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The Alan Parsons Project – Ammonia Avenue (1984) [2020, Super Deluxe Edition, Remastered, Remixed, 3CD + BD + Hi-Res]

The Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue (1984) [2020, Super Deluxe Edition, Remastered, Remixed, 3CD + BD + Hi-Res]

The new box set comprises 3CDs, a blu-ray and a 2LP 45 RPM vinyl edition of the album. The first CD features the original mix remastered, the second a series of Eric Woolfson’s ‘song-writing diaries’ and the third a series of studio outtakes, alternates and instrumentals. Continue reading “The Alan Parsons Project – Ammonia Avenue (1984) [2020, Super Deluxe Edition, Remastered, Remixed, 3CD + BD + Hi-Res]”

Nirvana – Nevermind (1991) {1996, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Nirvana - Nevermind (1991) {1996, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Nirvana – Nevermind (1991) {1996, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
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Total Size: 985 MB (Hi-Res) + 304 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: MFSL 1-258 | Genre: Alternative Rock, Grunge
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Earl Klugh – Late Night Guitar (1980) {1983, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Earl Klugh - Late Night Guitar (1980) {1983, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Earl Klugh – Late Night Guitar (1980) {1983, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
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Total Size: 721 MB (Hi-Res) + 184 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL-1-076 | Genre: Smooth Jazz
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This is the perfect setting for acoustic guitarist Earl Klugh, playing strong melodies (including such standards as “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” “Laura,” “Mona Lisa,” and “Two for the Road”) while joined by strings and several horns in an orchestra arranged and conducted by David Matthews. As usual for a Klugh session, the guitarist sticks mostly to the themes and does not improvise much, as he never considered himself a jazz player; but the overall effect is quite pleasing. Continue reading “Earl Klugh – Late Night Guitar (1980) {1983, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}”

Soul Asylum – Hurry Up And Wait (2020) {WEB, CD-Quality + Hi-Res}

Soul Asylum - Hurry Up And Wait (2020) {WEB, CD-Quality + Hi-Res}

Soul Asylum – Hurry Up And Wait (2020) {WEB, CD-Quality + Hi-Res}
WEB Download | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz
Total Size: 340 MB (CD-Quality) + 0.99 GB (Hi-Res) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Blue Elan Records | Genre: Alternative Rock

Soul Asylum are not the band they used to be, and that’s not a judgement, that’s just a fact. In the year 2020, lead vocalist and songwriter Dave Pirner is the only member left from their original lineup, and 36 years on from their debut album (and 28 after they broke through with Grave Dancer’s Union), it’s foolish to expect them to sound like they did in the era when flannel shirts and beat-up jeans were briefly fashionable rather than slobby. Continue reading “Soul Asylum – Hurry Up And Wait (2020) {WEB, CD-Quality + Hi-Res}”

Paul McCartney – Wingspan: Hits And History (2001) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Paul McCartney - Wingspan: Hits And History (2001) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Paul McCartney – Wingspan: Hits And History (2001) {CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
4x Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
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Total Size: 3.32 GB (Hi-Res) + 1.01 GB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Parlophone / MPL | EU | Cat#: 7243 5 32850 1 2 | Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Rock

Paul McCartney always got the short end of the stick when he was in the Beatles and again in the ’70s, as he and his erstwhile partner John Lennon pursued solo careers. McCartney was attacked for his virtues — for his melodicism and his domesticity, along with his desire to form a real touring band following the Beatles. Continue reading “Paul McCartney – Wingspan: Hits And History (2001) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Bob Dylan – The Original Mono Recordings (2010) [Box Set, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Bob Dylan - The Original Mono Recordings (2010) [Box Set, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Bob Dylan – The Original Mono Recordings (2010) [Box Set, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
9x Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
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Total Size: 4.60 GB (Hi-Res) + 1.67 GB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Columbia | US | Cat#: MONO-88697761051 | Genre: Folk Rock

Like any recording artist of the ‘60s, Bob Dylan had his albums mixed for mono during the bulk of the decade. Stereo mixes were simultaneously released, but they didn’t take precedence until the end of the ‘60s, when the industry and public tastes shifted toward two speakers. Continue reading “Bob Dylan – The Original Mono Recordings (2010) [Box Set, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Joe Satriani – Shapeshifting (2020) {WEB}

Joe Satriani - Shapeshifting (2020) {WEB}

Joe Satriani – Shapeshifting (2020) {WEB}
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Total Size: 308 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Legacy | Genre: Hard Rock, Instrumental

Alongside his formidable guitar playing chops, Joe Satriani’s recordings continue to sound fresh 18 albums in. This is largely due to an innate yet sophisticated songwriting prowess (verses, choruses, and bridges) rather than stacked tracks of technically proficient riffs and solos. Satriani possesses a gift for combining and recombining styles, dynamics, and various strains of lyricism from a nearly astonishing variety of genres. Continue reading “Joe Satriani – Shapeshifting (2020) {WEB}”

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Sonny & Brownie (1973) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Sonny & Brownie (1973) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Sonny & Brownie (1973) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
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Total Size: 943 MB (Hi-Res) + 259 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: MFSL 1-233 | Genre: Blues
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In a way, this is the veteran duo’s version of Fathers and Sons, a meeting of old black bluesmen with young white admirers that Muddy Waters and Otis Spann cut with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield. John Mayall and John Hammond, Jr. are among the “youngsters” on this powerful statement that includes a definitive version of Randy Newman’s wickedly subtle anti-slavery tune “Sail Away.” Sonny Terry’s trademark whoops are energizing. The repartee between him and Brownie McGhee might convince you they were fast friends if you didn’t know otherwise. Continue reading “Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Sonny & Brownie (1973) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}”

Gerry Mulligan, Ben Webster – Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (1959) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Gerry Mulligan, Ben Webster - Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (1959) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Gerry Mulligan, Ben Webster – Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (1959) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
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Total Size: 926 MB (Hi-Res) + 261 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: MFSL 1-234 | Genre: Bop, Swing
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Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster, also simply called Meets Ben Webster, is a 1959 album featuring the November 3 – December 2 studio sessions of American jazz musicians Gerry Mulligan and Ben Webster. In a 2003 review, All That Jazz described this album as the most notable example of Gerry Mulligan’s work partnering other legendary figures of jazz. The album, as a “classic album from two giants”, is featured in NPR’s “Basic Jazz Record Library”. Continue reading “Gerry Mulligan, Ben Webster – Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (1959) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}”

Marillion – Script for a Jester’s Tear (1983) {2020, Deluxe Edition, Remix, WEB Hi-Res}

Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear (1983) {2020, Deluxe Edition, Remix, WEB Hi-Res}

Marillion – Script for a Jester’s Tear (1983) {2020, Deluxe Edition, Remix, WEB Hi-Res}
WEB Download | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz
Total Size: 3.64 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Rhino / Parlophone | Genre: Progressive Rock

This DELUXE EDITION opens with a newly remixed stereo version of Script for a Jester’s Tear by Andy Bradfield and Avril Mackintosh. In addition, the collection also features new stereo remixes for the b-side “Charting The Single” that was released in January 1982, as well as the Market Square Heroes EP that followed in October that same year. Continue reading “Marillion – Script for a Jester’s Tear (1983) {2020, Deluxe Edition, Remix, WEB Hi-Res}”

Paul Gilbert – Behold Electric Guitar (2019) {CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Paul Gilbert - Behold Electric Guitar (2019) {CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Paul Gilbert – Behold Electric Guitar (2019) {CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
2x Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 192kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
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Total Size: 2.40 GB (Hi-Res) + 564 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Music Theories Recordings | EU | Cat#: MTR75871 | Genre: Blues Rock

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Jethro Tull – The Broadsword And The Beast (1982) [MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Jethro Tull - The Broadsword And The Beast (1982) [MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Jethro Tull – The Broadsword And The Beast (1982)
[MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 856 MB (Hi-Res) + 248 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-092 | Genre: Progressive Rock
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The cover of this first actual Jethro Tull album since 1979’s Stormwatch depicts Ian Anderson as an elf-warrior, with wings and a sword, and a ship with a stylized Norse dragon’s head. Anyone expecting a fantasy or heavy metal album was due for a disappointment, however, for most of the songs that have any identifiable references are about topical politics more than anything else. Continue reading “Jethro Tull – The Broadsword And The Beast (1982) [MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra – Anatomy Of A Murder (1959) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Anatomy Of A Murder (1959) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra – Anatomy Of A Murder (1959)
{1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
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Total Size: 753 MB (Hi-Res) + 217 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: MFSL 1-214 | Genre: Soundtrack, Big Band, Swing
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This was Duke Ellington’s first film score, undertaken at the urging of Anatomy of a Murder’s director, Otto Preminger. The full range of the composer’s previous work was brought to bear on this 1959 work. Ellington was a natural choice to convey the rich and varied emotional moods of this drama. Tension and release, danger and safety, movement and stillness, darkness and light; the textural palette that was Ellington’s signature was always compellingly cinematic. Continue reading “Duke Ellington And His Orchestra – Anatomy Of A Murder (1959) {1995, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}”

Bing Crosby / Buddy Bregman – Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings (1956) [1992, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Bing Crosby / Buddy Bregman - Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings (1956) [1992, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Bing Crosby / Buddy Bregman – Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings (1956) [1992, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
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Total Size: 417 MB (Hi-Res) + 128 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: MFSL 1-260 | Genre: Swing, Vocal Jazz
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In early 1956, Bing Crosby ended the two long-term company affiliations that had defined his career for more than 20 years, leaving his exclusive associations with Paramount Pictures and Decca Records. Thereafter, he made movies and records on a freelance basis. The immediate results were more felicitous for his film work than his recording, as he went to MGM for the successful movie High Society. As a recording artist, in rapid succession he cut the movie soundtrack for Capitol (January-February); a new album for Decca, Songs I Wish I Had Sung (The First Time Around) (April); and a new album for Verve, Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings (June). Continue reading “Bing Crosby / Buddy Bregman – Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings (1956) [1992, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Tesla – Five Man London Jam (2020) [Blu-ray + Hi-Res]

Tesla - Five Man London Jam (2020) [Blu-ray + Hi-Res]