Floodland Demos (1986)

Acoustics From The Beehive

Rare Obscurities

Floodland Demos (7")

Kill The Lights

Demos recorded in 1986 for The Sisters of Mercy's second studio album Floodland,

often referred to as Portastudio Floodland Demos (1986).

Recording Notes

• All tracks were recorded by Andrew Eldritch in 1986, see the below information derived from another Wiki:

Andrew Eldritch began to compose a new WEA album in Hamburg. He recorded demo versions of all the songs
on Floodland except This Corrosion as well as a 7-minute instrumental without title. These demos were mainly
recorded with a Casio CZ-101 synthesizer, some acoustic guitars and a new drum machine:

“By the time Floodland was being written, Andrew had spent all the ready cash on a computer and a sequencer,
and was looking for a reasonably priced midi drum machine with a tighter snare drum. So he got a Yamaha RX5
for the snare sound (the kick was quite tight too) and wrote the album with that".*

* Quote from The Sisters or Mercy's homepage under Sisters Tech - Doktor

Tracks

Song	Duration	Remarks
•   Dominion / Mother Russia	5:11
•   Flood I	1:12
•   Lucretia, My Reflection	2:10
•   Never Land	7:37
•   Untitled II	6:53
•   Driven Like The Snow aka Snowdriver	3:24
•   Flood II	3:32	Flood II (Demo)
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Total Running Time	30:09

In 1988, these demos began to surface on various bootlegs and can be found (in full or partly) on:

• 1983 - 1986

• Acoustics From The Beehive

• Floodland Demos (7")

• Kill The Lights

• Kama Sutra

• Rare Obscurities

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