Porcupine Tree - Tarquin's Seaweed Farm (1988)

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Porcupine Tree / Tarquin's Seaweed Farm

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2 | 2:48.23 | 6:05.16 | 12623 | 40013
3 | 8:53.39 | 3:12.37 | 40014 | 54450
4 | 12:06.01 | 0:55.24 | 54451 | 58599
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Porcupine Tree
Tarquins Seaweed Farm
1989

PT's first proper album…. Some of this material eventually re-surfaced on either 'SUNDAY OF LIFE….' or the limited edition CD 'Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape'. However, these are the originally released versions as found on the limited edition cassette tapes that Steven Wilson produced and distributed in 1989.

Tracklist:
1. Music For The Head (Here) 2:48
2. Jupiter Island 6:13
3. Nun's Cleavage (Left) 2:48
4. Clarinet Vignette 1:22
5. Nun's Cleavage (Right) 1:00
6. Space Transmission 3:05
7. Message From A Self-Destructing Turnip 0:30
8. Radioactive Toy 5:55
9. Towel 3:36
10. Wastecoat 1:12
11. Mute 8:11
12. Music For The Head (There) 1:31
13. No Reason To Live, No Reason To Die 11:20
14. Daughters In Excess 6:54
15. The Cross/Hole/Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape 20:52

The tape flip point is after track 12. Tracks 13, 14 and 15 represent the 'Live Side' of the cassette. Read the booklet. The details regarding this fact are all in there :)


With this particular RoIO/Transfer/torrent, it goes something like this….

1. I received a single FLAC with accompanying CUE from my buddy Jaman57. Cheers matey :).

2. He originally received it as an audio CD courtesy of Ray ( gr8fuldead@earthlink.net ).

3. He then extracted the audio using Exact Audio Copy (EAC) in secure mode, created FLAC Level 8 files in Trader's Little Helper (TLH) and passed it on to chug70.

4. Chug70 then normalised the levels (to 0.0dB), removed the DC offsets, and removed 2 or 3 clicks (by manually re-drawing the waveforms) including the obvious tape turn overs and restarted. He did NOT applied any EQ or compression, in order retain the 'signature cassette' sound! He then indexed the complete WAVs (according to the track names on the associaed artwork, and not necessarily the times, which are slightly inaccurate in places) and rendered to CD using Steinberg Wavelab. He extracted the audio (to lossless FLAC) and a track cue sheet from the CD using EAC, see the included log files. He also contributed to the artwork for the original cassettes (see the following paragraphs). He then returned it to jaman57 who sent me the finished product.

Why relate all this? To let you know that every step possible was taken to provide you with the best possible sound of this seminal effort. Of the several versions that have circulated of this tape I think this is the best sounding - and unlike most of what is out there, it is guaranteed lossless, the intial dub coming directly from one of the original cassettes (and confirmed by frequency anlaysis). I believe it was well worth the effort, and I hope you agree.

As implied above, with this came a load of scans of 'TARQUIN' cover arts (to be found in the IMAGES folder within). I used these scans to lay out the CD art you will find in the folder '1989 - Tarquins Seaweed Farm v2 CD Art'. This constitutes a 24 page booklet, back/tray inner and outer covers and a disc face. I also used info from 'Steven Wilson Discography V8_Mar 2009.pdf' on the back outer art. A copy of this PDF is also contained in this file-set.

So… next I used the CUE to burn a copy of the CD. Incidentally, there is a LOG file that describes the creation of the CUE and FLAC using EAC by the originator of this set.

Once I had my physical copy, all printed up and lovely, I used 'Spesoft Free CD Ripper' (http://www.spesoft.com/free-cd-ripper.aspx) to create a 'tracked' copy of the CD on my HDD in FLAC/8.

I then opened all these flac files in 'FOOBAR 2000' and edited the file tagging. Next I ran TLH to fix SBE's (before and after logs supplied), removed the 'fixed' appendation to the file names, created MD5's and FFPs. All these log files are in the root folder for you to peruse through.


So, the bottom line is this. The closest generational copy of this recording is the BIG FLAC with the CUE so if you have a program that burns from CUE (I use BURRRN myself - http://www.burrrn.net/) then you're sorted. However, if you don't then you have the tracked version in the 'DISC' folder. Saying all that, I doubt that you will hear any difference between the two.


Thanks to Jaman57 and his buddies for getting this together.


Don't forget, Porcupine Tree are a fully functioning recording and touring combo who, incidentally, don't like us traders all that much, so please, if you like this then go buy some CD's eh? It's a bit rude if you don't, really, yeah? Besides, the albums are bloody awesome!!! Specifically, if you like what's on here, you'll likely enjoy 'The Nostalgia Factory' (another cassette/RoIO semi-rarity). Also, the high-points of these two 'cassette' albums plus some additional stuff make up the 'On The Sunday Of Life…' officially released album.

Checkout www.porcupine Tree.com for details and an opportunity to buy some stuff and settle your guilty conscience a bit. Also, if you sign up to the web-site store you get to download a free track! Worth having, too. It's the missing song from the 2001 recorded/2004 released 'Warszawa' live album (cracking CD it is, too!!).


That's a Wrap!!!!


Novak (2010)