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I noticed there is a off-beat drum at 0:50 in the song Daydream by Wallace Collection. At first I thought it's a sampling problem, but then every single version of this song I could find had this little peculiarity at 00:50...

Searching the internet I found no mention of this.

Have anyone noticed this? Is this in the original recording, or is there a version without it?

traveh
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  • If the versions you listened to are the same as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9I_p8K6ZPg, I suspect if there's no mention of it just because it's not desperately off, and it's not a particularly well-known song (at least in the Anglosphere) –  Dec 09 '15 at 12:05

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At the time this song was released, bands still used live human drummers, and occasional imperfections in the beat were taken as a matter of course. The era of drum machines and/or stitching together hundreds of runthroughs into a single perfect take didn't come until later. Many of the signature recordings of the 60's and 70's were recorded under what would now be considered incredibly low-fi conditions.

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