Here you have some impressive bits, which are among my favourite ones.

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I've made some changes to this page. Mainly, I've changed some of the usual bits (Those taken from the official albums) by rarer versions of them. For instance I've changed the Amarok bit by a guitar performance in which Mike mixes Taurus 3 and a bit from Amarok, because I've thought that'd please those of you who'd like to listen to things you've never listened before. I hope you'll like that...

• Incantations part 3 - Live at Wembley 83

  This is an incredible live version of the 3rd part of Incantations. It is much more rockier than the album version. I'm completelly mad about this song, and I'm sure that you will be too when you listen to it! I has been taken from the bootleg 'Live at Wembley 83', which, as the title says, is a recording of the Tubular Bells 10th Anniversary concert that took place in Wembley in 1983.

• Tubular Bells part 1 - Demo from the Nick Campbell Show (December 89)

  Taken from the bootleg 'I met a sweet senora in Barcelona'

  I couldn't miss this one. This is one of the most 'classic' and influential bits Mike has ever composed: The ending of Tubular Bells part one.

  Tubular Bells was the album that trew him up the fame and made him a star, selling millions and staying for more that three years in the first places of the charts. This is a 'Ravel' like bit of music, in which Mike goes introducing several instruments while the music rises into the climax in which the Tubular Bells appear. A true classic of contemporary music.

  But this isn't a normal version. This is a demo that Mike did for an English radio program, the Nick Campbell Show. It's special because of the way the instruments are introduced (Above all the Tubular Bells, which are not what they used to be ;-)

• Ommadawn part 2 - BBC FM performance (1985)
  Taken from the bootleg 'I met a sweet senora in Barcelona'

  An acoustic version of a bit from one of his best albums, which he made for the BBC FM. It's amazing how Mike can sometimes do so simple and beautiful music.

• Platinum - Live! (From the compilation 'The Complete' - 137 Kb)
  Platinum is a good album, but it's even better when it's performed Live (By Mike, of course ;-). Platinum is maybe Mike's rockier album, as we can see in this bit in which he uses his guitar as only he is able to, and then a piano starts playing a 'Charleston'-like tune.

• Incantations part 3 - Live! (Taken from the album Exposed)
  Incantations is maybe his more intimist album, but the beginning of his third part is pure dynamite (Very classical like but dynamite after all :-)

• Guilty - Live! (From Exposed)
  The Exposed album features some live recordings of the first tour that Mike did. There are the live versions of Tubular Bells, Incantations and Guilty. The latter one is a 'semi-disco' song, but here Mike demonstrates us (again :-) what he can do with a guitar...

• Wrek Order Rondo
  A little miniature in the young Olfield's style.

• Taurus 3 & Amarok bit - from BBC TV (1989)
  Taken from the bootleg 'Swollowed up by a big fat snake'

  Amarok is my preferred album, and many of his fans prefere it too. However it probably is the most unknown of his disks, and surely the one that sold the least (As someone said, a gift for his fans, born from his rage against his discographic company, which deceived him very much). But here Mike 'mixes' it with Taurus 3, a very 'flamenco-like' guitar composition from the album Crises, and the result is 'lovely', as Anita (The mother of some of his children) said in that TV program.

• In the Pool
  This is a bit from In the Pool, another little miniature which lasts for 3:44. The bit I've put here lasts 46 seconds and shows how Mike Oldfield can make a great song with a very simple tune. It's a very happy tune and I like it very much.

• Adlib Track - Taken from rehearsals (1979). Recorded from the bootleg 'Swollowed up by a big fat snake'

  Did you know that the only instrument that Mike tried to learn playing and wasn't able to is the violin? He just couldn't bear listening to himself while he was learning! But that doesn't mean he isn't able to compose for violin, as this impressive track demonstrates.

• Incantations part 3 - Live at Wembley 83
• Tubular Bells part 1 - Finale - Demo from the Nick Campbell Show (December 89) - 377 Kb
• Ommadawn Part 2 - Demo from BBC FM (1985) - 152 Kb
• Platinum - Live! (From the compilation 'The Complete' - 137 Kb)
• Incantations Part 3 - Live! (From the album 'Exposed' - 128 Kb)
• Guilty - Live! (From the album 'Exposed' - 102 Kb)
• Wrek Order Rondo - 102 Kb
• Taurus 3 & Amarok bit (From BBC TV (1989) - 154 Kb)
• In the Pool - 91 Kb
• Adlib Track (1979) - from the bootleg called 'Swollowed up by a big fat snake' - 408 Kb

I hope you like these bits as much as I do. If you want to get any bit you don't have please e-mail me and I'll try to send it to you or to put it here.

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