Duster - Stratosphere (1998)
Duster - Stratosphere (1998)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 336 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 137 MB
53:52 | Scans Included | Indie Rock, Lo-Fi | Label: Up Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 336 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 137 MB
53:52 | Scans Included | Indie Rock, Lo-Fi | Label: Up Records
Stratosphere Review by Francis Arres
Duster is made up of two members, C. Amber and E. Parton, with occasional help from their friends on drums and recording duties. Stratosphere is mainly recorded at their home on four track. At times, they sound like Pavement and other times like Seely with higher pitched male vocals. Stratosphere demonstrates their guitar-based focus, riding on the flow of duel picking guitar melodies. With many guitars switching dynamic roles and riding on tunings, Duster sounds a bit like early Sonic Youth. Bass and drums act as the bottom, while guitars playfully find their melody by feeding off one another, throwing notes back and forth.
The four-track recording element brings a wonderful space warmth or humidity to Stratosphere, which keeps you flying in the air or floating in space. A hard task with a four-track recording is the recording of the vocals. For atmospheric affect, it works. The voice provides texture to the plucking guitars, but no lyrics are understood. They act as instruments. Along with guitars and vocals, many great manipulations with tape noise as background effects exist on Stratosphere. "Echo Bravo" is definitely the highlight of the record. A long build of noise and whiny guitars rev up the track with a steady drum machine beat creating stress and tension. When is it going to give? Then, it finally busts. Distorted guitars in a heavy breakdown find their cues. Vocals appear 2:45 seconds in to deliver a depressing calming element in the lazy delivery. The record may be a bit long for some listeners, clocking in at 53 minutes. Stratosphere is best listened to at different times; tracks may be isolated or the record can be divided in parts. Duster are at their finest when they play with dynamics. Many tunes have a loud and a soft part, but they are never predictable. The transition is always interesting or takes you by surprise.
Tracklist
01. Moon Age (1:06)
02. Heading For The Door (3:08)
03. Gold Dust (2:06)
04. Topical Solution (5:01)
05. Docking The Pod (1:51)
06. The Landing (2:43)
07. Echo, Bravo (4:32)
08. Constellations (3:43)
09. The Queen Of Hearts (4:19)
10. Two Way Radio (0:19)
11. Inside Out (2:21)
12. Stratosphere (6:58)
13. Reed To Hillsborough (4:01)
14. Shadows Of Planes (1:50)
15. Earth Moon Transit (4:23)
16. The Twins / Romantica (3:43)
17. Sideria (1:48)
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011
EAC extraction logfile from 27. April 2015, 22:34
Duster / Stratosphere [Up Records]
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13 | 38:08.10 | 4:00.60 | 171610 | 189669
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16 | 48:22.42 | 3:42.70 | 217692 | 234411
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EAC extraction logfile from 27. April 2015, 22:34
Duster / Stratosphere [Up Records]
Used drive : PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109 Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
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Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 48
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Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
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Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.32 | 1:06.20 | 32 | 5001
2 | 1:06.52 | 3:08.13 | 5002 | 19114
3 | 4:14.65 | 2:05.70 | 19115 | 28559
4 | 6:20.60 | 5:00.67 | 28560 | 51126
5 | 11:21.52 | 1:50.48 | 51127 | 59424
6 | 13:12.25 | 2:43.12 | 59425 | 71661
7 | 15:55.37 | 4:32.03 | 71662 | 92064
8 | 20:27.40 | 3:43.15 | 92065 | 108804
9 | 24:10.55 | 4:19.32 | 108805 | 128261
10 | 28:30.12 | 0:19.30 | 128262 | 129716
11 | 28:49.42 | 2:21.03 | 129717 | 140294
12 | 31:10.45 | 6:57.40 | 140295 | 171609
13 | 38:08.10 | 4:00.60 | 171610 | 189669
14 | 42:08.70 | 1:50.10 | 189670 | 197929
15 | 43:59.05 | 4:23.37 | 197930 | 217691
16 | 48:22.42 | 3:42.70 | 217692 | 234411
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