that is a good question. but you have to realize, that we don´t know how old the stuff is. i would think that this is an early version of the album, just look at the weird fades, double-ilanders etc. i´m pretty sure the official promo version isn´t like that.
What? I got the m4u file and ilanders was only 6:58. It certainly doesn't loop in the one I got and I know its the same one everyone else got.
okay now. Obsessive as i've been the last few days, i actually took the alleged double ilanders, split it in half, and stacked both halves on top of each other. i aligned them as closely to being sample-accurate as i could in audacity, and inverted one of them.
amateur audio scientist phling's conclusion: lol no idea.
the two wave forms should have eliminated each other, leaving the difference between them which should have been perfect silence or something close to that. however what happened was that a good portion of the sound got much lower in volume, while some sounds retained much of their original volume. actually most of them sound like clipping…
(i had to adjust the gain of one part to get them to eliminate properly btw)
So imo, the sequenced structure of it is exactly the same through both parts. and the clicks and plops you hear come from clipping by recording it shoddingly from some computer with a cable. and ilanders is played twice.
listen here: wav (the inverted part fades in after couple of seconds)
one of the ilanders in the m4a file was louder than the other one, so that might explain it :8