Delia Derbyshire / Barry Bermange - Inventions For Radio: The Dreams FLAC

Happy to finally get a copy of this at a reasonable cost. I think the second pressing is sourced from original tape because I'm registering a 44.1khz. It doesn't really matter though as the original recordings are old hissy tape with a drone and some degraded tape loop of people talking over it, but I think it's funny how people geek out over original recordings that are really noisy sounding pristine. Beautiful art too!

Well, I think that Delia Derbyshire was quite aware of the sound of those "old hissy tape". Right now I am looking for an original version of "Sea". There is a brighter version out there, and a duller. the brighter sounds like someone did some remastering, which is terrible in my opinion:The voices on this record describe the feelings during drowing and sinking into the sea, so the duller sound totally supports this, while the brighter version, with the annoying ringing sounds doesn't...I think I will do my own in-between-remaster, as in the duller version the voices are a little hard to understand ;-)

So is this taken from an analogue source or those crappy mp3s that have been floating around for years?Seems to be conflicting evidence below, and it looks like the mp3 theory is winning.I find it hard to believe that a bootleg label was able to source original Derbyshire tapes.

So excited to finally get a copy of this! Essentially it's hissy tape cut-ups of people reciting their dreams played over a drone or distant frequency. I did do some deep research and it turns out that it was sourced from an old tape, not the low bitrate mp3s as assumed by the below reviews which is a relief! I'm thankful to whomever released this as I can now play it during my dj set and radio show.

Thanks for that information. Any way you can source where to find out more about this record. I bought a copy today but have no current way to play it...the experiment is too good to pass up.

Hmm, sounds extremely unlikely. The spectral analysis of the record makes things pretty clear. Do you have a source for that info please?

Mine has Falling as the 2nd track and Land as the 3rd. Anyone else have this?

Yeah, as the tracks sort of run into one another it seems that the track listings here and on the labels are wrong. Running, Falling and Land are themes that naturally follow each other in the context of the recording, and that's the way it plays on mine.

If you can live with the horrible, gut-wrenching knowledge that this LP is sourced from 256 kbps mp3 files, it's a fine, unofficial release. It comes in a nice screen printed sleeve and the sound is pretty good, all things considered.

it's a lot worse than that. it's sourced from 64kbps mp3, not 256kbs.