page updated on: October 10 2005

tracklist
01. Speak To Me [2:43]
02. Breathe [2:56]
03. On The Run [7:02]
04. Time / Breathe (reprise) [7:39] - Time has 2 cuts at the beginning provoked prolly by the taper
05. The Mortality Sequence [2:03] - cut
06. Money [5:53] - cut at the beginning
07. Us And Them [6:09] - cut before the end

Tape Labeled: 1972 March 8 - Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan ("from japan bootleg")
generation: LP>cass(?)
cassette label = Maxell UD2 90x1
transferred by me in October 2005 from borrowed cassette tapes with many thanks to T!:
my playback deck = TEAC W-860R
my audio card = Sound Blaster Live
recorded into HD via Cool Edit Pro
notes:
This is from some Japanese LP bootleg transferred to cassette. I have no idea about the title/label of the LP-source but I guess it wasn't extremely common in the traders' circuit back in the days sice I never found anybody pointing out the fact that a different source-recorder than the other 2 existed. This recording is indeed from a different taper than the 2 commonly in circulation now. As I stated before a 3rd recorder of the gig surely exists sice there's an Atom Heart Mother "bonus track" on a CD fanrelease that is from different recorder than the other 2 ones in circulation. I never found a tape all being from that 3rd recorder so far and I don't know if it's complete or if only AHM survived, as well as I don't know if this section of the Dark Side set included in the LP is part of a complete recording (I bet it is). Also I don't know if this part of the Dark Side set is from the same recorder as the AHM track cited before. So we have either 3 or 4 recorders available... and maybe someday we'll shed a light on this matter ..if fantapes will be found.
About the sound quality: bad, I'd say that parts of the recording are very good, other parts (especially the singing) is weak and saturated. Hiss is not that marked but evident, vinyl pops are detectable but not that annoying to listen to.
About the speed: it seems to me to run right at first... running progressively faster till being evidenly fast at the end (U&T really runs a bit fast)
There are evident cuts on the LP source almost certainly due to lacking of space on the support (I don't think the original recording has those cut), although at the beginning of Time there's some noise like the taper moving and then stopping the recording for a bit (that is prolly on the original tapesource)
I removed manually the biggest pops but I left almost anything untouched for the rest.
This recording is just for completists or impatient collectors... again, the matter of the recorder has to be cleared someday (hopefully).