Depeche Mode
Walter-K�bel-Halle, R�sselsheim, Germany
1986-05-25
1986 "Black Celebration" Tour

Incomplete audience recording
Lineage: unknown recording device + mics -> unknown master cassette(s) -> unknown deck(s) used for copy -> first generation TDK SA100 high position cassette, 1990 - 1991 stock -> Nakamichi Dragon cassette deck, serviced and upgraded (details: https://www.depechemode-live.com/wiki/Equipment#Nakamichi_Dragon) -> Blue Jeans Cable LC-1 8-foot RCA cable -> Creative Sound Blaster ZxR (RCA Line In) -> Adobe Audition CC 2015 (WASAPI 32-bit / 88.2 khz) -> normalized to -0.1dB and any DC bias removed -> WAV (32/88.2) -> tracked using Audacity 2.1.1 -> WAV (32/88.2) tracks -> FLAC 16-bit 44.1khz using FLAC 1.3.1 64-bit (level 8 compression) and foobar2000 v1.3.9 with its Resampler (SoX) component v0.8.3 (best quality), dithering enabled
Generation: first
Taper: Elly Apfel
Transfer: ligushka (https://www.depechemode-live.com)
Cassette tape photos, tape inlay scan, and auCDtectTaskManager log included

Notes: A good sounding audience recording. It's rather hissy. "Everything Counts" seems odd to me - the quality overall is better than the rest of the recording, plus the transition between audience noise is not seamless. It's also much hissier than the rest of the recording. I checked recordings of other concerts around this date, but none matched Dave's shouts; at first I thought it might be from 1986-05-24 Rotterdam as a couple of the shouts and overall quality matched, but then the final shout did not match. Ultimately, I don't know how to explain the quality difference of this track.

Other than the first few seconds of "Everything Counts" and "More Than A Party" being missing, this is a complete recording.

Many thanks to Falko for generously lending me a batch of five low-gen cassettes of Elly's recordings from the Black Celebration tour to transfer.

This source is considered Source 1 for this date:
https://www.depechemode-live.com/wiki/1986-05-25_Walter-K%C3%B6bel-Halle,_R%C3%BCsselsheim,_Germany/Source_1

Track list:

01. [4:24] Christmas Island
02. [6:05] Black Celebration
03. [4:20] A Question Of Time
04. [5:54] Fly On The Windscreen
05. [5:08] Shake The Disease
06. [5:05] Leave In Silence
07. [5:29] It's Called A Heart
08. [5:57] Everything Counts
09. [3:08] It Doesn't Matter Two (*)
10. [4:14] A Question Of Lust (*)
11. [5:32] Blasphemous Rumours
12. [3:53] New Dress
13. [6:32] Stripped
14. [3:57] Something To Do
15. [5:27] Master And Servant
16. [4:11] Photographic
17. [7:22] People Are People
18. [5:50] Boys Say Go!
19. [4:09] Just Can't Get Enough
20. [5:05] More Than A Party
Total time: 1:41:40

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