Course of Empire - Telepathic Last Words (1996 version) download links:


01. Houdini's Blind

02. New Maps

03. Persian Song

04. The Information

05. Ride the Static

06. Kaptain Kontrol

07. Freaks

08. Respect

09. 59 Minutes

10. Cosmic Dancer


Info file.


In 1996, while still signed to the Zoo Entertainment record

label, the band gave out several early versions of the album to
friends and fans. These are preliminary mixes made by Chad 
Lovell before John Fryer was called in to produce and mix 
the final album, and before Dave Bianco later assisted with 
mixing duties. I believe all songs here were recorded by 
Chad at Telepathic Studio (aka Course of Empire Studio) in 
Dallas, except for Cosmic Dancer, which was left over from 
Initiation recording sessions in 1993. Cosmic Dancer is a T-
Rex cover. All of the additional songs that ended up on the 
official TVT release of the album in 1998 were recorded

after the ten songs represented here. These FLAC files were 
made from a CDr that I received from Jim Cahill, who got his 
CDr from a member of Funland, who received it from Mike 

Graff. I did some minor editing to remove gaps between 

songs, where songs were intended to flow together 

seamlessly, but these edits are not audible and I didn't do 
any other remastering. This is the best-sounding copy of 
early TLW mixes I've found, though I also have a lower 

quality cassette version which features a different order of 
songs and slightly different mixes and transitions. If this 
recording is shared online, please keep this info file with 
it. Please do not convert to mp3 files. I'm still looking 
for more live and studio recordings of the band, so please 
contact me if you have any!


-thomas (webmaster@courseofempire.com)

[First uploaded 10-8-2009]