Bon je connais mal le groupe, mais voilà une bonne nouvelle pour les amateurs
On the 2nd of June, 4AD is to release remastered editions of nine titles in the Dead Can Dance catalogue.

These albums (and EP) have been remastered by MFSL (Mobile Fidelity Sound Laboratory), one of the most respected audiophile labels in the USA. They are in the hybrid stereo SACD format. For extensive, detailed information on the SACD format, visit the SACD wikipedia page.

The SACD's will be packaged in Japanese paper sleeves which will replicate the original UK vinyl releases, including replica original inner sleeves and new additional booklets with lyrics, album labels and other images.

There may also be a box set of all nine releases available directly through 4AD - more details to be confirmed in the near future.

Regular CD editions of the re-mastered albums will be released in super jewel cases in August.

Read on for complete track-listings of the releases.
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DEAD CAN DANCE Dead Can Dance - SACD hybrid stereo / Japanese mini LP sleeve

1. The Fatal Impact 2. The Trial 3. Frontier 4. Fortune 5. Ocean 6. East Of Eden 7. Threshold 8. A Passage In Time 9. Wild in The Woods 10. Musica Eternal

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DEAD CAN DANCE Garden Of The Arcane delights (EP) - SACD hybrid stereo / Japanese mini LP sleeve

1. Carnival Of Light 2. In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated 3. The Arcane 4. Flowers Of The Sea

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DEAD CAN DANCE Spleen And Ideal - SACD hybrid stereo / Japanese mini LP sleeve

1. De Profundis (Out Of The Depths Of Sorrow) 2. Ascension 3. Circumradiant Dawn 4. The Cardinal Sin 5. Mesmerism 6. Enigma Of The Absolute 7. Advent 8. Avatar 9. Indoctrination (A Design For Living)

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DEAD CAN DANCE Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun - SACD hybrid stereo / Japanese mini LP sleeve

1. Anywhere Out Of The World 2. Windfall 3. In The Wake Of Adversity 4. Xavier 5. Dawn Of The Iconoclast 6. Cantara 7. Summoning Of The Muse 8. Persephone (The Gathering Of Flowers)

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DEAD CAN DANCE The Serpent's Egg - SACD hybrid stereo / Japanese mini LP sleeve

1. The Host Of Seraphim 2. Orbis De Ignis 3. Severance 4. The Writing On My Father’s Hand 5. In The Kingdom Of The Blind The One-Eyed Are Kings 6. Chant Of The Paladin 7. Song Of Sophia 8. Echolalia 9. Mother Tongue 10. Ullyses

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DEAD CAN DANCE Aion - SACD hybrid stereo / Japanese mini LP sleeve

1. The Arrival And The Reunion 2. Saltarello 3. Mephisto 4. The Song Of The Sibyl 5. Fortune Presents Gifts Not According To The Book 6. As The Bell Rings The Maypole Spins 7. The End Of Words 8. Black Sun 9. Wilderness 10. The Promised Womb 11. The Garden Of Zephirus 12. Radharc

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DEAD CAN DANCE Into The Labyrinth - SACD hybrid stereo / Japanese mini LP sleeve

1. Yulunga (Spirit Dance) 2. The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove 3. The Wind That Shakes The Barley 4. The Carnival Is Over 5. Ariadne 6. Saldek 7. Towards The Within 8. Bird 9. Tell Me About The Forest (You Once Called Home) 10. The Spider’s Strategem 11. Spirit 12. Emmeleia 13. How Fortunate The Man With None

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DEAD CAN DANCE Toward The Within - SACD hybrid stereo / Japanese mini LP sleeve

1. Rakim 2. Persian Love Song 3. Desert Song 4. Yulunga (Spirit Dance) 5. Piece For Solo Flute 6. The Wind That Shakes The Barley 7. I Am Stretched On Your Grave 8. I Can See Now 9. American Dreaming 10. Cantara 11. Song Of The Sibyl 12. Tristan 13. Sanvean 14. Don’t Fade Away

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DEAD CAN DANCE Spiritchaser - SACD hybrid stereo / Japanese mini LP sleeve

1. Nierika 2. Song Of The Stars 3. Indus 4. Song Of The Dispossessed 5. Dedicacé Outò 6. The Snake And The Moon 7. Song Of The Nile 8. Devorzhum

C'est une excellent nouvelle : pas de 5.1, mais une stéréo en haute-définition, c'est très bien, surtout si on atteint le niveau d'excellence sonore des albums de Can (il faut dire que chez Can, les éditions CD étaient ignobles) !

Tiens j'avais pas fait gaffe, ce n'est "que" du stéréo ... Faudrait bouger le topic alors

Effectivement c'est une excellente nouvelle ! Je suis vraiment fan de certains de leurs albums (Aion et Within the Realm... principalement), j'ai donc extrêmement hâte d'entendre ça !

J'ai le souvenir (j'ai une ex qui était fan ) que c'était mou, beau , mais mou...

Angrom il a un gros souci de vocabulaire, pour lui il utilise constamment le terme "mou" pour "calme"

quand à cette ressortie de DCD dans de nouvelles éditions, ce sera l'occasion idéale pour moi de me faire la collec, car je n'ai que deux CDRs et quelques albums en MP3. J'aimerais bien chopper l'intégrale en coffret vu qu'ils risque d'y en avoir une

A propos des SACD : pourquoi ils sont en stéréo et non en 5.1...

Sur le forum du site 4AD, quelqu'un a écrit:

Unfortunately, due to the way DCD recorded, multi-tracks only exist of the first album and ep (and yes, Brendan's looked at remixing them but the sounds he disliked were in the recording so he couldn't do anything satisfactory with them). We did want to do surround mixes but without multis there's nothing that can be done. Many of the albums were actually created in the final mastering where triggered samples (not on the multitrack) were mixed in live. This means that, apart from the stereo masters, there is no other recording containing all the musical elements.