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Analog Corner #124-All Quiet on the Vinyl Front
So much has changed in the world of record cleaning, especially with cavitation now available. Still this 15 year old column includes a great deal of useful information.
Proof That 1A, 1B and 1C Columbia Records Are All "First Pressings"
This order sheet sent by Sundazed's Bob Irwin 14 years ago when the label was reissuing mono Byrds albums proves that 1A, 1B and 1C pressings are all "first pressings".
Craft Recordings Reissues Collective Soul's Triple Platinum Sophomore Album On Vinyl, Celebrating 25th Anniversary
Craft Recordings recently announced the first ever on vinyl release of Collective Soul's 1994 eponymously titled sophomore album as well as a vinyl reissue of the album's 1993 debut album hints allegations & things left unsaid. The CD reissue includes six bonus tracks
RIAA Midyear Report: Vinyl Revenues Exceed Those of CDs-- First Time Since 1982
The RIAA today released its mid-year data on U.S. consumer listening and recorded music revenue. Growth in paid subscription streaming more than offset declines in other areas, in great part affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
VMP Announces 11 LP The Story of Herbie Hancock Anthology Box Set
Today (September 21), record club Vinyl Me, Please formally announced the latest in their VMP Anthology box set series, The Story of Herbie Hancock. Bernie Grundman cut all-analog from tape where possible, GZ pressed the eight albums over 11 LPs on 180g black vinyl and packaged in tip-on jackets.
Miles' & Gils' Porgy And Bess Still Sublime After All These Years
Miles Davis's second collaboration with arranger/orchestrator Gil Evans (and the first recorded in stereo) is arguably the duo's best effort--a majestic, moody re-working of George Gershwin's classic folk opera recorded in three summer of 1958 sessions at Columbia's 30th street studios.
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Electric Recording Company To Reissue Cluytens Conducts The Complete Orchestral Works of Maurice Ravel
ERC just announced a limited to 150 copies edition of one of the British Columbia Records label's most "sonically spectacular" releases, Ravel's Complete Orchestral Works with Andre Cluytens conducting Societe de Concerts du Conservatiore (ERC061) in performances said to be commensurate with the sonics.
Newvelle Records Select Album Sweepstakes
Register to win three albums that Newvelle Records has selected for AnalogPlanet.com readers (Total value $165.00) we are giving away.
A Letter From Australia
An AnalogPlanet reader today wrote: I recently decided enough was enough. Vinyl prices in Australia have skyrocketed to the point where any new digitally-sourced release will cost you at least $40.
Bill Evans Live at Ronnie Scott's Previously Unreleased Coming on Double LP From Resonance For RSD Black Friday Nov.27th
Resonance will release for RSD "Black Friday" as a double LP set this previously unreleased recording of Evans' short-lived 1968 trio with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Jack DeJohnette.
iFi's iPhono 3 MM/MC Phono Preamplifier Takes A Giant Sonic Leap Forward
The recently introduced iPhono 3 is the third iteration of the remarkably compact, full-featured phono preamp iFi first introduced in 2012 that AnalogPlanet most positively reviewed. The original unit sold for $399.
John Lennon Gets 80th Birthday Present Gimme Some Truth. The Ultimate Mixes Box Set
Capitol/UMe releases on October 9th, 2020 a multi-format 36 track John Lennon box executive co-produced by Yoko Ono Lennon and Sean Ono Lennon featuring "remixed from scratch" versions, in a process that the press release describes thusly: "...using brand new transfers of the original multi-tracks, cleaned up to the highest possible sonic quality. "
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