Sebastian Krzyszkowiak @dos@librem.one

Apparently, the label decided that rock is dead and there's no place for guitar solos in popular music anymore 🙃 The whole bridge has been redone, with live drum stem replaced with drum machine across the whole track.

Let's move to another song: somewhat melancholic "Ty wiesz" was supposed to burst into an energetic bridge with guest solo by prolific guitarist Jacek Królik.

The edited version goes much further to fill the space with instruments. The most obvious are drums, but there's also plenty of electric guitar licks. Gone is Markowski’s vocals’ trademark liberal rhythmic expression, all syllables are put into their place and extended or shortened as appropriate.

It diverges more as the song goes on. The original arrangement relies almost exclusively on acoustic guitar and string quartet to set the mood, with a little touch of bass melody.

One such difference strikes already within the first seconds of intimate ballad "Wybacz mi" with how the vocals are processed.

Original first, then radio edit.

This gives us a pretty unique opportunity to look at what the label actually changed, as its involvement only started after the material was first done the way the artists intended.

So let's do just that 😁

Sygitowicz reluctantly agreed, later stating in an interview that EMI focused on ballads and left the songs he cared about the most alone 😉 The artists weren't involved in producing the edited versions. A few years later the original versions of those singles have been released to the public.

After a while, another label - EMI - agreed to cover the expenses and publish the album. But they had conditions. They wanted to choose and produce the singles by themselves. In the end, four songs landed on the album as "radio edits", and that's what ended up being promoted in media.

The album was simply called after the artists - "Markowski & Sygitowicz". However, it took about a year from finishing the material to releasing it. The album was supposed to be published by public broadcaster Polish Radio, but they closed their publishing division and the project was left in limbo.

So there was this Polish rock band called "Perfect". It's a mainstream, household name - think of it as the local Rolling Stones. Their popularity peak was in the 80s, but they stayed somewhat relevant in pop culture across decades.

In 2010, their vocalist and ex-guitarist released a side project.

Ever wondered how music labels are influencing popular music? 🧵

That's probably not the kind of stuff you expect to see from me here, but whatever, let's go crazy 🤪 Maybe you'll find this interesting!

#music #pop #rock #musicindustry #polishrock

Kinda disappointed with reissue's cover artwork. It's clearly vectorized, doesn't preserve some details very well, exaggerates others and colors seem all over the place. Not so perfect.

How does it sound though? Who knows! I'd need a record player to tell you that 😂 #perfect #vinyl #shotonlibrem5

Had an unannounced guest in our yard. #birdsofmastodon

I'm not going to switch to Bluesky - it's a platform that hasn't learned anything from what happened with Twitter and is doomed to repeat its fate - but some people do. If you're one of them, this is a "hello" to you, as my fedi profile is now bridged and future posts will be available at @dosowisko.net: https://bsky.app/profile/dosowisko.net

If you're on #Bluesky, you can make your account available to the fediverse by following @ap.brid.gy

If you're also on fedi (Mastodon et al.), find me at @dos 👋

Turns out my eyes are still working well enough for 4K res on a 13" screen to make a significant difference, to dismay of my poor 6 years old integrated GPU.