Confield; or, Search and Destroy track-to-track segues

I despise track-to-track segues. That's because (a) I don't tend to ever listen to albums straight through and (b) it makes picking tracks off for compilations a bit of an ordeal

Hmm, maybe I mean something else then, because in the case of Confield, it's not an actual passage that transits between one track and the next. I don't know how to explain it, but it actually feels like the track is bending into the next on Confield in a magnificent way.

I was listening to Kid A today, specifically the segue from the noise at the end of "Idioteque" into the keyboards of "Morning Bell" and I thought, how neat would it be to come up with a CD format and a CD reader than could sense "overlapping" tracks like that? Like, if you started "Morning Bell" you wouldn't get the noise that follows from the previous track, you would just get the beginning of the song, but if you play it straight through you get the overlap. Somehow, each song would have to have its own "track" on the CD, and when the CD is being made, you could set it up so the ends of some songs automatically overlap onto the following. It might be useful, somehow.

Famous Athlete get some Technics!

I'm in love with long form album length works and making the transition to mp3's has been quite difficult. What players out there actually bluntsplice mp3's together with zero silence between tracks during playback? not that annoying iTunes crossfade feature that actually drops audio. I just want to be able to listen to an album exactly the same way it sounds on CD. mp3 format's certainly not ideal for album listening...

I like Athlete's idea, it's not impossible that soon the technology will be there for artists to release albums as seperate files, along with a playlist that coordinates them. that'd be fun. Listen to the album in sequence as intended, or if you want to just start with the 'morning bell' drums, the previous track's ending isn't cued. (though I like that field of noise there.)

The transitions on Confield are indeed the best part of the album. Each piece has great sounds but they wander on too long, they couldn't get the improvisations to gel into compositions. The transitions on 'draft 7.30' are great too, with the added advantage that I actually like the tracks themselves all the way through...