Delta Machine demos

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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.

Screenshot of Home forum post (no longer accessible) linking to SoundCloud playlist of these excerpts.

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.

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

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