Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Discography (1972 – 2014)

August 23, 2019

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Discography (1972 - 2014)

Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Discography (1972 – 2014)
EAC Rip | 104x CD | FLAC/APE Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 31.7 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
STUDIO | LIVE | COMPILATIONS | BOX SET
Label: Various | Genre: Progressive Rock

An R&B band that only played pop to get on the charts, Manfred Mann and its various permutations ranked among the most adept British Invasion acts in both styles. South African-born keyboardist Manfred Mann was originally an aspiring jazz player, moving toward R&B when more blues-oriented sounds became in vogue in England in the early ’60s. Original Manfred Mann singer Paul Jones was one of the best British Invasion singers, and his resonant vocals were the best feature of their early R&B sides, which had a slightly jazzier and smoother touch than the early work of the Rolling Stones and Animals.Read More

Progressive Rock

Andy Jackson – Signal To Noise (2014) {CD + DVD-A + Hi-Res}

August 22, 2019

Andy Jackson - Signal To Noise (2014) {CD + DVD-A + Hi-Res}

Andy Jackson – Signal To Noise (2014) {CD + DVD-A + Hi-Res}
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log
DVD-Audio | MLP (4.0 & 2.0 / 24bit / 96kHz) | DTS (4.0 / 24bit / 96kHz) | LPCM (2.0 / 24bit / 96kHz)
Hi-Res | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 252 MB (CD) + 5.26 GB (DVD-A) + 2.37 GB (Hi-Res) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Esoteric Antenna | UK ‎| Cat#: EANTCD 1040 & EANTCD 21041 (DVD) | Genre: Progressive Rock

SIGNAL TO NOISE. 2014 studio album by twice Grammy nominated Pink Floyd engineer Andy Jackson. SIGNAL TO NOISE is a fine, modern, progressive work, which draws on Andy Jackson’s exemplary work as an engineer and producer. Besides being an allusion to Andy’s sound engineering background, the title refers to many of the lyrical themes of the album. Andy explains; ‘The album reflects on the sorting of what is important in life from the humdrum of everyday existence, and is in itself an analogy for the process of the creation of the album’. Andy Jackson began his career at Utopia Studios in London, training under James Guthrie, a relationship that continues to this day with the duo being co-pilots of Pink Floyd’s sound.Read More

Progressive Rock

Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction (1987) {1997, MFSL Remastered}

August 22, 2019

Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction (1987) {1997, MFSL Remastered}

Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction (1987) {1997, MFSL Remastered}
XLD Rip | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 384 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc II | USA | Cat#: UDCD 699 | Genre: Hard Rock

Guns N’ Roses’ debut, Appetite for Destruction was a turning point for hard rock in the late ’80s — it was a dirty, dangerous, and mean record in a time when heavy metal meant nothing but a good time. On the surface, Guns N’ Roses may appear to celebrate the same things as their peers — namely, sex, liquor, drugs, and rock & roll — but there is a nasty edge to their songs, since Axl Rose doesn’t see much fun in the urban sprawl of L.A. and its parade of heavy metal thugs, cheap women, booze, and crime. Read More

Hard Rock

Jethro Tull – Benefit (1970) {2013, Collector’s Edition, 2CD + DVD + Hi-Res

August 21, 2019

Jethro Tull - Benefit (1970) {2013, Collector's Edition, 2CD + DVD + Hi-Res}

Jethro Tull – Benefit (1970) {2013, Collector’s Edition, 2CD + DVD + Hi-Res}
EAC Rip | 2x CD | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log
DVD | NTSC 16:9 (720×480) VBR | DTS (5.1 / 24bit / 96kHz) | LPCM (2.0 / 24bit / 96kHz) | AC-3 (5.1)
Hi-Res | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 724 MB (CD) + 6.42 GB (DVD) + 6.58 GB (Hi-Res) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Chrysalis | USA | Cat#: R2 537449 | Genre: Progressive Rock

The 2-CD/DVD collection comes loaded with a massive amount of music recorded by the band, which at the time featured: multi-instrumentalist frontman Ian Anderson, guitarist Martin Barre, drummer Clive Bunker, pianist John Evan, and bassist Glenn Cornick. The first disc contains the album s 10 original tracks, plus five bonus tracks that include both the U.K. and U.S. stereo versions of “Teacher. ” All the songs are newly mixed by Steven Wilson and approved by Ian Anderson. The second disc includes newly remastered versions of rare tracks and singles recorded around the same time as Benefit, such as “Sweet Dream” in both stereo and mono. The audio-only DVD, which is available exclusively with this version, is packed with 58 tracks, including the album and bonus tracks in 5.1 surround sound. It also contains the U.K and U.S. versions of the album. The American version was sequenced differently and replaced the U.K. track “Alive and Well and Living In” with “Teacher. ” In addition, the set also comes with a handsome booklet filled with rare photographs, an essay by Martin Webb, and interviews with band members.Read More

Progressive Rock

Blue Chamber Quartet – Children’s Songs (2009) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

August 21, 2019

Blue Chamber Quartet - Children's Songs (2009) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Blue Chamber Quartet – Children’s Songs (2009) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.46 GB (ISO) + 1.96 GB (FLAC Mch) + 820 MB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Stockfisch Records | Switzerland | Cat#: SFR 357.4067.2 | Genre: Jazz

word of warning: the notes to this CD may detract from the lovely music it contains. German ensemble Blue Chamber Quartet commissioned journalist Cathrin Kahlweit to write a brief essay for each of the work’s 20 movements, first-person vignettes describing the lives of children in 20 countries that seemingly have no discernable relationship to Corea’s gentle, sophisticated miniatures.Read More

Jazz

Roy Orbison – The Ultimate Collection (2016) {Japan, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

August 18, 2019

Roy Orbison - The Ultimate Collection (2016) {Japan, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Roy Orbison – The Ultimate Collection (2016) {Japan, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Scans Included
Total Size: 3.11 GB (ISO) + 1.48 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Sony Muisc Direct | Japan | Cat#: SSVS 006 | Genre: Pop Rock

ony/Legacy’s 2016 single-disc The Ultimate Collection is the first career-spanning Roy Orbison compilation since their double-disc Essential from a decade earlier. At 40 tracks, Essential would seem to have an edge over The Ultimate Collection, but the 2016 compilation has a significant advantage in that it contains the original hit versions of “Running Scared” and “In Dreams,” iconic hits present only as re-recordings on the double-disc set.Read More

Pop Rock

Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks (1975) {2019, MFSL Remastered, CD-Format + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

August 16, 2019

Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks (1975) {2019, MFSL Remastered, CD-Format + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks (1975) {2019, MFSL Remastered, CD-Format + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
2x Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Format / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.23 GB (Hi-Res) + 642 MB (CD-Format) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL | UltraDisc One-Step | USA | Cat#: UD1S 2-006 | Genre: Folk Rock

Following on the heels of an album where he repudiated his past with his greatest backing band, Blood on the Tracks finds Bob Dylan, in a way, retreating to the past, recording a largely quiet, acoustic-based album. But this is hardly nostalgia — this is the sound of an artist returning to his strengths, what feels most familiar, as he accepts a traumatic situation, namely the breakdown of his marriage.Read More

Folk Rock

The Who – Live At Shea Stadium 1982 (2015) {Blu-ray + Hi-Res}

August 15, 2019

The Who - Live At Shea Stadium 1982 (2015) {Blu-ray + Hi-Res}

The Who – Live At Shea Stadium 1982 (2015) {Blu-ray + Hi-Res}
Blu-ray | MPEG-4 AVC Video | DTS-HD MA (5.1 / 24bit / 96kHz) | LPCM (2.0 / 24bit / 96kHz)
Hi-Res | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Total Size: 46.1 GB (BD) + 7.43 GB (FLAC Mch) + 2.91 GB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Eagle Vision | EU | Cat#: ERSBD3021 | Genre: Classic Rock

The Who’s 1982 tour, which was all in North America apart from two warm-up dates at the Birmingham NEC in England, was their last to feature Kenney Jones on drums and they wouldn’t tour again until 1989. The tour promoted the recent ‘It’s Hard’ album, which had been released in June 1982, and the set list included a number of tracks from that album, some of which the band would only play live on this tour. This concert film features the show from the second of their two nights at New York’s Shea Stadium and was filmed on October 13th 1982. Although a couple of tracks have appeared on compilations, this is the first official release of the full show and features restored footage and newly mixed sound.Read More

Classic Rock

Mr. Big – Discography (1989 – 2018)

August 15, 2019

Mr. Big - Discography (1989 - 2018)

Mr. Big – Discography (1989 – 2018)
78x CDs | 5x DVDs | 2x Blu-rays
EAC Rip | FLAC/APE Tracks & Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 103 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
STUDIO | LIVE | COMPILATIONS | EPs & SINGLES | BOX SETS
Label: Various | Genre: Hard Rock

Mr. Big were one of the few “shredder” pop metal bands (translation: the bandmembers were highly proficient at their instruments) that prized songcraft as highly as virtuosity. The seeds for the group’s formation were sown when bass player extraordinaire Billy Sheehan, often called “the Eddie Van Halen of bass,” left David Lee Roth’s solo band in 1988. Shortly thereafter, he began piecing together a new outfit comprised of former Racer X guitarist Paul Gilbert, drummer Pat Torpey, and singer Eric Martin, the latter of whom had issued a pair of obscure solo releases in the mid-’80s. By 1989, the newly formed quartet had already inked a recording contract with Atlantic, resulting in the release of a self-titled debut the same year. Despite finding a warm reception among musicians, the album failed to cross over to a mainstream rock audience in America; however, Mr. Big was an immediate success overseas in Japan.Read More

Hard Rock

Arnie Somogyi’s Ambulance – Accident And Insurgency (2007) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

August 10, 2019

Arnie Somogyi's Ambulance - Accident And Insurgency (2007) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Arnie Somogyi’s Ambulance – Accident And Insurgency (2007) {Hi-Res SACD Rip}
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Hybrid SACD | Scans Included
Total Size: 3.16 GB (ISO) + 2.66 GB (FLAC Mch) + 998 MB (FLAC Mch) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Linn Records | EU | Cat#: AKD 306 | Genre: Jazz

The Hungarian bassist Arnie Somogyi, a long-time luminary of the British contemporary scene, recently formed an alliance with the US doctor-turned-jazzman Eddie Henderson, this cemented with an appearance ar Ronnie Scott’s and this recording. Much of the music performed here by Somogyi’s Ambulance band emerged during a musical development residency at the Snape Maltings, with Henderson added for a May 2006 tour and for this 2007 recording.Read More

Jazz