A true gem has surfaced today: a tape with 5 demos of tracks dEUS recorded during their Ideal Crash recording sessions in 1998. The person who released it out claims the tracks presumably come from a cassette tape that was found in an auctioned car radio. If this is true or not doesn’t really matter, the quality is excellent.
From the 5 songs on the tape only ‘Sam Peckinpah’s Daughter’ has been released before (as a b-side on the Instant Street CD single). A torrent is now up with the other four songs:
01. Instant Street -6:00- (demo)
02. Snuck Out -6:19- (later evolved into ‘Magdalena’)
03. Sixth & The Last -6:21- (later evolved into ‘One Advice, Space’)
04. Sister Dew -8:04- (demo)
As you can see all tracks clock in at a minimum of 6 minutes each, which gives you an idea of the epic proportions of these tracks. They are much more moody, experimental and raw than what ended up on the final album. I still think The Ideal crash is their finest work, and these tracks give you a great insight in the work in progress. Demos of ‘Everybody’s Weird’ and ‘Dream Sequence #1’ were already released as b-sides, it’s a mystery why this never happened with a track like ‘Sixth & The Last’ which is just pure genius. I guess they were probably saving it for the 20 year rerelease of the album (if the industry does it job well it will probably come out as seven multi-coloured 10 inches on heavy vinyl, put into a velvet lined box along with a 300 page booklet. First 100 copies will come with a chunk of the original zebra crossing from the album cover.)
Source: http://pocketrevolution.blogspot.com/
UPDATE: all 5 songs in MP3 format available here: http://deuspodcast.blogspot.com/
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