Radiohead Kid A MNESIA Exhibition: Immersion and audio download

[mister_eff]

This is really interesting and I'd love to hear what comes out of all this

 

[LTW]

Because I tend to take on projects that I don't have enough spare time for, I'm going to attempt to create Atmos mixes for the whole 'KID A' album.
Here are my discoveries and plans so far:

(Updated: October 1st)

1. Everything In It’s Right Place - first pass DONE

• Multitrack mix from Exhibition stems
• Lead Vocal extracted from stereo album mix and retimed to slightly slower Exhibition version.

2. Kid A - first pass DONE

• Full rebuild and edit from Exhibition stems. I will have to reconstruct the song from the stems as they play as loops and don't follow the structure of the song. Edit to match album instrumentation.
• Retime all the Exhibition stems as they are significantly faster than the album version.
• Lead vocals and some other elements extracted from stereo album mix.

3. The National Anthem - first pass DONE

• Combine stereo album mix with Exhibition stems. The Stems are missing the lead vocals and close mic'ed brass and the mix is too messy for clean extraction.
• Small retime needed on the stems.

4. How to Disappear Completely - first pass DONE

• Exhibition arrangement is quite different to the album version. No drums or bass, less acoustic and electric guitar. I want to re-create the album version.
• Combining stems of strings, Martenot, vocals with Drums, bass and guitars from stereo album mix.

5. Treefingers - first pass DONE

• The Exhibition has a 5.0 mix of a longer version of Treefingers. It also features additional sound effects.
• Re-creating the approx album length, matching the intro and outro but keeping the addition effects
• Upmix the 5.0 to Atmos.

6. Optimistic - first pass DONE

• There are no stems of Optimistic in the Exhibition so this will have to be an upmix + stem extraction (whatever I can get without artifacts)

7. In Limbo - first pass DONE

• Exhibition stems cover all the instrumentation and parts but in loops that need to be edited to match the album version.
• Lead vocals extracted from album stereo mix.
• Full re-build of arrangement like Kid A.

8. Idioteque - first pass DONE

• Main beat and some ambiences in the Exhibition stems.
• This will have to be constructed from extractions from the stereo mix, mid/side separations and other tricks.
• Most likely a combination of the stereo mix, extractions and stems to build the necessary tracks for an Atmos mix.

9. Morning Bell - first pass DONE

• There are no stems of Morning Bell in the Exhibition so this will have to be an upmix + stem extraction (whatever I can get without artifacts)

10. Motion Picture Soundtrack

• Stems for double bass and harps from Exhibition
• I will need to extract the lead vocals from the stereo album mix and blend the remaining Organ and harps with the Exhibition stems to create the immersive layers.

Only a few songs have stems ready to go for mixing, so overall I will need to do a lot of reconstruction to recreate the album arrangement. The stems are often the wrong tempo, edited as loops or in the wrong key. Anyway, it will be a fun experiment on one of my favourite albums.

 

[LTW]

I realize I have sort of hijacked this thread but I think my Kid A fan mix project might still be of interest to some of you.

The Kid A Atmos mixes are done! I've become pretty obsessed with it over the last month. Learnt a few new tricks to get the stems arranged, separated and mixed. I've even authored a blu-ray for myself, just cause I like doing it. Just me pretending that Radiohead actually released a multichannel Blu-ray.

(Ignore the kitchen sounds in the background)

 

[mister_eff]

This is very exciting!