Friday 18 June 2010

New Order - Pasadena - 6 Nov 1981 - 128kb

Another rough early New Order concert, sound a bit ropey at times..
Worth a listen? For sure!

List:
1. The Him
2. Dreams Never End
3. In a Lonely Place
4. EGG
5. Senses
6. Procession
7. Chosen Time
8. Denial
9. Temptation

Link: here (44mb)

6 comments:

  1. Thanks, any chance you can provide the FLAC files for this one?

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  2. Hello, much as I would love to, there is one small problem - this is the only version I have. I am down to the last concerts from NO at their 1981 peak...and that means the ones in mp3 only. Maybe some hero will find they have a copy?!?

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  3. I have this concert in FLAC. It's out there somewhere. I was also at this concert, which is why I had to track it down!

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  4. P.S. The FLAC version has 10 tracks. The first track is a 43 second Intro track. Maybe that will help people track it down. 286 MB in size, overall. There is a text file with it named "NO-811106.txt". It says

    New Order
    Perkins Palace
    Pasadena CA
    1981-11-06

    taper: JC, Sony TC-D5 + ECM990F
    lineage: at best M/1 (master was lost in a house fire), but unknown for this copy.
    CAS(M/?) -> CD-R(4+) -> CD Wave (tracksplitting)-> FLAC

    Setlist:

    01 - intro (0:43)
    02 - The Him (4:47)
    03 - Dreams Never End (3:05)
    04 - In A Lonely Place (5:25)
    05 - Everything's Gone Green (5:03)
    06 - Senses (4:32)
    07 - Procession (3:54)
    08 - Chosen Time (4:00)
    09 - Denial (4:49)
    10 - Temptation (10:34)

    FLAC signatures:

    01 - intro.flac:a043d3b82fda16e1033643f02f5bd871
    02 - The Him.flac:ef4b1cf3babe198e1deedf16ee306ec2
    03 - Dreams Never End.flac:ba070470a433d85f56e9356d8ba3744c
    04 - In A Lonely Place.flac:3c2891765b47fced7ef5471a1fbfda76
    05 - Everything's Gone Green.flac:53f553f8af98fc202dd853e04acbdd4f
    06 - Senses.flac:ffc384cdb58c1446ae6dd0cd24803ae0
    07 - Procession.flac:19c0ceec07e089696236cacc5e467e66
    08 - Chosen Time.flac:1ef3b0a82135333801898e215f9d5fed
    09 - Denial.flac:e7559fa1d9ad4cdc8f41150fde69d924
    10 - Temptation.flac:d8218ef0c147f85aac9703f90c7ea88e

    Notes:

    This is by far the best-quality 1981 New Order audience recording, bar for perhaps Walthamstow or Stockholm. Worth it to hear Bernard's singing on Denial. And for the early version of Temptation, which is cut after about 10 minutes due to the master C90 running out.

    It sounds like the tape copy this was taken from was encoded with Dolby B NR, but I could be wrong about that. There's relatively little hiss. Nothing has been done to this by me, though I figure it's a good candidate for an eventual drewc sprucing-up.

    This one had made a few way-stops through the NO trading community, but shows little in the way of wear for it.

    Oh, if anybody ever turns up a copy of the Reseda gig the night before... or the Berkeley gig a few days after...as well as the City Gardens gig...please share!

    DO NOT SELL OR LEVERAGE THIS RECORDING FOR PROFIT.
    DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE IN LOSSY FORMAT.
    DO ENJOY.

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  5. P.S. The text file that came with my FLAC version can be seen here:

    http://antares341.narod.ru/NewOrder/1981/1981-11-06_Pasadena.html

    It's about 286 MB of FLAC files in all. I cannot find the original site where I got my copy, however.

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    1. Dead link. Does anyone know where this can still be found? Thank you!

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