Hi,
The only thing I have never been satisfied with is that the LP, created a limitation that I think hurt a lot of music.
All of a sudden, a lot of symphonies, were 20x20 (2 sides of an LP), and I seriously doubt that a Beethoven, or Mozart, or anyone else, for hundreds of years, would have written something that exactly 20 minutes or 40 minutes long, so that in the mid 20th century it would fit an ugly thing called "LP".
I think that over the years, a lot of these have been cut up and down to the point where we do not know what parts we are missing, and this is criminal to any artist. When you listen to Beethoven's 5th or 9th, and stand aside, there is something missing! The sequencing does not follow as clear as we would imagine it to, and in the 9th, the Choral part is kinda totally out there and not quite a part of it all, unless you create a story with martians and plutonians and idiots.
For the things like TFTO, TAAB, CTTE, AHMS, Echoes, and many other pieces, I think that most of those people were already aware of the time limitation and writing something becomes a bit of an exercise in making sure you do it right and can end it in that time.
And the really nice thing of the CD, is that the time limitation is gone, and that allows for some freedoms, except Strummy. He only knows 3 minute cuts. Maybe 4!
And this is the important side of it all, and seeing Djam Karet create something that has no time limitations like a Cassette or LP did, pretty much tells you that there are possibilities in music that we are not aware of, and in many cases (like here with "songs"), we are afraid to even listen to them, because our attention span is so commercialized by everything around us!