Various Artists; Crispy Ambulance / Black Music / Atlantic Crossing
Artist Various Artists; Crispy Ambulance
Album Title: Black Music / Atlantic Crossing
Album Cover:
Primary Genre Alternative
Format CD (2)
Released 00/00/2003
Label LTM
Catalog No LTMCD 2347
Bar Code No 5 024545 239720
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
Various Artists - Black Music (CD 1)
1. Step Up! (Remix) / Crispy Ambulance (6:24)
2. Going Left Right / Department S (3:06)
3. Lover of Nothing / Blue Orchids (2:33)
4. Terror / Stockholm Monsters (2:53)
5. Afterwards / Artery (3:48)
6. Part Primitiv / Section 25 (3:39)
7. Town of 85 Lights (Edit) / The Wake (2:07)
8. True Crime Motel (Remix) / Cath Carroll (4:05)
9. Love Out (Edit) / Biting Tongues (3:58)
10. The Place / Ultramarine (5:39)
11. Flight X / Paul Haig (3:24)
12. Invisible / Blaine L. Reininger (6:20)
13. Tracking / Minny Pops (2:47)
14. Crime / Thick Pigeon (3:38)
15. My One Request / The Passage (2:54)
16. Rosa Luxemburg / Ludus (5:09)
17. Liber OV / Royal Family and the Poor (5:18)
18. Arabesque / Crawling Chaos (2:41)
Crispy Ambulance -Atlantic Crossing (CD2)
1. Step Up! / Crispy Ambulance (6:38)
2. End Game / Crispy Ambulance (6:44)
3. Deaf / Crispy Ambulance (4:06)
4. The Presence / Crispy Ambulance (7:25)
5. Say Shake / Crispy Ambulance (5:08)
6. Chimera / Crispy Ambulance (6:19)
7. The Drop / Crispy Ambulance (3:54)
8. Open, Gates of Fire / Crispy Ambulance (10:55)
9. The Plateau Phase / Crispy Ambulance (9:33)
Date Acquired 02/06/2024
Personal Rating
Acquired from Darla Records
Purchase Price 13.99

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Notes

Notes:
A 70 minute collection of material from LTM and The Boutique label, including previously unreleased tracks exclusive to this compilation.
Initial quantities of Black Music include a bonus nine track in-concert CD by Crispy Ambulance titled Atlantic Crossing, recorded in 2002 and unavailable elsewhere.

Tracks 1-1, 1-5 to 1-8, 1-10, 1-16 and 1-17 are exclusive tracks.
Track 1-8 titled True Crime Motel (New Version) in booklet.
Tracks 2-1 and 2-2 recorded at Band On The Wall, Manchester 26.10.02.
Tracks 2-3 to 2-9 recorded at the Knitting Factory, NYC, 10.11.02.

Andrew Prinz plays Doepfer Synthesizer on track 2-9 due to flesh wound to Keith Darbyshire's hand.

This release consists of 2 CDs, packaged in a double CD jewel case and was a mailorder item only. Regular commercially available editions of Black Music came as singular CD release.

Companies, etc.:
Made By – Universal M & L, UK
Pressed By – Disctronics
Recorded At – Band On The Wall, Manchester
Recorded At – The Knitting Factory

Barcode and other Identifiers:
Barcode: 5 024545 239720
Other (Cat# for Black Music): LTMCD 2347/1
Other (Cat# for Atlantic Crossing): LTMCD 2347/2
Matrix / Runout: MADE IN THE UK BY UNIVERSAL M&L
Matrix / Runout (Disc 1): DISCTRONICS LTMCD2347/1 01
Matrix / Runout (Disc 2): DISCTRONICS LTMCD2347/2 01
Mastering SID Code (Disc 1 & 2): IFPI L136
Mould SID Code (Disc 1): IFPI 04G3
Mould SID Code (Disc 2): IFPI 04G9

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Official DR Value: DR11
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Official DR Value: DR14
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review by Andy Kellman:

Black Music picks up where 2001's The Night Watch left off, as both a sampler and teaser of the material released and reissued by LTM. Since 1990, James Nice's label has acted as a tremendous resource for those with a longing for post-punk and early indie pop that history has otherwise neglected. This compilation focuses on the some of the releases that came from the label during the early 2000s, and it has the followers more in mind than anyone else -- numerous exclusives are scattered throughout, in addition to a number of tracks from forthcoming releases. Just when you thought LTM couldn't dig any deeper, they've harvested another crop of long-deleted releases -- in this case, from the likes of Artery, Department S, Biting Tongues, the Passage, Royal Family & the Poor, Crawling Chaos, and Paul Haig -- to rescue and faithfully restore. Though the majority of the bands Nice has preserved are second-tier, you have to consider the era during which they existed -- an era that spawned dozens upon dozens of spectacular and wildly creative acts. (The second disc contains a live performance from Crispy Ambulance.)
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