30.04.1986
Germany, Aachen, Eurogress
Black Celebration Tour Aachen
good / vg. Aud.

01. Christmas island [3:48]
02. Black celebration [4:27]
03. A question of time [4:10]
04. Fly on the windscreen [5:42]
05. Shake the disease [4:57]
06.  Leave in silence [4:46]
07. It's called a heart [5:16]
08. Everything counts [5:38]
09. It doesn't matter two [2:55]
10. A question of lust (cut) [4:03]
11. Blasphemous rumours [5:27]
12. New dress [3:40]
13. (cut) Stripped [6:15]
14. Something to do [3:49]
15. Master and servant [5:38]
16. Photographic [3:46]
17. People are people [4:11]
18. Boys say go! [3:05]
19. Just can't get enough [4:25]
20. More than a party [4:39]

Total Running Time: [1:30:48]

Source: (low gen) audience tape
Transfer: Nakamichi CR-4E - Sony PCM-M10 (24bit/48kHz)
Software: Audacity - Trader's little helper (level 8 flac files)

2013 thefallenqueen tape transfer project
Tape: No. 10 of 44

2013 is a great year for Depeche Mode fans. A new album, a world tour and a great setlist with lots of surprises (little joke - sorry). Lots of great audience recordings from the current tour have seen the light of day and many are still to come.

I received a box of not less than 44 audience tapes from the late 80's and early 90's. Most of them are unconfirmed first-gen directly from the master tapes. To remember that there have been monumental tours before like the WVT in 1990 I deceided to make high quality tape transfers of these tapes. Some cover artwork for these tapes would be very much appreciated if anybody wants to give this project a "face".

I used a high-end Nakamichi tape deck for these raw tape transfers, no compression, no equalizing, no dolby. In most cases these transfers are 100% what we have on tape including all the cuts, crackles, hiss and flaws, speed issues and distortions, clappers and talkers. In some cases I did some level adjust and removed cuts. Some of these tapes may have suffered over the last 25 - 30 years.

Each torrent contains two versions. The first version is a 16bit/44,1kHz version ready to burn on cd-r. On most transfers there’s a fade-out and fade-in according to the tape switch. Some volume boost (-2dB each chanel independently) and track splitting was performed using audacity on this first version. The second version is a raw and unedited 24bit/48kHz for remasters or merges. Please un-click this separate folder if you only want to listen to the cd-r version - you won't need it!

Note: 
Before Black celebation you can hear a guy say "jetzt fängts an" (now the show begins), probably not his first show of the tour. At least one other source was shared on Dime before. The old source is a bit muffled and comes from a higher gen tape or an inferior tape transfer and misses "Photographic". A lot of cuts all over the recording, many cuts in BC removed and speed raised (+3%). Sound slightly improves on side 2 of the tape. Still not the best sounding tape from this series but a nice upgrade to the previous version.