Various Artists – Telarc Jazz SACD Sampler 3 (2004) {CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Various Artists - Telarc Jazz SACD Sampler 3 (2004) {CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Various Artists – Telarc Jazz SACD Sampler 3 (2004) {CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip}
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 406 MB (CD-Layer) + 4.46 GB (SACD ISO) + 3.51 GB (SACD FLAC Mch) + 1.27 GB (SACD FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Telarc | US | Cat#: SACD-63008 | Genre: Jazz

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YES – Fragile (1971) [2019, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

YES - Fragile (1971) [2019, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

YES – Fragile (1971) [2019, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
2x Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 192kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.29 GB (Hi-Res) + 993 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL | UltraDisc One-Step | USA | Cat#: UD1S 2-012 | Genre: Progressive Rock

Strictly limited to 7,500 numbered copies and pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl at RTI, Mobile Fidelity’s ultra-hi-fi UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP collector’s edition presents Fragile with exacting sonics and unsurpassed visuals. Prized for decades for its brilliant textures, harmonics, dynamics, colors, and openness, the 1971 album now comes across with surreal transparency, multi-dimensional scope, and seemingly unlimited responsiveness. Continue reading “YES – Fragile (1971) [2019, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Barry Manilow – Barry Manilow I (1973) {1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Barry Manilow - Barry Manilow I (1973) {1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Barry Manilow – Barry Manilow I (1973) {1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 799 MB (Hi-Res) + 232 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed in Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-097 | Genre: Adult Contemporary
Half-Speed Mastered

Barry Manilow’s debut album proves to be a far different animal than its glitzier successors; it’s fairly raw and unpolished, though his dramatic vocal style is already well established here. The material roams from impassioned balladeering (“I Am Your Child,” “One of These Days”) to chunky country (“Sweetwater Jones”), driving rock (“Oh My Lady”), and ’40s-style swing (“Cloudburst”) — and that’s just side one. “Could It Be Magic,” of course, is what pulled Manilow above the pack; it’s a textbook summary of the dramatic orchestration and swooning vocals that have long marked his style. Continue reading “Barry Manilow – Barry Manilow I (1973) {1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}”

Bee Gees – Trafalgar (1971) [1996, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Bee Gees - Trafalgar (1971) [1996, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Bee Gees – Trafalgar (1971) [1996, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1 GB (Hi-Res) + 290 MB (CD-Quality)
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: MFSL 1-263 | Genre: Pop Rock
Half-Speed Mastered

The Bee Gees had entered the early ’70s with a roaring success in the guise of “Lonely Days” and its accompanying album, which established their sound as a softer pop variant on the Moody Blues’ brand of progressive rock. Trafalgar, which followed, carried the process further on what was their longest single LP release, clocking in at 47 minutes. The music all sounded meaningful, much of it displaying the same kind of faux-grandeur that the Moody Blues affected on their music of this era, the core group (playing pretty hard) acompanied by either Mellotron-generated orchestra or the real thing, with the group’s soaring harmonies and Robin Gibb’s quavaring lead vocals all over the place. Continue reading “Bee Gees – Trafalgar (1971) [1996, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Roxette, Marie Fredriksson & Per Gessle – Discography (1986 – 2016)

Roxette, Marie Fredriksson & Per Gessle - Discography (1986 - 2016)

Roxette, Marie Fredriksson & Per Gessle – Discography (1986 – 2016)
EAC Rip | 69xCDs + 4xDVDs | FLAC Tracks/Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 60.4 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
STUDIO ALBUMS | LIVE ALBUM | COMPILATIONS | BOX SETS | SINGLES
Label: Various | Genre: Pop Rock

Roxette were one of the biggest global pop acts of the ’90s, selling over 75 million records around the world and dominating the charts with songs like “The Look,” “Listen to Your Heart,” “Joyride,” and “It Must Have Been Love,” all four of which hit the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Hailing from Halmstad, Sweden, Roxette are a duo featuring vocalist Marie Fredriksson and songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Per Gessle. Fredriksson and Gessle first met in the late ’70s, when she was a member of the pop combo Strul & Ma Mas Barn and he played with Gyllene Tider, one of Sweden’s biggest groups of the late ’70s and early ’80s. In 1981, after Fredriksson’s group broke up, she joined Gyllene Tider as backing vocalist for a concert tour, and later worked with them in the studio in the same capacity. Continue reading “Roxette, Marie Fredriksson & Per Gessle – Discography (1986 – 2016)”

Various Artists – Ultimate Divas (2015) [4CD Set]

Various Artists - Ultimate Divas (2015) [4CD Set]

Various Artists – Ultimate Divas (2015) [4CD Set]
EAC Rip | 4xCD | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.81 GB
Label: Sony Music | EU | Cat#: 88875085812 | Genre: Pop

Ultimate Divas: 72 classic hits and harder to find rarities from the greatest Divas in music across 4 CDs, all housed in a fold out cardboard digi-pack sleeve. Continue reading “Various Artists – Ultimate Divas (2015) [4CD Set]”

The Monkees – The Monkees Greatest Hits (1976) [1990 Remastered]

The Monkees - The Monkees Greatest Hits (1976) [1990 Remastered]

The Monkees – The Monkees Greatest Hits (1976) [1990 Remastered]
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 275 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Arista | US | Cat#: ARCD-8313 | Genre: Pop Rock

The Monkees Greatest Hits is a 1976 greatest hits compilation album of songs by the Monkees released by Arista Records, Continue reading “The Monkees – The Monkees Greatest Hits (1976) [1990 Remastered]”

Brian Wilson – Brian Wilson Presents Smile (2004) {CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Brian Wilson - Brian Wilson Presents Smile (2004) {CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Brian Wilson – Brian Wilson Presents Smile (2004) {CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
2x Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 192kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.32 GB (Hi-Res) + 410 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Rhino Records | US | Cat#: RI 76582 | Genre: Pop Rock

Brian Wilson Presents Smile (also referred to as Smile or the abbreviation BWPS) is the fifth studio album by Brian Wilson, released in September 2004. Its production began as a series of concert performances which were then adapted for a studio album, as well as a 2005 direct-to-video concert film of the same title. The album received great acclaim and earned Wilson his first Grammy Award, later being featured in several “greatest albums” lists. Upon release, it peaked at number 7 on the UK Albums Chart. Continue reading “Brian Wilson – Brian Wilson Presents Smile (2004) {CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}”

Prince – 1999 (1982) [2019, Super Deluxe Edition, Remastered, 5CD + DVD]

Prince - 1999 (1982) [2019, Super Deluxe Edition, Remastered, 5CD + DVD]

Prince – 1999 (1982) [2019, Super Deluxe Edition, Remastered, 5CD + DVD]
EAC Rip | 5x CD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log
DVD | NTSC 4:3 (720×480) VBR | LPCM (2.0)
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.30 GB (CDs) + 4.67 GB (DVD) + 1.0 GB (Scans) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: NPG Records / Warner Records | EU | Cat#: 603497850068 / R2 604571 | Genre: Funk, Soul

The reissue of the 1999 album is more ambitious than the already very good Purple Rain set. As well as the remastered album, the 5CD+DVD super deluxe offers two further discs of previously unreleased ‘vault’ material (23 tracks in total), a CD of seven-inch versions and promo edits, a complete live audio performance from the 1999 tour and a DVD containing another complete, previously unreleased concert from the 1999 tour. Continue reading “Prince – 1999 (1982) [2019, Super Deluxe Edition, Remastered, 5CD + DVD]”

Leonard Cohen – Thanks For The Dance (2019)

Leonard Cohen - Thanks For The Dance (2019)

Leonard Cohen – Thanks For The Dance (2019)
XLD Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 290 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Sony Music | EU | Cat#: 19075978662 | Genre: Singer, Songwriter

When Leonard Cohen sang “I was born like this, I had no choice/I was born with the gift of a golden voice” in his song “Tower of Song” in 1988, most people took it as a self-deprecating joke. No one regarded him as one of the great vocalists of his generation when he released his first albums in the late ’60s, given the dour, sometimes flat tone of his delivery. Continue reading “Leonard Cohen – Thanks For The Dance (2019)”

VA – Saturday Night Fever (The Original Movie Sound Track) (1977) {CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

VA - Saturday Night Fever (The Original Movie Sound Track) (1977) {CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

VA – Saturday Night Fever (The Original Movie Sound Track) (1977) {CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
2x Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 192kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 3.03 GB (Hi-Res) + 647 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: RSO | US | Cat#: RS-2-4001 | Genre: Soundtrack, Disco

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Jethro Tull – Songs From The Wood 40th Anniversary Edition (The Country Set) (1977) [2017, Box Set, Remixed, 3CD + 2DVD + Hi-Res]

Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood 40th Anniversary Edition (The Country Set) (1977) [2017, Box Set, Remixed, 3CD + 2DVD + Hi-Res]

Jethro Tull – Songs From The Wood 40th Anniversary Edition (The Country Set) (1977)
[2017, Box Set, Remixed, 3CD + 2DVD + Hi-Res]

EAC Rip | 3x CD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log
2x DVD | NTSC 16:9 (720×480) VBR | DTS 96/24 (4.0 & 5.1 / 24bit / 96kHz) | LPCM (2.0 / 24bit / 96kHz) | Dolby AC3 (4.0 & 5.1)
Hi-Res | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.07 GB (CDs) + 15 GB (DVDs) + 6.21 GB (Hi-Res) + 523 MB (Scans) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Chrysalis | EU | Cat#: 0190295847876 | Genre: Progressive Rock
UPDATE: 24/48 Has been replaced by 24/96 Hi-Res

This celebration of Jethro Tull’s tenth album follows a similar pattern to previous reissues, with the first disc containing a Steven Wilson remix followed by some ‘associated recordings’ including the previously unreleased Old Aces Die Hard and Working John, Working Joe. Continue reading “Jethro Tull – Songs From The Wood 40th Anniversary Edition (The Country Set) (1977) [2017, Box Set, Remixed, 3CD + 2DVD + Hi-Res]”

Jethro Tull – Stormwatch …The 40th Anniversary Force 10 Edition… (1979) [2019, Box Set, Remixed, 4CD + 2DVD + Hi-Res]

Jethro Tull - Stormwatch ...The 40th Anniversary Force 10 Edition... (1979) [2019, Box Set, Remixed, 4CD + 2DVD + Hi-Res]

Jethro Tull – Stormwatch …The 40th Anniversary Force 10 Edition… (1979)
[2019, Box Set, Remixed, 4CD + 2DVD + Hi-Res]

EAC Rip | 4x CD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log
2x DVD | NTSC 16:9 (720×480) VBR | DTS 96/24 (5.1 / 24bit / 96kHz) | LPCM (2.0 / 24bit / 96kHz) | Dolby AC3 (5.1)
Hi-Res | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.42 GB (CDs) + 10.9 GB (DVDs) + 8.70 GB (Hi-Res) + 789 MB (Scans) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Chrysalis | EU | Cat#: 0190295471804 | Genre: Progressive Rock

This 40th anniversary edition is a 4CD+2xDVD package. The album has been remixed by Steven Wilson, with his stereo mix appearing on the first CD and a new 5.1 surround mix housed on one of the two DVDs. Three further CDs offer a host of unreleased recordings and a previously unreleased live concert performed in The Netherlands in March 1980. As well as the 5.1 mix of the album the two DVDs also offer a flat transfer of the original 1979 mix, surround sound mixes of 13 associated recordings and hi-res stereo mixes of all 15 of them. Continue reading “Jethro Tull – Stormwatch …The 40th Anniversary Force 10 Edition… (1979) [2019, Box Set, Remixed, 4CD + 2DVD + Hi-Res]”

Santana – Santana (1969) [2007, MFSL Remastered]

Santana - Santana (1969) [2007, MFSL Remastered]

Santana – Santana (1969) [2007, MFSL Remastered]
EAC Rip | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 327 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDCD 773 | Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Latin Rock

Before the arrival of Carlos Santana’s eponymous band, the San Francisco rock scene drew the inspiration for its jam-oriented music mainly from blues, rock, and Eastern modalities. Santana added Latin music to the mix, forever changing the course of rock & roll history. On their groundbreaking debut album, the group mix Latin percussion with driving rock grooves. Continue reading “Santana – Santana (1969) [2007, MFSL Remastered]”

Bon Jovi – This House Is Not For Sale (2016) [Japanese Edition]

Bon Jovi - This House Is Not For Sale (2016) [Japanese Edition]

Bon Jovi – This House Is Not For Sale (2016) [Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 511 MB (CD) + 225 MB (Scans) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Universal | Japan | Cat#: UICL-1134 | Genre: Hard Rock, Pop Rock

This House Is Not for Sale is the thirteenth studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi. It was released on November 4, 2016, by Island Records. It is their first studio album without former lead guitarist Richie Sambora and the first album to feature the band’s new lead guitarist Phil X and it is also the first album where bass guitarist Hugh McDonald is credited as an official member after being an unofficial member since 1994. Continue reading “Bon Jovi – This House Is Not For Sale (2016) [Japanese Edition]”