On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 10:43 AM, Olaf Juerss a.k.a. Oh Jay wrote:

[ moderator's note : as i've only got the promo & not the official release so far , because i'm waitin' for the vinyl album to buy , i like to know , if especially "etape 3" still has this wonderful new melody of the last 45 seconds on the official cd release ... or does it sound more like the single "etape 3" version WITHOUT that additional melody ??? *indeed_very_curious* ]

Yes, the new melody is still there just the same. Actually, IMHO, I think that the slightly shorter version is defintely better. To me, there was an awkward edit in the promo version at 3'05" where the (original) string melody jumped in, without it's leading note. This is no longer there, all the transitions are smooth. Similarly, I think that Régération has also benefited, becoming not quite so meandering and a little more concise. I guess KW were tweaking things right up until the very last minute... Staggboy