








Urusei Yatsura - ‘Slain By’ Mastering Archive: Four Whitfield Street CDs, Mastered Cassette, Promo CD + ‘Slain By Elf’ CD & 7-Inch
Urusei Yatsura, the Glasgow band named after a Japanese manga, made their second album, Slain By, in 1997 and released it on Ché in 1998. It was mastered by Ray Staff at Whitfield Street Mastering Studios in London, and this lot follows that work from the mastering room to the finished records.
There are four Whitfield Street CD references: the album master, dated 10.10.97 and running 43:44; a second reference dated 17.11.97 (11:36); a “Slain By Elf” edit dated 25.3.98; and “CD Single 1” for the “Slain By Elf” single (CHE80CD1&2), dated 8.4.98. With them is a cassette of the mastered album for listening, thirteen tracks running from “Glo Starz” to “Amber.”
The finished records are here too: a promo CD of Slain By in a kraft card sleeve, and the “Slain By Elf” single on CD, in its digipak, and on 7-inch.
Key details & collectability
- Four Whitfield Street CD references, mastered by Ray Staff
- Album master reference, 10.10.97, 43:44
- “Slain By Elf” edit and CD single references, 1998
- Mastered listening cassette of the full thirteen-track album
- Slain By promo CD in kraft card sleeve
- “Slain By Elf” CD single (digipak) and 7-inch
Provenance
- From the archive of producer and engineer Chris Allison, who produced and mixed Urusei Yatsura’s Slain By.
A percentage of Chris Allison’s proceeds from this collection will be donated to Restore The Music, a social impact charity that addresses systemic inequality in music education by providing capital grants to state schools in areas of high socio-economic deprivation.
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