Cardiacs - "Toy World" (1981) [BEST QUALITY ON YOUTUBE]

Recorded June 1980 - March 1981
Crow Studios
Surbiton, Surrey, England
Tim Smith - Lead Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards, Production, Songwriting
Jim Smith - Bass Guitars, Backing Vocals
Sarah Smith - Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Colvin Mayers - Keyboards, Backing Vocals (Tracks 4, 5, & 7 only), Co-Writer (Track 4 only)
Mark Cawthra - Drums, Backing Vocals, Engineering, Co-Writer on Track 6
Peter Kunzler - Engineering
Produced by Tim Smith and Cardiacs
Remixed by Max Mobarry, January 2020 and January 2021
Side 1:
0:00 - 1. Aukamakic
0:43 - 2. Over [outtake]
0:49 - 3. Icky Qualms
3:06 - 4. Over and Over and Over and Over
8:21 - 5. Dead Mouse
12:49 - 6. A Big Noise in a Toy World
16:25 - 7. My Trade Mark
Side 2:
20:59 - 8. Scratching Crawling Scrawling
21:57 - 9. As Cold as Can Be in an English Sea
29:10 - 10. Verses
29:42 - 11. Is This the Life?
34:32 - 12. Nurses Whispering Verses
40:08 - 13. A Time for Rejoicing [incl. "In Heaven" by David Lynch & Peter Ivers]
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CARDIACS · "Toy World" 1981 Demo Album · REMIXED BY MAX MOBARRY
The best quality you'll find ANYWHERE, as far as I am aware (and I've looked).
This brilliant, one-of-a-kind pop band released a number of extremely rare demo albums as cassette tapes in the early 1980s -- and I was shocked that the versions I discovered circulating online are all recorded at a much slower, incorrect speed, resulting in the recordings all being the wrong pitch as well. As a result - and again, if you're reading this and know where to find a better quality recording than what's out there send it my way - all previously available copies or bootlegs fail to properly represent the original sound captured during the "Toy World" recording sessions.
Until now.
Thanks to the limited amount of properly remixed tracks from these sessions available on the 1989 compilation "Archive Cardiacs," I had an official reference with which to compare, create, and clean up a bootleg rip of "Toy World." Now at the original speed and original pitch, at last, the way it should be... even if a band member previously referred to the cassette mixes as "so shit it wouldn’t matter if they were copied onto washing-up sponges." Indeed, this is still an incredibly raw recording to begin with and there's only so much you can change. Still, my ears are happier with it than they've ever been.
As far as I know, and with the master tapes lost to time, this remix I've done is now the closest you can get to experiencing Cardiacs' second-ever studio album. I implore any producer friends I know with more mixing experience to take this project on themselves, and perhaps someday their management will organize a full proper re-release as with those special "Archive" mixes...
But I'm happy to have done this. Long live the music of Tim Smith and all his friends. My remix of the rare, 42-minute "Toy World" 1981 demo album by CARDIACS is available now for free for viewing over on UA-cam.
Kiss the big ugly shark :)
🌼🌼🌼

[@Crumbleofborg]

Wow. As a later convert to Cardiacs I pretty much ignored Toy World if only because of the horrible sound quality available. Thanks for this upload, now I realise what I'd missed. Such music! Such great versions of the songs, esp Side 2!!

[@DaveRiceMusic]

I listen to this album a lot....now I'll be listening to this version! *GIANT HUG*

[@graemehouston2234]

Worthy of laudation

[@CaseyChristopher]

If you don't constantly sigh at Over and Over and Over you are really not awake and paying attention to life.

[@LambLiesDownOnBroadway]

I'd kill for a remaster of Over And Over...

[@operenyi]

I have waited many years for this whole thing to be uploaded properly. Thank you, thank you, thank you

[@billybobweible]

This is way better than the shitty mp3s I downloaded years ago. Good job!!!!!!

[@fcamiola]

This sounds flippin great! How can one make a cdr of this to crank on the hifi to annoy the country?

[@terrytin7352]

Masterful, cathartic energy - just f #3);/3 .g amazing.

[@ButtonDownRadio]

Fantastic job. AS Cold As Can Be has a tiny drop at the same place as my tape. Does anyone know if it dropped on all copies / the master?

[@debzmaher6875]

wow, well done Max - that's some work you put in there

[@splashbackstringband]

Fabulous max thank you 😀

[@drdeveril]

superduper!

[@ohwell2088]

My first introduction to cardiacs right here

[@ANGLBNDR]

Thank you Tim, thank you OP

[@fcamiola]

Max can you give the same treatment to The Obvious Identity? Cheers!

[@willowsparks4576]

if you want it to sound even better - set your speakers to mono as it gets rid off the awkward mixing and panning as well as cleaning up some of the noise (in the 80s tapes were mostly in mono anyway)

[@willowsparks4576]

to make it mono you go to the sound menu in the accesibility settings

[@Tanquered]

Oh man, do you have flac download link?

[@Sorrki]

That would be super.

[@theboraxbandit9563]

That would be awesome!

[@meursault7030]

Cog like a daisy by the logo on the spine.
Sounds like a Philip K Dick story lol.

[@luke_kiid]

Og Egg punk

[@mikekay9616]