A big part of me wants to buy this, just for the sake of completeness (I have all the other readily available Lips albums), and with the intention of mixing it down to one CD in Cubase for ease of listening to it. Just wondering, does anyone have a copy? Is it actually any good? I heard a track from it on Peely once, but that's about it. And it'll set me back £24 to get it, oso I don't want to fork out that much and then find it's mostly shite.
I have been concidering buying it, but the whole "4 different cd" thing is pretty insane, although brilliant at the same time. Knowing that its the flaming lips that made this, im sure its a great album.
I nearly bought it once, but remembered I didn't have 4 CD players. If you have Cubase or something similar, you can mix it so it's more playable, there's some stuff you can do with reverbs to make things sound like they're behind you (Bathroom preset on Reverb B, I think), so it'd be easy enough to construct a "3D" mix of the track.
i'd say definitely get zaireeka. however, if you remix it you're definitely missing out on the experience. most people don't have 4 cd players. get a few friends together and do it in someone's living room, or get 4 cars with cd players and go park in an empty gravel lot somewhere in the country at night when the stars are out and you're in for a real treat. part of the amazingness is that things don't line up all the time. it's impossible for 4 cd players to all start at exactly the right time, but that's part of the fun. wayne coyne talks in the liner notes about how each time you listen to it is a different experience because things line up differently, stuff is displaced. and that's the point of the whole experiment. if you re-mix it you'll end up with some cool songs, but you're missing the point. as it says on the cd itself, it is an experiment.
Ahh Zarieeka is amazing. I used to have Zarieeka parties all the time with my friends where we'd alter brain states and set up four CD players around a room and just listen to it. It's so awesome, but only if you get it completely in sinc. If you don't it's pointless. This is hard to do with only one person. My friend put them all onto one CD, but it sounded like crap. It definately wasn't the same. The Lips made 4 seperate albums for a reason.
When listening to "Zaireeka", do you need to start each album at the same time? I wouldnt think so, cause listening to it alone and having to start them all at the same time would be hard. and i think "the soft bulletin" is their greatest album.
yes, you definitely start them at the same time. it's very hard to get perfectly in sync, but even if it's a little off it's great. in fact that's the point. the only somewhat annoying thing is that you have to re-sync them every song because different cd players change tracks at different speeds, but it's still worth it and once you get used to synching them up it's not hard.
