The Clash - North And South (Rebooted)

Here's a word from Gerald Manns who remixed/rebooted this..."Well, like everyone I was extremely disappointed when CTC was released in 1985. I knew the new songs from different bootlegs, like Bring The House Down, Five Alive etc. All the years after I was hoping for the existence of some mastertapes that were smuggled out of the studio in munich by a mindful technician. But literature that was released decades later showed that Paul and Pete didn't take part in the recordings.
Last year I found two different audio editing softwares with different algorithms to separate vocals from an existing audio recording. The De-Berniator idea was born. So after ripping Joe's vocals from the tracks, cleaning them up (a lot of noisy bits, especially in The Dictator, had to be removed).
Next step was to get a good live performance of every song, copying Pete's drums beat by beat into a drum machine that sampled original drum sounds.
On songs The Clash didn't perform live I had to lay down the tracks in a Pete Howard stylee by myself. After that came listening, learning, rehearsing and recording guitars and basslines.
To get a better sound I had to buy a Les Paul to differ from my Telecaster sound (nice axe to have anyway). I had to add some backing vocals because the algorithms swallowed some of the football chants (didn't make them out as vocals). It took me a while to mix it all, but now it was time to kick it out of my house.
Especially in different Facebook groups are a lot of hate regarding the last line-up of The Clash. I think these were quite descent songs and a lot of fun to listen to now. For me, this is the CTC I expected and hoped for when it was released in 1985.
Feel free to spread these recordings wherever you like, maybe it will shine a better light on the last line-up.
Have fun!"
GMAN

[@zeppelinaissa-zh8df]

The Reggae interlude with the solo is GENIUS

[@ccmaxWW2]

Waited 36 years to listen to this.

[@equaltemper]

Amazing work. North and South has always been one of my favourite Clash songs.

[@gerauldvellabrincat6241]

Has the soul of the live shows. Brilliant job.

[@blagheur]

Thank for all these songs, your job is fantastic.

[@rustyroosterrecords295]

Great Job! I was waiting for someone like you to under take such a project as this!

[@mutantproof]

Yeah, I just waited for the necessary software to properly isolate the vocals!

[@alessandrosarnella9208]

Great job mate, congratulations really..... all tracks are miles better now, theres just one thing i want to ask you, i didnt fully appreciate the drum pattern on the movers an shakers tune. To me it was the only track on the old album that was nearly fine as it was....... is there a specific reason for that or you just liked it that way?

[@mutantproof]

For M&S I used an arrangement from a song of my own band. I used the drum patterns from our drummer. For me this fits perfectly.

[@Alef.93]

@@mutantproof Izotope RX8 is a good one.

[@TrollButtlord]

@@mutantproof Dude. This fucking rules.

[@as3cs3]

great but tbh the original was perfect imo. I liked all the background noises (whistling n that)

[@pungisotu]

The original was one of the few good tracks on the orignal LP. I do like this version too 👍

[@Kalighat13]

super - real the old CLASH !

[@niku8111]

元はこんなかんじだったのか！ こちらのバージョンは初期のGARAGE　LANDとかに近い感じ 　 本編のエレクトロピアノが前面に出されたボサノバぽいリズムにソウルフルなバラードとはまた違っておもしろい どちらもいいね！！

[@Handler1300]

This song almost gives me a Pop Punk charm love it 👍

[@gballsout]

is it possible to make it downloadable?

[@yapoomkt]

Songs without awful intermission are good