Delta Machine demos

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Demos of thirteen songs, along with studio outtake / "rough" versions of two songs from the 2013 album Delta Machine leaked in March 2023 as full versions on YouTube (previously, only snippets were available; history is available below). These files are AAC 192kbps 44.1kHz stereo and are not sourced from YouTube. The audio has not been re-encoded further, and track order and tags have not been altered. This audio does not seem to have any equalization applied to it as the MP3 192kbps version floating around does.

Some songs closely resemble the final versions, such as Always, Heaven, Slow, and Welcome To My World, and the two "rough" versions of the songs. Other songs are vastly different from the released versions. One song, "Schism", is an unreleased instrumental song which bears a resemblance to Oh Well. The demo for Slow is not the original demo of the song recorded circa 1993, but is a re-recording.

The demo for Goodbye only contains two seconds of audio despite having a duration of 4:14. After the beginning of the song, the rest of the track is silent. It is unknown whether this was intentional or whether some sort of error occurred.

Thanks to an anonymous contributor for providing this file set.

Depmod.com also catalogs a "Delta Machine Instrumental Demos" studio CD-R from which no audio circulates as of 2023.[1]

History

On September 20, 2021, 45-second excerpts of these demos and rough versions were uploaded to SoundCloud, but were removed within a few hours.[2] The link to the SoundCloud playlist was posted on the Home fan forum[3]; see screenshot below. Those excerpts, as well as a few other longer excerpts were mirrored below until March 2023 when the full file set surfaced.

Facebook member Jonas Öberg posted a photo about these demos on May 14, 2021[4], 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.


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

References

  1. Depmod: Delta Machine Instrumental Demos
  2. SoundCloud playlist (no longer available) uploaded by SoundCloud user "DMfanTrade" (user no longer exists as of 9/22/21).
  3. 3.0 3.1 Home thread titled "where can we talk about demos of delta machines?"; thread no longer accessible as of September 21, 2021
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Facebook post in public group Depeche Mode Original by Jonas Öberg (post inaccessible as of 9/25/21)