C_Matt's "Hot Space (HD Revision)"

what ? The link above is for the full album download ?? damn it ! had not noticed that :(

Thanks a lot for this :)

Awesome! Donwloaded, converted to MP3 for my iPhone...can't wait for the drive home to give a listen.

Any chance we can have this uploaded somewhere else than Sky Drive? Thanks!

I have problems with skydrive too. Would you mind uploading this amazing album with a different kind of source, please?

Matt !!!

I downoloaded it yesterday and have not been able to proceed with a proper complete listening, but ..... I´ve listened with detail to the first 4 songs and, well, I´m blown away man !!!

Staying Power sounds bigger than ever and I looooove the new intro.

Back Chat: amazing, amazing and amazing ..... never enjoyed listening to this song as much as now! there are many new details surfacing !!

And ....... Body Language. Perhaps the most controversial song in the entire Queen discography and now, for the first time in my life I have really ENJOYED it as well !!!!!

Need more complete listenings of course .... and will try to give you a deeper feedback in a few days!!

you rock man, you really rock!!!

I uploaded it on Mega for those who have problems with Skydrive.

[url=https://mega.co.nz/#!DcVziRQS!cJkh4SHG_da51-gxxHLHCAjgyXxzdII30tJX3fY5ujE]https://mega.co.nz/#!DcVziRQS!cJkh4SHG_da51-gxxHLHCAjgyXxzdII30tJX3fY5ujE[/url]

Thanks for this!

Yes!!!! Chief Mouse, with this Mega Download I had no trouble. Thanks a lot pal.

No prob :-)

Thanks Bruce!

This is fantastic - gives a whole new edge to the listening experience of Hot Space. Really like the extended intro of Staying Power. Great work C_Matt - thanks for putting in the time and big effort!

Thanks

Love this! Brings new life to the entire album, even Life is Real.

Well done, your best work, especially considering what you had to work with.

Queen should hire you, for real.

Hi everyone! Thank you very much for all your comments, I'm really happy to read them. Sorry for the inconvenients with the download link, I forgot to explain that there was that space between the "co m". I'd put it because I don't want the entire link to be on Internet. Might is myself, but I have this idea that an entire link is easier to find, and with all this copyright things, maybe all the uploads will get eliminated. Haysyacks, I would love to work for them hahahaha, but might for those copyright new things, I have to eliminate all.

Once or twice a week, I go to a friend's country house in a town near from the city I live to disconnect myself from everything, that's why I didn't answered. So I apologize to Blaise, Lord Ga Ga, GAP, and all those who can't download it, and thank you very much Mouse for uploading it to Mega. I should create an account there too and start having an alternative download source.

For all those who could hear the album, Haystacks, PiotreQ, Vali, Vicspec, DAZH, Mouse again, I'm really glad you enjoyed it! Thank you Vali again for those individual reviews, I really like how 'Body Language' and 'Back Chat' sounds now too. The first one was really hard to work with! Even having that simple structure, it was hard to make the bass thing sound like I wanted. I thought that the new intro would give a more ambiental or "thematic" feel to the album, like 'The Game', ADatR, Queen II, AKoM... and almost all albums which, if not have a separated intro, they had a great song to open. 'Staying Power' is the best song to open the "funky" part of the album, and the album itself, but it never had the neccesary strength to be at the start, the song is a bit empty, that's why it's weak, beside the bad mastering.




About the music, the album is just great, there are great jewells here! 'Las Palabras de Amor', 'Body Language', 'Cool Cat', 'Back Chat' are really beautiful and strong points in the album, really great to listen to. The artwork is just spectacular, I love it. But the whole album always sounded a bit muddy, flat and spilled to me. For example, main things to me which annoyed me and were my maing goal to change:

-There were like no true or definited lows/basses, those where just a "sensation", like a feeling or a perception that they were there, but at the same time, not really. It was too spilled, there was a "PMSCH" but not the "BUUMP" to make the strong beat.

-With the vocals, song like 'Dancer', 'Action This Day', etc... didn't had the vocals centered, that's why they were so ghostly, because they were there, but not really, they are, again, a sensation, there's no definition. A karaoke function never would work with those songs.

-Other songs like 'Staying Power', which needed that expansion between the vocals to create an ambient, had all the Freddies singing "See what I got" together in the center. But songs like 'Las Palabras de Amor' had two uneccesary Freddies singing together, one on each channel.

-The percussion sounds really weird during all the album. 'Calling All Girls' have really flat drums, like if the snare were sunken into a lows flood, the same with 'Staying Power', 'Body Language' and others.

-Is hard to me to understand how some songs like 'Cool Cat' and the others which had machine drums have missing hits, missing hi-hats or snares which were perfectly played by a machine.

-The EQ between all the songs is really really strange. ATD or 'Cool Cat' are really dry and opaque.

-'Life Is Real' mastering is something I'll never understand.

-There are strange mastering differences between the same song. The three POtF choruses sounds really different one from each other, or the 'Staying Power's "See what I got" verse sounds empty, lower and weaker that the other ones with the same style.

-There are some strange volume issues, abrupt ups and downs. For example the first verse in 'Calling All Girls', the start from 'Las Palabras del Amor', a dry explosion at "mad masquerade" in POtF.

It's hard to understand this having some previous albums so much better quality and mixing. I think this is one strong reason the album didn't have that love other had, beside the music style thing.

Anyway, thanks a lot to everyone again! I started working with 'You and I'. Enjoy 'Hot Space' very very much!