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The Soft Machine compilation album Triple Echo is not available on CD as yet. It was released in 1977 on the Harvest label. The two most interesting tracks are recorded with Robert Wyatt who left before the album was released in 1977, and do not appear anywhere else. Side 3 has the track "The Moon in June" which was recorded with Mike Ratledge on piano and organ, and Hugh Hopper on bass, and was transmitted in 1969 on 'Top Gear'. The sleeve notes say "This is an entirely different version to the one which appeared a year later on the LP "Third". Much of the lyric was written especially for this recording." The track occupies over half the side and is thirteen minutes long. Similarly "Memories" was recorded in 1967 as a demo and released on a French LP "Rock Generation volume 8" in 1972. These are essential Soft Machine tracks which have been omitted from any CD compilation album. The problem with re-releasing this album is that the tracks are in Mono.