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[Jay]

Playlist Name: Wonders of Life
Playlist Submitter: Jay
Playlist Submitted: 29 Mar 2011
Playlist Updated: 22 May 2012
Playlist Category: Future World

Future World
Wonders of Life Area Music
(Oct 19, 1989 to Jan 1, 2007)

01

Ouverture 1:43
Cirque du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil
. .

02

Leapfrog 1:58
Doug Wood
OM 10 "Goldenfields/A Soft Touch"
. .

03

Carousel (A Day in the Park) 6:11
Checkfield
Distant Thunder
. .

04

Looking Glass 6:42
Yanni
Keys to Imagination
. .

05

Icarus 11:40
Christian Buehner & Helge Schroeder
Nightflight
. .

06

Summer Shuffle 4:24
Checkfield
Distant Thunder
. .

07

Wild Kids 4:22
David Benoit
Urban Daydreams
. .

08

Behind the Waterfall 3:31
David Lanz & Paul Speer
Natural States
. .

09

Biomass 2:33
Vic Sepanski
OM 13 "New Technologies/Tech 2000"
. .

10

Grasslands 3:50
Checkfield
Through the Lens
. .

11

Forgotten Yesterdays 3:31
Yanni
Keys to Imagination
. .

12

Celestial Soda Pop 4:42
Ray Lynch
Deep Breakfast
. .

13

Hide and Seek 2:02
Doug Wood
OM 10 "Goldenfields/A Soft Touch"
. .

14

Sundial 3:31
Checkfield
Distant Thunder
. .

15

The Oh of Pleasure 5:22
Ray Lynch
Deep Breakfast
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Duration: 1:00:10

Notes:

Poorly executed crossfades between Tracks 03-04, 04-05, 05-06, 06-07, 08-09, 10-11, 11-12, and 14-15.

Tracks 02, 09, and 13 are "library music" that can only be obtained by purchasing a license from Omnimusic.

Be careful with Track 01, Ouverture. The correct version runs 1:43 and is from 1987's Cirque du Soleil. As it is nearly impossible to get your hands on this long out of print CD, you can find the same version on Cirque du Soleil's 25th anniversary collection, 2009's 25 (the digital downloads linked to here are from this compilation). Stay away from 1990/1994's "re-release" of Cirque du Soleil, and 1998's Cirque du Soleil: Collection, as the version of Ouverture found on these albums runs 2:27 and features a completely different arrangement.

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[_Indiana_]

I was looking at the Wonders of Life playlist and noticed that the runtime of the loop is a few minutes shorter than the sum of all the track times.

Do the various crossfades mentioned in the notes make up the descrepancy in time? If not, do you happen to know which of the tracks were edited and where? Unfortunately, I don't have a reference recording to do the comparisons myself.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

[Jay]

_Indiana_, on 08 June 2012 - 10:27 PM, said:

I was looking at the Wonders of Life playlist and noticed that the runtime of the loop is a few minutes shorter than the sum of all the track times.

The individual track times that appear in all of our playlists match the lengths of the tracks as they appear on the correct source CDs, digital downloads, or vinyl records. We've decided it makes more sense to help people find the correct tracks than it does to provide them with detailed edits. Without a reference recording in hand, no amount of information we might attempt to provide is really going to help as far as edits go.

Loops without crossfades have the leading/trailing silence removed from most tracks, but it would be frivolous for us to list all of those tracks with approximate playing times and/or claim they have been "edited." When we do display a track as having been edited, it is to let you know that part of the music has actually been removed.

Most people are just looking for the correct tracks; the few who want to put together precise recreations will need reference recordings.

_Indiana_, on 08 June 2012 - 10:27 PM, said:

Do the various crossfades mentioned in the notes make up the descrepancy in time?

Yes.

[eyore]

Even with the most detailed instructions, it would be pretty well impossible to duplicate fades etc without your own reference recording. Jay has kindly allowed that those of us working with playlists may, if we wish, add edit details as well as the full length of the track but that's an "extra" and, as Jay says, not really that useful unless you have the recording of the loop to compare with. If you do have a recording, it can be a useful guide - especially where a loop track is made from several sections of one commercial track edited together (we are working on a complicated edit of How the West was won at the moment - it's a nightmare) and another where they have used the first 1:16 of a track and the final 1:16 and miss out the entire middle sections!