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Last Updated: 11/25/2009

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Status: Single
State: London and South East
Country: UK
Signup Date: 3/16/2006
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 
well, only cassettes, dating back to 1978! some playable but you woudln't want to bother!
others practically unplayable and you may want to make the effort. they will be sorted out before they're thrown out. A copy of a track blancmange and yazoo started but never finished. A really old song called leek and potato soup (neil named his canary after the soup, the birds name was shortened to spud). also found an early 1/4" master tape of some of our early work along with lots of photos. found some funny badges too. lots of dust!

keep well.

blancmange. 
5:20 PM
 
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Stevo Music Man

 
cool so are they going to released or distributed freely via mp3 downloads?
 
Posted by Stevo Music Man on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 5:55 PM
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Blancmange

 
we might release the dust freely!
 
Posted by Blancmange on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 6:28 PM
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Hutchybear

 
Aving a clear out boys?
 
Posted by Hutchybear on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 6:19 PM
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Pleasure Victim

 
Wow! I'd truly love to hear some of this stuff...especially the collaboration with Yazoo.
 
Posted by Pleasure Victim on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 7:53 PM
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chris
chris keeley

 
Wow, cassette tapes!!! Yeah baby!! Hey I still have my Atari 2600 plugged into my not so digital televsion.
 
Posted by chris on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 9:31 PM
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Shadowman

 
Hey Guys,
please releasd all this kind of things. I have a CDr from the Mavis ep but in terible quality. Why don..t released not as bonustracks on the happy families re-release. The extended version from god..s kitchen also not included.

 
Posted by Shadowman on Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 7:09 AM
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Blancmange

 
irene and mavis was mastered from cassettes, which all tracks were recorded on. except the track called outro which we have on 1/4".
 
Posted by Blancmange on Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 1:35 PM
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Blancmange

 
we may well put this old material out ourselves. 

we were not consulted on the re issues through edsel records.



 
Posted by Blancmange on Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 7:48 AM
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Shadowman

 
not consulted? that..s very sad, you are the artist, its your hard work! The Mange Tout came out als deluxe edition (Oh I love it so!!!!) and the rest??? I pay 120€ for your happy families CD original and than? A re-release with a few tracks?




 
Posted by Shadowman on Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 8:28 AM
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Blancmange

 
120, heck!

 i (neil) do not have the original on cd. just on wax cylinder!

 i know the irene and mavis ep is a pretty penny to buy. there were only a 1000 made!

 
Posted by Blancmange on Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 1:39 PM
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Shadowman

 
Hi Neil,

nice to hear from you. Oh I miss your great voice a long time so far! "Suitcase" is one of my favorit ever albums!
I love also "persian blues" from fortran 5. A very good song! ...
but now a question: "what is wax?" I have the original german first pressing from 1997 an CD. long before he comes out on re-release. The waiting-list for this item is very long. 5 years I must waiting for.

 
Posted by Shadowman on Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 3:07 PM
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Blancmange

 
wax cylinder was an early commercial way of recording sound . edison sold wax cylinder recordings circa 1895.

so, i was joking about our first recordings!




 
Posted by Blancmange on Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 3:18 PM
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Metamatica

 
Hooray for cassettes! and can we see the photos too please?

 
Posted by Metamatica on Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 7:47 AM
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evilC

 
A Blancmange/Yazoo collaboration?  Wow!  That would be worth hearing!

As for releasing old 'tape material'... why not?  (My main man) Richard H. Kirk seems to have done it to great effect in the past few years. ;-)

 
Posted by evilC on Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 9:58 AM
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mark,

 
selling any of those badges lads? ;)
 
Posted by mark, on Friday, October 16, 2009 - 2:55 PM
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Blancmange

 
hadn't planned to.
 
Posted by Blancmange on Friday, October 16, 2009 - 3:45 PM
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mark,

 
ha shame
 
Posted by mark, on Friday, October 16, 2009 - 7:26 PM
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Dance E.T.

 
"Leek and potato soup","I'm having a coffee"...Sounds like a whole concept album is "in the pot"...
I'm currently "boiling" to hear it ;-)

BTW, is it only stereo regular cassettes or do you happen to have any multi track cassettes like Tascam or Fostex used to make in the 80s?I owned one but not for long... 
Anyway, stereo or not, they tend to loose some magnetic particles as time goes by, but with adequate mastering it should be fine... 

 
Posted by Dance E.T. on Saturday, October 17, 2009 - 11:36 PM
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Blancmange

 
we've got portastudio cassettes that's 4track.
 
Posted by Blancmange on Sunday, October 18, 2009 - 11:42 AM
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Dance E.T.

 
Sorry, should have paid more attention to the pictures comments :-)
 Well it's good news, considering I guess you have a stereo "tracking" of the instruments plus the vocals separated, add a little digital cleaning to this and it will sound as good as new ;-)

 
Posted by Dance E.T. on Sunday, October 18, 2009 - 11:55 AM
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