Dreams Never End

This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears

Ripped from a vinyl album released on 4AD Records (BAD 411) in 1984 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. Not my best ever rip (and nowhere close) but I was determined to extract what I could from this well played record. Thankfully I also have the cd which gets more play these days, maybe I should have chickened out and gone with the digital format instead? Anyway... too late, it's done - with just enough audible evidence of heritage. A classy record all the same.

A1 Kangaroo
A2 Song To The Siren
A3 Holocaust
A4 Fyt
A5 Fond Affections
A6 The Last Ray
B1 Another Day
B2 Waves Become Wings
B3 Barramundi
B4 Dreams Made Flesh
B5 Not Me
B6 A Single Wish

Here's To Tomorrow

This Mortal Coil - Late Night

Ripped from a compact disc promo EP released on 4AD Records (TMC 1CD) in 1991 to high quality lossless flac audio. I was disappointed with the Blood album considering the five year gap since Filigree,  and it never survived a clear out of music back in the nineties. The label ensured that their sales force were put to good use at the time and these little samplers were given away to anybody who wanted one at the time.

1 Late Night
2 You And Your Sister
3 I Come And Stand At Every Door
4 With Tomorrow

Velvet Bellies

This Mortal Coil - Filigree & Shadow

Ripped from a vinyl double album released on 4AD Records (DAD 609) in 1986 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. An experiment in obtaining the best audible quality rip from a pair of thirty year old well played but clean records. Ripped using Audacity 2.1.0 on a Project Debut Carbon turntable with an Ortofon 2M Red cartridge through a Marantz PM6005 amplifier wired to my PC through a Soundblaster 24-bit USB Card to 24-bit/96000Hz wav. A 24db per octave roll-off was then applied in the Audacity high pass filter at 27.0Hz - this does a nice job of removing any audible vinyl rumble. The whole file was then opened on good old-fashioned Cool Edit Pro 2.1, normalised to -1.0db and then a gentle volume reduction applied to gaps between tracks and then most audible clicks or pops removed manually one by one. A sweep of each sides end fade was applied using the built in pop/click remover pre-set low as these bits are always crackly. Tracks were then split in Cool Edit Pro before being down sampled to 24/48000 wav. The files were then converted to 24-bit flac in Foobar 1.3.3 and then tagged using Foobar's rather nice Discogs tagging function. To you.

A1 Velvet Belly
A2 The Jeweller
A3 Ivy And Neet
A4 Meniscus
A5 Tears
A6 Tarantula
B1 My Father
B2 Come Here My Love
B3 At First, And Then
B4 Strength Of Strings
B5 Morning Glory
C1 Inch-Blue
C2 I Want To Live
C3 Mama K (1)
C4 Filigree & Shadow
C5 Firebrothers
C6 Thaïs (1)
C7 I Must Have Been Blind
C8 A Heart Of Glass
D1 Alone
D2 Mama K (2)
D3 The Horizon Bleeds And Sucks Its Thumb
D4 Drugs 3:10
D5 Red Rain 3:53
D6 Thaïs

When The Dust Settles....

This Mortal Coil - Sixteen Days/Gathering Dust/Song To The Siren

Ripped from a 12" vinyl EP released on 4AD Records (BAD 310) in 1983 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. After numerous attempts to conjure a worthwhile rip from my very crackly seven inch, Steve from Norwich has come up trumps with this pristine rip. Many had requested this ....so thanks again Steve!

My history of the Modern English cover version adorning the a-side is somewhat vague. From what I can recall Modern English were asked to cover themselves for the single, they refused so Elizabeth Fraser and Gordon Sharp (from Cindytalk) took on vocals assisted musically by Martin Young (Colourbox), Robin Guthrie with Michael Conroy and Gary McDowell from Modern English!! Work that one out ...perhaps Robbie just didn't want to be involved. The b-side should need no introduction as one of the finest cover versions ever recorded.

A1 Sixteen Days - Gathering Dust
B1 Song To The Siren
B2 Sixteen Days (Reprise)