains a right-
channel OOPS inversion. As it turns out, these
produce the same mix, and one channel is a mirror
image of the other. (Identical, but with the
polarity reversed.)

Therefore, although an OOPS mix comes out in mono
by definition, these tracks are in stereo, technically
speaking -- the term of art being a "dual signal
expansion." The wavform for a standard mono file
would show an identical graph in each channel. The
wavform for these looks like an inkblot, but
horizontal. It's the same (or very nearly), but in
symmetry.

They sound like mono, but with more depth and ambience
than would be possible from a one-channel mix. (If
played through QSound, Carver Sonic Holograph or any
similar stereo-wide function, they will appear to pan
further to the left and right simultaneously.)

In place of "See Saw" and "Jugband Blues," we substituted
two left-channel mixes from "Piper." The final two tracks
are "Scarecrow" and "Astronomy Domine." Incidentally,
these mixes were first heard on the Capitol Records Radio
Show in December 1976, beneath an interview with Peter
Jenner. (This can be heard on HYGIY6.) At the time,
people thought they might be outtakes, but they're simply
the left channel of "Piper." They make viable and
interesting tracks nonetheless, and so here they are
without the voiceover.