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The triumvirate of Roky Erickson, Tommy Hall and Stacy Sutherland had to feature. Transcendent slower songs (often) don\u2019t feature full band performances \u2013 so, no Splash One. The song had to be a band original. So, no Baby Blue. 13 unlucky for some. This compilation launches a new phase in the 13th Floor Elevators catalogue and previews the forthcoming series THE QUEST FOR PURE SANITY: the release in optimal quality of all surviving source material for all of the band\u2019s recordings. \u201813 OF THE BEST\u2019 has been mastered separately to vinyl, CD, digital and streaming for the best possible sound quality for each format. Each original source has been referenced to the earliest vinyl pressing and meticulously transferred at 96khz 24- bit resolution. Multitrack tapes of the original recording sessions have been newly mixed in strict accordance with the records as first released. \u2018You\u2019re Gonna Miss Me\u2019, the band\u2019s seminal single, is presented here for the first time in true stereo. Taken from the original multitrack session tape, the song has been mixed to stereo in accordance with the iconic mono 45 as recorded and engineered by Walt Andrus. \u2018Slip Inside This House\u2019 viewed by fans and critics alike as the Elevators\u2019 masterpiece and one of the key psychedelic recordings of the era, is included on the LP as the edited mono single mix so the loudest possible cut can be achieved. The eight-minute stereo version is included on all other formats. \u2018Never Another\u2019, \u2018Dr Doom\u2019 and \u2018Livin\u2019 On\u2019 from the band\u2019s final sessions have been newly mixed but without the overdubs added almost a year after recording. While the session tapes survive, the overdubs do not. \u2018Livin\u2019 On\u2019 features Roky Erickson\u2019s original superior vocal performance instead of the overdub used on the \u2018BULL OF THE WOODS\u2019 LP. What is uniquely presented here is 100% Elevators as mixed and intended for the LP. No embellishments! \u201813 OF THE BEST\u2019 is produced by 13th Floor Elevators official archivist and historian Paul Drummond who has also written sleeve notes with full track-by-track information. The author of \u2018Eye Mind\u2019 (2007) the exhaustive and definitive biography of the 13th Floor Elevators and \u201813th Floor Elevators: A Visual History\u2019 (2020) Drummond has spent a lifetime documenting every aspect of Elevators history, amassing an unprecedented archive of original material and memorabilia in conjunction with the band members.<\/p>\n

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