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Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 1980 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

Steely Dan

Gaucho Uhqr Edition

255,99 €*

Release: 1980 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Putain De Camion Limited Edition

Renaud

12LP | 1988 | EU (Polydor)

229,99 €*

Release: 1988 / EU

Genre: Pop

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Let It Be Limited 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

The Beatles

Box | 1970 | UK | Reissue (Apple)

214,99 €*

Bach: Suites For Unaccompanied Cello Complete

Release: 1970 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Following on from the global success of ‘Abbey Road’, Apple Corps and USM are proud to present the next multi-format Beatles album reissue of ‘Let It Be’.

January 1969 – The Beatles planned to return to live performance, setting up in Twickenham Film Studios, London, for 21 days of rehearsals. They then decamped to their new studio in their Apple office building in Saville Row and on January 30th performed their last ever live group performance on the rooftop. All of this was filmed for a proposed documentary (eventually released in 1970). During the rehearsal process, they asked Glyn Johns, who had been hired to help with the live sound, to attempt a mix to create an album. This was never released, becoming known as one of the great ‘lost’ albums in rock history and is now included in this Super Deluxe Set. The album was delayed further and in fact became their 12th and final official album release on 8th May 1970 following additional production by American producer Phil Spector.

The Beatles iconic final studio album being released to coincide with the worldwide release of Peter Jackson’s 3 part documentary ‘The Beatles: Get Back’
New stereo mix of the original album by Giles Martin
Additional discs featuring a selection of outtakes from the recording sessions

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Janos Starker

6LP | 1978 | UK | Reissue (Analogue)

209,99 €*

Ladies Of The Canyon 180g 45RPM SuperVinyl Box Set

Release: 1978 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Classical Music

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Newly remastered living presence LP set cut directly from first generation master tapes at 45rpm. Atarker's recording of the suites from 1965 make a lasting impression on the listener, box reproducing the original artwork pressed by qrp.

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Joni Mitchell

2LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity)

161,99 €*

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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SOURCED FROM THE ORIGINAL ANALOGUE MASTER TAPES
PRESSED AT RTI ON MOFI SUPERVINYL, AND STRICTLY LIMITED TO 5,000 NUMBERED COPIES
1/4” / 15 IPS / Dolby A analogue master to DSD 256 to analogue console to lathe

Ladies of the Canyon can be viewed as Joni Mitchell's coming-out party. Having recently moved to Lookout Mountain in Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon area — her house is depicted in a watercolour painting she made for the record's cover — the Canadian icon turned to her immediate surroundings for inspiration the while taking the pulse of national affairs, corporate enterprise, celebrity, and her relationship with Graham Nash. The 1970 album finds the singer-songwriter morphing into the groundbreaker who would shed folk music's constructs and wade into pop, jazz, soul, and poetry with a combination of depth, sophistication, self-examination, and acumen no one had ever heard.

Sourced from the original analogue master tapes, pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl at RTI on MoFi SuperVinyl, featuring new liner notes, and strictly limited to 5,000 numbered copies, Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP box set delivers Ladies of the Canyon with bracing intimacy, detail, balance, and depth. Marking the first time the LP has received audiophile treatment, it's one of six iconic Mitchell records Mobile Fidelity is reissuing on definitive-sounding vinyl and SACD sets.

Playing with organic warmth, superb clarity, and ample spaciousness, this collectible UD1S edition benefits from the inherent properties of SuperVinyl — a virtually non-existent noise floor, reference-calibre groove definition, and ultra-silent surfaces among them. Primarily recorded solo, with spare accompaniment on select tracks, Mitchell practically takes up residence in your listening room. Her voice, piano, and guitar image with spot-on precision and three-dimensionality; the music is focused, emotional, natural. Auxiliary instrumentation — cello, clarinet, baritone saxophone, Milt Holland's deft percussion — is seamless, cohesive, steady. Notes bloom and decay as they do on a live stage; relatedly, the soundstage extends far and wide, with carbon-black backgrounds adding to the uncanny realism.

The deluxe packaging of the Ladies of the Canyon UD1S set complements its distinguished status. Housed in a deluxe slipcase, both LPs come in special foil-stamped jackets with faithful-to-the-original graphics that illuminate the splendour of the recording. This UD1S reissue is made for listeners who prize sound quality and production, and who desire to engage themselves in everything involved with the album, including Michell's illustrative painting that serves as the cover art.

Deemed "powerful and brilliant" upon release by The New York Times, Ladies of the Canyon followed Mitchell's first Grammy-winning effort (Clouds) and marked the first of six consecutive masterworks she made en route to becoming the most celebrated singer-songwriter of both her generation, and, arguably, all time. It's the first record on which the then-26-year-old featured the piano, a creative decision of immeasurable significance; first to attain platinum status, which transformed Mitchell into more than a folk figure; first to see her taking more chances with her singing; and the last on which she comes across upbeat, largely unencumbered by the complex themes and personal ache that would occupy her for the foreseeable future.

Mitchell radiates confidence and courage, producing Ladies of the Canyon herself after realizing she didn't need the services of an outsider when she already knew what she wanted. She just required a competent and collaborative engineer, who she landed in Henry Lewy. Fittingly, on the record's affectionate title track, she celebrates community and a trio of women — all real, all from her Laurel Canyon neighborhood — who, individually, as a visual artist, free-spirited mother, and circus-raised imagineer, respectively, were all reflected in Mitchell herself. Akin to Trina, Annie, and Estrella, Mitchell also had an affinity for wearing beautiful clothes, hosting friends, baking sweets, and weaving "a pattern all her own."

That pattern most famously materializes on the album's closing trio of songs — their unconventional placement on the record likely another sly acknowledgement of Mitchell's disdain for commercialism, or at the very least, catering to its demands — each, then and now, a classic. Within months of releasing Ladies of the Canyon Mitchell would find herself at the centre of the singer-songwriter movement — and preparing songs for another album whose impact is still felt today.

More About Mobile Fidelity UltraDisc One-Step and Why It Is Superior

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab's UltraDisc One-Step (UD1S) technique bypasses generational losses inherent to the traditional three-step plating process by removing two steps: the production of father and mother plates, which are created to yield numerous stampers from each lacquer that is cut. For UD1S plating, stampers (also called "converts") are made directly from the lacquers. Since each lacquer yields only one stamper, multiple lacquers need to be cut. Mobile Fidelity's UD1S process produces a final LP with the lowest-possible noise floor. The removal of two steps of the plating process also reveals musical details and dynamics that would otherwise be lost due to the standard multi-step process. With UD1S, every aspect of vinyl production is optimized to produce the best-sounding vinyl album available today.

MoFi SuperVinyl

Developed by NEOTECH and RTI, MoFi SuperVinyl is the most exacting-to-specification vinyl compound ever devised. Analogue lovers have never seen (or heard) anything like it. Extraordinarily expensive and extremely painstaking to produce, the special proprietary compound addresses two specific areas of improvement: noise floor reduction and enhanced groove definition. The vinyl composition features a new carbonless dye (hold the disc up to the light and see) and produces the world's quietest surfaces. This high-definition formula also allows for the creation of cleaner grooves that are indistinguishable from the original lacquer. MoFi SuperVinyl provides the closest approximation of what the label's engineers hear in the mastering lab.

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LP | 1976 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity)

Hotel California

161,99 €*

Release: 1976 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Long Run 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set

LP | 1979 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity)

160,99 €*

2LP+2CD | 1977 | EU | Reissue (Universal)

Release: 1979 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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MASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL ANALOGUE MASTER TAPES, PRESSED AT RTI ON MOFI SUPERVINYL, AND LIMITED TO 10,000 NUMBERED COPIES
1/4" / 15 IPS analogue master to DSD 256 to analogue console to lathe

Originally intended as a clever poke at the era's trends that critics maintained were making the band irrelevant, the title of and music on The Long Run continue to prove the Eagles got the last laugh. Created in the wake of the group's demanding tour for the blockbuster Hotel California, the 1979 record ultimately became the final record the Eagles would create for nearly three decades. Stacked with first-rate material and three mammoth singles, the seven-times-platinum effort ensured the Eagles never drifted far from the public's consciousness.

Mastered from the original analogue master tapes, pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl, and limited to 10,000 copies, Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP vinyl box set presents The Long Run in unparalleled sound. Akin to the audiophile label's prior Eagles UD1S sets, this collectible edition plays with extreme clarity, organic richness, tube-like warmth, spectacular dynamics, and microscopic levels of detail. Songs come across with an epic sweep and feature front-to-back soundstages that give the music unprecedented air, roominess, and separation.

As for the noise floor? Practically non-existent. Though the Eagles are renowned for great-sounding albums, The Long Run might be the most note-perfect work in their catalogue – the result of more than 18 months of painstaking recording sessions. This UD1S version demonstrates why. The placement of the rounded bass lines, extension of the piano accents, and golden tones of the blended harmonies are constantly identifiable and practically take you inside the arrangements.

Complementing the gorgeous sonics, the premium packaging of the UD1S The Long Run pressing befits its esteemed status. The deluxe box features foil-stamped jackets and faithful-to-the-original graphics that illuminate the splendour of the recording. This UD1S reissue exists as a curatorial artefact meant to be preserved, touched, and examined. It is made for discerning listeners that prize sound quality and production, and who desire to fully immerse themselves in everything involved with the album, including the artwork.

Intentionally simple, the cover is designed by John Kosh, who devised the art for the Beatles' Abbey Road and The Who's Who's Next. The stark black-and-gray colour palette speaks to the exhaustion the band was feeling at the time – as well as the malaise conveyed in several songs. Kosh's creation also can be seen to reflect a gravestone, and though the Eagles would fall dormant for more than two decades, the tombstone interpretation is line with the tongue-in-cheek nature of the album title: The Eagles would return and outlast a majority of their lesser contemporaries and joyless critics.

"Who is gonna make it?/We'll find out in the long run," posits Don Henley on the album's opening track, an R&B-fuelled classic that reached No. 8 on the charts. Henley later addressed the irony of the lyrics; his group was in the process of breaking apart when he wrote it. Yet the singer-songwriter and colleague Glenn Frey clearly knew something others failed to recognize. Related themes of survival, resilience, and dark humour course throughout The Long Run, which also marks the arrival of bassist Timothy B. Schmit. His lead vocal anchors the No. 8 hit "I Can't Tell You Why," a staple he co-wrote with Henley and Frey.

That dynamic duo has a hand in all but one of the songs, "In the City," Joe Walsh's slide-guitar-appointed ode to endurance. Walsh also shares a writing credit on the closing "The Sad Cafe," a melodramatic favourite whose lineage extends to another of the band's long-time collaborators, J.D. Souther. He, along with Frey and Henley, teamed with Detroit legend Bob Seger on penning the record's signature anthem: the Grammy-winning "Heartache Tonight." Fuelled by rhythmic handclaps, a romping groove, and the band's trademark California-bred country-rock style, the chart-topper comfortably sits alongside deep cuts such as the winking shuffle "The Disco Strangler" and cinematic "King of Hollywood."

The challenges and pressures associated with making The Long Run after dealing with the unimaginable success of Hotel California ended up grounding the Eagles. Yet the album's enduring merit, performances, and melodies confirmed Henley and Frey's beliefs. The Eagles are still thriving. They made it. The long run continues.

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Bee Gees

OST Saturday Night Fever

150,99 €*

Release: 1977 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Soundtracks

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Thriller Limited Edition Ultradisc One-Step LP Numbered Deluxe Box Set

Michael Jackson

Box | 1982 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity)

149,99 €*

Stage Fright 50th Anniversary Limited Deluxe Boxset

Release: 1982 / US – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Putting into perspective the incalculable impact and pioneering significance of the best-selling album of all time – Michael Jackson's Thriller – has never been easy. Though Thriller lays claim to mind-boggling statistics that serve as reminders of how pervasive and indispensable it remains to music snobs and casual listeners alike, its essence always traces back to the greatness, power, and scope of the music. Now, as it celebrates its 40th anniversary, the record that reimagined pop; united audiences; made strides towards achieving racial equality; established the video as an artistic and commercial format; and taught the world how to dance sounds even more invigorating than it did during the advent of the Walkman. Mastered from the original analog master tapes, pressed at RTI, and limited to 40,000 numbered copies, Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 33rpm LP set does for Thriller what Jackson's unforgettable appearance on the "Motown 25" TV special in 1983 did for his career: It makes the music personal, human, desirable, relatable, imaginative – the definition of cool. This extraordinary reissue does so by presenting the songs in lifelike fashion, zeroing in on the fundamentals with laser focus, and magnifying the brilliance of the production, arrangements, and vocals in ways that let everyone experience Thriller as if hearing the album for the first time.

Surpassing the sonics of earlier reissues and pressings, Mobile Fidelity's 180g LP set strips away prior limitations and provides a clear, dynamic view of a landmark that crashed through every conceivable barrier and permanently transformed music, culture, and society. The expanse and depth of the soundstage, range of detail, percussive textures, air around the vocals, and natural decay of notes come through with demonstration-grade realism.

The gorgeous packaging of the Thriller Ud1s pressing befits the album's select status. Housed in an open-ended slipcase, the set features a special foil-stamped jacket and faithful-to-the-original graphics that illuminate the splendor of the recording. Aurally and visually, this reissue exists as a curatorial artifact meant to be preserved and examined. It is made for discerning listeners that prize sound quality and production, and who desire to fully immerse themselves in everything involved with the album.

Given that no album released during the past four decades even approaches the magnitude of Thriller, everything about it remains important. Numbers – even the "40" tied to its anniversary – don't even tell half the story. The 1982 blockbuster has sold more than 34 million copies in the U.S.; globally, it has moved upwards of 70 million units. Thriller dominated the 1984 Grammy Awards, winning a record-breaking eight trophies and sweeping every major category. It repeated the feat at the American Music Awards. Seven of its nine songs were released as singles; each charted in the Top 10. Perhaps most astonishingly, Thriller topped the Top 200 Albums chart for 37 weeks during a 59-week stretch. Fast forward 24 years, and the album was the biggest-selling catalog title of 2008.

The record's unimpeachable accolades and archival standing help provide another frame of reference. Acclaimed upon arrival, Thriller topped The Village Voice's comprehensive Pazz & Jop poll in 1983. Included in both the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry and the Grammy Hall of Fame, Thriller was ranked by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at No. 3 on its Definitive 200 Albums of All Time. Rolling Stone named it the 12th Greatest Album of All Time. Time deemed it "the greatest pop album of all time." The Independent called it "the most inspiring album of all time."

Thriller proved as influential as it did inspiring. Its unparalleled success, dazzling style, and sleek architecture changed every facet of culture and entertainment. The reverberations echoed throughout society. Thriller crossed over to mainstream channels and white audiences with a degree that no Black musician managed in decades (if ever); prompted MTV to give Black artists a widespread platform; elevated choreography and dance to higher-level artforms; shattered long-standing racial boundaries; and reconceptualized music via a genre- and color-blind blend of fleet pop, funk, disco, soul, and rock sent up with cinematic panache, oversized ambition, and dynamic energy.

Its effect on multitudes of subsequent artists cannot be overstated. Thriller opened up a new galaxy in which Prince soon strolled. It's the same universe that Usher, Maxwell, and Jamiroquai joined in the ‘90s and that contemporary headliners like Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, and Bruno Mars orbit today. Their style-blurring identities, R&B-rooted foundations, and interdisciplinary approaches directly link to those on Thriller. Notably, the album's first single – "The Girl Is Mine," a duet and co-write with Beatles legend Paul McCartney – captured the record's unwillingness to cater to a specific race, generation, class, or style. Eddie Van Halen – at the time, the world's premier rock guitarist – performed a similar bridge role by supplying the electrifying solo on "Beat It."

Jackson, Quincy Jones, and company do the rest. Drop the needle on any track on Thriller and the insatiable desire to move takes hold. So do sensations of familiarity, pleasure, fun, and soulfulness. Be it the breathless, bass-laden swagger of the Moonwalking "Billie Jean"; horn-accented, post-disco slide of the gossip critique "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"; rousing tempo of the lush, sequin-adorned "P. Y. T. (Pretty Young Thing)"; gentle balladry and liquid vocal phrasing of "Human Nature"; vivid hybrid of funk-disco and horror-film drama of the title track; or streetwise strut and rhythmic fantasia of "Beat It," Thriller never lets up.

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The Band

5LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Capitol)

148,99 €*

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle Limited Edition Ultradisc One-Step 33rpm Supervinyl Edition

Bruce Springsteen

LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab)

139,99 €*

4LP | 1983 | Reissue (Universal)

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Strictly Limited TO 7,500 Numbered Copies: Ultradisc One-step 180g 33pm LP SET Presents 1973 Album IN Audiophile Sound 1/4" / 15 IPS / DBX analogue copy to DSD 256 to analogue console to lathe / Released only eight months after his exhilarating debut, Bruce Springsteen's The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle contains rousing dispatches from the boardwalk, the street, the beach, and the bedroom. It explodes with energy, dares to dream, teases with humour, crackles with tragedy, clings to hope, and overflows with discovery, youthfulness, and personality. It features an unforgettable cast of characters — corner boys, teenage hustlers, doomed lovers, jazz men, junk men, factory girls, fortune tellers, alley cats, pimps, escorts, and more — illuminated by vivid colour, breathtaking detail, and poetic action.

Musically, the heartfelt 1973 record is inhabited by sympathetic vignettes and cinematic arrangements steeped in rock 'n' roll, soul, jazz, and R&B. It finds the New Jersey native looking beyond the parameters of his preceding record and seeking to move on from environments he knows well (and chronicles here) by rushing headlong toward unknown territories, adventures, and people. Underpinned by the singer-guitarist's ambitious poetic enterprise and will to succeed, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle is the album on which Springsteen becomes the Boss.

Mastered on Mobile Fidelity's renowned mastering system, pressed at RTI on MoFi SuperVinyl, and strictly limited to 7,500 numbered copies, Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 33rpm LP set is the definitive-sounding version of Springsteen's sophomore record. Benefitting from SuperVinyl’s nearly non-existent noise floor, superb groove definition, and dead-quiet surfaces, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle plays with a clarity, energy, presence, and openness that complement the expressiveness, dynamics, and scope of the seven restless songs that comprise a work Rolling Stone ranked the 345th Greatest Album of All Time.

Beyond the audiophile sonics that practically place you behind the console at 914 Sound Studios — listen to the separation between the instruments, natural decay of the notes, interplay within the widescreen soundstaging, and nothing-to-lose youthfulness of Springsteen’s voice — this reissue takes seriously this record’s influential merit by presenting it in packaging that underlines its status. Tucked in a beautiful slipcase, the LP is housed in a special foil-stamped jacket with faithful-to-the-original graphics. This reissue is made for listeners who prize sound quality and who want to engage themselves in everything involved with the invigorating set that busted Springsteen loose from the club circuit and landed him on the radio

Determined to liberate anyone within earshot and unafraid to come on strong, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle serves as the debut of the E Street Band — not only heard but seen for the first time by most of the public courtesy of the back-cover photograph. This is where saxophonist Clarence Clemons, organist-accordionist Danny Federici, and pianist David Sancious step out of the shadows — and drummer Vini Lopez and bassist Garry Tallent again stoke a fiery rhythmic engine that helps drive the untamed, reimagined big-band swing of “Kitty’s Back,” breathless R&B thrust of “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight),” and carefree dance steps of the funky “The E Street Shuffle.”

Of course, the main attraction remains a then-24-year-old visionary on the precipice of becoming a sensation and turning a then-bloated rock scene on its head. Recorded over three months while Springsteen and company were busy touring his debut LP, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle reflects the high-octane approach the vocalist embraced onstage and drifts away from the label-dictated acoustic-based frameworks of his debut. The set also witnesses Springsteen deepening his observational skills, with narratives such as the romantically tinged “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” and redemptive epic “Incident on 57th Street” mirroring changes taking place in the singer’s own life, small towns, and America at large.

A thrilling collision of memories, reflections, and composites — Sandy, Rosalita, and the latter’s parents are all based on actual people Springsteen knew, as is the community depicted in the opening track — the aptly titled The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle resonates decades on due to its truths, authenticity, and spirit. Those characteristics — as well as the fact that many of its lengthy songs come on as the equivalent of sweaty, feverish soul revue that won’t stop until you’ve been exhausted — also explain how this now-iconic album triumphed over the reservations of industry “experts” that both demanded Springsteen re-record it and instructed deejays not to play it. Yet there’d be no stopping a record that saw the past, present, and future, a band whose will would not be denied, and a phenomenon who was born to run. A never-ending invitation to act real cool and stay up all night, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle always feels alright.

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The Police

Synchronicity Box

138,99 €*

Release: 1983 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tattoo You 40th Anniversary Limited 5LP Edition

The Rolling Stones

5LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

135,99 €*

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Teaser And The Firecat Super Deluxe Box

Yusuf / Cat Stevens

Box | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Island)

134,99 €*

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Helloween Limited Edition Boxset

Helloween

2LP | 1985 | EU | Reissue (Atomic Fire)

125,99 €*

Release: 1985 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Technical Ecstasy Super Deluxe Box Set

Black Sabbath

5LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Bmg / Sanctuary)

120,99 €*

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Eldorado: Sym By The Electric Light Orch

Electric Light Orchestra

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity)

119,99 €*

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 1975 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity)

One Of These Nights

119,99 €*

Tattoo You 40th Anniversary LP+4CD Box

Release: 1975 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2 x Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo

Limited to 10,000 copies
1/4" / 15 IPS / Dolby A analog master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe
Copyright 1975 Elektra/Asylum Records, a division of Warner Music Group

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The Rolling Stones

LP+4CD | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

118,99 €*

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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World Is A Ghetto 50th Anniversary Collector's Black Friday Record Store Day 2023 Vinyl Edition

War

5LP | 1973 | Reissue (Rhino)

118,74 €* 124,99 € -5%

The Broadsword & The Beast 40th Anniversary Monster Edition

Release: 1973 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Quantity: 2000
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release

The World is a Ghetto was WAR's 1973 funk/R&B/latin fusion jam, which became the top selling record in America that year. It features "Cisco Kid" inspired by the popular mid-century TV show, The title Track, "The World Is A Ghetto" which has been sampled in more than 31 hip hop songs, including tracks by Geto Boys, Ice T-, and A$ap Mob, instrumental jam "City, Country, City," Four Cornered Room, Beetles In The Bog, and Where Was You At. This release features the progressions of the two key tracks (Cisco Kid and The World Is A Ghetto), and alternate takes/reimaginings of the remaining tracks

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Jethro Tull

4LP | 1983 | EU | Reissue (Parlophone)

116,99 €*

Release: 1983 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 1973 | EU | Reissue (Kosmische Kuriere)

Walter Wegmüller

Tarot Boxset

114,99 €*

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity)

Paul Simon

There Goes Rhymin' Simon

113,99 €* 119,99 € -5%

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity)

On The Border

113,99 €* 119,99 € -5%

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Greetings From Asbury Park N.J.

Bruce Springsteen

LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity)

99,99 €*

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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I Robot UltraDisc One-Step Edition

Alan Parsons Project

LP | 1977 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity)

99,99 €*

Release: 1977 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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OST Conviene Far Bene L'Amore Black Vinyl Edition

Fred Bongusto

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Cinedelic)

98,99 €*

OST Il Gatto A Nove Code / The Cat O Nine Tales Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Soundtracks

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USA title: Love And Energy / Sex Machine 2037 A.D.
In the future, the world's oil supply has finally been exhausted, causing a massive energy crisis. In a search for alternative sources of energy, a scientist invents a machine that can harness the energy expended during sexual intercourse and transfer it into electrical power. Conviene Far Bene L’Amore is a 1975 film written and directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile, a film adaptation of his novel of the same name. It is an erotic comedy with science-fiction elements that is debilitating the theories of Wilhelm Reich (the author of The Function of the Orgasm) in which satire and fantapolitic are mixed.
The original LP with the music of Fred Bongusto, arranged and directed masterfully by Josè Mascolo, is now a cult object for the lovers of Italian melodic soundtracks with bossa nova and jazz and for the samples used by many rappers. Bongusto often combines the synth for the melody with the orchestral ground; an unmistakable and very personal solution also used the year before for the Malizia soundtrack which was a great success.

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Ennio Morricone

2LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Rustblade)

94,99 €*

Indigos Indigo Purple Vinyl Edition

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Soundtracks

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Limited Edition of 250 copies ONLY – Super Deluxe / Expanded BOX-Edition, containing:

Regular LP as above, but on Exclusive YELLOW SMOKE VINYL
Exclusive BONUS SILVER MARBLE VINYL with unreleased tracks (for the first time ever on Vinyl!), incl. ‘Il Gatto a nove Code (movie takes suite) of 12:33 minutes!

2 Full Colour Movie Posters
Special Insert
Exclusive Gatefold Photo Book.

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Duke Ellington

2LP | 1989 | US | Reissue (Impex)

93,99 €*

Release: 1989 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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King Of Rock Numbered Limited Edition 180G LP SuperVinyl

Run DMC

LP | 1985 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab)

89,99 €* 99,99 € -10%

Eldorado A Symphony By The Electric Light Orchestra Supervinyl Edition

Release: 1985 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Run-D.M.C. leaves no doubt about its intent on King of Rock. The New York trio's hard-hitting sophomore album begins with a statement of purpose ("Rock the House") that serves as a stereophonic primer for the title track, a hybrid warning-anthem-theme song that swarms with justified boasts, heavy metal riffs, booming beats, cowbell accents, and dance-worthy grooves. The back-to-back tunes set the tone for a 1985 record that largely established the blueprint for the hip-hop that would follow for the next two decades – and which helped make rap a mainstream currency via the previously off-limits channels of radio, TV, and the national stage. "It's not Michael Jackson/And this is not Thriller," the group broadcasts early on in the record. Truer words – and music recorded with such honesty, pride, rawness, and integrity – have seldom been committed to tape.

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Electric Light Orchestra

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab)

89,99 €*

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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7" | 1979 | US | Original

Units

High Pressure Days

89,99 €*

Pelican West 40 Deluxe-Edition

Release: 1979 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Original Pressing found in drummer Richard Driskell's archives. Come housed in original unstamped paper sleeve. Units were a synth punk band formed in San Francisco in 1978. This was a private release from 1979. "Synthesizer bands don't normally thrill. Rather, they tend to lull the listener, falsifying and distorting the images and ideas at hand. San Francisco's Units are not that kind of synthesizer band. All four songs on this EP (even the instrumental!) are straightforward, exciting, lyrical experiments in understanding the beast and making it rock. Two machines and a drummer. Not pastoral visions but urban ones. Not peaceful, still angry. Not satisfied, still probing and asking questions. New life brought to old techniques. How surprising. How wonderful." New York Rocker, November 1979

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Haircut One Hundred

4LP | 1982 | UK | Reissue (Demon / Edsel)

88,99 €*

Release: 1982 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Carlos Santana / Mahavishnu John

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Love Devotion Surrender Supervinyl 180g

LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity Sound Library)

88,99 €*

Each Time 40th Anniversary Edition

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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1973 Meeting OF Santana AND John Mclaughlin Yields Spiritual Transcendence: Love Devotion Surrender IS Inspired BY John Coltrane AND A Quest FOR Enlightenment

Sourced from the Original Master Tapes: Tones, Textures, and Notes Float Amid a Large, Open Soundstage on Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition 180g LP 1/4" / 15 IPS analogue master to DSD 64 to analogue console to lathe Two guitar giants. A band comprised of virtuosic instrumentalists. One shared goal. And one tremendous album. The only meeting of Santana and John McLaughlin on record, Love Devotion Surrender more than lives up to the promise offered by its principal creators. Based in divine faith, religious toleration, meditative intent, and the forward-thinking philosophy that music can take us closer to the truth, it is a spiritual journey. These enlightening concepts are reflected in the inspired playing of Santana and McLaughlin, who repeatedly hit a higher plane on this 1973 set.

Sourced from the original analogue master tapes and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing in California, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition 180g LP of Love Devotion Surrender benefits from the reissue label’s painstaking engineering efforts. The windows on the record’s give-and-take passages, sustained notes, and varied textures are thrown open with palpable transparency and detail. Laden with delicate acoustic touches and gentle piano touches, as well as powerful staccato bursts and fast-paced percussion, Love Devotion Surrender contains a dynamic mix of tempos, tones, and contrasts crucial to its optimal enjoyment. This collectible edition brings those aspects to the fore with extraordinary realism.

In addition, the pinpoint imaging — Santana primarily on the left, McLaughlin on the right — invites you to picture the musicians in the act. You’ll sense a newfound freedom and naturalism to the playback, as well as black backgrounds and an openness that allow the widespread array of textures, atmospherics, echoes, and neo-psychedelic shapes to float in the air. Call it jamming guided by a higher power or surreal art brought together by time, circumstance, and purpose; there really is no other album completely like it.

Having each become a follower of Indian guru Sri Chinmoy, who wrote the album’s extensive liner-note essay and is seen in several jacket photos, Santana and McLaughlin began playing together in 1972. Both legends found themselves in the midst of personal and creative transition. Santana was moving away from rock-based songs in favour of exploratory jazz-rock. A contemporary of Miles Davis, McLaughlin had already achieved fame with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, then on the brink of collapse due to internal disagreements.

On Love Devotion Surrender, the duo pools its interests in discovery and transcendence into gorgeous music steeped in improvisational lines, ecstatic chords, and sensitive organ accompaniment courtesy of the record’s best-kept secret, Larry Young. The former Blue Note recording artist had already connected with McLaughlin in the Tony Williams Lifeline, which began as a power trio and turned jazz on its head with its groundbreaking 1969 debut. Young’s ear for melody and fearless penchant for chasing down adventurous fusion leads — not to mention keeping pace with the headliners, no small feat — make him an ideal foil for the proto post-rock happening throughout.

Credited under his Muslim name, Khalid Yasin, Young isn’t the only standout. Several Santana contemporaries — bassist Doug Rauch, drummers Mike Shrieve and Billy Cobham, percussionists Mingo Lewis and Armando Peraza — play alongside Mahavishnu Orchestra member Jan Hammer and Tony Williams Lifeline drummer Don Alias, who already had credits on Davis’ seminal Bitches Brew and On the Corner. Complemented by Santana and McLaughlin, the ensemble sounds and feels unstoppable. In addition to the band’s search for sacred soulfulness, the common denominator throughout is John Coltrane, who engaged in similar pursuits during the 1960s. Two of the five compositions — “A Love Supreme,” “Naima” — are interpretations of Coltrane standards while the lynchpin, a nearly 16-minute investigation into the traditional “Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord,” integrates free-form structure, jazz phrasing, gospel mysticism, cross-cut dynamics, and tonal shaping into one of the most uplifting pieces of music you’ll ever hear. The same can be said for the entirety of Love Devotion Surrender. Bow down.

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Eiichi Ohtaki

LP+7" | 1984 | JP | Reissue (Sony Japan)

86,99 €*

2LP | 1981 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions Atlantic 75 Series)

Release: 1984 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Eiichi Otaki's Masterpiece Album to be Released as 40th Anniversary Edition!

Each Time 40th Anniversary Edition" will be released to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the release of "Each Time", a masterpiece album by Eiichi Otaki, a giant in the Japanese pop world! Each Time" was the sixth original album released on March 21, 1984, and the last full studio album before Otaki's death. It was released at a time when Otaki was attracting a great deal of attention as both an artist and a composer, and was a huge hit, ranking No. 1 on the Oricon Album Weekly Ranking, ahead of Michael Jackson's "Thriller". The album is now being brought back to life after 40 years in three different packages!

Each Time 40th Anniversary Edition" will be released as [the ultimate box set]. An analog vinyl set of 12" + 7" records will also be released at the same time. This is a very rare limited edition release that includes the full 12" album of the [1984 Original Mix] and the 7" single "Fjord Girl / Bachelor Girl" released in 1985.

Each Time 40th Anniversary Edition" will be released simultaneously as a luxury box set, an analog record containing the 12" + 7"

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Foreigner

4 Atlantic 75 Series

86,99 €*

2LP | 1982 | UK | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity)

Release: 1981 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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180g 2LP 45rpm Gatefold Sleeve

Analogue Productions (Atlantic 75 Series)
Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Atlantic Records!
Foreigner's No. 1-selling fourth studio album!
Featuring "Urgent," "Waiting for Girl Like You," and "Juke Box Hero"
180-gram 45 RPM double LP
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
Tip-on old style gatefold double pocket jacket by Stoughton Printing

Throughout the course of three late-70s albums, Foreigner (along with Journey and Styx) was recognized as one of the top AOR bands of the era. But the band was still looking for that grand slam of a record that would push them to the very top of the heap. Released in 1981, 4 would be that album, writes AllMusic.

In producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange — fresh off his massive success with AC/DC's Back in Black — guitarist and all-around mastermind Mick Jones found both the catalyst to achieve this and his perfect musical soulmate. Lange's legendary obsessive attention to detail and Jones' highly disciplined guitar heroics (which he never allowed to get in the way of a great song) resulted in a collaboration of unprecedented, sparkling efficiency where not a single note is wasted.

"Nightlife" kicks off a series of energetic and nearly flawless melodic rock songs on the album. Within this collection, you'll find tracks like "Woman in Black," "Don't Let Go," and the '50s-inspired "Luanne." However, the standout gem in this album is "Juke Box Hero." This song manages to be both a mainstream hit and exceptionally unique. It blends heavy metal guitar riffs, harmonized vocals, and lyrics that capture the desire to become a rock star.

But there's more to this album. It also includes the essential power ballad, "Waiting for a Girl Like You." This emotional song transcended genres, becoming one of the most successful tearjerkers of the decade. It's a constant presence on soft rock radio and has overshadowed another beautiful ballad from the album called "Girl on the Moon."

And let's not forget the surprising and funky "Urgent." This track stands out as one of the band's most memorable and uncharacteristic smash hits, thanks to Junior Walker's signature saxophone solo.

As awesome as the music is this definitive deluxe 180-gram 45 RPM 2LP package. Foreigner 4 has never sounded better!

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Alan Parsons Project

Eye In The Sky

85,99 €*

2LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelty)

Release: 1982 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g 2LP 45rpm Gatefold Sleeve

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Bill Withers

Live At Carnegie Hall

84,99 €*

2LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab)

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180 gram audiophile vinyl, numbered limited edition!

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Bob Dylan & The Band

Before The Flood

84,99 €*

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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180 gram audiophile vinyl, numbered limited edition!

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Simon & Garfunkel

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab)

83,99 €*

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Beatles 1967-1970 Blue Album Limited Blue Vinyl Edition

The Beatles

3LP | 1973 | Reissue (Apple)

82,99 €*

Release: 1973 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Beatles 1962-1966 Red Album Limited Red Vinyl Edition

The Beatles

3LP | 1973 | Reissue (Apple)

82,99 €*

Release: 1973 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1982 | JP | Original (Universal Music Japan)

Imitation

Muscle And Heat

80,99 €*

2LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

Release: 1982 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Steve Scales (Per) and Drutti McDonald (Vo) who also participated in Talking Heads, as well as Sandy and Makoto Kubota, are the pinnacle of world music produced by Japanese people.

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Herbie Hancock

Headhunters

80,99 €*

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 1989 | US | Reissue (Acoustic Sounds)

John Lee Hooker

The Healer

80,99 €*

Release: 1989 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1978 | JP | Reissue (Panam)

Kaze

Moony Night

A Wizard A True Star Magenta Vinyl Edition

Release: 1978 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This album has also come back in a special 180-gram vinyl edition and is now on sale!

The 5th album by Kaze, Moony Night was recorded in LA, following the 4th album Umikaze. The recording process with local musicians such as Steve Forman and Chuck Findley, and the same members as the previous album from Japan (Mizutani, Sato, Takebe, Moriya) added a new taste and successfully created a new Kaze sound.

After releasing this masterpiece in the history of city pop, Kaze entered a fallow period.

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Todd Rundgren

2LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (Friday Music)

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Faithful Gold Vinyl Edition

Todd Rundgren

LP | 1976 | US | Reissue (Friday Music)

Release: 1976 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Life - Live Double Album (40th Anniversary Translucent Blue Vinyl Edition

Thin Lizzy

LP | 1983 | US | Reissue (Friday Music)

Release: 1983 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Under The Blade Deluxe Silver Vinyl Edition

Twisted Sister

2LP | 1982 | US | Reissue (Friday Music)

Release: 1982 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Billion Dollar Babies 50th Anniversary

Alice Cooper

3LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (Rhino)

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Live And Dangerous Colored Audiophile Vinyl Edition

Thin Lizzy

2LP | 1978 | US | Reissue (Friday Music)

Release: 1978 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1977 | JP | Reissue (Panam)

Kaze

Umikaze

77,99 €*

2LP | 1988 | JP | Reissue (Sony Music Japan)

Release: 1977 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The album has come back in a special 180-gram vinyl edition and is now on sale!

Ise Shozo and Okubo Kazuhisa formed the folk duo Kaze in 1975 and recorded their 4th original album Umikaze in LA. It was their first recording overseas. Local musicians such as R.A.Martin and Geffrey Hales participated in the recording, as well as Mizutani Kimio, Sato Jun, Takebe Hideaki, Moriya Jun, and others from Japan. In the relaxed atmosphere with a good rapport between the members, the album adopted the California sound. It became a masterpiece reflecting the newest trends in music, such as fusion and crossover. Originally released in 1977, the album consists of 11 tracks including Umikaze with its beautiful intro riff.

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Junko Ohashi

Question

77,99 €*

Release: 1988 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1976 | JP | Reissue (Universal Music Japan)

Mikio Masuda

Mickey's Mouth

77,89 €* 81,99 € -5%

LP | 1984 | JP | Reissue (Victor Entertainment Japan)

Release: 1976 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mikio Masuda, who went to the U.S. as an independent member of Terumasa Hino's group, formed the crossover/fusion group 'Mickey's Mouth' after returning to Japan. This is the band's first album, featuring mainly original compositions.

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Masahide Sakuma

Lisa

Live And Dangerous Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 1984 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The reissue of Masahide Sakuma's 1st solo album 'lisa' released in 1984 has been decided!

LP reissue of Masahide Sakuma's 1st solo album 'lisa', which has been active as a member of Yonin Bayashi and Plastics and produced for many famous artists. A work released from the ambient music series 'Music Interior' by sound engineer Seihiko Ono. It is often called a Japanese ambient masterpiece, and it is soaring in the second-hand market, making it one of the coveted fans.

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Thin Lizzy

2LP | 1978 | US | Reissue (Friday Music)

Release: 1978 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Thanks, I'll Eat It Here Record Store Day 2024 Vinyl Edition

Lowell George

LP | 1979 | Reissue (Rhino Warner)

3 Feet High And Rising Black Friday Record Store Day 2023 7"-Vinyl Box Edition

Release: 1979 / Reissue

Genre: Pop

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45th anniversary of cult classic solo album from Little Feat founder Lowell George, released weeks before his untimely death in 1979. Includes original album cut AAA from original master tape and bonus album including previously unreleased alternate versions and outtakes from recording sessions.

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De La Soul

Box | 1989 | EU | Reissue (Chrysalis)

Simple Dreams 200g 45RPM Vinyl Edition

Release: 1989 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Quantity: 3500
Release type: 'RSD First' Release

3 Feet High and Rising is the debut studio album by hip-hop trio De La Soul, and was released on March 3, 1989. It marked the first of three full-length collaborations with producer Prince Paul, which would become the critical and commercial peak of both parties. It contains the singles, “Me Myself and I”, “The Magic Number,” “Buddy,” and “Eye Know”. The album title came from the Johnny Cash song “Five Feet High and Rising”. It is listed on both Rolling Stone’s 200 Essential Rock Records and The Source’s 100 Best Rap Albums. When Village Voice held its annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll for 1989, 3 Feet High and Rising was ranked #1. It was also listed on Rolling Stone’s The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Released amid the 1989 boom in gangsta rap, which gravitated towards hardcore, confrontational, violent lyrics, De La Soul's uniquely positive style made them an oddity beginning with the first single, “Me, Myself and I.” Their positivity meant many observers labeled them a “hippie” group, based on their declaration of the “D.A.I.S.Y. Age” (Da. Inner. Soul. Yall). Sampling artists as diverse as Hall & Oates, Steely Dan and The Turtles, 3 Feet High and Rising is often viewed as the stylistic beginning of 1990s alternative hip hop (and especially jazz rap). 3 Feet High & Rising was chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry for its cultural significance and general excellence.

This special boxset release of De La Soul’s 3 Feet High and Rising includes twelve 7” custom singles pressed on splatter vinyl and housed in custom sleeves, housed in a box that includes a 7” pinup and a double-sided 7” slipmat, and is available first at record stores as part of RSD Black Friday. "

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Linda Ronstadt

2LP | 1977 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

76,94 €* 80,99 € -5%

2LP | 1978 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity)

Release: 1977 / US – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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One of the most successful albums of Linda Ronstadt's career, "Simple Dreams" spent five successive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart in late 1977, displacing Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" at No. 1 after 29 record-breaking weeks in the pole position. It also knocked Elvis Presley out of No. 1 on Billboard's Country Albums chart after 'The King' held the gridlock for 15 consecutive weeks after his death in August. It won the Grammy Award for Best Recording Package (in addition to several other high profile Grammy nominations).
"Simple Dreams" was Ronstadt's fifth consecutive million-selling platinum album and sold more than 3½ million copies in less than a year in the United States alone — a record for a female artist. Simply put, Ronstadt just couldn't lose. "Simple Dreams" continued a creative streak that found the singer turning out album after album of incredible material at an astonishing one-per-year rate until she finally began to come back down to earth in the early 1980s.
Now hear "Simple Dreams" as never before. Remastered by the late, great Doug Sax at the Mastering Lab, together with Robert Hadley, and pressed on 45 RPM super-silent 200-gram vinyl by Quality Record Pressings, this revered recording truly is a sonic treasure. And it comes in a Stoughton Printing tip-on gatefold jacket with meticulously reproduced original artwork. Stunning.
Featuring an expanded palette of styles and cutting-edge narratives, "Simple Dreams" may go down in history as Ronstadt's greatest work. Considering the achievements: Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female; Five consecutive weeks as the No. 1 record on the Billboard Album Chart, Two Top 10 singles.

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Warren Zevon

Excitable Boy

Release: 1978 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Run-DMC Numbered Limited Edition 180G Super Vinyl Edition

Run DMC

LP | 1984 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab)

Clube Da Esquina Volume 2

Release: 1984 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited to 3000 copies. The impact, influence, and importance of Run-D.M.C.'s self-titled debut – the album that invented hardcore hip-hop and bridged rap, rock, and funk in then-unparalleled ways – cannot be measured. The first full-length record released by Profile Records, the 1984 set permanently changed the sound of music, broadcast streetwise wisdom to every corner of the country, and made the notion of a one-man band a distinct reality. Produced by Russell Simmons and Larry Smith – and bolstered by an incendiary blend of staccato deliveries, stark beats, aggressive exchanges, evocative hooks, and socially conscious messages – Run-D.M.C. still hits listeners in the jaw with the same intensity it did nearly 40 years ago when it could be heard booming from ghetto blasters carried around city blocks nationwide.

Sourced from the original master tapes and pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition 180g SuperVinyl 33RPM LP is the definitive-sounding version of this groundbreaking work.

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Milton Nascimento

2LP | 1978 | BR | Reissue (Polysom)

2LP | 1977 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab)

Release: 1978 / BR – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The release is on 180g vinyl and in a gatefold cover. Milton's second volume of tracks cut with his legendary "corner club" – with a very similar approach to the landmark first volume! Loads of great artists make guest appearances on here, like Lo Borges, Wagner Tiso, Toninho Horta, and Chico Buarque – and the production has haunting blend of baroque, jazz, and soul that we can only define as "Nascimento like"! A really fitting companion to the first volume, and a double-length set with tracks that include "E Dai", "Pao E Agua", "Canoa, Canoa", "Credo", "Nascente", "Meu Menino", "Que Bom, Amigo",

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The Alan Parsons Project

I Robot

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits

Release: 1977 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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180 Gram 45RPM Audiophile Vinyl, limited/numbered

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Bob Dylan

2LP | 1976 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab)

2LP | 1985 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab)

Release: 1976 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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180 Gram 45RPM Audiophile Vinyl, limited/numbered, Mastered from the Original Master Tapes, Five-Times Platinum Collection of Dylan's World-Changing Singles Spanning 1963 Through 1966

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Dire Straits

Brothers In Arms

Whitney Houston SuperVinyl 180g 33rpm LP Edition

Release: 1985 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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180 Gram 45RPM Audiophile Vinyl, Numbered Limited-Edition

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Whitney Houston

LP | 1985 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab)

LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (Universal Music Japan)

Release: 1985 / US – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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SOURCED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES AND LIMITED TO 4,000 NUMBERED COPIES:

MOBILE FIDELITY'S 180G SUPERVINYL LP PRESENTS 1985 BLOCKBUSTER IN AUDIOPHILE SOUND, PLAYS WITH EXCEPTIONAL CLARITY
PCM digital master to analogue console to lathe

Whitney Houston’s self-titled debut album has few parallels. Viewed solely through the lens of sales numbers, Whitney Houston is a watershed statement on par with the most commercially successful and culturally dominant LPs ever released. Having sold more than 14 million copies in the U.S. and upwards of 25 million units worldwide, the 1985 LP became the equivalent of the television show or blockbuster film that everyone collectively experiences and discusses. Nearly four decades later, it’s lost none of its appeal or magnetism — and its artistic significance and historical import have only grown.

Sourced from the original master tapes, pressed at RTI on MoFi SuperVinyl, and strictly limited to 4,000 numbered copies, Mobile Fidelity's 180g SuperVinyl LP of Whitney Houston presents the breakthrough in audiophile sound for the first time. The signature traits Houston exhibits on every song — her three-octave range, radiant warmth, personal conviction, impossibly controlled register — come across with exceptional clarity, focus, and presence. Free of artificial ceilings and constricted dynamics, this reissue plays with an openness, airiness, and balance that put the singer’s once-in-a-lifetime instrument and immortal artistry into proper perspective.

It does the same for the songs’ cascading melodies and captivating arrangements. Individually produced by one of four renowned industry veterans — Kashif, Micheal Masser, Jermaine Jackson, and Narada Michael Walden — each composition feels grander, closer, more genuine. A vocal spectacular, Whitney Houston benefits from the high-end characteristics of SuperVinyl, which include a nearly inaudible noise floor, superb groove definition, and dead-quiet surfaces. This is how an album that changed the direction of popular music — opening previously inaccessible doors for Black artists; bringing smooth-singing vocalists back into the mainstream; kickstarting a movement that soon included several “divas” who would command the charts through the early 21st century — should look and sound.

Though Houston’s seemingly effortless performances suggest otherwise, creating the record Rolling Stone ranks as the 257th Greatest Album of All Time wasn’t easy. Nearly 18 months were required to identify songs suitable for a still-unknown singer who did not fit into the conventional frameworks of the mid ‘80s. Confident, powerful, and prodigiously talented, Houston would forge her own parameters with Whitney Houston. In the process, she obliterated the stubborn lines between R&B and pop, Black and white radio. She dared to reimagine who could be a superstar and then went out and defined the role. Recorded for nearly $400,000 and released on Valentine’s Day, the LP exceeded the wildest expectations of those most closely associated with it — save for Houston and her family.

Having made her first public appearance at the age of 11 singing at a Baptist church, Houston understood pressure and knew her way around, inside, and through a song. The invaluable guidance and support she received from her mother, Cissy, an accomplished gospel vocalist who backed Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley, are on display throughout Whitney Houston. They arrive in the types of authoritativeness, discipline, and diction rare for even most seasoned veterans — and unheard-of for a 21-year-old newcomer. Houston brings a soulful elegance, understated glamour, and in-the-moment rapture to every note. Moving up, down, or staying in the middle of the vocal ladder; channelling softness or sweetness; showing restraint or increasing the volume, she is a marvel of emotionalism, a dynamo who can seamlessly transition from one mood to another within a verse.

Though the 10-track LP largely concerns itself with the ballad tradition, Houston covers the bases, getting into an R&B groove on the fleet “Thinking About You,” turning up the heat on the duet “Take Good Care of My Heart,” and investing the contagious dance-pop confection “How Will I Know” with all the anxiety, hope, energy, and enthusiasm its lyrics demand. Featuring her mom on background vocals and Houston’s pitch-perfect tone, uncanny precision, and skyscraper highs (no AutoTune here, friends), the synth-based anthem propelled Whitney Houston into the stratosphere, the vocalist into regular MTV rotation, and the term “crossover” into popular parlance. The double-platinum single reached No. 1 on the Hot 100, Hot R&B, and Adult Contemporary charts — a trifecta that foreshadowed accomplishments that would ultimately crown Houston as the most-awarded female artist of all time.

Whitney Houston became the first album by a Black female performer to top the Billboard charts. It remained there for 14 non-consecutive weeks en route to claiming the title of the best-selling LP of 1986. It stands as the first debut and first album by a solo female artist to spawn three No. Hits, as well as the first album by a Black female artist to top the year-end charts in Australia and Canada. These are just a handful of the accolades — along with four Grammy nominations — that surround a set that also contains the unforgettable ballad “Saving All My Love,” string-accompanied “Greatest Love of All,” and sensual “You Give Good Love.”

As TIME observed in an article written two years after the album took the world by storm: “This is infectious, can't-sit-down music, and her performance dares the listener not to smile right back.” We’re still smiling.

SACD

Sourced from the original master tapes and strictly limited to 3,000 numbered copies, Mobile Fidelity's hybrid SACD of Whitney Houston presents the breakthrough in audiophile sound for the first time. The signature traits Houston exhibits on every song — her three-octave range, radiant warmth, personal conviction, impossibly controlled register — come across with exceptional clarity, focus, and presence. Free of artificial ceilings and constricted dynamics, this reissue plays with an openness, airiness, and balance that put the singer’s once-in-a-lifetime instrument and immortal artistry into proper perspective.

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Tomio Terada

Ameagari No Machi

74,99 €*

Soul Mining 30Th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The 2nd album 'Ame agari no Machi', which was released in 1973 by Tomio Terada, a rare melody maker who made his major debut as the first Japanese artist on the MGM label in 1972, has been highly acclaimed as a masterpiece of cafe rock. The first LP reprint! A masterpiece of Japanese folky and mellow groove that combines the sounds of Tomio Terada and Hiro Yanagida, a former April Fool's Day.

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The The

2LP Box | 1983 | EU | Reissue (Sony)

74,99 €*

Release: 1983 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Al Di Meola, Hon Mclaughlin, Paco De Lucia

Friday Night In San Francisco

2LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Impex)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gratitude Blue Vinyl Edition

Earth Wind & Fire

2LP | 1975 | US | Reissue (Friday Music)

Release: 1975 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Indigos Black Vinyl Edition

Duke Ellington

2LP | 1989 | US | Reissue (Impex)

Release: 1989 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sings The George & Ira Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

Box | 1985 | Reissue (Not Now)

Release: 1985 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sagisu Shiro With Somethin'special

Eyes

LP | 1979 | JP | Reissue (Tokuma)

72,99 €*

LP | 1980 | JP | Reissue (Teichiku)

Release: 1979 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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* The long-awaited LP analog reissue of the album 'eyes' * Includes Obi Strip

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Judy Anton

Smile

72,99 €*

Catch A Fire 50th Anniversary Edition

Release: 1980 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Released in 1980, late AB’s, Makoto Matsushita and Cassiopeia members participated in the city pop masterpiece reissued on LP! Arranged by Makoto Matsushita and Minoru Mukai, and the participating musicians are Takeshi Ito and Akira Jimbo.

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Bob Marley & The Wailers

4LP | 1973 | EU | Reissue (Island)

72,99 €*

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The Number Of The Beast / Beast Over Hammersmith

Iron Maiden

3LP | 1982 | EU | Reissue (Parlophone Label Group)

71,99 €*

Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1982 | JP | Reissue (Columbia)

Yumi Murata

Himiko

71,99 €*

The Dark Side Of The Moon 50th Anniversary 2023 Remaster Vinyl Edition

Release: 1982 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Yumi Murata’s second album with Mariah.
It’s a beautiful, stateless ambient record with its halting vocals, which reflect the sonic experiments of Shimizu Yasuaki.

Mariah, at a time when she was leaning towards hard rock; she used this song as a starting point to steer her into the new wave.

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Pink Floyd

Box | 1973 | EU | Reissue (Warner)

71,99 €*

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Symphonic Poem Adieu Galaxy Express 999 - Andromeda Terminal St.

Osamu Tokaibayashi

2LP | 1981 | JP | Reissue (Nippon Columbia)

71,99 €* 79,99 € -10%

LP | 1983 | JP | Reissue (Tokuma)

Release: 1981 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Soundtracks

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Music Collection of "The Galaxy Express 999" Theatrical Film to be Released on Analog Vinyl! An analog version of the music collection of the second theatrical film "The Galaxy Express 999 -Andromeda Terminus-," released in 1981, will be released on March 20, 2024, LP Record Day! This is a reissue of the LP released on July 25, 1981 on heavy vinyl.

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Beers

Mistress

70,99 €*

LP | 1979 | JP | Reissue (HMV Record Shop)

Release: 1983 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The only album by Megumi Saito and Yoko Hashimoto, released in 1983. Together with prominent musicians, Kazuo Shiina, who was active as a regular member of Tatsuro Yamashita's band, Hiromasa Suzuki, who was active across genres, Hiroshi Shinkawa, who later worked on Omega Tribe and others, participated as an arrangement team, and you can hear an urban sound full of city feeling. Includes 10 songs including 'Kowareta Wiper', the only single with a comfortable mellow disco groove, and 'Lucky Strike Man' with a reggae taste.

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Kinokuniya Band

Street Sensation

69,99 €*

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (EMI)

Release: 1979 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Released in 1979. The only album by Kinokuniya Band, a talented 7-member group featuring Masako Takasaki on vocals, who debuted with Mariya Takeuchi in the famous omnibus “LOFT SESSION”.
Includes a cover of Taeko Onuki’s “4:00 AM” and the popular song “Crystal Magic”.

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Church

Of Skins & Heart

67,99 €*

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Box | 1984 | Reissue (Chrysalis)

Ultravox

Lament

67,99 €*

Release: 1984 / Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Yokobue: The World Of Michiko Akao

Michiko Akao

LP | 1983 | JP | Reissue (Universal Music Japan)

66,99 €*

LP | 1982 | JP | Reissue (Columbia Japan)

Release: 1983 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Yokobue player Michiko Akao's 1983 publication 'Yokobue: Michiko Akao's World', which was also published in the 'New Age Music Disc Guide' (published by DU Books), is reproduced for the first time! A new age work that greatly transcends the realm of pure Japanese music, created with Shigeaki Saegusa as the composer and arranger. It's definitely recommended for listeners who are chasing the current new age/ambient.

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Kyoko Furuya

Cold Water

Kifu Mitsuhashi & Kiyoshi Yamaya

Release: 1982 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kyouko Furuya began her career as a piano student in Tokyo’s Kunitachi College of Music. Debuting in a duo dubbed Virgo with future actress Yumi Mizusawa, they quietly became a popular thing in the acoustic Tokyo folk scene. With time, though, Kyouko Furuya pursued other opportunities.

First released off of the Japanese label, Better Days, in 1982, 'Cold Water' features a kaleidoscopic vision of what Japanese Pop can be when it ties its influence to something like reggae, funk, R&B, and disco.

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Shakuhachi Mountain Poetry

LP | 1976 | JP | Reissue (Columbia Japan)

Best Of Survivor - Greatest Hits Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 1976 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First released in 1976, 'Shakuhachi Mountain Poetry' is one of a two part album collaboration between Shakuhachi master, Kifu Mitsuhashi and jazz musician, Kiyoshi Yamaya. Together, the two artists blended their individual musical disciplines to compose an album that beautifully captures the spirit of both traditional Japanese folk music and jazz. Don't miss out on this incredibly unique Japanese-jazz fusion record!

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Survivor

2LP | 1989 | US | Reissue (Friday Music)

Release: 1989 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 1989 | EU | Reissue (A&M)

Janet Jackson

Rhythm Nation 1814

LP | 1988 | JP | Reissue (Columbia Japan)

Release: 1989 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Pressed on 180g

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Midori Hara

Ko Ko Ro Note

64,99 €*

Around The World In A Day

Release: 1988 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Midori Hara’s 2nd album. A masterpiece of 80s urban pop with mellow grooves. First class session musicians such as Hiroshi Sato (p), Kenji Takamizu (b), Shuichi Murakami (ds), and Masahiro Ikumi (g) participate.

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Prince

LP | 1985 | US | Reissue (Warner)

63,99 €*

Release: 1985 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Tribute To Jack Johnson

Miles Davis

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab)

LP | 1978 | JP | Reissue (Rca/Air)

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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SOURCED FROM THE ORIGINAL ANALOGUE MASTER TAPES
MOBILE FIDELITY’S NUMBERED-EDITION 180G SUPERVINYL LP PRESENTS 1971 LANDMARK IN EXUBERANT, FULL-RANGE SOUND

Miles Davis' A Tribute to Jack Johnson is the best jazz-rock record ever made. Equally inspired by the leader's desire to assemble the "greatest rock and roll band you have ever heard,” his adoration of Johnson, and Black Power politics, Davis created a hard-hitting set that surges with excitement, intensity, majesty, and power. Bridging the electric fusion he'd pursued on earlier efforts with a funkier, dirtier rhythmic approach, Davis zeroes in on concepts of spontaneity, freedom, and identity seldom achieved in the studio — and just as infrequently accepted by the mainstream.

Sourced from the original analog master tapes, pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl, and housed in a Stoughton jacket, Mobile Fidelity's 180g LP reissue brings it all to fore with startling realism. Benefitting from SuperVinyl’s nearly inaudible noise floor, superb groove definition, and clean, ultra-quiet surfaces, this 180g LP showcases everything — from the bold tonality of the headliner's white-hot trumpet solos to the decay of crashing cymbals, carry of wiry guitar notes, and echoes of the studio — in reference fashion.

Bristling with exuberance, Davis' high-register passages explode with authority and commanding presence. Around him, a barrage of urgent backbeats, knifing riffs, and supple bass lines emerge amidst black backgrounds. One of the most prominent differences long-time fans will notice is how much more aggressive, immediate, and vibrant the music sounds, with those aspects central to the composer's original desires.

Utilizing wah-wah and distortion, the go-to instrumentalist of the performances— guitarist John McLaughlin — attacks with a nasty edge, slashing style, and vicious streak that allows A Tribute to Jack Johnson< cross the until-then-impenetrable divide between rock and jazz. Davis puts both feet in the former camp and erases any gap. The stories of the record’s creation are nearly as legendary as the sounds within: Two sessions, multiple jams, different sets of musicians (several uncredited), and near-miraculous production perfectionism that made it all appear cohesive.

The least-well-known masterpiece of Davis' career, the 1971 record — seamlessly assembled and spliced together by producer Teo Macero — was a victim of limited record-label promotion. Audiences also didn’t immediately know what to make of its original cover art — faithfully replicated here. In addition, the powers that be at Columbia Records were directing the public’s attention to Miles at Fillmore, a completely different kind of album guided by two keyboardists. A Tribute to Jack Johnson practically lives in a different universe, one from the future. To many listeners who did manage to hear it — among them critic/musician Robert Quine, Stooges leader Iggy Pop, and renowned critic Robert Christgau — it surpassed everything that came before.

Indeed, Davis treated it as a personal manifesto: An opportunity to salute the Black championship boxer admired for his threatening image to the establishment and impeccable taste in clothes, cars, women and music. Davis explains in the liner notes his affinity for Johnson — a stance mirrored by the defiant music, which hits with a prize fighter's force and reflects the graceful elegance with which a pugilist navigates the ring — and closes the album with a Johnson quote read by Brock Peters.

Inspired not only by Johnson but by Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone, Davis changed his approach and his band. He surrounds himself with a cadre of musicians in their 20s and, in the case of bassist Michael Henderson, a 19-year-old fresh from touring with Stevie Wonder. Henderson gives Davis what he requested: boogie-based grooves that don’t lose shape or direction. Soprano saxophonist Steve Grossman, drummer Billy Cobham, and organist Herbie Hancock adhere to a similar aesthetic that prizes brazenness, innovation, and energy.

In that vein, during a portion of “Yesternow,” Davis segues into a separate performance (which became known in its entirety as “Willie Nelson”) played by guitarists McLaughlin and Sonny Sharrock, bass clarinetist Bernie Maupin, keyboardist Chick Corea, bassist Dave Holland, and drummer Jack DeJohnette. Dig it!

Talking with jazz scholar Bill Milkowski — who himself noted how McLaughlin’s unrestrained style, decibel-forward volumes, and rapid-fire power chords engendered himself to the rock crowd at the same time that his harmonics and syncopation still definitely made him a jazz player — guitarist Henry Kaiser summed up part of the appeal of A Tribute to Jack Johnson as well as anyone, saying: “It’s a jazz record that way way more open than other jazz records at the time, but still not free jazz. [McLaughlin’s] rhythm guitar playing on ‘Right Off’ — the use of different chords in a rock shuffle than what anybody had used before — was revolutionary.”

And to think that’s just one aspect of a record that contains multitudes. “Never let them forget it.” Indeed.

MoFi SuperVinyl
Developed by NEOTECH and RTI, MoFi SuperVinyl is the most exacting-to-specification vinyl compound ever devised. Analogue lovers have never seen (or heard) anything like it. Extraordinarily expensive and extremely painstaking to produce, the special proprietary compound addresses two specific areas of improvement: noise floor reduction and enhanced groove definition. The vinyl composition features a new carbonless dye (hold the disc up to the light and see) and produces the world’s quietest surfaces. This high-definition formula also allows for the creation of cleaner grooves that are indistinguishable from the original lacquer. MoFi SuperVinyl provides the closest approximation of what the label’s engineers hear in the mastering lab.

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Tatsuro Yamashita

Go Ahead!

LP | 1979 | JP | Reissue (Rca/Air)

Release: 1978 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Originally released in 1978 Limited edition Pressed on 180g black vinyl Yamashita’s 3rd solo record, Go Ahead!, defined the path he would subsequently follow as it a blossomed writer acclaimed for this versatility. The songs “Let’s Dance Baby”, “Bomber” & “潮騒 (The Whispering Sea)” would’ve be featured in his 1982 greatest hits album “Greatest Hits! of Tatsuro Yamashita”. Meanwhile, the song “This Could Be The Night” would get re-recorded in 1984 as part of his soundtrack album “Big Wave”.

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Tatsuro Yamashita

Moonglow

LP | 1980 | JP | Reissue (Rca/Air)

Release: 1979 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Originally released in 1979 Limited edition Pressed on 180g black vinyl Bursting with energy on the eve of his big break, Yamashita’s 4th record was a major milestone. The highly acclaimed Moonglow is Yamashita’s record that stayed the longest in the Oricon charts. Most of the songs included in this album were written by Minako Yoshida and composed by Tatsuro Yamashita.

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Tatsuro Yamashita

Ride On Time