Category:Recordings by Elly Apfel
Elly Apfel was a prolific European taper of Depeche Mode live concerts from 1984 through 1993. The vast majority of her recordings are of excellent quality; her earlier recordings from 1984 are only good quality at best.
Elly sold copies of her recordings, and even had some advertisements in some smaller magazines. She taped concerts from the 1990 World Violation Tour as well, but she claimed her recordings were "too good" to share. She encountered trouble with police in 1993 and her entire collection (not just Depeche Mode) was confiscated, so presumably the master tapes have been lost.
The equipment she used before 1987 is unknown. For the 1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour, she used a Sony WM-D6C cassette recorder with unknown microphones. The equipment used for the 1990 World Violation Tour is unknown. For the 1993 Devotional Tour, she used the Sony "Scoopman" digital microcassette recorder, again with unknown microphones, which rivaled DAT quality.
I have had the opportunity to transfer several of Elly's recordings so far, sourced from low-generation cassettes which were generously supplied for me to transfer by Falko. A few tapes that Falko doesn't own were transferred by darkdevoted on DIME and the raw files sent to me to master & share on DIME and here on the wiki. In time, I will transfer all of Falko's tape copies on the Nakamichi Dragon cassette deck and make them available to download.
The full list of the 40 Elly recordings that Falko purchased is below. For most of the recordings that have not had Dragon transfers of Falko's low-generation copies performed yet, existing low-generation cassette transfers done by fallenqueen are available and are marked as such. All of Falko's tape copies are first-generation, except for 1986-05-20 Münsterlandhalle, Münster, Germany and 1987-11-18 Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, France which are second-generation copies.
Below is a list of recordings that have been confirmed to be Elly's. Remember, the table above only contains the tapes that Falko purchased and will lend me to transfer on the Dragon; the list below includes a few recordings that Falko was not able to purchase copies of.
Pages in category "Recordings by Elly Apfel"
The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
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- 1984-11-21 Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Ludwigshafen, Germany/Source 1
- 1984-12-05 Münsterlandhalle, Münster, Germany/Source 1
- 1986-05-13 Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Ludwigshafen, Germany/Source 1
- 1986-05-20 Münsterlandhalle, Münster, Germany/Source 1
- 1986-05-22 Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany/Source 2
- 1986-05-25 Walter-Köbel-Halle, Rüsselsheim, Germany/Source 1
- 1986-08-16 Valbyparken, Copenhagen, Denmark/Source 2
- 1987-10-22 Pabellon De Real Madrid, Madrid, Spain/Source 1
- 1987-10-23 Blaugrana Sports Palas, Barcelona, Spain/Source 1
- 1987-10-25 Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany/Source 1
- 1987-10-26 Palasport, Bologna, Italy/Source 1
- 1987-10-29 Palasport, Turin, Italy/Source 1
- 1987-11-02 Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle, Stuttgart, Germany/Source 1
- 1987-11-03 Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany/Source 1
- 1987-11-04 Grugahalle, Essen, Germany/Source 2
- 1987-11-06 Sporthalle, Cologne, Germany/Source 1
- 1987-11-07 Messehalle, Hannover, Germany/Source 1
- 1987-11-09 Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany/Source 1
- 1987-11-11 Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Ludwigshafen, Germany/Source 1
- 1987-11-13 Halle des Fêtes, Lausanne, Switzerland/Source 1
- 1988-02-06 Alsterdorfer Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany/Source 1
- 1988-02-07 Alsterdorfer Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany/Source 1
- 1988-02-09 Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany/Source 1
- 1988-02-10 Weser-Ems-Halle, Oldenburg, Germany/Source 1
- 1988-02-19 Ostseehalle, Kiel, Germany/Source 1
- 1988-02-23 Espace Foire, Lille, France/Source 1
- 1988-03-05 Hall Rhenus, Strasbourg, France/Source 1
- 1988-03-13 Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria/Source 1
- 1993-06-14 Westfallenhalle, Dortmund, Germany/Source 1
- 1993-07-22 Sporthalle, Cologne, Germany/Source 2
