Audiophile Discs

The Jam – All Mod Cons & Sound Affects (1996) {MFSL Remastered}

May 30, 2020

The Jam - All Mod Cons & Sound Affects (1996) {MFSL Remastered}

The Jam – All Mod Cons & Sound Affects (1996) {MFSL Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 495 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc II | US | Cat#: UDCD 673| Genre: Post Punk

Mobile Fidelity reissued two of the Jam’s best albums, All Mod Cons and Sound Affects, on one gold CD. Although these are two classic records, only hardcore Jam fans will need to acquire this disc, since it carries such a high retail price. Granted, Mobile Fidelity’s remastering is very good, but the remastering on the box set Direction Reaction Creation matches it, and that five-disc set is available for roughly twice the price of this single disc.Read More

Indie / Post-Punk

Gary Wright – The Dream Weaver (1975) {2011, Audio Fidelity Remastered}

May 15, 2020

Gary Wright - The Dream Weaver (1975) {2011, Audio Fidelity Remastered}

Gary Wright – The Dream Weaver (1975) {2011, Audio Fidelity Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 260 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity | US | Cat#: AFZ 132 | Genre: Pop Rock, Progressive Rock

No one expected the success of Dream Weaver when it was released, but it sailed to the top of the charts, and with good reason. Backed with only drums and a wide assortment of keyboards, Gary Wright crafted instantly recognizable tunes such as the title cut and “Love Is Alive,” which caught on and remain staples of classic rock stations around the U.S. All very revolutionary and new at the time, Dream Weaver hasn’t lost any of its magic over time.Read More

Pop Rock, Progressive Rock

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

April 25, 2020

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
Full Scans Included
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
Half-Speed Mastered

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Alternative Rock

Stéphane Grappelli, Barney Kessel With The New Hot Club Quintet ‎– I Remember Django (1969) {1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

April 25, 2020

Stéphane Grappelli, Barney Kessel With The New Hot Club Quintet ‎– I Remember Django (1969) {1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Stéphane Grappelli, Barney Kessel With The New Hot Club Quintet ‎– I Remember Django (1969) {1981, 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: 795 MB (Hi-Res) + 231 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-111 | Genre: Swing
Half-Speed Mastered

Stéphane Grappelli was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands. He has been called “the grandfather of jazz violinists” and continued playing concerts around the world well into his ’80s. This 1969 album is a collaboration with Barney Kessel, an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Noted in particular for his knowledge of chords and inversions and chord-based melodies, he was a member of many prominent jazz groups as well as a “first call” guitarist for studio, film, and television recording sessions. Kessel was a member of the group of session musicians informally known as the Wrecking Crew.Read More

Jazz

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

April 25, 2020

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
Full Scans Included
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
Half-Speed Mastered

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.Read More

Jazz

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

April 9, 2020

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}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
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
Half-Speed Mastered

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.Read More

Blues

The Knack – Get The Knack (1979) {2017, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

April 9, 2020

The Knack - Get The Knack (1979) {2017, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

The Knack – Get The Knack (1979) {2017, 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: 983 MB (Hi-Res) + 294 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL, Gain 2 Ultra Analog | US | Cat#: MFSL 1-473 | Genre: Pop Rock

Mastered from the original master tapes, pressed at RTI, and strictly limited to 3000 numbered copies, our 180g LP of Get the Knack brings the record’s urgent harmonies, keen melodies, bell-clear tones, and snapping percussion out of the shadows and into the limelight. Graced with large-scale frequency extension and ample separation, the Knack’s feisty music now teems with added energy, body, and immediacy.Read More

Pop Rock

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

April 9, 2020

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}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
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
Half-Speed Mastered

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”.Read More

Jazz

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Bob Dylan – Albums Collection {MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip}

April 4, 2020

Bob Dylan - Albums Collection {MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Bob Dylan – Albums Collection {MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip}
21x EAC Rip | FLAC Image/Tracks + Cue+ Log
27x SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / @1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 8.45 GB (CD-Layer) + 53 GB (SACD ISO) + 24.8 GB (SACD FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: MFSL UltraDisc UHR | US | Genre: Folk Rock
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Folk Rock

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

April 3, 2020

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}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
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
Half-Speed Mastered

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.Read More

Progressive Rock

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

April 3, 2020

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}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
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
Half-Speed Mastered

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.Read More

Jazz, Soundtrack

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

April 3, 2020

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}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
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
Half-Speed Mastered

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).Read More

Vocal Jazz

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Foreigner – Double Vision (1978) {1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

April 1, 2020

Foreigner - Double Vision (1978) {1981, MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Foreigner – Double Vision (1978) {1981, 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: 853 MB (Hi-Res) + 253 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed in Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-052 | Genre: Hard Rock, Pop Rock
Half-Speed mastered

Foreigner promptly followed up its blockbuster debut with the equally successful Double Vision LP in 1978, which featured the FM mega-hits “Hot Blooded” and the driving title track. Opting not to mess with a good formula, the band wisely sticks to the polished hard rock sound that made its first record such a hit.Read More

Hard Rock, Pop Rock