Dead Can DanceDead Can Dance

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Folk, World, & Country

Style:

Ethereal

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Tracklist

The Fatal Impact
The Trial
Frontier
Fortune
Ocean
East Of Eden
Threshold
A age In Time
Wild In The Woods
Musica Eternal

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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1984-02-27, Vinyl Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – CAD 404 UK 1984 UK1984
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1984, Vinyl Dead Can Dance
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    Virgin – 70 274 1984 1984
    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1984, Vinyl Dead Can Dance
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    DRO – DRO-071 Spain 1984 Spain1984
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1984-03-00, Vinyl Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – CAD 404 Netherlands 1984 Netherlands1984
    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1984-02-02, Vinyl Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – CAD 404 UK 1984 UK1984
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1984-11-05, Vinyl Dead Can Dance
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    Nexus (3) – K25P-492 Japan 1984 Japan1984
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1984-11-05, Vinyl Dead Can Dance
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    Nexus (3) – K25P-492 Japan 1984 Japan1984
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1984, Vinyl Dead Can Dance
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    Virgin – 70 274 1984 1984
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1984-01-24, Vinyl Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – CAD 404 UK 1984 UK1984
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1986-12-00, CD Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – CAD 404 CD UK 1986 UK1986
    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1987-10-21, CD Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – 30CY-1920 Japan 1987 Japan1987
    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1987-10-21, CD Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – 30CY-1920 Japan 1987 Japan1987
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1988, CD Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – CAD404CD Taiwan 1988 Taiwan1988
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1991, CD Dead Can Dance
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    Vertigo – 510 235-2 Canada 1991 Canada1991
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1991, Cassette Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – 510 235-4 Canada 1991 Canada1991
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1991-10-21, Cassette Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – CADC 404 UK 1991 UK1991
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1991, CD Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – 510 235-2 Canada 1991 Canada1991
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1992, CD Dead Can Dance
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    Rough Trade – RTD 120.0051.2 1992 1992
    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1994, CD Dead Can Dance
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    Sonic Records (2) – SON 68 Poland 1994 Poland1994
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1994, Cassette Dead Can Dance
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    Warner Bros. Records – 9 45546-4 US 1994 US1994
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1994-03-22, CD Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – CAD 404 CD UK 1994 UK1994
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1994, CD Dead Can Dance
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    Warner Bros. Records – 9 45546-2 US 1994 US1994
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1994, CD Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – 9 45546-2 US 1994 US1994
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1995, CD Dead Can Dance
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    Lyricon – Lyricon 21071 Spain 1995 Spain1995
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 1995, Cassette Dead Can Dance
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    Always Records – ALR 071 Russia 1995 Russia1995
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    Dead Can Dance / Garden Of The Arcane Delights
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    Kod Müzik – none Turkey 1998 Turkey1998
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 2000, CD Dead Can Dance
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    4AD (2) – none Russia 2000 Russia2000
    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 2002, CD Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – CAD 404 CD UK 2002 UK2002
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 2005-07-25, CD Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – CAD 404 CD Russia 2005 Russia2005
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 2008-06-25, SACD Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – SAD 2705 Japan 2008 Japan2008
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 2008-06-02, SACD Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – WPCB-10070 UK, Europe & US 2008 UK, Europe & US2008
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 2008, Vinyl Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – VIN180LP003 UK 2008 UK2008
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 2008, Vinyl Dead Can Dance
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    Vinyl 180 – VIN180LP004 UK 2008 UK2008
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance • Garden Of The Arcane Delights, 2008-12-22, CD Dead Can Dance • Garden Of The Arcane Delights
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    4AD – CAD 2705 CD Europe 2008 Europe2008
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 2008, Vinyl Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – CAD2705CDJ Japan 2008 Japan2008
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance • Garden Of The Arcane Delights, 2008-11-18, CD Dead Can Dance • Garden Of The Arcane Delights
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    4AD – CAD 2705 CD US 2008 US2008
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 2008-06-02, File Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – none 2008 2008
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 2008, Vinyl Dead Can Dance
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    Vinyl 180 – VIN180LP004 UK 2008 UK2008
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    Cover of Dead Can Dance, 2016-07-08, Vinyl Dead Can Dance
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    4AD – CAD 3622 UK & US 2016 UK & US2016
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    Reviews

    • alevlasch's avatar
      alevlasch
      Great quality everything (vinyl, sound, sleeves). I highly recommend it.
      • old-school-0's avatar
        old-school-0
        Just dusted off this classic start of the DCD soundscape...Both are flat, minimal surface noise, and sound damn good on my system...

        (Fluance RT-82 w/Acrylic Platter, ATN-XP cart/5 stylus. Nobsound T3 Phono Amp, Aiyima A07 Pro, Kicker KB6B, & Polk PSW10 Sub...Simple Low Cost Setup)...Happy Listening
        • TowerofMEAT's avatar
          TowerofMEAT
          lol who put this as "experimental" or "ambient" are you people fucking stupid?
          • LICHEVARO's avatar
            LICHEVARO
            There is also a "made in Czech Republic" sticker on the back.
            How is the sound on your copy of the record?
            • tony879's avatar
              tony879
              Great album, like Joy Division meets Scott Walker. Post punk but with enough melody to separate them from the noise.
              • HoRions's avatar
                HoRions
                Perfection. Sounds amazing. Deep, warm and powerful. Don’t hesitate to buy it
                • j.postema81's avatar
                  j.postema81
                  I find the sound quality low of this recording, but this could be similar to the original master. But at track #2, after about 1 minute, just for a few seconds, I hear a clear (but not loud) distortion. When inspecting the grooves I do see 1 different looking groove with small hair-lines (cuts) in it for just about 50% of the circumreference of this single groove. Do other owners have the same issue?
                  • ricopossi's avatar
                    ricopossi
                    Sound quality on this release is not great ... quite muddy. Would definitely suggest choosing another version. Should never have gotten rid of the vinyl despite the bonus tracks.
                    • maxal's avatar
                      maxal
                      I love this album. I bought it and the Arcane Delights EP on vinyl when they first came out. They were a beautiful surprise, seemingly from ‘some other place’ (like every 4AD release at that time); it was a stunning display of brilliance, unique. The music obviously draws from other references (as music always does), but making their own DCD sound. Dead Can Dance collect, study and use instruments from all over the world and have proven to draw from many musical movements throughout history - medieval, oriental, African, Irish . . . fantastic string instruments and fantastic drums with clear beats, some thudding others more tunefully echoey. A seeming timeless quality pervades the music because of its breadth of sources and immaculate production, and of course the artists' dedication to music.

                      Brendan and Lisa take turn providing vocals – that presence of strong, male and female solo voices add to a kind of yin yang, universal identity as they deal with themes at once worldly and mystical (bla bla bla, yes, I know . . .). With every album (including the current ones) DCD 'improved' in of their musicianship creating an increasingly eclectic soundscape of awe laden music.

                      It would be easy to come to Dead Can Dances’ music during their later, more polished albums (the exalting track, “Sanvean”) and hence dismiss the first album and EP. But this album ( + EP ) is primal in more ways than just literally: there is an unrepeatable beauty to the rawness in these first pieces. I suppose also it is a kind of personal album to me. I bought it when it came out, it was fresh and new (in its nod to the ancient!) and I had no idea what subsequent DCD albums would be like. This first album and 4 x track EP introduce DCD as a kind of Grecian paean to music, representing the continuing rebirth of music, indeed reappraising music out of the ashes of punk. (In Australia, Brendan and Lisa used to go to Nick Cave concerts as the Birthday Party. This divergent taste states a lot.)

                      DCD conjures oceans, winds, landscapes, all life’s creatures, humanity and human emotions: pain (Lisa Gerrard’s “Sacrifice”) and joy . . . “Frontier” was exactly that, a kind of border, through which DCD broke and then produced more music. This first album isn’t as immediately beautiful as the subsequent albums, but it is the album from which all the other albums then emerged. I’m really glad I heard the DCD albums chronologically.
                      • IvanThorr's avatar
                        IvanThorr
                        I agree with the first 2 comments. These reissues are very good, they have great sonic quality, they are very old and I think they are similar to the originals and they are accessible. Very analogical. Go ahead!
                        Now, the sound is not perfect because the original recording is not perfect. This must be understood by those who buy the album in vinyl version.

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