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

Notes

A very good recording. This FM broadcast is sourced from a second-generation cassette tape. Thanks to darkdevoted for providing the cassette.

Track list

1. [4:57] Black Celebration
2. [4:16] A Question Of Time
3. [5:25] It's Called A Heart
4. [5:34] Everything Counts
5. [2:49] It Doesn't Matter Two (*)
6. [4:35] A Question Of Lust (*)
7. [5:26] Blasphemous Rumours
8. [6:27] Stripped
9. [3:51] Something To Do
10. [5:13] Master And Servant
11. [4:35] People Are People
12. [1:42] Outro

• Total time: 54:50

Lineage

NHK (Japan) FM broadcast -> ... -> cassette (Maxell XLII-S60) -> Onkyo TA-2055 tape deck (heads cleaned before transferring; high position, no noise reduction setting, no Accubias setting, output level at 7 out of 11) -> RCA -> ASUS Xonar DX -> Adobe Audition CS6 (32-bit / 192 khz) -> 50% 6dB noise reduction, DC bias removed -> WAV (32/48; 100% quality & pre/post filter during sample rate conversion) -> sped up by 4.0% using Audacity 2.0.3 -> WAV (32/48) -> tracks split via cuesheet to FLAC level 8 (24/48) -> FLAC level 8 (16/44) using foobar2000 v.1.2.9, SoX resampler plugin (44.1khz, best quality) Generation: FM2 Transferred by ligushka

Line up

• Dave Gahan - lead vocals
• Martin Gore - keyboards, backing vocals, occasional lead vocals (*)
• Andrew Fletcher - keyboards
• Alan Wilder - keyboards, backing vocals

All songs written by Martin L. Gore.

Download

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