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Bauhaus first two albums remastered and reissued

David Pescovitz at 8:46 am Tue, Feb 5, 2013

Bauhhhh The first two albums by seminal proto-goth band Bauhaus, have been reissued today on vinyl in the US. These pressings of In The Flat Field (1980) and Mask (1981) feature the remastered tracks previously released in 2008. The UK reissues, available in a few weeks according to the Beggars Archive label, include CDs of the albums as well. This music is essential listening. Again and again. (Video above from The Old Vic Theatre, London, February 24, 1982.)

"In the Flat Field" (remastered vinyl)" (Thanks, Dave Gill!)

"Mask (remastered vinyl)"

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David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

TAGS: goth music

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tw1515tw

Hearing Bela Lugosi’s Dead blasting out of a college dorm room some distance away…happy days
Navin_Johnson

My records still sound great! j/k This is exciting. <3 Bauhaus.
- David Pescovitz
  
  You’re lucky. I had and lost both of these original vinyls. : (
  - Navin_Johnson
    
    Bought “In the Flat Field” at 15 years old and have cherished ever since.
- Ronald Pottol
  
  Ah, the joys of listening to Mask the first time, on vinyl, and thinking your belt drive was slipping. You don’t get that effect on CD ;-)
  - Navin_Johnson
    
    Indeed, I have a cd of it as well, but it’s from that awful period when cds were like bad dubbings of lps.
    - http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers
      
      Eh? I have all the Bauhaus CDs and they sound pretty damn good to me.
      
      If their last album was anything to go by, these remasters will just be brickwalled: http://www.dr.loudness-war.info/index.php?search_artist=bauhaus&sort=year&order=asc
PaulDavisTheFirst

12″ dub remix of bela lugosi FTW!
strokeybeard

What do you mean “proto-”?
Beanolini

Vinyl? I listen to them on a Maxell cassette tape.