Douglas Heart - compilation (FLAC).nfo
Douglas Heart - compilation (FLAC)
Biography (from Labrador):
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Douglas Heart first started out as a duo, an outgrowth from the {legendary} shoegazeband Standing Pales. The two songwriters of the band, Malin Dahlberg {vocals} and Pontus Wallgren {guitar} started to make songs with a more intimate and minimalistic sound that they didn't really want to ruin with way to distorted guitars and a jangly garagesound that could kill anyone in too large doses. So they moved on from the noise pop, though still keeping the tunes and simple chords, and called themselves "Hal Blaine".
This was the entrance to what we now like to call the bedroomtapes-era {a correct designation if by an era you mean two or three months}. A couple of demos were recorded in Pontus bedroom stereo-recorder and distributed mostly to friends and such. The concept of the music was to make short but consist songs, the setting was a small casio synth {who's organ sound and funky drums were most frequently used}, guitar, bass and song. In the summer of 2001 a demo was recorded in a real studio, from which two songs now are included on the Labrador Kingsize - compilation. The sound changed into a more electronic and gentle approach, and it was somewhere around this time that Hal Blaine got in touch with Labrador records. When planning for a full length release on Labrador, Pontus and Malin discovered that Hal Blaine, the actual person, had given out his own releases under the very same name. When they also discovered that these releases were really bad, they decided to change the name to Douglas Heart.
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This is an unofficial complete compilation of Douglas Heart. All tracks from their albums are here arranged in the same order, plus there are all the other songs that I could find.
Malin Dahlberg has a unique voice and Douglas Heart tops my list of moody dream pop. You'll just have to listen to find out.
I was introduced to Douglas Heart by a usenet posting of the MP3s around 2004. I promptly located the CDs online and ordered them. The Fast Way (of Making Art) I found on a blog but it was poor quality, yet I could hear that it was possibly their best track. It was near impossible to find, only available on the Club AC30 #2 CD-R via a Japanese music site. The Kingsize compilation had yet to be announced. That CD-R cost me about $50 with shipping.
The tracks were first ripped with Exact Audio Copy in secure mode to flac-cue. Then that was ripped that with EAC to files. The CDs have no scratches and there were no errors.
This has both versions of the The Fast Way (of Making Art), tracks from the Kingsize compilations, and the Never Lose That Feeling Volume One compilation. Also, 2 new unfinished songs from their old Myspace page (back when it had a working music player) from 96Kbps MP3 stream caps, dumped to wav, and levels corrected in Audition 3 with the free Buzmaxi3 transparent maximizer/limiter (iZotope's limiter is no good and I wasted money on the full suite to find only SpectralRX has any value). Yeah I know this is a lossless forum but it seemed silly to not include those 2 songs in this complete compilation. Those songs can be found no where but here.
The original The Fast Way (of Making Art)(extended) will be posted later in the Club AC30 #2 post.
If you like this compilation, please show your support and buy the albums. If you prefer CDs, some are still in print, and eBay or Amazon sometimes has copies:
https://www.amazon.com/Douglas-Heart/dp/B00012BD4E/
https://www.amazon.com/I-Could-See-Smallest-Things/dp/B00069I7Z0/
http://labrador.se/douglas-heart-douglas-heart/
http://labrador.se/douglas-heart-i-could-see-the-smallest-things/
https://www.amazon.com/Labrador-Kingsize-Vol-1-Various-2004-01-12/dp/B01K8NMTC0/
https://www.amazon.com/Kingsize-Vol-2-Labrador-Compilation-2005-08-23/dp/B01K8QSGIS/
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