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Flood wrote:Dan you are a Bible !

I've heard of a so-called "Floodland Mixes" tape including 2 versions of Flood I, Flood II and Driven Like The Snow.
I don't have yet a copy of this and I'd like to know if it's a fake :?:
Here is the attached text with the tape
I've had this tape sitting in a drawer since around 1990. It was just
labelled as "Floodland demos", and the recording was accompanied by a
loud whistle (this is caused by being copied using high-speed dubbing
when there's a TV set close to the machine). I removed as much of the
whistle as I could without affecting the quality of the recording, so
now it's not noticeable except during the quiet bits like at the start
and ends of some songs.

This is obviously another in-house mixes tape, or something of that
sort. The tracks are definitely different, for example the intro of
Driven Like The Snow #1 is longer, and the mix of Lucretia sounds
less busy than the finished version. Also, you can hear that some
tracks seem to be off vinyl, so some of them are probably from
acetates.

Is this rare? I really don't know, and couldn't give a toss, but I
haven't seen it on anyone's list so I suppose it could be.
I now release this to the masses, in the hope that some of the other
people selfishly hoarding the "rare" stuff will do something similar.
After all, we're all Sisters fans, and the net is all about sharing.
I think I'm probably wasting my time though, and Eldritch will release
3 new albums before I get to hear Deinze 1.6.84.

Floodland Mixes - 01 - Driven Like The Snow (#1)
Floodland Mixes - 02 - Flood I (#1)
Floodland Mixes - 03 - Flood II (#1)
Floodland Mixes - 04 - Dominion - Mother Russia
Floodland Mixes - 05 - 1959
Floodland Mixes - 06 - Lucretia My Reflection
Floodland Mixes - 07 - Flood I (#2)
Floodland Mixes - 08 - Driven Like The Snow (#2)
Floodland Mixes - 09 - This Corrosion
Floodland Mixes - 10 - Flood II (#2)
Floodland Mixes - 11 - Neverland (a fragment)

Total: 60 minutes
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GR5K7T50
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"De toegang tot het bestand is tijdelijk onmogelijk." :(


("access to this file is temporarily impossible.")
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Tidal wrote:"De toegang tot het bestand is tijdelijk onmogelijk." :(


("access to this file is temporarily impossible.")
Try refreshing your browser a few times and it will allow you to download it.
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Thanks it works now :D Fantastic, can't wait to hear them!
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AAAAAAAARRRRRGHHHHH!!!!
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WinZip....evaluation period.....is over..... :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
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I used winrar. And anyway I've been using winzip for years, you can keep using it after the evaluation period is over.
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winzip doesnt deem to work anymore (use evaluation version does not light up even after the "days used" are done)
but Winrar works! thanks!
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thank you Dan :notworthy:
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7-zip is a great bit of freeware that will open zip's and rar's as well as a number of other formats.
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I remember, before a friend accidentally sent me a WinRAR installer and then accidentally told me a valid key, that CAM UnZip was a good freeware program too.
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Love the accidental attitude. :innocent:
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Of course. He'd never send me keygens, DVD rips or links to copyrighted material intentionally, I'm sure.
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Thanks for posting. These don't sound like the Floodland demos that are available in the weeding section. These sound to me more like alternate mixes of the final songs (e.g. extra vocal-echo on the Lucretia chorus).
Sounds like the songs are in their "near-completion" stage. Is that right?
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robertzombie wrote:These sound to me more like alternate mixes of the final songs (e.g. extra vocal-echo on the Lucretia chorus).
Sounds like the songs are in their "near-completion" stage. Is that right?
I guess so. I'm pretty sure the guy I got the tape from said he got the tape before the album was released.
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as discussed before Dan, there was also a pink label advance test pressing lp with most of this songs
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Dan Dan the upload man :notworthy:
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Flood wrote:Walk Away demo ??
Great list you've made here.
If you've put question marks here because you're not sure it's real/it exists, there is a demo version of Walk Away on In the shadow of angels/Wide receiver which is different from the final version, both musically as the way it's sung. Unfortunately, it comes with the final 1985 lyrics.

edit: There are several demo versions of No time to cry out there as well. One more listenable then the other...
I like these calm little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven. Can you hear it? It's like when you put your head to the grass and you can hear the growin' and you can hear the insects.
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Giving Ground instrumental
Rock and hard place with the extra 'far away' (eg on echoes2)

what about eg 'mother dominion' or that corrosion radio thingy -- are those considered an 'official release'?

.... and may I add a big THANK YOU DAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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How about the Don Juan demos lp - aren't they supposed to be from 'Andy's Cousin's demo tape' c 1983?

Any chance of weeding that Floodland demos upload, :wink: cos i can't download stuff here at work :?
Is this the place I used to know as Fatherland?
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>How about the Don Juan demos lp

no at all, just fake mixes done with equalizer and peel session tracks
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RE: Floodland mixes.

Dan the man wrote:
I now release this to the masses, in the hope that some of the other people selfishly hoarding the "rare" stuff will do something similar. After all, we're all Sisters fans, and the net is all about sharing.
Floodland mixes... :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

THANK YOU DAN!!!! :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:

Any chance of sharing your lossless rip in the weeding section... these recordings are an awesome and rare find!

Thanks again for the share... and thanks to fellow Heartlanders for trying to list all demo recordings available in chronological order. I thought about trying to do this myself. :wink:

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DrG wrote:Any chance of sharing your lossless rip in the weeding section
There is no lossless rip, just those mp3's I made about 6 or so years ago.
DrG wrote:these recordings are an awesome and rare find!
I take it you haven't listened to them yet, they're not that great. :D
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taylor wrote:as discussed before Dan, there was also a pink label advance test pressing lp with most of this songs
is that the same as the black label Floodland test press with differently edited versions of all the songs?
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yes, long version of Driven ect
plain pink label
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taylor wrote:yes, long version of Driven ect
plain pink label
R.O.G. SAM410?

The black label I have has the following track times:

Dominion Mother Russia(7.06)/Flood I(6.17)/Lucretia My Reflection(4.52)/1959(4.08 ) // This Corrosion(9.22)/Flood II(6.13)/Driven Like The Snow(4.35)/Neverland (a fragment)(2.44)

As compared to the standard lp:

Dominion Mother Russia(7.10)/Flood I(7.29)/Lucretia My Reflection(3.55)/1959(4.10) // This Corrosion(9.27)/Flood II(6.24)/Driven Like The Snow(4.41)/Neverland (a fragment)(2.46)

the standard cd:

Dominion Mother Russia(7.01)/Flood I(6.22)/Lucretia My Reflection(4.57)/1959(4.09)/This Corrosion(10.55)/Flood II(6.47)/Driven Like The Snow(6.27)/Neverland (a fragment)(2.46)/Torch(3.51)/Colours(7.18 )

and the cassette:

Dominion Mother Russia(7.06)/Flood I(6.03)/Lucretia My Reflection(4.57)/1959(4.02)/Torch(3.45) // This Corrosion(10.48 )/Flood II(6.42)/Driven Like The Snow(6.20)/Neverland (a fragment)(2.44)


Are there any other versions out there? What are the track times for the remastered one from earlier this year?

G*d, this is hexciting.... :lol:
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