Soft Machine – Fusion Steams Ahead

Kings Cross Cinema
London, England

7th July 1972 

"This Soft Machine gig is significant in that it was the band's first following the departure of Elton Dean and is Karl Jenkins debut live performance with Soft Machine (13) according to Graham Bennett's Soft Machine Family Tree in his biography of the band 'Out-Bloody-Rageous'. Originally scheduled for 17 June this gig was postponed until 7 July due to John Marshall's illness."  -- from brainodrain's info.txt in his original DIME upload

~~ speed corrected & tracked version of brainodrain original ~~

Originally uploaded to DIME by brainodrain on March 24, 2007. 
Re-seed by propylaen on July 9, 2012
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=411984

Speed corrected (between -70cts and -30cts)
and re-tracked along individual track titles
for this new DIME upload.

Lineage: 
Cassette > Grundig Reel to Reel > Cassette > PC Soundcard > Audition (NR and EQ applied in Audition) > 
Audacity > FLAC Frontend Level 6 (previous DIME upload) >
Soundforge 10: speed correction, volume level & phase offset adjustments, tracking >
flac TLH lvl8 w/SBA (211 MB)

The sound quality is not untypical for an audience recording from the period, 
but NR and EQ have improved it considerably (by the original uploader).
No further NR or EQing carried out for this re-post.

The line-up for the night at the Kings Cross Cinema was:

Mike Ratledge – Lowery Organ, Piano
Hugh Hopper – Bass
John Marshall – Drums
Karl Jenkins – Saxes, Piano, Oboe 

Setlist:

01 Fanfare [0:39]
02 All White [3:51]
03 Slightly All The Time [9:40]
04 M.C. [3:47]
05 Drop [4:52]
06 Stumble [8:24]
07 LBO (drum solo) [3:58]
08 As If [6:41]
09 Between [2:13]
10 Riff [5:32]

Total time (after speed correction) 49.37 min

(Pre-speed corrected version totalled about 48 min)

Originally uploaded to DIME by brainodrain on March 24, 2007. Thanks so much for sharing this gem.
Thanks to propylaen for re-seeding this show in 2012.
Thanks to pbuzby for posting setlist info in propylaen's reseed thread.

Enjoy !!

-- flambay

www.dimeadozen.org - February 2014

mp3 samples in comments section