I totally agree with you. I have the same opinion. Ziggurats sounds like a typical old school Mike rap demos which I really like. Maybe he uses older samples. In some part it sounds like drums were taken from "Slip" and some sounds reminds me "Step Up". I really like it.
Faint was the first song I heard in my life. I started listen to LP at this point... Btw, Cuidado T-shirt is cool. I think Cuidado is Thoughts That Take Away My Pride:
I hope he will continue and finish interview with you and I really hope you will post all Xero stuff in some .rar format file for download. Instrumental Xero demos and Xero demos with your vocals (if you have them recorded) would be great to hear. Also some photos of tape or Jeff Blue's package with lyrics would be amazing to see too. For hardcore LP fans like me has every Xero material big price. I like every Xero song and I wish that one day we will get all unreleased stuff from this era.
"Chair" is also a Xero demo.
I also thought that Stick N Move was rerecorded in studio with Mark Wakefield because in Xero Current folder there is another version of it which is similar to version on the tape.
I want to hear this early version of Blue.
I think these demos are different on every tape because there is Stick N Move and Stick And Move.
Holy shit this is so fucking amazing!!! I want to hear it all shiiiiit! I always thought Carousel was a Xero Demo because it sounds like Xero Demo! And now I know that Mike just released nothing in the HT20 if I compare it with this. OMG. My mind will blow up with these info. I want the first studio Xero CD so much.
I bet it's a verse of the song. Just listen carefully on it. Verse follows chorus. Even the violin in backround sounds like it follows guitar in chorus. It's a typical Meteora demo. We can also say that verses from Ominous, Program and other demos are just simple beats because they really are simple and that's why they are called demos.
That beat is similar to Numb. After listening both videos you posted, I believe that "beat" from Mikes Shirt is a verse from Thoughts That Take Away My Pride but maybe it is just a different version of it that was made as beat without chorus and bridge and in Summer Sanitarium we can hear a full version with chorus and short verse. I think you have right. I have never heard this "beat" before. Nice find.
I wonder when Mike remixed a song. I hope it's a remix from years around 2000. I like Enjoy The Silence or Butterfly Caught. They are remixed in Meteora or Hybrid Theory styles and that's why I like them.
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That would be good. I really want to get COG (Linkin Park Remix), Chicken Basket, Monday Meeting, Left Right, Apes, Fire In The City...
Maybe it's not incredible fucking thing but it would be good to have Deftest in the collection and listen how the very first early Xero days sounded like. Also Pods 1, 2 and 3 aren't so good but he released them. He still can release this too. Nothing would happen to him if he would release it. Personally, I am very curious on every single unreleased demo.
I can guarantee it's 100% real. You can't make instrumental with programs without hearing some silent voice. But in this demo isn't any voice and it's floating on the internet about 8 years without anyone noticing it. Quality of this demo is something between Xero Demo Tape version and version with Chester. You can hear that it is really old demo.