Explosions in the Sky
2004-02-09
Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, England

Taper: Rob
Source: Soundboard > Sony MZ-R900
Transfer: MZ-R900 line-out > Genius soundcard line-in > wave (Goldwave)
Editing: fades & normalising (Goldwave) > track indexes (CD Wave) > splits, Level 8 FLAC Compression & tagging (foobar2000)

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01. Intro
02. First Breath After Coma
03. Greet Death
04. Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean
05. Have You Passed Through This Night?
06. Memorial

supported by Bikini Atoll and ..Ad Infinitum..

I have chosen to make both the soundboard and matrix sources available as both have their relative merits. The soundboard source is obviously very clean from crowd noise and has a nice stereo split, but lacks much of a live feel. The matrix source provides a live feel, but also adds a pretty heavy amount of crowd noise. Which version you prefer will probably depend on personal taste. Note that the matrix source is soundboard-only for the first six minutes due to the incomplete nature of the audience recording.

Huge thanks to the band and Anton at Rescue Rooms for allowing soundboard access, and also to Rich for use of the MZ-N710, without which the matrix source wouldn't have been possible.

No thanks to Sony for burying the "Erase All" function on the MZ-N710 within a menu structure completely different to that of other MD units I've used.