XTC C/D S/D

are you sure you aren't thinking of the Apples in Stereo dude

http://wxrt.radio.com/2011/07/01/playlist-cover-me-part-2/5/

wtf

can't really imagine what Andy would see in such a "collaboration"

hard for me to believe that the verve pipe clown would see andy partridge as his hero

I guess both of us need to suspend our disbelief

some factual errors btw ("Blue Array?" rmde)

Listened to a few Go 2 era tracks. Did the guy who torrented these really do the world a service by adding this noise reduction? The original Rapidshare downloads are taking an age to be downloaded, while the NR'd torrent sets took minutes.

I know, I guess I'm going to have to pull them all down from the original site.

Paul, I asked the chap if he would consider uploading his next batch without NR and he kindly agreed, so lets see.

That's great, it's good how he's split the tracks up etc, but the noise reduction thing had me completely baffled.

Wow, I just googled the guy that runs the blog, crazy!

I did the same yesterday. Not the most well-liked dude on the internets, is he?

Hard to tell if he is as big a screwball or if it's some kind of tape-trader beef writ large, he is also credited on English Settlement for backing vocals!

To save me the bother - where are the juicy links, please?

yeah this dude has been around the 'net forever. seems to have some sort of paranoia disorder? lots of great tapes though.

Paul, Google his name and take yr pick of like the first five links.

Ignore the Fear of Music rough mixes d/l btw, it's just a cassette premaster of the finished thing, unless your stoked about hearing a 1/4 machine in rewind before Life During Wartime.

haha, yeah i was excited about that one, but could not discern any difference in the mix other than tape hiss.

Woah. So in what context is he "nearing the end of his life"?

Maybe none at-all?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHL1l5xTOdM/SvhjolWnumI/AAAAAAAAAA0/nsWZheTCc6Y/s1600-h/LonelySurfer.jpg

ffs

I'll have to see if someone I know knows this dude...

I don't think I have the patience to download and process all those files. What's the most critical, previously unreleased stuff from it?

Oh, and if anyone's got these demos, please drop me some ILXmail:

Alan Burston Bop
Am I The Kind Of Girl?
Child's Night
Girl In Water Colours
Life Is Always
Little Lies
New Country Squire
Oh My Brittania
These Voices
Walking To Work
Wyborn Sign

Dude's site is gawn. :(

GAH. I hope all the content's been grabbed.

A lot of it filtered out onto DMND.

There was some really interesting-looking XTC stuff getting posted in the past few days, though. It would have required a real concentrated effort with a lot of spared time and patience spare to grab it all. I think.

I've been in contact with the guy that was bringing it to torrents, we've chatted about doing some mastering for him on the original files that he grabbed, mainly levels and maybe a touch of EQ here an there, nothing drastic.

Sounds promising...

Can anyone zap me the Go2 stuff? I managed to get the Dave Greg Sci-fi tape..

Hey Mark, I sent you an ilxmail the page is acting funny though, let me know if you didn't get anything.

Didn't get it:

I managed to send you one.

On it's way.

What is the Dave Gregory Sc-Fi thing?

Some bit of music that Dave Gregory and this Hans Devende guy 'jammed' in a studio somewhere, it was called 'Music For An Untitled Sci-Fi Film' haven't listened to it yet.

Cool, thanks, was having trouble searching for that

Youtube living-room cover dude nails it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGy1_cHQHcc

Aw, that is nice, I like that

"Dave Gregory is the new boy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46MllXtIcq0

Ok I may have come around on Smartest Monkeys, aided by my newfound ability to mishear the chorus as some nonsense syllables. That choppy guitar is pretty damn good. Even most bad XTC songs are good (except for "My Weapon").

Listening to the Andy Partridge produced version of Blur's Sunday Sunday and it has a very strong Dukes/Good man Albert Brown feel, it's good!

Where?

Indeed! I've been absolutely dying to hear these sessions for years!

They're on the new Blur Box set, three tracks 'Coping' especially is really great.

So you have a review copy then? HMMMMMM.

a Hmmm Hmmmm?

Nah, nothing sinister, my other half is involved with the project.

ah, that's not sinister enough..

I'm a good scout generally, occasionally I really want to splurge about stuff that I'm told about but can't, not being able to talk about the Pink Floyd reissue stuff was *killing* me all last year.

Can you play it over the phone then?