Emancipation - The
Secret Chapter CD
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Sabotage Catalog # 029 Release Year 1999 CD Length
40:47 Date/Venue Studio Outtakes Source Soundboard Quality
EX / EX+
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Rating 3.25/5.0
Track Listing
1. Slave 2 The System 2. New World 3.
Slave 4. 2020 5. Feel Good 6. Right Back Here In Your Arms 7. Journey 2 The
Center Of Your Heart 8. Eye Am The DJ 9. Goodbye 10. Emancipation
Comments
Fink's Comments
(rates this release 3.5/5.0)
An excellent release containing many tracks either intended for the
Emancipation album or alternate versions recorded during the Emancipation
sessions. The quality throughout is consistently excellent with the only slight
(and it is slight) point worth raising being that the volume on a couple of the
tracks is slightly lower than the others for some reason.
The content on the whole is unquestionably good, and for it's time (1997) this
would have been an unmissable set. All tracks with the exception of #2, #6 & #9
(which I'll come to in a second) are unreleased. These include alternate
versions of the Emancipation tracks 'Slave' and the title track 'Emancipation'.
Also worthy of mentioning is the exquisite 'Journey 2 The Centre Of Your Heart'
which is (as always) criminally unreleased. 'Goodbye' is identical to the
version released on the 'Crystal Ball' album, however that's fine as this
Sabotage release pre-dates the official 'Crystal Ball' album from 1998. No such
excuse for both 'New World' and 'Right Back Here In My Arms' though, as they are
identical versions to the official releases. Their inclusion on here is baffling
for a number of reasons.
At the time this was released by Sabotage they were already available on the
'Emancipation' album is the most obvious, however the sound quality of these two
tracks is certainly not of the same standard as the rest of the material on here
- a strange thing indeed. Their inclusion aside, the remaining content is of
such high quality that one slightly cancels out the other. The packaging and
accompanying artwork is imaginative, colourful and a joy to look at.
Dale's Comments
(rates this release 3.5/5.0)
High quality Emancipation era outtakes. Worth getting a copy of if you
don't have all of these elsewhere.
Mike's Comments
(rates this release 3/5.0)
The
versions of 'New world' and 'Slave' here sound almost identical to the released
versions, while 'Goodbye' came out officially on the Crystal ball set
so is technically no longer an outtake. The remaining tracks are worth having -
not least because they have excellent sound quality - but other bootlegs have
them too, most notably Fantasia and The work volume 5(the
latter also contains a demo of 'Soul sanctuary', which really ought to have been
on this set too, given that it looks to round up cast-offs from Emancipation).
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