1986-04-10 N.E.C., Birmingham, England, UK/Source 2

Notes

An excellent quality FM broadcast capture of a 1991 Swiss radio re-broadcast, recorded straight to DAT. There is consistent sound quality throughout, with very minor radio interference noises occasionally heard, most noticeable during It's Called A Heart. Most clicks and pops were manually removed.

Some DJ chatter and station jingles are heard between some songs, but for the most part it isn't too distracting. The the intros for Black Celebration and It's Called A Heart are cut to get the broadcast duration to under one hour. Furthermore, the first bar of Everything Counts is missing, and Stripped and Something To Do are missing the beginning notes.

The tape inlay states that the broadcast was January 26, 1991, but there is no evidence in the online Swiss newspaper archives of a broadcast of Depeche Mode occurring on this date. However, there is a mention of a DM broadcast on September 14, 1991. It's possible the earlier date written on the inlay is for one of the other radio broadcast recordings present on this DAT.

The auCDtectTaskManager claims the audio is MPEG (or fails with question marks for some tracks), but the presence of the 19khz FM stereo pilot tone is likely confusing its detection algorithms. The audio is lossless based on manual analysis of the spectrogram.

This is the unedited version of the Swiss radio broadcast audio. A rework which uses this DAT source for most of the recording combined with audio from an earlier Japanese radio broadcast in order to restore missing audio from the rebroadcast and eliminate the DJ chatter is available at Source 1.

Additionally, a freshly remastered version of the aforementioned Japanese FM broadcast recording is available as Source 3.

Many thanks to subwave collection CH for recording this broadcast to DAT, to Vince for his assistance with securing this tape, and to Robo and Robert for helping with quality checks.

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

The DAT tape's inlay card.

1. [0:51] Play Radio Intro
2. [4:17] Play Black Celebration
3. [4:18] Play A Question Of Time
4. [4:59] Play Shake The Disease
5. [4:53] Play It's Called A Heart
6. [0:58] Play DJ Chatter
7. [5:25] Play Everything Counts
8. [2:47] Play It Doesn't Matter Two (*)
9. [4:09] Play A Question Of Lust (*)
10. [5:21] Play Blasphemous Rumours
11. [0:49] Play DJ Chatter
12. [6:18] Play Stripped
13. [3:50] Play Something To Do
14. [5:10] Play Master And Servant
15. [4:12] Play People Are People
16. [0:48] Play Radio Outro

• Total time: 59:05

Lineage

The source DAT tape.

• Swiss Radio DRS3 broadcast on September 14, 1991 (according to newspaper archive) -> FM radio tuner (unknown model) -> equalizer (unknown model) -> DAT deck (unknown model), recording at 16-bit 48khz -> JVC R90 DAT master -> Sony SDT-9000 SCSI tape drive -> WaveDAT software -> WAV 16/48 -> in REAPER: slight EQ to lessen boomy bass and slight treble boost, manual iZotope RX 10 De-click as required, normalization, track splits -> FLAC level 8 (16/48)
• Generation: master
• Taper: subwave collection CH
• Transfer: DMLiveWiki on May 29, 2023
• DAT photo, inlay scan, and auCDtectTaskManager log included

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