So, I have attempted to isolate what I think/feel is the motif in 10 Miles High (with an attempt to isolate The Downward Spiral guitar, panned hard right) here:
https://soundcloud.com/noiseball/10-...late-tds-motif
I'm starting to worry for my sanity, because to me the motif is very clearly there.
In 10MH(instrumental), at 3:16, the bridge starts, with a bass note fading out.
There is a metronomic two-note tick-tock part happening, but alongside/"under" this, there is a distorted/flanged noisy synth which - to my ears - plays TDS motif where each note is sustained and continuous (as opposed to discrete plucks of guitar strings or piano keys). The start of each note lines up with the guitar notes in a tempo-adjusted The Downward Spiral.
Each iteration lasts about 25 seconds:
1st starts at - 3:16, 2nd - 3:41; 3rd - 4:06 (but then the guitar comes in).
(I previously said it did almost four full loops - it appears cannot count/really have lost it...)
I don't suppose anyone has 10MH multitracks just lying about... :/