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Classic Album Sundays' Colleen Murphy To Host BBC Radio 4 Two Part "Turntable History" Special
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 01, 2016  |  26 comments
Classic Album Sundays creator Colleen Murphy hosts a two part BBC radio special covering the history of turntables.

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Classic Records Acquired By Acoustic Sounds
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 26, 2010  |  0 comments
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Classical Pianist and YouTube Phenom To Issue New Liszt Recording in Digital and Pure Analog
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 19, 2013  |  8 comments
The Ukranian pianist Valentina Lisitsa, who has more than 30 million YouTube channel views (and you thought classical music was 'dead'?) and is currently signed to Decca Records, will soon issue a collection of Liszt pieces recorded two different ways: digitally and all-analog with no edits, recorded from the same set of microphones.
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CleanerVinyl Is a Less Costly Ultrasonic Record Cleaning Alternative
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 17, 2016  |  19 comments
CleanerVinyl is yet another take on ultrasonic record cleaning.

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Coltrane's A Love Supreme and Ballads All-Analog Mastered Set For October 9th Release
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 17, 2020  |  29 comments
Verve/UMe announced today the October 9th release of its second round of Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series/ Acoustic Sounds pressings of two essential John Coltrane albums: A Love Supreme and Ballads, both in stereo, cut using the original analog master tapes. Deluxe laminated Stoughton Press Tip-On gatefold jackets complete the "must have" release.
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Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings Announces Bob Dylan “More Blood, More Tracks—The Bootleg Series Vol. 14”
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 20, 2018  |  7 comments
The Blood on the Tracks story is familiar to Dylan fans: the album was recorded in New York City in four days, September, 1974. It was mastered and review copies circulated. Months later (late December) Dylan decided the approach was wrong and re-recorded five tracks at Minneapolis Sound 80 Studios. Bootleggers circulated outtakes from the New York sessions but they’ve never been available legitimately until now.

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Coming Soon! Full Evaluation of Jolida's FOZ XT-R Crosstalk Reducer
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 08, 2017  |  9 comments
Coming up shortly on AnalogPlanet will be a full evaluation of Jim Fosgate's electronic azimuth setting/crosstalk reduction FOZ XT-R!

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Communication Breakdown! Led Zep Catalog Cut From Digital?
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 31, 2014  |  99 comments
The press release says "remastered from the original analog tapes by Jimmy Page and pressed at Pallas" but of course we know that Page did not cut the lacquers. Not a problem. But when it says "remastered from the original analog tapes" does that mean "to digital" for CD and LP reissue? Or does that mean the lacquers were cut from the original analog tapes?

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Confession: I Didn't Go to a Record Store on RSD
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 19, 2015  |  44 comments
I missed Record Store Day this year. As some of you know, I was banned last year from my local record store for good behavior. I did nothing wrong. The owner's brother started lecturing me rather angrily on how to remove a record from a jacket and it escalated out of control from there.

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Contributing Editor Malachi Lui Now Has His Own YouTube Channel
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 29, 2019  |  3 comments
Contributing editor Malachi Lui now has his own YouTube channel. Internet on high alert!
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CORRECTION AND APOLOGY!!!!!!!New Deluxe "Band on the Run" WAS "Mastered at Abbey Road"!
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 07, 2010  |  1 comments
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Craft Chooses Yusef Lateef's Eastern Sounds As Its Second "Small Batch" One Step Release
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 24, 2021  |  46 comments
Los Angeles, CA (March 17, 2021)—Craft Recordings is pleased to announce the second title in its one-step series, Small Batch: Yusef Lateef’s 1961 classic, Eastern Sounds. Originally released on Moodsville (an imprint of the legendary jazz label, Prestige Records), the upcoming Small Batch pressing of this groundbreaking album will be limited to 1,000 copies and released exclusively through CraftRecordings.com on April 23rd. The public pre-sale launches this Friday (March 26th) at 2:00 pm PST/5 pm EST.

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Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds Announce the Next 12 AAA 180g LP Titles in Their Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series That Will Be Released Throughout 2024, Commencing February 23
Mike Mettler  |  Jan 11, 2024  |  3 comments

Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds have just announced the latest entries in their rightly acclaimed Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series. An even-dozen AAA 180g 1LP titles will be released all throughout 2024, starting on February 23. Read on to see which titles will be in this rightfully acclaimed AAA LP reissue series, and when they’re coming. . .

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Craft Recordings Announces Deluxe 25th Anniversary Reissues of R.E.M.’s Monster
Malachi Lui  |  Sep 07, 2019  |  13 comments
On September 4th, Craft Recordings (Concord’s reissue subsidiary) announced a series of 25th anniversary reissues of R.E.M.’s 1994 album Monster. Digitally remastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound, a host of physical and digital releases are set to come out November 1.

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Craft Recordings Announces Record Store Day Dozen Exclusives
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 29, 2021  |  8 comments
Craft's Record Store Day Dozen includes the first ever vinyl release of John Martyn's 1998 blues covers album The Church With One Bell as well as a deluxe edition of the indispensable 1966 3 LP set Chicago/The Blues/Today! originally on Vanguard.

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