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Cat stevens tea for the tillerman songs2/12/2023 ![]() Wild World is the same as on the 9 Lives boot (Miles not on this boot) and both tracks are the same mixes as on the 2008 2CD Tea Deluxe. However, the two Tea demos, Wild World and Miles are not different mixes from previous versions. The 2020 deluxe mixes sound quite similar to the 2020 album mix style so I'm thinking these were also new mixes done along with the albums. "Katmandu" demo, "Can This Be Love" & "It's So Good" are the same takes as found on the 9 Lives bootleg CD but different mixes. There also seems to be some compression making it sound a bit congested vs the open and natural Island CD. Some songs are brighter than the Island CD, while I Wish is noticeably quite duller and doesn't fit in. The new Tea mastering is just too bright and brittle for my tastes and sounds nothing like how I'm used to hearing this album. Which is the old Island for Mona and the HDtracks for Tea. Some might like the mixing, but man, these are just too loud. Rather than a nice image spread across the stereo spectrum, it's very defined left, center, right. Also, I don't care much for the mixing style. The remixes, however, are very loudly mastered. Not all mastering here is loud either, but they let them clip in numerous spots (Audacity shows lots of red). ![]() The set has active clipping all over the place. I've had a chance to preview the CDs and there are some issues.
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