Tubeway Army

Tubeway Army – Gary Numan – Replicas (1979/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:17 minutes | 761 MB | Genre: Rock, New Wave
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Beggars Banquet

Replicas is the second and final album by British band Tubeway Army, released in 1979. After this, Tubeway Army frontman Gary Numan would continue to release records under his own name, though the musicians in Tubeway Army would continue to work with him for some time. Replicas was the first album of what Numan later termed the “machine” phase of his career, preceding The Pleasure Principle and Telekon, a collection linked by common themes of a dystopian science fiction future and transmutation of man/machine, coupled with an androgynous image and a synthetic rock sound.

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Gary Numan / Tubeway Army – Replicas – The First Recordings (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:44 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Beggars Banquet

In late 1978, Gary Numan was booked into a small studio in London’s Chinatown with the same musicians that had played on Tubeway Army’s debut album, released a month earlier. Two stereo master tapes were compiled of eleven tracks. A month later they again went to Gooseberry Studio and recorded an additional three tracks, including “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?” and “Replicas”. At the same time, the band recorded a session for the BBC’s John Peel show, taping alternate versions of three songs from the December recordings. Finally Numan returned to an upgraded studio, Marthus Music, in February to overdub and remix the Gooseberry recordings into their released versions. Only one alternative out take still exists (“Down In The Park”) which is included in this release.

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