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Van de oorspronkelijke poster:

Notes:
I checked around on the web but could find no trace of these demos, it really seems they
never made the rounds before. All I could find were some inferior quality versions of two
of the Andy Partridge solo tracks on youtube. But as I am not very knowledgeable at all
when it comes to XTC I may be completely wrong :-)

Anyway, the sound quality is excellent with only little hiss considering the age of the tape. 
Madtaper Hans really must have kept his cassettes under very good conditions.

I considered moving the three Andy Partridge solo tracks to the end as they clearly are not
part of the same session; but as you can easily move them around as you wish yourself I
decided to keep the track order as it was on madtapers cassette. Personally I'll certainly put
them at the end whenever I listen to these absolutely fabulous demos.

I downloaded this recording as two long flac files from madtapers blog; I then split the tracks,
edited out a few seconds of dead air inbetween some of the tracks (absolutely no music or
chatting lost!) and added a fade in and a fade out at the very beginning and end of both files.

Other than that i didn't do anything to the original files - especially no NR or EQing. 
Added ffp and md5 files, wrote up this info file, and tagged the flac'ed individual tracks. 
Hope you enjoy the result!

Split, edited, flacced, tagged & seeded on DAD by surfling june 2012.

All thanks go to madtaper Hans for sharing his treasures with us!

Enjoy!