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Re: The Vinyl Thread
« Reply #50 on: December 13, 2013, 06:49:12 PM »
Good news for anyone that wants some well-mastered Blue Note stuff, but don't like dealing with the 45rpm 2LP format. Music Matters is doing a 33rpm reissue series of some of the more famous Blue Note albums. These 12 have been announced:

BLP- 1577  John Coltrane - Blue Train
BST- 84154 Grant Green - Idle Moments
BST- 84031 Hank Mobley - Soul Station
BST- 84123 Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
BST- 84041Tina Brooks - True Blue
BST- 84112 Dexter Gordon - Go!
BST- 84140 Joe Henderson - Page One
BST- 84003 Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - Moanin' 
BST- 84157 Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
BST- 84059 Kenny Drew - Undercurrent
BST- 81588 Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'
BST- 81595 Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else

It looks like Kevin Gray is doing the mastering on them, who did most of these albums already in the 45rpm format (either through Music Matters or Analogue Productions). As DaveBSC can attest to, all of the Music Matters releases are excellent.

http://www.musicmattersjazz.com/Default.asp
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Re: The Vinyl Thread
« Reply #51 on: January 02, 2014, 06:37:38 PM »
Well that's a good way to wreck your vinyl...


I'm surprised it managed to track at those speeds, much less play anything.
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Re: The Vinyl Thread
« Reply #52 on: January 03, 2014, 02:34:37 PM »
The Pixies are continuing their new mini-releases.  EP-2 is out.  I grabbed the 10" Vinyl deal, 1 of 4000. 

http://www.pixiesmusic.com

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Re: The Vinyl Thread
« Reply #53 on: January 28, 2014, 09:33:22 PM »
Does any one in the UK/Europe have a recommendation for vinyl cleaner solution?  I'll be using it with my VPI 16.5.  I've finally run out of my TTVJ Vinyl Zyme Gold and I suspect it won't be worth shipping it here form the USA. 

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Re: The Vinyl Thread
« Reply #54 on: January 28, 2014, 09:53:22 PM »
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Re: The Vinyl Thread
« Reply #55 on: January 28, 2014, 10:05:16 PM »
I really like Tool's album Ænima on Vinyl, it has the warmth and unique qualities of a great Vinyl recording.

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Re: The Vinyl Thread
« Reply #56 on: January 28, 2014, 10:10:06 PM »
Look's like Loricraft uses that L'Art du Son stuff.  If it's not a concentrate I might give it a try. 

I've seen the line up on Amazon.co.uk, but looking for something someone has tried and can say +1 about.

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Re: The Vinyl Thread
« Reply #57 on: January 28, 2014, 10:43:42 PM »
There's that Dubstep Girl again  :)p13
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Re: The Vinyl Thread
« Reply #58 on: April 23, 2014, 07:52:12 PM »
So did anyone make it out to RSD over the weekend?

There were some great live recordings that I picked up:

Tame Impala - Live Versions
Death Cab For Cutie with Magik Magik Orchestra - Live 2012
LCD Soundsystem - The Long Goodbye

Just got through all of these, and they're all fantastic. The DCFC and LCD Soundsystem in particular have great sound quality, as well as having great music on them. The LCD Soundsystem box has a note from James Murphy saying that the mastering is all-analog from the tapes, and are a different mastering than the live DVD which is also a different mastering from the live stream. Really cool to see a band *get* vinyl and take proper care to make sure its up to snuff. The DCFC recordings are also great, and the orchestration gives a completely different feeling and dimension to the songs. I was on the fence about this record, but glad I picked it up.

The sound quality of the Tame Impala is not great, unfortunately (although none of their albums sound good), but the music on it is superb.

The MGMT albums that are remastered from the analog tapes also sound a good deal better than the original pressings of each album that I have.

The Biggie and Outkast reissues are disappointments, both in terms of packaging and sound quality (although I didn't expect much from the latter).
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Re: The Vinyl Thread
« Reply #59 on: November 24, 2014, 12:39:16 PM »
Black Friday RSD coming up this week. Some good highly limited stuff coming out, including a vinyl pressing of Death Grips' Gov't Plates. Also a split between The Bug and... Earth?? Weird but cool.

Missed out on the color vinyl edition of Sleater-Kinney's whole discography. Now I can't afford the eBay prices. Poo.
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