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> I can not find the songs only alternate versions from other people who made a cover version of the song.

Try some jazz like Coltrane or Miles Davis. It seems they never stoped issuing albums - remastered, Coltrane for lovers, Miles for cooking.

It is next to impossible to find original album or remastered original.

Yesterday on Youtube Music oldest Coltrane album was from 2015.

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"or" here really simplifies things. Nowadays almost every 70s-90s album on streaming services is a remaster with overloaded levels and clippings. One has to resort to torrent sites to find rips from original CDs or vinyls.

This[0] is a good resource if you're interested in the dynamic range of remasters.

If you listen to anything that falls into the "progressive" genre, this[1] channel may interest you. Only high-dynamic-range versions of albums, often ripped from vinyl. Steven Wilson has been mixing everything he can get his hands on and most of it is both brilliant and faithful.

[0]http://dr.loudness-war.info/

[1]https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCXL-7ZVrR7wf7Nf5-FcUVRw/about

I think all these algorithms reward novelty to keep you engaged, which means snipers making phony compilations beat the original.

> Try some jazz like Coltrane or Miles Davis. It seems they never stoped issuing albums - remastered

This is only done to prevent copyright expiration and having the album become public domain.

You’ll see they only do it for “oldish” albums. It’s quite a scam.

I thought copyright had been extended long enough that they don't need to do that? For example you don't see the same thing quite so much with other genres of music and music of the same age in those scenes haven't fallen into the public domain.

(this is a question rather than statement)

For new works, but not necessarily old ones.

The remaster acts as a new, “derivative” work and thus gets whatever new copyright protection is offered by newer laws.

But the older work doesn't, and nearly all recorded music is already covered by Disney's forever copyright just because of the history of when the technology was invented.

This was my understanding as well.

> Coltrane for lovers, Miles for cooking.

And programming?

Personally, Goa works for me. Try Astral Projection, Hallucinogen.

https://ektoplazm.com/ is a great place to start sampling this type of music for free.

I generally like throwing on di.fm while working, but have started to really dislike commercial breaks.

Try mixcloud.

“I am actually flying into a star!”

Astral Projection - Another World - Nilaya

I was passenger in a hydroplane car wreck while we listened to this song. No one was hurt though we were moving at highway speed it was just an accident. Everything moved so slowly as we went from parallel with the other cars to perpendicular at 65mph. Still love that song and album.

Holdsworth works for programming.

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