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Originally Posted by daepp

There was a series of videos a decade or so ago where the original producers - or the artists themselves - went back to the original multi-track recordings and showed how they "made" the finished music we heard on our LPs and CDs.

But for the last year or so a guy on our local FM station (yes, they do still exist!) did the same thing, as you can hear below.

How do he do this?

http://www.thesoundla.com/blogs/christian-james-hand/mitm-clips-breaking-down-police’s-“so-lonely”

to me it sounds like they may have gotten the original recordings in separate tracks. they are just to "clean".
I have played with some software that strips instruments/vox and it has never been as good as the police one, although what I have used was free stuff.

there is/was a TV show that went back in the studio with bands and broke down the original recordings of their albums. steely dan was one. I LOVED that show.