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Pink Floyd have raided their vaults for a massive, 27-disc box set anthologizing their first seven years together, The Early Years 1965 – 1972.
It contain unreleased outtakes and demos, TV appearances, seven hours of concert recordings, 15 hours of video (including concert performances, interviews and three feature films), over 20 unreleased songs, an updated version of their Zabriskie Point soundtrack and more, documenting the period before Dark Side of the Moon.
The audio comprise 130 tracks, spanning 12-and-a-half hours and featuring unreleased songs and BBC sessions alongside the aforementioned outtakes. Two never-before-released recordings, the Syd Barrett–penned Saucerful of Secrets outtakes “Vegetable Man” and “In the Beechwoods,” have been newly mixed for the release. It contain seven hours of previously unreleased live audio, as well as replica seven-inch singles.

The discs housed in seven book-style containers, which will be available individually in 2017 with the exception of the bonus set, “Continu/ation.”
The first book-style package cover 1965 – 1967 and is titled “Cambridge St/ation.” It covers Barrett’s stint in the group, including demos, singles, the aforementioned Saucerful rarities and BBC sessions. Also notable is a CD release of the material on the rare 2015 vinyl release 1965: Their First Recordings, which featured Rado Klose on guitar and Juliette Gale on vocals. It will also include an unreleased Stockholm concert from 1967, and a DVD or Blu-ray of their TV performances and band-only footage from the time.

The next, “Germin/ation,” focuses on 1968, just after Barrett parted ways with Pink Floyd and they released Saucerful of Secrets. It includes non-album singles and a recently discovered studio session, as well as more BBC recordings. The video content includes a promo spot for “Point Me at the Sky” and international TV performances.

“Dramatis/ation” – the set covering 1969, the year the group put out its More soundtrack and Ummagumma double-LP – features recordings from Amsterdam and London taken from the group’s two-part conceptual live productions The Man and The Journey, which conceptually covered a 24-hour period in a person’s life. It also includes additional tracks from the More soundtrack and non-album cuts like the version of “Embryo” that appeared on a rare sampler. Its video contains footage of The Man/The Journey rehearsal.

The fourth set, “Devi/ation,” focuses on 1970, when they recorded songs for Michelangelo Antonioni’s film, Zabriskie Point, the latter of which have been collected together and remixed and updated. Another disc focuses on the BBC premiere of Atom Heart Mother – the cinematic album they put out that year – which featured an orchestra and choir; a quad mix of the album will be available on DVD audio. There’s also an hour-long performance that a San Francisco cable TV station shot for video content, as well as footage of the band performing Atom Heart Mother.

The period surrounding Meddle and, more specifically, 1971, will be the focus of “Reverber/ation.” It contains demos of early experiments known to Floyd fans as Nothing and Return of the Son of Nothing, as well as a BBC session. There’s also a quad mix of the Meddle cornerstone “Echoes,” as well as live performances from 1971 and one with a ballet company in Marseille, France.

“Opfusc/ation,” the sixth set, centers on 1972, when the band released Obscured by Clouds, a soundtrack album for the film La Vallée. That year also saw the release of the film Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, which found them playing in the empty amphitheater of the famous Italian ruins, and the video content contains those performances with new 5.1 audio mixes and material from French TV, concert footage and more ballet performances.

The final disc, “Continu/ation,” contains early BBC radio sessions, audio tracks from the film The Committee, Floyd’s live soundtrack to the 1969 moon landing and more. There’s also three feature-length films – The Committee, More and La Vallée – and live footage and festival performances.

1965-1967 Cambridge St/ation:

CD1 1965 Recordings
01. Pink Floyd – Lucy leave (2:57)
02. Pink Floyd – Double O Bo (2:57)
03. Pink Floyd – Remember Me (2:46)
04. Pink Floyd – Walk With Me Sydney (3:11)
05. Pink Floyd – Butterfly (3:00)
06. Pink Floyd – I’m A King Bee (3:14)
07. Pink Floyd – Arnold Layne (2:56)
08. Pink Floyd – See Emily Play (2:55)
09. Pink Floyd – Apples And Oranges (3:04)
10. Pink Floyd – Candy And A Currant Bun (2:46)
11. Pink Floyd – Paintbox (3:47)
12. Pink Floyd – Matilda Mother (2010 mix) (3:59)
13. Pink Floyd – Jugband Blues (2010 mix) (3:02)
14. Pink Floyd – In The Beechwoods (2010 mix) (4:43)
15. Pink Floyd – Vegetable Man (2010 mix) (2:32)
16. Pink Floyd – Scream Thy Last Scream (2010 mix) (4:43)

CD2 Live in Stockholm 1967
01. Pink Floyd – Introduction (Live In Stockholm) (0:25)
02. Pink Floyd – Reaction In G (Live In Stockholm) (7:18)
03. Pink Floyd – Matilda Mother (Live In Stockholm) (5:34)
04. Pink Floyd – Pow R. Toc H. (Live In Stockholm) (11:56)
05. Pink Floyd – Scream Thy Last Scream (Live In Stockholm) (4:00)
06. Pink Floyd – Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (Live In Stockholm) (7:17)
07. Pink Floyd – See Emily Play (Live In Stockholm) (3:16)
08. Pink Floyd – Interstellar Overdrive (Live In Stockholm) (8:57)
John Latham (studio recordings 1967)
09. Pink Floyd – John Latham Version 1 (4:32)
10. Pink Floyd – John Latham Version 2 (5:06)
11. Pink Floyd – John Latham Version 3 (3:45)
12. Pink Floyd – John Latham Version 4 (2:59)
13. Pink Floyd – John Latham Version 5 (2:48)
14. Pink Floyd – John Latham Version 6 (3:17)
15. Pink Floyd – John Latham Version 7 (2:36)
16. Pink Floyd – John Latham Version 8 (2:49)
17. Pink Floyd – John Latham Version 9 (2:38)

1968 Germin/ation:

01. Pink Floyd – Point Me At The Sky (3:40)
02. Pink Floyd – It Would Be So Nice (3:46)
03. Pink Floyd – Julia Dream (2:34)
04. Pink Floyd – Careful With That Axe, Eugene (single version) (5:46)
05. Pink Floyd – Song 1 (Capitol Studios 1968) (3:19)
06. Pink Floyd – Roger’s Boogie (4:35)
BBC Radio Session 25 June 1968
07. Pink Floyd – Murderotic Woman (BBC Session June 1968) (3:38)
08. Pink Floyd – The Massed Gadgets Of Hercules (BBC Session June 1968) (7:18)
09. Pink Floyd – Let There Be More Light (BBC Session June 1968) (4:32)
10. Pink Floyd – Julia Dream (BBC Session June 1968) (2:50)
BBC Radio Session, 20 December 1968
11. Pink Floyd – Point Me At The Sky (BBC Session December 1968) (4:25)
12. Pink Floyd – Embryo (BBC Session December 1968) (3:13)
13. Pink Floyd – Interstellar Overdrive (BBC Session December 1968) (9:37)

1969 Dramatis/ation:

CD1
‘More’ Album Non-album Tracks
01. Pink Floyd – Hollywood (1:21)
02. Pink Floyd – Theme [beat version] (5:38)
03. Pink Floyd – More Blues (3:49)
04. Pink Floyd – Seabirds (4:20)
05. Pink Floyd – Embryo (studio version) (4:42)
BBC Radio Session, 12 May 1969
06. Pink Floyd – Grantchester Meadows (BBC Session May 1969) (3:46)
07. Pink Floyd – Cymbaline (BBC Session May 1969) (3:38)
08. Pink Floyd – The Narrow Way (BBC Session May 1969) (4:48)
09. Pink Floyd – Green Is The Colour (BBC Session May 1969) (3:21)
10. Pink Floyd – Careful With That Axe, Eugene (BBC Session May 1969) (3:29)
Live At The Paradiso, Amsterdam, 9 August 1969
11. Pink Floyd – Interstellar Overdrive (Live at the Paradiso) (4:20)
12. Pink Floyd – Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (Live at the Paradiso) (12:26)
13. Pink Floyd – Careful With That Axe, Eugene (Live at the Paradiso) (10:10)
14. Pink Floyd – A Suacerful Of Secrets (Live at the Paradiso) (13:02)

CD2
Part 1: ‘The Man’, Amsterdam, 17 September 1969
01. Pink Floyd – Daybreak (Grantchester Meadows) (8:14)
02. Pink Floyd – Work (4:12)
03. Pink Floyd – Afternoon (Biding My Time) (6:39)
04. Pink Floyd – Doing It (3:55)
05. Pink Floyd – Sleeping (4:37)
06. Pink Floyd – Nightmare (Cymbaline) (9:14)
07. Pink Floyd – Labyrinth (1:12)
Part 2: ‘The Journey’, Amsterdam, 17 September 1969
08. Pink Floyd – The Beginning (Green Is The Colour) (3:23)
09. Pink Floyd – Beset By Creatures Of The Deep (Careful With That Axe, Eugene) (6:27)
10. Pink Floyd – The Narrow Way, Part 3 (5:11)
11. Pink Floyd – The Pink Jungle (Pow R. Toc H.) (4:56)
12. Pink Floyd – The Labyrinths Of Auximenes (3:19)
13. Pink Floyd – Footsteps/ Doors (3:13)
14. Pink Floyd – Behold The Temple Of Light (5:32)
15. Pink Floyd – The End Of The Beginning (A Saucerful Of Secrets) (6:32)

1970 Devi/ation:

CD1
01. Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother (Live in Montreux) (17:58)
BBC Radio Session, 16 July 1970
02. Pink Floyd – Embryo (BBC, July 1970) (11:10)
03. Pink Floyd – Fat Old Sun (BBC, July 1970) (5:52)
04. Pink Floyd – Green Is The Colour (BBC, July 1970) (3:27)
05. Pink Floyd – Careful With That Axe, Eugene (BBC, July 1970) (8:25)
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