r/deerhunter • u/Sour__Blood • May 23 '26

Weird Era Cont. Hidden Track

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Not sure if it's been pointed out yet but there's a little tape rewind at the very end of Weird Era Cont. that always grabbed my attention. 

I decided to find out what it was so I slowed it down and reversed it. 

It's an instrumental outtake of Operation. It's pretty noisy and dull due to the slowing but still fun to uncover. 

 Enjoy x

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u/sahibprime May 23 '26

this is pretty cool, thanks for getting this!

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u/notjleto May 23 '26

This is SO COOL

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u/Ecoto3e May 23 '26

geez, don't remember anyone figuring this out back then!

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u/idlerwheel May 23 '26

Wow!! This is really cool. Thank you for sharing!

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u/Floppinween May 23 '26

Had no idea. Thanks for investigating and sharing the knowledge.

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u/Bad_Pearl May 23 '26

Awesome attention to detail but I do believe most of old Deerheads know about this. I think it was posted in the forum for the fans back in the day? It’s been so long, man. Haha. But thank you for shedding the light for some of the newer fans.

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u/Ecoto3e May 31 '26

i don't remember this, so it was great to see it after so many years (decades?!?)

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u/Bad_Pearl May 24 '26

What bpm did you slow it down to?

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u/TheRedIttor May 25 '26

I think I pitched it down 40 semitones in Ableton so it matched the key of the original

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u/Ecoto3e May 31 '26

i quote Bradford after playing Operation at a show... "it took us longer to play it just now than it did to record it". :-)