21 January 2010

Cabaret Voltaire - Outer Limits















The Outer Limits is another 1976 demo tape that came to the surface and made it to the Brainwashed CV discography.

Tracklist

A1
Capsules 7:29
A2
Is That Me (Finding Someone At The Door Again?) 4:48
A3
The Single 3:30
A4
Ooraseal 4:22
A5
Loves In Vein 4:30
A6
Dream Sequence 1 2:56
B1
Dream Sequence 2 3:42
B2
Do The Snake 5:59
B3
A Sunday Night In Biot 3:26
B4
She Loves You 8:44

My copy is two songs shorter than the one described on Brainvashed. It lacks Stolen from Spectra and Bedtime Stories.
Sound quality is... well this is a demo. Some of the songs appear on Methodology 1, and some on 1974-1976 album. Some versions do differ but only in length (they were edited because of the tape limitations, see they made these demos on c-60 cassette so they trimmed a song or two to fit on a cassette side.) Other versions seem to have different pitch. Again it is possible that the equipment they used to duplicate these tapes had different speed. But that only makes it all a bit more interesting does it not.
I like their early stuff. The sounds they produced back then show a great deal of creativity because it was not easy back then to create such sounds on equipment they had those days. I think highly of this period. Almost religious about it...

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