The Gathering continues to make music (now with a new singer, Silje Wergeland), but Ifthenelse from 2000 remains frozen in amber. Thanks to a dedicated fan armed with EAC and FLAC, that amber is flawless. It is a perfect, uncorrupted, and future-proof document of a band at their atmospheric peak.
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One of the more experimental tracks on "side two," featuring psychedelic and electronic influences. Why EAC/FLAC Matters for This Album The Digital Holy Grail: Revisiting "The Gathering ifthenelse
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The album was recorded during the How to Measure a Planet? tour. It captures singer Anneke van Giersbergen at her peak—her voice soaring over a mix of older tracks ("Strange Machines," "In Motion #2") and new atmospheric epics. The soundboard recording was pristine, dynamic, and uncompressed—a rarity in the loudness war era.
The Gathering continues to make music (now with a new singer, Silje Wergeland), but Ifthenelse from 2000 remains frozen in amber. Thanks to a dedicated fan armed with EAC and FLAC, that amber is flawless. It is a perfect, uncorrupted, and future-proof document of a band at their atmospheric peak.
: This seems to refer to a specific encoding or format of a digital music file.
One of the more experimental tracks on "side two," featuring psychedelic and electronic influences. Why EAC/FLAC Matters for This Album
, developed by Andre Wiethoff, emerged in the late 1990s and became the gold standard by 2000. Unlike iTunes or Windows Media Player (which ripped quickly but ignored errors), EAC operated like a forensic tool.
The ifthenelse 2000 eacflac release included:
The album was recorded during the How to Measure a Planet? tour. It captures singer Anneke van Giersbergen at her peak—her voice soaring over a mix of older tracks ("Strange Machines," "In Motion #2") and new atmospheric epics. The soundboard recording was pristine, dynamic, and uncompressed—a rarity in the loudness war era.