MOTHER ENGINE
Freak Valley Festival Vol. 5
AWO Gelaende, Netphen-Deuz, Germany
May - 27 - 2016
Day # 2 - Act # 2 (12:55 -> 13:30)
Wake'n'Bake Stage

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A BLUESHACKS, MIRO, RACKHIR, LORD DIE (# 123) and SPACEBANDIT taping cooperation
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Rec. Info:
Zoom H2 internal mics (@ WAV 16/44) -> MemoryCard -> HD -> Audacity (edit/remaster) -> WAV 16/44 -> TLH8 -> FLAC -> DIME -> YOUR EARS AND MIND...so far away in stoner space...
Recorded by dear LORD DIE close to the stage edge almost dead center. Very fine recording (for internal mics), a few chatters here and there, but nothing too disturbing. As we
are used from the LORD, some really good pics are included as well...
additional tracks 4/5 are from MIRO source (Sony ECM 717 -> Zoom H2n)...Unfortunately the first song was incomplete and marred by a lot chatters, so I skipped that one...

FREAK VALLEY FESTIVAL 2016:

Admission fee: 69 Euros in advance
Attendence: 2500 people from all over the world. Sold out since November 2015
Catering: A variety of food booths, breakfast tent on the campground (which was 3 kms UP away), prices slightly above last year. A slice of Pizza at 2.50, other food more expensive.
Some beer booths, a cocktail bar and - to my personal surprise - a small winery slot with "Met" (which I only discovered the last evening, so no chance to get full advantage of it).
Security: Very low, very mellow. Almost no controls at the gate, if you didn't try to roll a barrel of alcolhol into it...
Loos: Acceptable quality both on the festival and on the campground. This is something that makes a difference, if you're staying for three nights...
Weather conditions: Exceptional fine on thursday, some rain during the night, fine again on friday as well as the saturday until 19:45 (probably) when a massive rainfall (no, it was
buckets of rain washing over you) for 90+ minutes went down. Nice for the plants to be removed from those wild bushes pissers, but defintely not fine for tapers...
Crowd behavior: That's kind of serious thing to me. The later the day, the more rule and ruthless and agressive against others a few drunken assholes (please stay at the campground,
if you're already filled up) were. A real strange thing also happened to me and the Lord...never experienced that during TOUNDRA...

Personal thanks...
To the crew at Freak Valley Festival...again another fine job done. Thank you.
To the reliable taping crew, friends Reinhard and Dietmar at the campground for the nice pavillion (who had gone for good, but survived 4 Burg Herzberg Festivals) and company.
Always been a pleasure and will be...forever...

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We're approaching the "final curve" of our recordings from Freak Valley Festival 2016. Here's the fine capture of an unfortunately very short show by one of the best german
psychedelic stoner rock bands around, Mother Engine from Plauen, Saxonia. The band has released two very fine albums so far, and it seems to the that the majority of this show are
already new songs. The band will be playing Psychedelic Network Festival #9 in late November and I'm really looking forwand to seeing them there!
This posting is an extended version, not a matrix. While Lord Die's recording is a complete capture, the two songs from MIRO's capture sound way better due to the external mic.
Ah, just compare for yourself, the music is earcandy par excellence! SB.
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Taped and Uploaded with permission by the band
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FULL SHOW (32:42 min.)

01. ... (11:18)
02. ... (16:28)
03. Bretthart (5:00)


alternativ takes (22:00)

04. ... (16:40)
05. Bretthart (5:20)

http://www.fuzzmatazz.com
bandcamp facebook and other sites...

Support this fine band, go to their shows, buy all the merch your stonermobile can carry.
Do not convert to lossy files, unless for personal use only. No lossy net use! Flac rules!
If you spread keep lineage/taper info intact. It's us tapers that give you this recording for free!
If you sell (this recording)...go fucking straight to hell!



MOTHER ENGINE working...

Drums // Cornelius Gruenert
Bass // Christian Dressel
Guitar // Chris Trautenbach


Uploaded to DIME by Spacebandit 2016/07/16


Images for all shows as well as full size images for this show.

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