Delta Machine demos
On September 20, 2021, 45-second excerpts of demos of 13 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.[1] The link to the playlist was posted on the Home fan forum[2]; see screenshot to the right. Those snippets were downloaded and are mirrored below.
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.
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, which suggests he has lossless copies of the files.
Track list
45 second snippets from each song originally uploaded to SoundCloud[1] are streamable below.
Welcome To My World
Martin vocals.
Heaven
Martin vocals.
Secret
Dave vocals.
Universe
Martin vocals.
Slow
Martin vocals.
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 SoundCloud user "DMfanTrade" in August 2021.
45-second snippet:
2 minute, 46 second snippet:
Also of note is a fan-edit of what sounds to be the demo track in full available on YouTube here.
Higher
Dave vocals.
Soothe
Martin vocals.
Happens
Dave vocals.
Always
Martin vocals.
Lot
Dave vocals. Demo for All That's Mine.
Schism
Unreleased instrumental song.
Secret To The End (Rough 9 Oct 12)
Rough version, apparently very close sounding to the final version.
Universe (Ruff 3 Oct 12)
Rough version, apparently very close sounding to the final version.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 SoundCloud playlist (no longer available) uploaded by SoundCloud user "DMfanTrade".
- ↑ Home thread titled "where can we talk about demos of delta machines?"; thread no longer accessible as of September 21, 2021
- ↑ Facebook post in public group Depeche Mode Original
