Another tragic story, well it's no so tragic since you can listen to the 2 albums on Bandcamp and Youtube...
Reduked started as a 10 track album with remixes of Duke Nukem 3D, it was originally released in 2010 with overall good reception, so I keep working on more remixes for a part two album, and even a third EP with remixes from Duke Nukem II some of which you can listen exclusively on soundcloud, while I was more or less ready to launch Reduked II, I decided to rework the first one to get a more polished sound, everything was going fine until the self sabotage demon started to talk to my ear, and I felt like any of this was enough, I keep reworking and reworking some of the remixes or changing the mixdown of others, up to a point, where in 2016 I finally decided to upload everything once and for all to SoundCloud, completely avoiding the album format, (you still can listen to some of the tracks on SoundCloud) some months later I had a hard drive crash, and you guessed... I lost all the source files.
Two years later I chose to finally upload a definitive version and launch Noise Boulder Records on Bandcamp at last, I recovered some of the mixdown tracks, finished some unfinished tracks and made a new remix from the recent (at the time) World Tour edition of Duke Nukem 3D, Reduked: Deluxe edition came to fruition in 2018, the new master was aimed to increase the dynamic range of the songs (a bit of technical terms ahead) following that misguiding trend of the -14 LUFS, so in theory this master sounds better than the one from SoundCloud but on the other hand it sounds quieter, I'm not here to judge so probably you need to compare them your self.
Anyway I'm planning to upload a definitive (ahora si) version of the album to Spotify and other streaming platforms (with permission of Lee Jackson, I'm still unable to contact Bob Prince) so probably I'll need to licence the remixes with a third party service. Probably I'll go with the Soundcloud master (louder) with some fixes.
Also 2020 I released a 10 anniversary remaster of the original Reduked plus a remix that was gathering dust.
Check all the links to listen to the different iterations and versions of these remixes, including the exclusive SoundCloud tracks
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