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DVD 3524; lineage: FM > tape (2nd generation) > TotalRecorder 24/192,000 > SoundForge bit depth conversion to 16/44,100 > dbAmp flac encoder (level 6). There is a cut in track 6 for a tape flip. This is in the source.

This was recorded from an FM broadcast in 1985, which apparently presented one hour of the show rather than the full performance. This was the tour that resulted in the double live LP "Behind the Iron Curtain," though, strangely enough, that release was recorded in Rotterdam (ie, not behind the Iron Curtain). Same band and tour as the great Nico/Berlin torrent: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=61618 (thanks for that!).

I have always loved this recording. I started working with artists who lived "behind the Iron Curtain" in the early 1980s, and this music always seemed to capture the mood of the places I visited and the melancholy that accompanied the knowledge that I could come and go as I pleased, but my friends there could not.

This tape was one of many by Western artists circulated in the Eastern European underground. The sound quality is very good, but not perfect; appropriate, somehow, to the circumstances.

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