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telys wrote: Tue 10 Jun 2025, 12:42 pm It's a six minute mix. Never before heard?

Not strictly true. The link provided is to a user's login to Warner's music sync service, providing licensed music for TV, film, advert, video game use etc. I presume this has been available for quite a while.

I don't really recognise it either.
I believe I have a musical ear where I'll recognise songs within a second. It happens when I watch the television performances of PSB and it's on playback, you can tell instantly it's exactly the same as the record.
The percussion sounds different in this mix to me.

We've discussed these leaks before in thread viewtopic.php?t=38216
It was presumed the WE​G instrumental is an unofficial mix made from the multitracks.
But seeing it now on an official resource bodes differently.
Maybe it's still a lesser official version mixed up from the multitracks. Opposed to a studio produced version simply stripped off it's vocals.

There are no other mixes of West End girls having that length (roughly 6 min) so I really wonder where it comes from.

telys wrote: Wed 11 Jun 2025, 10:26 am There are no other mixes of West End girls having that length (roughly 6 min) so I really wonder where it comes from.

It sounds like the original single/album version, but playing right to the end without a fade out. But with the hi-hats and kick drum missing from the intro.

Wonderful link that is, with tons of great 80's instrumentals!!!

If you listen carefully to the West End Girs version, you´ll find that it´s the same version they used, heavily edited, for the SMASH! Bluray menu: the intro and outro are exactyly the same as on the Bluray version.
The ending is also the same as on their 1986 MTV awards performance, so it´s obviously a (previously unheard) full-lenght backing track they had for possible live performances and TV presentations.

Plus, the real lenght of that instrumental is 5:56 (if you remove the dead silence at the star and end of the track) not 6:07.

I bet it´s the same version included on this very rare and exclusive CD:

https://www.discogs.com/release/2173658 ... -Listening

Oznerol wrote: Fri 13 Jun 2025, 8:13 pm Wonderful link that is, with tons of great 80's instrumentals!!!

If you listen carefully to the West End Girs version, you´ll find that it´s the same version they used, heavily edited, for the SMASH! Bluray menu: the intro and outro are exactyly the same as on the Bluray version.
The ending is also the same as on their 1986 MTV awards performance, so it´s obviously a (previously unheard) full-lenght backing track they had for possible live performances and TV presentations.

Plus, the real lenght of that instrumental is 5:56 (if you remove the dead silence at the star and end of the track) not 6:07.

Interesting.

Oznerol wrote: Fri 13 Jun 2025, 8:13 pm Wonderful link that is, with tons of great 80's instrumentals!!!

If you listen carefully to the West End Girs version, you´ll find that it´s the same version they used, heavily edited, for the SMASH! Bluray menu: the intro and outro are exactyly the same as on the Bluray version.
The ending is also the same as on their 1986 MTV awards performance, so it´s obviously a (previously unheard) full-lenght backing track they had for possible live performances and TV presentations.

Plus, the real lenght of that instrumental is 5:56 (if you remove the dead silence at the star and end of the track) not 6:07.

I bet it´s the same version included on this very rare and exclusive CD:

https://www.discogs.com/release/2173658 ... -Listening

great detective work.

there are so many tracks out there, that came from a lot of places.

the industry tracks have been going on for awhile, but most are really
hard to come by.

thanks to the original users account, that gave us access to these tracks.



yes, there are a lot of really cool ones in there, even if you just want to do
karoake to them.

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negative_0ne wrote: Tue 24 Dec 2024, 7:55 pm

leesmapman wrote: Tue 24 Dec 2024, 3:15 pm

OakeyDokey wrote:Isn't it possible with modern tech to de-vocalise songs? I've seen examples of it on YouTube by fans uploading songs of their favourite groups so you can sing along to the instrumentals.

It's not perfect. I used it for my Nirvana/Pet Shop Boys mashup and there's some slight distortion here and there. But by putting the other vocals over the music, these artefacts are kinda "blurred"

Verstuurd vanaf mijn SM-A528B met Tapatalk

using the right options , you can get almost near perfect results on the songs.

the ultimate vocal remover has tons of options, you just have to play with them
to do it.

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I've been banging out George Michael Ai's, and quite frankly I have tried alot of these programs and it seems to slightly ruin the track in removing the vocals. maybe some are better than others, I have tried a bunch, they seem to do the same basically.
theres sort of a reverby sounding....howling...that occurs. nothing beats the official instrumentals. I will check out the ultimate program. thanks

glennjridge wrote: Mon 23 Jun 2025, 1:28 am

negative_0ne wrote: Tue 24 Dec 2024, 7:55 pm

leesmapman wrote: Tue 24 Dec 2024, 3:15 pm It's not perfect. I used it for my Nirvana/Pet Shop Boys mashup and there's some slight distortion here and there. But by putting the other vocals over the music, these artefacts are kinda "blurred"

Verstuurd vanaf mijn SM-A528B met Tapatalk

using the right options , you can get almost near perfect results on the songs.

the ultimate vocal remover has tons of options, you just have to play with them
to do it.

later
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I've been banging out George Michael Ai's, and quite frankly I have tried alot of these programs and it seems to slightly ruin the track in removing the vocals. maybe some are better than others, I have tried a bunch, they seem to do the same basically.
theres sort of a reverby sounding....howling...that occurs. nothing beats the official instrumentals. I will check out the ultimate program. thanks

there is a multi-stage process that removes them.

you have to done one pass with the basic one,

then use another method to remove artifacts,

and another pass to do the fine tuning.


you can get very professional results using these.

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just for fun,

thought it would be interesting to turn the disco 5 tracks into instrumentals..
yes, some have repetitive parts throughout... but others sound a lot better
without the vocalists (*AHEM TT*)...


so here is the megamix : time : 1hr:5min:00sec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L7mt2-l1d0

its blocked in some countries, if it is let me know, will post
a mega link..

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negative_0ne wrote: Fri 28 Nov 2025, 4:09 pm just for fun,

thought it would be interesting to turn the disco 5 tracks into instrumentals..
yes, some have repetitive parts throughout... but others sound a lot better
without the vocalists (*AHEM TT*)...


so here is the megamix : time : 1hr:5min:00sec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L7mt2-l1d0

its blocked in some countries, if it is let me know, will post
a mega link..

later
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Hot for You Baby sounds so much better without Tina's godawful screeching. There was a reason she left it on the studio floor when recording the original album it might have appeared on.

just for fun..

and actually, this might make it a little more 'easy' to listen too...

disco 2 instrumental megamix.... no chipmunk voices, samples, moans or anything else..
just pure beats, and instruments... some goes on, but its cool to have in the background...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s73pxdPFWYY

its the same length as the original..
General
Complete name : C:\data\mus\mp3\fanedit\own\megamix\pet shop boys\disco 2 megamixes\pet shop boys - disco2 (instMegamix).mp3
Format : MPEG Audio
File size : 65.9 MiB
Duration : 47 min 57 s
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 192 kb/s
Writing library : LAME3.100

Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Format settings : Joint stereo / MS Stereo
Duration : 47 min 57 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz

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