音楽 ： Mars "Rehearsal Tapes And Alt. Takes NYC 1976-1978" [3 × Cassette]

Our first project in a series of archival releases. Over two hours of unreleased recordings by the band Mars (NYC 1977) recovered from the original cassette source. These recordings are of special value because they capture sounds from pre-Mars (when they were called China) sessions up to right before they broke up. Here their sound runs the gamut from piano jams to pummeling and dissonant guitar assaults, the latter of which was certainly ahead of its time and has since functioned as a point of reference for later generations. A selected compilation carefully extracted from hours of tape and studio recordings that have been mastered to suit the cassette tape format in which they were originally recorded.

[Cassette 1]
Side A Summer’76 - The piano sessions
Sumner piano solo
Pale blue eyes
Cry
Leather jacket *
Side B June ’77 - China to Mars
Look at you
Crazy like you
Cry
3E
Plane separation
Cats
Don’t be so sensitive

[Cassette 2]
Side A December ’77 - 11.000 Volts
11000 Volts
11000 Volts
Cats
3E
11000 Volts jam
Side B No New York Alt. Takes
Helen Forsdale (LP take rough mix)
Puerto Rican Ghost (2 takes drums and vocals)
Puerto Rican Ghost (2 takes full)
Hairwaves (several continuous takes)
Tunnel (LP take rough mix)

[Cassette 3]
Side A July ’78 - Scorn
RTMT
Cairo
Cairo
Scorn
Tunnel
Hairwaves
Untitled mystery (tape cuts off)
Side B November ’78 - N N End
NN End
Scorn
Monopoly – 2 takes
Immediate Stages of the Erotic