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On September 20, 2021, 45-second excerpts of demos of 12 songs and studio outtake / rough versions of 2 songs from the 2013 album [[Delta Machine]] were uploaded to SoundCloud, but were removed within a few hours.<ref name="SC">[https://soundcloud.com/user-350905251/sets/dm-delta-machine-demos SoundCloud playlist] (''no longer available'') uploaded by [https://soundcloud.com/user-350905251 SoundCloud user "DMfanTrade"] (''user no longer exists as of 9/22/21'').</ref> The link to the SoundCloud playlist was posted on the [https://www.depeche-mode.com Home] fan forum<ref name=“home”>[https://www.depeche-mode.com/forum/index.php?topic=33262.0 Home thread titled "where can we talk about demos of delta machines?"]; thread no longer accessible as of September 21, 2021</ref>; see screenshot. Those excerpts were downloaded and are mirrored below.
== Notes ==
[[File:Home-Delta-post.png|thumb|right|Screenshot of Home forum post<ref name=“home”></ref> linking to SoundCloud playlist of these excerpts.]]
Demos of thirteen songs, along with studio outtakes or "rough" versions of two tracks from the 2013 album ''[[Delta Machine]]'', were leaked in March 2023 as full versions on YouTube. Previously, only snippets were available (read below). These files are in AAC 192kbps 44.1kHz stereo, and are not sourced from YouTube. The audio has not undergone further re-encoding, and track order and tags remain unaltered, and moreover, this audio seems to lack equalization, unlike the commonly circulated MP3 192kbps version.
One song, "Schism", is an unreleased instrumental song. The demo for [[Slow]] is not the original demo of the song recorded circa 1993, but is a re-recording.


Some songs closely resemble the final released versions, such as [[Always]], [[Heaven]], [[Slow]], and [[Welcome To My World]], as well as the two "rough" versions of [[Secret To The End]] and [[My Little Universe]]. Other songs are vastly different from the released versions.
On September 20, 2021, 45-second excerpts of these demos and rough versions were briefly uploaded to SoundCloud before being taken down within hours.<ref name="SC">[https://soundcloud.com/user-350905251/sets/dm-delta-machine-demos SoundCloud playlist] (''no longer available'') uploaded by [https://soundcloud.com/user-350905251 SoundCloud user "DMfanTrade"] (''user profile no longer exists as of 9/22/21'').</ref> The link to the SoundCloud playlist was shared on the [https://www.depeche-mode.com Home] fan forum<ref name="home">[https://www.depeche-mode.com/forum/index.php?topic=33262.0 Home thread titled "where can we talk about demos of delta machines?"]; thread is no longer accessible as of September 21, 2021</ref>; you can see a screenshot below. These excerpts, along with a few longer samples, were mirrored until March 2023 when the complete set of files emerged.


Facebook member [https://www.facebook.com/jonas.oberg.7 Jonas Öberg] posted a photo about these demos on May 14, 2021<ref name=“fb”>[https://www.facebook.com/groups/682313208556201/permalink/3975577102563112/ Facebook post in public group Depeche Mode Original] by [https://www.facebook.com/jonas.oberg.7 Jonas Öberg] (''post inaccessible as of 9/25/21'')</ref>, indicating that he has had the demos for at least 5 years since the time of the post, and showing the same 14 songs along with [[Goodbye]], which did not have a snippet uploaded to SoundCloud. According to Winamp seen in the photograph, [[Slow]] is 1411kbps 44.1khz, which is 16-bit 44.1khz PCM audio, suggesting that he has lossless copies of the files.
Facebook member [https://www.facebook.com/jonas.oberg.7 Jonas Öberg] posted a photo about these demos on May 14, 2021<ref name="fb">[https://www.facebook.com/groups/682313208556201/permalink/3975577102563112/ Facebook post in public group Depeche Mode Original] by [https://www.facebook.com/jonas.oberg.7 Jonas Öberg] (''post inaccessible as of 9/25/21'')</ref>, indicating that he has had the demos for at least 5 years since the time of the post, and showing the same 14 songs along with '[[Goodbye]]', which did not have a snippet uploaded to SoundCloud. According to Winamp seen in the photograph, '[[Slow]]' is 1411kbps 44.1khz, which is 16-bit 44.1kHz PCM audio, suggesting that he has lossless copies of the files.
[[File:FB-Delta-post.png|thumb|right|Screenshot of Facebook post<ref name=“fb”></ref> by [https://www.facebook.com/jonas.oberg.7 Jonas Öberg] advertising these demos.]]
[[File:FB-Delta-photo.jpg|thumb|right|The full-size photograph of the fileset from the Facebook post<ref name=“fb”></ref> by [https://www.facebook.com/jonas.oberg.7 Jonas Öberg] advertising these demos.]]


Depmod.com also catalogs a "Delta Machine Instrumental Demos" studio CD-R from which no audio circulates as of 2023.<ref>[https://www.depmod.com/world-discography/delta-machine-66350/ Depmod: Delta Machine Instrumental Demos]</ref>
On March 13, 2023, a Home post indicated that an MP3 192kbps stereo file set was circulating on the internet containing most tracks.
== Track list ==


A WAV download of 2 minutes and 44 seconds of different demo excerpts compared to what was uploaded to SoundCloud was uploaded to MediaFire<ref name="MediaFire">[https://www.mediafire.com/file/n7h1v96l0knr2fy/Delta_Machine_Demos.wav/file Original MediaFire download link] posted by wiki user [[User:Stonefaceblack|Stonefaceblack]]</ref> and posted by wiki user [[User:Stonefaceblack|Stonefaceblack]] on September 27, 2021.<ref>[https://dmlive.wiki/w/index.php?title=Delta_Machine_Demos&oldid=42452 Delta Machine Demos - Revision as of 13:49, 27 September 2021 by Stonefaceblack] - MediaFire link added to the bottom of the page.</ref> A screenshot of the MediaFire download page is supplied in case the link becomes no longer available; according to MediaFire, the file was uploaded from a user in Israel on September 27, 2021 at 12:01pm (unknown timezone). This WAV compilation is poorly crossfaded and sounds to have some equalization applied to the audio. Based on spectrogram analysis, all songs are lossless, except for "Secret" which appears to have been lossy encoded. It can be streamed below; the file has not been re-encoded and is identical to the WAV file found at the MediaFire link.
<gallery mode="packed">
[[File:Delta-wav-mediafire.png|thumb|right|Screenshot of MediaFire download link<ref name="MediaFire"></ref> for the 2:44 duration WAV excerpt of demos.]]
Home-Delta-post.png|Screenshot of Home forum post<ref name="home" /> linking to SoundCloud playlist of 45-second excerpts.
FB-Delta-post.png|Screenshot of Facebook post<ref name="fb" /> by [https://www.facebook.com/jonas.oberg.7 Jonas Öberg] advertising these demos.
FB-Delta-photo.jpg|The full-size photograph of the fileset from the Facebook post<ref name="fb" /> by [https://www.facebook.com/jonas.oberg.7 Jonas Öberg] advertising these demos.
Home-MP3-Fileset-Post.png|Screenshot of Home forum post indicating MP3 file set is publicly circulating.<ref>[https://www.depeche-mode.com/forum/index.php?topic=33884.msg815833#msg815833 Home thread titled "Delta Machine Demos", post by user '''SensesOverflow''', retrieved 13 March 2023 20:38 EDT]</ref>
</gallery>


Audio contains excerpts of [[Welcome To My World]], [[Heaven]], [[Secret To The End|Secret]], [[My Little Universe|Universe]], [[Slow]], [[Broken]], [[Should Be Higher|Higher]], [[Soothe My Soul|Soothe]], [[Happens All The Time|Happens]], [[Always]], [[All That's Mine|Lot]], and Schism.
Whilst some songs closely resemble the final versions, such as '[[Always]]', '[[Heaven]]', '[[Slow]]', and '[[Welcome To My World]]', along with the two "rough" versions, others are significantly different from their released counterparts. One of these, '[[Schism]]', is an unreleased instrumental song which bears a resemblance to '[[Oh Well]]'. The '[[Slow]]' demo isn't the original from around 1993, but a re-recorded version. Some songs also have lyrical differences, which you can read about [[Lyric differences#Delta_Machine_demos|here]].


<html5media>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/delta-demos-excerpts-compilation.wav</html5media>
Oddly, the '[[Goodbye]]' demo only contains two seconds of audio despite its listed duration of 4:14. After the initial part of the song, the rest is silent. It's uncertain whether this was intentional or a technical glitch.


45 second snippets from each song originally uploaded to SoundCloud<ref name="SC"></ref> are streamable below.
Many thanks to an anonymous contributor for providing these files.


=== [[Welcome To My World]] ===
Depmod.com also catalogs a "Delta Machine Instrumental Demos" studio CD-R, although no audio from it has surfaced as of 2023.<ref>[https://www.depmod.com/world-discography/delta-machine-66350/ Depmod: Delta Machine Instrumental Demos]</ref>


Martin vocals.
:''You can find additional demos & outtakes here: [[Demos & Studio Outtakes]]''


<html5media>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/01.mp3</html5media>
== Track list ==
 
=== [[Heaven]] ===
 
Martin vocals.
 
<html5media>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/02.mp3</html5media>
 
=== [[Secret To The End|Secret]] ===
 
Dave vocals.
 
<html5media>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/03.mp3</html5media>
 
=== [[My Little Universe|Universe]] ===
 
Martin vocals.
 
<html5media>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/04.mp3</html5media>
 
=== [[Slow]] ===
 
Martin vocals.
 
<html5media>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/05.mp3</html5media>
 
=== [[Broken]] ===
 
Dave vocals. This song has both a 45-second excerpt and a 2 minute, 46-second excerpt which was also uploaded then removed by the [https://soundcloud.com/user-350905251 SoundCloud user "DMfanTrade"] (''user no longer exists as of 9/22/21'') in August 2021; file captured by and provided courtesy of '''zzed101'''.
 
45-second snippet:
 
<html5media>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/06.mp3</html5media>
 
2 minute, 46 second snippet:
 
<html5media>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/broken-demo-longer.mp3</html5media>
 
Also of note is a fan-edit of what seems to be the full demo track [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olm-UqUfvu0 available on YouTube here]. From a comment left on that video by the creator of the mix:
 
<blockquote>
I got the actual (and rare) demo recording from a friend, but the sound quality was terrible, so I had to enhance the vocals and recreated the music, but left it very close to the original demo.
</blockquote>
 
{{#widget:YouTube|id=Olm-UqUfvu0}}
 
=== [[Should Be Higher|Higher]] ===
 
Dave vocals.
 
<html5media>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/07.mp3</html5media>
 
=== [[Soothe My Soul|Soothe]] ===
 
Martin vocals.
 
<html5media>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/08.mp3</html5media>
 
=== [[Happens All The Time|Happens]] ===
 
Dave vocals.
 
<html5media>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/09.mp3</html5media>
 
=== [[Always]] ===
 
Martin vocals.
 
<html5media>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/10.mp3</html5media>
 
=== [[All That's Mine|Lot]] ===
 
Dave vocals. Demo for [[All That's Mine]].
 
<html5media>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/11.mp3</html5media>
 
=== Schism ===
 
Unreleased instrumental song.
 
<html5media>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/12.mp3</html5media>
 
=== [[Secret To The End]] (Rough 9 Oct 12) ===
 
Rough version, apparently very close sounding to the final version.


<html5media>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/13.mp3</html5media>
(*) indicates lead vocals by Martin Gore


=== [[My Little Universe|Universe]] (Ruff 3 Oct 12) ===
#[4:46] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/01.m4a</sm2> [[Welcome To My World]] {{tt|(*)|Vocals by Martin Gore}}
#[4:02] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/02.m4a</sm2> [[Heaven]] {{tt|(*)|Vocals by Martin Gore}}
#[5:14] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/03.m4a</sm2> [[Secret To The End|Secret]]
#[6:11] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/04.m4a</sm2> [[Secret To The End|Secret]] (Rough 9oct12_02)
#[4:13] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/05.m4a</sm2> [[My Little Universe|Universe]] {{tt|(*)|Vocals by Martin Gore}}
#[4:27] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/06.m4a</sm2> [[My Little Universe|Universe]] (Ruff 3Oct12)
#[3:42] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/07.m4a</sm2> [[Slow]] {{tt|(*)|Vocals by Martin Gore}}
#[4:58] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/08.m4a</sm2> [[Broken]]
#[4:58] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/09.m4a</sm2> [[Should Be Higher|Higher]]
#[4:43] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/10.m4a</sm2> [[Soothe My Soul|Soothe]] {{tt|(*)|Vocals by Martin Gore}}
#[4:14] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/11.m4a</sm2> [[Goodbye]]
#[4:24] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/12.m4a</sm2> [[All That's Mine|Lot]] (''demo for [[All That's Mine]]'')
#[4:37] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/13.m4a</sm2> [[Always]] {{tt|(*)|Vocals by Martin Gore}}
#[5:35] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/14.m4a</sm2> [[Happens All The Time|Happens]]
#[4:20] <sm2>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/15.m4a</sm2> [[Schism]]
*Total time: 1:10:24


Rough version, apparently very close sounding to the final version.
== Download ==


<html5media>https://media.dmlive.wiki/stream/demos/delta/14.mp3</html5media>
*[https://media.dmlive.wiki/downloads/Delta%20Machine%20Demos.zip Download ZIP] - AAC 192kbps 44.1kHz stereo - 81.2MB


== Lineage ==
*WAV 16-bit 44.1kHz -> AAC 192kbps 44.1kHz stereo
== References ==
== References ==
<references />

Latest revision as of 20:33, 19 August 2023

Notes

Demos of thirteen songs, along with studio outtakes or "rough" versions of two tracks from the 2013 album Delta Machine, were leaked in March 2023 as full versions on YouTube. Previously, only snippets were available (read below). These files are in AAC 192kbps 44.1kHz stereo, and are not sourced from YouTube. The audio has not undergone further re-encoding, and track order and tags remain unaltered, and moreover, this audio seems to lack equalization, unlike the commonly circulated MP3 192kbps version.

On September 20, 2021, 45-second excerpts of these demos and rough versions were briefly uploaded to SoundCloud before being taken down within hours.[1] The link to the SoundCloud playlist was shared on the Home fan forum[2]; you can see a screenshot below. These excerpts, along with a few longer samples, were mirrored until March 2023 when the complete set of files emerged.

Facebook member Jonas Öberg posted a photo about these demos on May 14, 2021[3], indicating that he has had the demos for at least 5 years since the time of the post, and showing the same 14 songs along with 'Goodbye', which did not have a snippet uploaded to SoundCloud. According to Winamp seen in the photograph, 'Slow' is 1411kbps 44.1khz, which is 16-bit 44.1kHz PCM audio, suggesting that he has lossless copies of the files.

On March 13, 2023, a Home post indicated that an MP3 192kbps stereo file set was circulating on the internet containing most tracks.

  • Screenshot of Home forum post[2] linking to SoundCloud playlist of 45-second excerpts.

    Screenshot of Home forum post[2] linking to SoundCloud playlist of 45-second excerpts.

  • Screenshot of Facebook post[3] by Jonas Öberg advertising these demos.

    Screenshot of Facebook post[3] by Jonas Öberg advertising these demos.

  • The full-size photograph of the fileset from the Facebook post[3] by Jonas Öberg advertising these demos.

    The full-size photograph of the fileset from the Facebook post[3] by Jonas Öberg advertising these demos.

  • Screenshot of Home forum post indicating MP3 file set is publicly circulating.[4]

    Screenshot of Home forum post indicating MP3 file set is publicly circulating.[4]

Whilst some songs closely resemble the final versions, such as 'Always', 'Heaven', 'Slow', and 'Welcome To My World', along with the two "rough" versions, others are significantly different from their released counterparts. One of these, 'Schism', is an unreleased instrumental song which bears a resemblance to 'Oh Well'. The 'Slow' demo isn't the original from around 1993, but a re-recorded version. Some songs also have lyrical differences, which you can read about here.

Oddly, the 'Goodbye' demo only contains two seconds of audio despite its listed duration of 4:14. After the initial part of the song, the rest is silent. It's uncertain whether this was intentional or a technical glitch.

Many thanks to an anonymous contributor for providing these files.

Depmod.com also catalogs a "Delta Machine Instrumental Demos" studio CD-R, although no audio from it has surfaced as of 2023.[5]

You can find additional demos & outtakes here: Demos & Studio Outtakes

Track list

(*) indicates lead vocals by Martin Gore

  1. [4:46] Play Welcome To My World (*)
  2. [4:02] Play Heaven (*)
  3. [5:14] Play Secret
  4. [6:11] Play Secret (Rough 9oct12_02)
  5. [4:13] Play Universe (*)
  6. [4:27] Play Universe (Ruff 3Oct12)
  7. [3:42] Play Slow (*)
  8. [4:58] Play Broken
  9. [4:58] Play Higher
  10. [4:43] Play Soothe (*)
  11. [4:14] Play Goodbye
  12. [4:24] Play Lot (demo for All That's Mine)
  13. [4:37] Play Always (*)
  14. [5:35] Play Happens
  15. [4:20] Play Schism
  • Total time: 1:10:24

Download

Lineage

  • WAV 16-bit 44.1kHz -> AAC 192kbps 44.1kHz stereo

References

  1. ↑ SoundCloud playlist (no longer available) uploaded by SoundCloud user "DMfanTrade" (user profile no longer exists as of 9/22/21).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Home thread titled "where can we talk about demos of delta machines?"; thread is no longer accessible as of September 21, 2021
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Facebook post in public group Depeche Mode Original by Jonas Öberg (post inaccessible as of 9/25/21)
  4. ↑ Home thread titled "Delta Machine Demos", post by user SensesOverflow, retrieved 13 March 2023 20:38 EDT
  5. ↑ Depmod: Delta Machine Instrumental Demos
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