Joy Division 1980-02-29 The Lyceum, London ** Officially released tracks REMOVED to comply with DIME's policies ** taper: the legendary Duncan, equipment unknown... lineage: more on this below...better than anything else encountered! Tracklist 01 - Heart And Soul (soundcheck) (4:45) 02 - Incubation (soundcheck) (3:37) 03 - Komakino (soundcheck) (4:27) 04 - Isolation (soundcheck - inst) (2:49) 05 - Isolation (soundcheck) (2:54) ** 06 - Incubation ** 07 - Wilderness (2:47) 08 - 24 Hours (4:35) ** 09 - The Eternal ** ** 10 - Heart And Soul 11 - Love Will Tear Us Apart (3:16) ** 12 - Isolation ** 13 - Komakino (4:25) ** 14 - She's Lost Control ** 15 - These Days (4:35) 16 - Atrocity Exhibition (6:26) FLAC fingerprints: 01 - Heart And Soul (soundcheck).flac:265a998be6bd3d82dcf36e90fbbc8b93 02 - Incubation (soundcheck).flac:6495d925517ec76d05f9c3c58677bbfd 03 - Komakino (soundcheck).flac:1e4e2782439ecb13703df70e66bbce18 04 - Isolation (soundcheck - inst).flac:dd061866705c078772734b982815aa9e 05 - Isolation (soundcheck).flac:2e47f9808fbe1b799f7df770853c2252 07 - Wilderness.flac:d4402dcfefa8694cbdf5f0f1a6f943de 08 - 24 Hours.flac:5a7fdd59c9f933b6a85333c5a3184b4c 11 - Love Will Tear Us Apart.flac:c6de67e7ce639097e46d8680f2eca300 13 - Komakino.flac:d5920a31b68903dcefe429cefe66a054 15 - These Days.flac:dd9db5867e4b1c8eacef5b6a9469686d 16 - Atrocity Exhibition.flac:8e7cf22a4edaea7ed658bffb24177226 Notes: See http://members.aol.com/lwtua/c290280.htm for JD Central's annotation. As well as http://www.angelfire.com/ga/zza77/temp/duncan.htm, which is the source for some of the citations below. Obviously, I've had to leave out the tracks which have been officially released on Heart And Soul. And while 'No More Ceremonies' does include this in full, it's a vastly inferior version, though I suspect it originates from a different audience master. This has always been attributed as a first generation copy from master, but I suspect this may instead have been directly transferred from the analog masters given that the taper was still active as of 2002 and there's little in the way here to suggest that this was dubbed onto another cassette. But as with a lot of things to do with Joy Division, the truth is shrouded in seven veils of mystery. In any event, the sound here should be an improvement on the "Komackino" boot. And the tracks which, alas, I'm unable to improve, are certainly an improvement on the official issue, which sound like they were taken from a higher generation source and subjected to the sort of treatment to disguise its origins. You can contact me privately if you need proof. :) As such the levels seem to be unbalanced towards the right channel, with some clipping. This is LOUD. But don't let that detract from your enjoyment. I've done absolutely nothing to this recording, but if you listen at about 0:10 and 3:30 of Incubation (the soundcheck version) to hear a shift in hiss background levels. This can also be heard at the start/end of the soundcheck version of Komakino as well. Don't quite know what to make of it, maybe you lot can help. The performance...is unreal. There's excellent reason why half of this concert was selected to be immortalized in the box set, though I sometimes wonder if they chose the right half. The intro to LWTUA is asexplosive as they ever achieved live. And Komakino is a vastly underrated song in their canon, too bad they managed to play it live only here. And who am I to gainsay Duncan who says that "These Days has always been Joy Division's hidden masterpiece"? And, in his view, "I think the encore here was the best ten minutes of Joy Division live I ever saw with the spinning, the clear sound, Ian's performance in Atrocity Exhibition was so close to the edge. He was hanging on to he mic when he was singing as if it was a life line beckoning the crowd in as he sang "you want to see some more, step inside", "go in all the way" he was again helped off the stage by the roadie leaving the band to play out." This is a group at its live apotheosis. Simply awe-inspiring! DO NOT SELL OR OTHERWISE LEVERAGE THIS RECORDING FOR MONETARY PROFIT. MAY THE SHADE OF IAN CURTIS HAUNT YOUR DREAMS IF YOU SELL THIS ON EBAY. PLEASE SHARE THIS IN ITS ORIGINAL FORMAT ONLY. ( )