Sonic Youth - 08-30-2004

Sonic Youth

08-30-2004
Paradiso
Amsterdam, NL

discs: 2
recording type: AUD
shn: yes; book/page: 4/1
quality rating: A

[disc 1] (60:10)
1. I Love You Golden Blue (9:44)
2. Stones (7:53)
3. Pattern Recognition (9:29)
4. Unmade Bed (4:29)
5. Eric's Trip (5:33)
6. Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Handcream (4:29)
7. Teenage Riot > (5:30)
8. New Hampshire (12:59)

[disc 2] (59:06)
1. Paper Cup Exit (7:17)
2. Peace Attack (7:53)
3. Dude Ranch Nurse (7:08)
4. Brother James (3:45)
5. ...crowd noise... (3:57)
encore:
6. Pacific Coast Highway (9:16)
7. Expressway to Yr. Skull (19:46)

recording: Martin van Rappard (rappard@freeshell.org)
transfer: Mike de Wit (mikedewit@gmx.net)
lineage: hung over left balcony, eight meters from stage > Marantz EM-8 > Sharp IM-DR420H, Sony MDS-JA20ES > optical cable > Creative Sound Blaster Platinum 5.1 > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 > CD Wave (track splitting) > Nero 6 > FlAC Frontend (level 8) > Flac

Notes:
- volume level adjustment in 2 (1:52)
- minidisc switch in 11 (5:19-7:08), solved with fabchannel.com webcast (mms://195.169.149.136/ondemand/sonicyouth2004_300.wmv > Creative Soundblaster Platinum 5.1 > Cool Edit Pro)
- cable wiggling in 12 (0:07-0:18), 14 (7:41), 15 (19:32)

As you can see above there are some minor issues, but all in all the sound quality is good and I think it's an enjoyable listen. Although I'm probably a bit biased as I was there in person. I received this as two audio discs straight from the taper himself. There was no "cut-off point" for splitting the recording into two discs and I decided to leave it that way, so it's up to you to decide where you want to split it. EAC logs are included.

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