Post by dlgladwin on Dec 2, 2015 10:47:48 GMT
Anyone with a Dimeadozen account can go here and get this:
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Torrent file XTC 1980 Black Sea Demos.torrent (will be personalized for you upon download)
Downloads as XTC 1980 Black Sea Demos
Info hash 71b7df358fa01f0a923a8b099488ad045674d6bd
Description XTC
Black Sea Demos
1980 Polygram Studios
Lineage: cassette > Audacity > WAV > FLAC@blog > Audacity (splitting, edits, fades) > TLH flac 8 > Dime > remove track 16 > Dime > you
Tracklist:
01 Living Through Another Cuba [instrumental]
02 Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me)
03 Rocket From A Bottle
04 Towers Of London
05 Smokeless Zone [instrumental]
06 Ban The Bomb [instrumental]
07 No Language In Our Lungs
08 Pearl [Andy Partridge solo]
09 Holding The Baby [Andy Partridge solo]
10 Monkeys In Human Skin Suits [Andy Partridge solo]
11 Burning With Optimism's Flames
12 Paper And Iron (Notes And Coins)
13 Travels In Nihilon
14 Don't Lose Your Temper
15 Respectable Street
Generals And Majors [not included - officially released on "Coat of Many Cupboards"]
Band:
Andy Partridge - guitar, vocals
Dave Gregory - guitar, vocals
Colin Moulding - bass, vocals
Terry Chambers - drums
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December 2015 notes:
After being snatched 390 times in 2012 this collection was banned after surfling was alerted that Generals And Majors was released on "Coat of Many Cupboards" and requested the ban. Since then it has not appeared at Dime. I was prompted by RevBeastly's request on the recent 1980-01-22 Michigan FM thread (http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=546538) to see if I had it. Here now is the Dime friendly version without the official track. Nothing has been changed here, except for removing the last track. The info file, the ffp and md5 are new. A photo of madtaper/hansdevente's cassette card has been added from his share at guitars101.
enjoy!
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surfling's notes with June 2012 Dime seed:
Here's another beauty from the incredible treasure chest of madtaper Hans:
A fantastic live recording of a demo session by XTC for their "Black Sea" album.
Highly recommended for anyone even remotely interested in this fine band!
I checked around on the web but could find no trace of these demos, it really seems they never made the rounds before. All I could find were some inferior quality versions of two of the Andy Partridge solo tracks on youtube. But as I am not very knowledgeable at all when it comes to XTC I may be completely wrong :-)
Anyway, the sound quality is excellent with only little hiss considering the age of the tape. Madtaper Hans really must have kept his cassettes under very good conditions.
I considered moving the three Andy Partridge solo tracks to the end as they clearly are not part of the same session; but as you can easily move them around as you wish yourself I decided to keep the track order as it was on madtapers cassette. Personally I'll certainly put them at the end whenever I listen to these absolutely fabulous demos.
I downloaded this recording as two long flac files from madtapers blog; I then split the tracks, edited out a few seconds of dead air inbetween some of the tracks (absolutely no music or chatting lost!) and added a fade in and a fade out at the very beginning and end of both files.
Other than that i didn't do anything to the original files - especially no NR or EQing. Added ffp and md5 files, wrote up this info file, and tagged the flac'ed individual tracks.
Hope you enjoy the result!
Split, edited, flacced, tagged & seeded on DAD by surfling june 2012.
All thanks go to madtaper Hans for sharing his treasures with us!
Enjoy!
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This is the original info that came with the file on Hans' blog:
TAPE 4,BLACK SEA DEMOS LIVE TO 2TRACK
XTC TAPE NR 4,FROM MY ARCHIVES
RIPPED TO WAVE,THRU AUDACITY.
converted to flac
THIS IS A DEMO FOR THE 4TH ALBUM,BLACK SEA
IT WAS RECORDED LIVE TO TWO TRACK AT POLYGRAM
NV MEANS NO VOCALS
1.ANOTHER CUBA NV
2.SGT ROCK
3.ROCKET FROM A BOTTLE
4.TOWERS OF LONDON
5.SMOKELESS ZONE NV
6. BAN THE BOMB NV
7.NO LANGUAGE IN OUR LUNGS
SOLO PERFORMANCES
8. PEARL ANDY
9.HOLDING THE BABY ANDY
10 MONKEYS IN HUMAN SKIN SUITS ANDY
11.BURNING WITH OPTIMISM FLAMES
SIDE TWO
12.PAPER AND IRON
13.TRAVELS IN NIHILON
14.DONT LOSE YOUR HOPES
15.RESPECTABLE STREETS
16.GENERALS & MAJORS
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