Show 213 - Ray Charles - Live At Palais des Sports Paris - 22 Oct 1961

 

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The Show
The source for this was a 2017 French radio broadcast of the original 1961 mono recording. It sounded like many old radio shows sound - old and not crystal clear like recordings today, with a lot of mid range and not much bottom or top end - but basically in good condition apart from a few clicks and the occasional bit of saturation where the recording levels were a little high - but this is pretty minor and you may not even notice it. 

The audience noise (especially at the end) is a little loud and overbearing - it was mixed in pretty high on the original recording. I’ve tried to tame that a little but yeah - the original engineer went a bit crazy with that, drowning out the band, rather The recording itself is of the afternoon performance on the last day of Ray Charles' residency at the venue - his last gig was that very evening, a few hours after this one.

What Was Done
I fixed most of the clicks that I could and then I got to work with EQ and my usual studio toys to reduce the mid range, and increase the lows and highs a little - all of which helped make it a little clearer, and then mastered to make it clearer still, a little more powerful overall, and wider. The result is a really cool, nice and clear, laidback listen; I hope you'll enjoy it.

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Setlist
Hallelujah I Love Her So
Georgia On My Mind
Margie
I've Got News For You
Moanin'
I Believe To My Soul
My Bonnie
I Wonder
Yes Indeed!!
My Baby
Hit The Road Jack
I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
What'd I Say


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Show 212 - Karl Bartos - Live At The Palladium, Cologne - 31 May 2000

 

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The Show
I think this was originally a TV broadcast of Karl's solo performance at the Electronic Beats festival in Cologne, Germany. Whether it was originally broadcast in stereo or not, I don't know but the only available sources of this recording I found are in mono. It came to me via a collector (and he'll be getting a lossless copy of this restoration as a thank you).

What Was Done
It was rather flat and muddy but otherwise in good condition. So most of the work I did was to clean up the sound and make it more powerful. Making the sound mix clearer, so the drums and synth bassstand out better in particular, and then mastered to make it clearer and more powerful overall, and wider (pseudo stereo, if you like). The result is much clearer than the original recording; I'm sure you'll enjoy it. 

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Setlist
Nummern / Computerwelt
Metropolis
It's More Fun to Compute / Heimcomputer
TV
Neonlicht
The  Model
Computer Love
The Robots

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Show 211 - The Cars - Live at El Mocambo Toronto - 14 Sept 1978

 

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The Show
A recording of an FM broadcast from the time. In mostly good condition but needing a few things fixing and the sound was rather flat and muddy.

What Was Done
There were a couple of dropouts fixed but nothing major, for once. I then got to work with a 30 band EQ and the usual studio toys to wash away the mud and bring some clarity to the sound mix, make the drums more impactful (they were pretty quiet) and then mastered to make the whole thing more even and powerful overall. The result is a really, really nice record of the band playing live from early in their career.


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Setlist
Intro
Good Times Roll
Bye Bye Love
Night Spots
My Best Friend's Girl
Moving In Stereo
Since I Held You
Take What You Want
They Won't See You
Don't Cha Stop
Just What I Needed

Encore:
Candy-O
You're All I've Got Tonight

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Show 210 - A-ha - Live At Hammersmith Odeon - 16 Dec 1986

 

 

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The Show
Considering A-Ha have been playing for almost 40 years it seems crazy there aren't more live recordings by them - but there really aren't that many; this is the earliest I could find. An audience recording from the time, featuring a very excited female audience (by the sounds of it)! This one was taken from 1 of many gigs over 2 months in the UK, roughly half way through their world tour (that seems to have lasted over 12 months).

What Was Done
There were some random gaps, tape dropouts and a glitch - all those got fixed so the gig flows without interruptions. Then I removed some of the venue reverb (the ambience) that's always present in audience recordings, so there was more of the band's sound to work with, then started EQing and tweaking to make the band and vocals clearer and more "present", and the bass and drums more audible. Then I mastered the results to finish off. The band now are rather louder than the screaming girls and it's far more listenable as a result. A very decent gig and performance and a good representation of the band live at that time!

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Setlist
Train Of Thought
Love Is Reason
Living A Boy's Adventure Tale
Cry Wolf
The Blue Sky
The Sun Always Shines On TV
Driftwood
Here I Stand And Face The Rain
We're Looking For The Whales
And You Tell Me
Hunting High And Low
I've Been Losing You
Scoundrel Days
Take On Me

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Show 209 - Jean Michel Jarre - Live In Houston Texas - 5 April 1986

 

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The Show
I spent months (actually years, on and off) looking for a recording of this broadcast and only came across very low bit rate MP3s, or a recording that sounded like the FM Tuner wasn’t 100% tuned in correctly when the recording was made. Recently however, I swapped some files with a collector and finally had a half way decent recording of the broadcast.

What Was Done
It was in stereo, which was a good start. But the sound quality was variable; I am sure someone at some point had tried to work on this - it may well be more than 1 recording that’s been used to make the source I received as the sound varied a few times throughout. Several days of work then ensued - the usual tape dropouts and odd clicks, really loud tape noise in places, gaps, random volume drops on just the left or right channel and the quality of the sound also changing several times… All eventually sorted, as best I can. There were also a few seconds missing during Rendez-Vous 2 - I ended up fading that out and back in, so it was less jarring.

Once all the repair work was done, I worked on the sound quality and then mastered it (to cut a long story short!). And then after mastering I still tweaked it a little more. Normally I remove radio voiceovers where I can but this time I left in the original intro, just for a bit of "history". Anyone local to Houston around that time may well recognise the voice.

This one has taken quite a while - but I think it was worth it. Unless someone has a great quality recording they're keeping to themselves, I think this will be the best available anywhere. I hope you enjoy it!

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Setlist
Ethnicolor Part 1
Oxygène Part 1
Oxygène Part 2
Oxygène Part 4
Equinoxe Part 7
Souvenir of China
Equinoxe Part 4
Equinoxe Part 2
Equinoxe Part 5
Rendez-Vous 3
Rendez-Vous 2
Oxygène Part 5
Last Rendez-Vous (Ron’s Piece)
Rendez-Vous 4

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Show 208 - The Shamen - Live At The Waterfront Norwich - 24 April 1992

 

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The Show
Originally an FM broadcast in the UK but re-broadcast in full at some point in Germany - I had to remove both German and the original English voice overs.

What Was Done
It was in reasonable condition - apart from a couple of tape dropouts and tidying up the start of the recording, the only repair portion was removing the voiceovers and fading out the end - originally the recording cut off Make It Mine as the German broadcast segued into a Kraftwerk track. Once that was done, I got to work with EQ and the usual studio toys to make the recording clearer, then mastered to really make the recording sound bigger and more powerful. The result is more like what (I guess) it would have been like to hear them live.

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And don't forget to turn up the volume!

Setlist

Move Any Mountain
Possible Worlds
Comin' On
Hyperreal
LSI
Make It Mine

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Show 207 - OMD - Live At Imperial Hotel Blackpool - 27 July 1979

 

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The Show
An audience recording - the earliest known of OMD, or Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark as they were more commonly referred to at the time. It was fairly clear but distant. I guess someone had at least applied some noise and hiss reduction. But it was quite "middly" soundwise with no bottom end at all, and not particularly easy to hear most of the sounds.

What Was Done
There were a few dropouts to fix, and VCL XI unfortunately is incomplete - it cuts off abruptly in the first 2 minutes and there was a big gap before the recording cuts back in before the next song starts, so that was faded out and back in so the sound flows better. Volume was a bit up and down in places - fixed that. Once that was done, I got to work with EQ and the usual studio toys to bring some clarity to the sound mix, smooth out the rough edges, make everything more audible, and then mastered to make it clearer and more powerful overall, and a little wider (remember this is a mono recording from the audience). The sound is now far better though, and I think makes the gig all the more listenable. 

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Setlist
Messages
Bunker Soldiers
Julia's Song
VCL XI
Almost
Red Frame/White Light
Mystereality
Electricity
Waiting For The Man

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Show 206 - The Jam - Live At Pinkpop Festival, Netherlands - 26 May 1980

 

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The Show
Most of this was a radio broadcast I was sent. I realised after a bit of research that 2 songs were missing, so looked around the web for another recording. And there was another one, which included those missing tracks - but omitted some of Start!. And it was quite inferior in quality - it was in stereo but sounded more like it was from the audience, not a radio broadcast, although it was still in stereo, at least.

What Was Done
I worked on the main recording first of all and got that to a state I was happy with, then worked on the missing tracks. I had to remove a lot of ambience on those to make the band sound louder, then I noticed the stereo image was reversed from the radio broadcast - the bass and guitars were on the opposite side. So I turned those around, then worked on the sound a lot to make it blend better with the rest of the gig. Then I worked on blending in the songs at the right time, so it didn't sound like too jarring a change each time. Then I mastered everything. 

This is now the complete show. And it sounds pretty awesome, as do the band themselves. There are actually 3 parts of this recording that have been brought in to make the complete gig - see if you can spot them all...

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Setlist

Thick As Thieves
Saturday's Kids
To Be Someone (Didn't We Have A Nice Time)
Burning Sky
Start!
Going Underground
Mr. Clean
Private Hell
Smithers-Jones
Little Boy Soldiers
But I'm Different Now
The Eton Rifles
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
The Modern World
'A' Bomb in Wardour Street
All Mod Cons
David Watts

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Show 205 - U2 - Live at The Lyceum, London - 7 Sept 1980

 

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The Show
Originally sent to me on cassette by a listener to the site. This was an audience recording and not a terribly clear one. I have had several attempts to improve this since he sent it to me over the last 3 years and recently had another go - and finally, I got to a point where I was happy for it to go on the site. Bear in mind it doesn't compare to, say, a restored FM or soundboard recording but the rarity of the recording, with it being from just before they released their first album, makes it worthwhile I think.

What Was Done
I took away some of the reverb first of all to give me more of the sound of the band to work with. There were gaps and clicks here and there - fixed those. Noise reduction was done (it was very hissy). Lots of filtering and EQ to stop the overly loud guitar piercing ear drums and bring back some bottom end and the drums. Finally I was able to master to make it clearer and more powerful overall, and wider. I hope you enjoy the result.

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Setlist

11 O'Clock Tick Tock
I Will Follow
Stories For Boys
An Cat Dubh
A Day Without Me
Twilight
The Electric Co.
11 O'Clock Tick Tock

 

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Show 204 - Magazine - Live At Festival of Fools, Melkweg, Amsterdam - 8 June 1980

 

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The Show
A short high quality set from Magazine, recorded from a stereo FM broadcast from the time. I think from the same broadcast that the Human League restoration of their set at the same festival came from (albeit a very different taper source).

What Was Done
There were quite a few dropouts to fix on the left and right channels (and never on both at the same time!). The right channel was rather louder than the left too, so that got fixed too. Fixed the start and end so they faded in and out gently, then go to work with the EQ and the usual studio toys to bring some clarity to the sound mix. Finally, I mastered to make it clearer and more powerful and less flat. The result is a nice and clear recording, very enjoyable to listen to.

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Setlist
I'm A Party
Permafrost
The Light Pours Out Of Me
You Never Knew Me
Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin
Shot By Both Sides
Song From Under The Floorboards (fades out early)

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Show 203 - China Crisis - Live at Malibu Nightclub - Long Island- 16 July 1985

 

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The Show
An FM stereo recording from a local station at the time. As such it's probably not the whole show but what is here was in pretty good shape.

What Was Done
A few volume drops, tape dropouts fixed but overall nothing major to repair. Most of the work this time was on improving, not so much "fixing". EQ and the usual studio toys brought clarity to the sound mix, tightened up the drums and bass, and then I mastered to make it clearer and more powerful overall. Twice. I did it once, left it a couple of days, realised I didn't like it, so went back and did it again. The result is a really clear show though; I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

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Setlist

Wall Of God
Gift Of Freedom
Tragedy And Mystery
Wishful Thinking
Black Man Ray
You Did Cut Me
Bigger The Punch I'm Feeling
Strength Of Character
Seven Sports For All
King in a Catholic Style
African And White
Highest High

 

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Show 202 - Adam And The Ants - Live At Cleopatra's Huddersfield - 6 June 1980

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The Show
Most of a soundboard recording of a gig from towards the end of the Ants Invasion tour that ultimately got them signed to CBS immediately after.

Most gigs on this tour started with Physical (You're So) - the version of that song on this tape I think was probably from a different night, as the quality was quite different, and in mono. I prefer recordings all from the same night at least, so I took it off, and this recording starts with Kings.... "Crowd Trouble" is exactly that - a fight kicked off with football hooligans and for a while it looks like the gig was going to be abandoned. You can clearly hear Adam shouting at them, then the venue staff making announcements, before the band come back on and play Cleopatra. 

The regular encore on this tour was Zerox and Fat Fun - they're not on the recording, so maybe after the crowd trouble, Adam and the band perhaps didn't come back for an encore.

What Was Done
The recording I found had apparently already had some work done on it - very little tape hiss for starters. I don't know what else as I haven't heard the original but thanks to whoever did some work on it first. There was still plenty I could do though. Kings... is a bit over saturated but the rest is ok, although some songs got much quieter later, so I focused on making the gig as clear and powerful as possible, and all the songs a consistent volume. I got to work with EQ and the usual studio toys to bring some clarity to the sound mix, and then mastered to make it tighter clearer and more powerful overall. The result sounds great, and shows just what a tight band the yet to be signed Ants were. And with the crowd trouble, an authentic audio record of what many club gigs were like back then.

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Setlist
Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Ants Invasion
Beat My Guest
Fall In
"Crowd Trouble"
Cleopatra
Car Trouble
Kick!
Killer In The Home
Press Darlings
Table Talk

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Show 201 - Ultravox - Live In Stockholm - 19 Oct 1977

 

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The Show
The venue was (and is) the HQ for Sveriges Radio (the Swedish national radio station), and this is a recording of a radio broadcast of the first of 3 gigs I can find mention of in Sweden that week. Long available as a 12 track vinyl bootleg, this is a recording of the complete broadcast and features 14 tracks.

What Was Done
The first track especially was in bad shape - tape dropouts (small gaps in the audio) every few seconds - that alone took several hours over a couple of days to fix. Fortunately the rest of the recording was in better shape. I balanced the stereo image, cleaned up the mix, made the bass and drums more audible and made everything generally clearer and more powerful.

2 things to note - a few seconds of the intro to The Wild, Beautiful And The Damned is missing, so I blended that in as best I could, and at the end, Fear In The Western World fades out around 3 minutes in (as it does on the original recording).

Given me doing this show this week was prompted by the recent news of the sad passing of bass player Chris Cross, it seems appropriate that this recording NOW is a great showcase for his talent - you can really hear his playing without it getting lost in the mix quite so much. I've had this bootleg on tape for many many years; it's nice to find a more complete version and to be able to make it sound this good. I hope you enjoy it.

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Setlist

I Want To Be A Machine
Rockwrok
Slip Away
The Frozen Ones
Distant Smile
Young Savage
My Sex
The Man Who Dies Every Day
Artificial Life
Wide Boys
Saturday Night
The Wild, Beautiful And The Damned
Rockwrok
Fear In The Western World

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Show 200 - Gary Numan - Live At Metro, Chicago - 11 May 1998

 

 

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The Show
This is a rare show - recordings of the Exile Tour are not common. I am indebted to a friend of mine who was at the show and recorded it to DAT - the first time he had snuck a recorder into a show. He did a great job!

What Was Done

The original recording was wiped many years ago - the only copy of this gig was on MP3. First thing I did when I approached this one (as I always do if I can only find MP3 copies) is to save it as a lossless WAV file for editing, so all the edits were saved losslessly, and no further degradation can take place. Indeed, unless you have super human hearing (or analyse waveforms to an unhealthy degree) you would never know now

As with all audience recordings I do, I removed some of the hall ambience, then spent much time improving the sound quality - basically making the band clearer, the drums more distinct, Gary's voice clearer - before mastering it. As my friend who taped it said yesterday “I just listened…Simply outstanding! The sound is very crisp and bright. I feel like I was actually at the show itself when I listened to it...and I was there”. This is a great record of Gary Numan playing live when he was well and truly re-energising his career. 

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Setlist
Friends (Pure Version)
Dominion Day
Cars
Films
A Question Of Faith
Voix
Everyday I Die
Dark
Noise, Noise
An Alien Cure
Down In The Park
Absolution
Dead Heaven
Metal
Are 'Friends' Electric?

Encore:
Replicas

2nd Encore:
We Are So Fragile
Me! I Disconnect From You 

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Show 199 - The GoGo's - Live At Emerald City, Cherry Hill - 31 Aug 1981

 

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The Show
A stereo FM recording from the time. Not in bad shape but pretty muffled sounding and flat, with some voiceovers and issues.

What Was Done
I had to chop out a random bit of continuity announcer early in the gig, remove a gap after repairing the end of 1 song, and removed voice overs before and after the encores. Once that was done, I got to work with EQ and the usual studio toys to bring some clarity back. Then final mastering to make it more powerful overall and balance the sound better. The result is a great sounding gig.

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Setlist
Skidmarks On My Heart
How Much More
Tonite
Fading Fast
London Boys
Cool Jerk
Automatic
Lust To Love
Can't Stop The World
This Town
Vacation
You Can't Walk In Your Sleep (If You Can't Sleep)
Our Lips Are Sealed
Let's Have A Party
We Got The Beat
Surfing And Spying
Beatnik Beach

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Show 198 - Fun Boy Three - Live At The Sartory-Säle Köln - 11 May 1983

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The Show
A Rockpalast TV broadcast from German television. Like almost all TV broadcasts back then, this was in mono. The original show can be watched here on YouTube.

What Was Done
The recording was generally in good shape for a VHS recording nearly 40 years old but was fairly murky and muddy, lacking in low and high frequencies. Volume was also a bit up and down in places and more on the right than the left (a mono soundtrack but recorded on a stereo VHS so there were 2 channels of mono). Once the volume was leveled out and the 2 channels balannced, I got to work with EQ and the usual studio toys to bring some clarity to the sound mix, so bass, drums, vocals, especially were more audible and everything was clearer. And made one or 2 other little fixes at the beginning and end, so the show flows better. Finally, I mastered to make it clearer still and more powerful overall, and much "wider". The result is very very listenable now.

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Setlist
Faith, Hope and Charity                
The Pressure of Life (Takes the Weight Off the Body)                          
The Telephone Always Rings                 
The Farmyard Connection I                    
This Is My Home                            
The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)
Things We Do                               
Alone                                      
Well Fancy That!                            
Summertime                                 
Alibi                                      
Our Lips Are Sealed                       
The Tunnel Of Love                         
We're Having All The Fun                   
Gangsters                                  
It Ain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It)
The More I See (The Less I Believe)         
The Farmyard Connection II                     
Best Of Luck Mate

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Show 197 - Kraftwerk - Live At The Ritz New York - August 1981

 

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The Show
An audience recording from either the 3 or 4 August. The original bootleg has appeared credited to both dates - Kraftwerk played both nights at this venue. There are performances here that you can imagine the likes of Afrika Bambaataa standing watching and taking on board as influences - the likes of It's More Fun To Compute especially.

What Was Done
The sound quality and volume varied widely from bright to muffled, so I did what I could to even that out. There are a few small cuts where the sound jumps - I smoothed those out as best I could but missing are a few seconds of Metal on Metal/Abzug, the beginning of Pocket Calculator brief parts between Pocket Calculator and The Robots, and early on in It's More Fun To Compute. There are a couple of points during the gig where the bass synths were so loud they literally rattled the PA and overloaded the recording a bit (brief bits of distortion, in other words). I've done what I could to reduce the effect of that.

Once that was done, I got to work with EQ and the usual studio toys to bring some clarity to the sound mix - this took a long time this time, given how varied the sound quality was throughout. I then mastered to make it clearer and more powerful overall, and wider. The result is far far better and a really good listen; I'm sure you'll enjoy it. 

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Setlist
Numbers
Computer World
Computer Love
Home Computer
The Model
Neon Lights
Autobahn
Geiger Counter
Radioactivity
The Voice of Energy
Uranium
Die Sonne, Der Monde, Die Sterne
Ohm Sweet Ohm
The Hall of Mirrors
Mitternacht
Showroom Dummies
Trans-Europe Express
Metal on Metal/Abzug
Pocket Calculator
The Robots
It's More Fun to Compute

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