The Sisters of Mercy - David "Kid" Jensen Session, BBC Studios, London, UK - 06.03.1983 (Flac)

Thanks to waterisnat for sharing this version on Dime, I already had posted a version of this session ages ago, but this is a more complete set, including the original broadcast, a Pre-FM version of Jolene plus the 2008 re-broadcast in MP2.


1. Jolene
2. Heartland
3. Burn
4. Valentine

lineage: pre-FM recordings -> [unknown vinyl/tape generations] -> Entertainment Or Death bootleg CD ->  wav -> remastering in Adobe Audition 3.0 (fixing DC bias offset, speed adjustment, manual click removal, phase correction, normalisation) -> FLAC (level 8) with Trader's Little Helper

Over the years these BBC session tracks have appeared on numerous bootleg LPs and CDs. In all but two cases they appear with intros and outros cut, in an attempt to remove all DJ banter. The only exceptions are the early nineties CD release "Entertainment Or Death" by legendary Sisters bootleg label Palazzograssi (trademark of quality, indeed!), and disc 1 of the "Kama Sutra" 2CD (which is, in effect, a perfect clone of the Palazzograssi disc). These are still the only two bootlegs where the four Jensen session tracks can be found with beginnings and endings intact from a pre-FM source tape. Having said that, the recordings are at least a couple of generations removed from the master and there are traces of a vinyl source in the lineage as well; more importantly the songs are all way off speed.

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of this session BBC 6Music did a rebroadcast. This was duly torrented here in March of 2008, albeit as an unedited lossy mp2 file captured from the 160 kbps DVB-T stream. Unfortunately this transmission was marred by cross fades between the tracks, an annoying station call over the intro of Valentine and one incredibly I-N-S-I-P-I-D DJ. The good thing about it was that it presented all tracks at the correct speed.

Ever since 2008 I've been meaning to remaster the bootleg tracks and do a re-edit of the 6Music broadcast. I've finally gotten round to this. The songs you find here are taken from "Entertainment Or Death", DC bias and speed adjusted, phase-corrected and normalized (rest assured that not a single kb of music has been subjected to excessive compression or limiting!); a couple of stray clicks and pops have also been removed.

As a bonus I've included the original mp2 file of the 2008 re-broadcast, as well as the version of Jolene appearing on the "Black Planet" bootleg CD, also speed adjusted, phase-corrected and normalized.

Enjoy!


SOM830306KiJe.rar