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Album Reviews
A Christmas Compilation From Analogue Productions Spreads Holiday Cheer
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 15, 2015  |  18 comments
Chad Kassem's got a vinyl selling website, a reissue label, a pressing plant and well-oiled licensing deals so what's left to do but a self-produced double vinyl Christmas compilation pressed on red and green?

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AnalogPlanet Radio
Analog Planet Radio’s “All Lacquer” Show Now Available To Stream or Download
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 14, 2015  |  9 comments
Today’s Analogplanet Radio show on WFDU.fm HD2 was sourced excusively from lacquers, with the exception of the first tune.

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Album Reviews
Happy 100 Frank Sinatra! "Ultimate Sinatra" And Today A Free Vintage UBER Ride On Frank
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 12, 2015  |  15 comments
Of course the only "ultimate" Sinatra collection for fans is having a huge collection of his albums on Columbia, Capitol and Reprise—the label he started—plus some of the original 78s from the late '30's up until the era of the long playing record.

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News
VPI Industries' Harry Weisfeld Gets Founders Award From L.A. & Orange County Audio Society (Now Includes the Entire Speech)
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 10, 2015  |  3 comments
Note: the original video embedded here was missing the final six minutes of the speech. Sorry. This video is the speech in its entirety.

Analogplanet.com editor Michael Fremer introduced VPI Industries' Harry Weisfeld at the annual Los Angeles & Orange County Audio Society's annual "Gala" Sunday, December 5th, 2015 in Buena Park, CA.

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Sweepstakes
The Aiaiai Studio Modular Headphone Preset Sweepstakes
Jon Iverson  |  Dec 07, 2015  |  224 comments
Register to win a pair of Aiaiai Studio Modular Headphone Preset headphones ($225.00 Retail Value) we are giving away.

According to the company:

"AIAIAI boasts a world-renowned network of industrial designers, audio technicians and DJs as part of its unique and highly collaborative development process. Exploratory and experimental, the process enables AIAIAI to develop new products on the leading edge, independent of current market trends."

[This Sweepstakes is now closed.]

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News
Record Technology Incorporated (RTI) Set to Press 4 Million+ Records in 2016
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 03, 2015  |  23 comments
Adele's 25 sold 22,000 vinyl copies in its first week. Yes, that's a fraction of the total sales of 3.8 million copies sold but it's still impressive in our niche world (photo taken during video shoot for "It's a Vinyl World After All" DVD).

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News
Adele's 25   Sells 22,000 Vinyl Copies in First Week, But Who Pressed Them?
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 03, 2015  |  40 comments
Adele's 25 sold 22,000 vinyl copies in its first week. Yes, that's a fraction of the total sales of 3.8 million copies sold but it's still impressive in our niche world.

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AAA VinylAlbum Reviews
On Almost Blue   Elvis Costello Explores His Inner Country Self
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 02, 2015  |  5 comments
No doubt Elvis Costello knew he was no George Jones or Merle Haggard when, in the spring of 1981 he stepped before the microphone in CBS's Studio A in Nashville under the direction of veteran producer Billy Sherill (who passed away this past August), but he wanted to record an album of country covers in Nashville and following the cleansing craziness of the Trust sessions, this probably seemed like the right time.

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AAA VinylAlbum Reviews
Trust  Gets a Detail Wringing By Mobile Fidelity
 |  Dec 02, 2015  |  8 comments
At the top of the Costello album heap (not there alone, though), Trust issued in 1981 is Elvis Costello peaking in anger and disillusionment and coupling his discontent to wiry melodic constructions riding atop tautly tensioned rhythms. The album title is obviously ironic.

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AnalogPlanet Radio
Analog Planet Radio’s “New Stuff” Show Now Available To Stream or Download at Full Resolution
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 30, 2015  |  20 comments
Charles Mingus had a habit of declaring every release, "the best record I've ever made". Today's Analog Planet Radio Show, "New Stuff" is easily the best one yet—and unlike Mingus, that's not something I say about every show!

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