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brooklyn · « **Reply #66040 on:** 26 Dec 2014, 07:22 am »

Anita Baker Rhythm of Love

elasticnorseman · « **Reply #66041 on:** 26 Dec 2014, 04:18 pm »

Glass: The Secret Agent - Harry Rabinowitz: English Chamber Orchestra (1996)

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ACHiPo · « **Reply #66042 on:** 26 Dec 2014, 05:09 pm »

Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon 30th Anniversary Reissue SACD

To celebrate the album's 30th anniversary, an updated surround version was released in 2003. The band elected not to use Parsons' quadraphonic mix (done shortly after the original release), and instead had engineer James Guthrie create a new 5.1 channel surround sound mix on the SACD format.[29][100] Guthrie had worked with Pink Floyd since co-producing and engineering their eleventh album, The Wall (1979), and had previously worked on surround versions of The Wall for DVD-Video and Waters' In the Flesh for SACD. Speaking in 2003, Alan Parsons expressed some disappointment with Guthrie's SACD mix, suggesting that Guthrie was "possibly a little too true to the original mix", but was generally complimentary.[29] The 30th-anniversary edition won four Surround Music Awards in 2003,[101] and has since sold more than 800,000 copies.[102] The cover image was created by a team of designers including Storm Thorgerson. The image is a photograph of a custom-made stained glass window, built to match the exact dimensions and proportions of the original prism design. Transparent glass, held in place by strips of lead, was used in place of the opaque colours of the original. The idea is derived from the "sense of purity in the sound quality, being 5.1 surround sound ..." The image was created out of a desire to be "the same but different, such that the design was clearly DSotM, still the recognisable prism design, but was different and hence new".

brooklyn · « **Reply #66043 on:** 26 Dec 2014, 06:16 pm »

Eliane Elias A Long Story

elasticnorseman · « **Reply #66044 on:** 26 Dec 2014, 06:20 pm »

Beat the Retreat: Songs by Richard Thompson - Various Artists (1994)

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elasticnorseman · « **Reply #66045 on:** 26 Dec 2014, 07:40 pm »

The Warrior's Code - Dropkick Murphys (2005)

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elasticnorseman · « **Reply #66046 on:** 26 Dec 2014, 08:47 pm »

Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Favourites - Richard Hayman and his Orchestra (2001)

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elasticnorseman · « **Reply #66047 on:** 26 Dec 2014, 09:55 pm »

No Help Coming - Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs (2011)

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brooklyn · « **Reply #66048 on:** 26 Dec 2014, 10:45 pm »

Dino The Essential Dean Martin

WC · « **Reply #66049 on:** 27 Dec 2014, 03:51 am »

Infinity Overhead - Minus the Bear (CD (2012))

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WC · « **Reply #66050 on:** 27 Dec 2014, 04:46 am »

Only With Laughter Can You Win - Rosie Thomas (CD (2003))

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elasticnorseman · « **Reply #66051 on:** 27 Dec 2014, 05:55 pm »

Late In The 20th Century: An Elektra/Nonesuch New Music sampler - Various Artists (1987)

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elasticnorseman · « **Reply #66052 on:** 27 Dec 2014, 07:35 pm »

The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes (Raw) - Bob Dylan and The Band (2014)

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ArthurDent · « **Reply #66053 on:** 27 Dec 2014, 08:34 pm »

Grand Funk Railroad: E Pluribus Funk '72

elasticnorseman · « **Reply #66054 on:** 27 Dec 2014, 09:50 pm »

Apparat Organ Quartet (2002)

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elasticnorseman · « **Reply #66055 on:** 27 Dec 2014, 10:45 pm »

Drums Between the Bells - Brian Eno (2011)

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ArthurDent · « **Reply #66056 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 04:22 pm »

euphoria: precious time '06

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Fans of Euphoria's earlier semi-chilled CDs of ambient Americana might be taken aback by the nasty blues snarl of "Back Against the Wall," the opening track of this third Euphoria CD. Sounding like the J. Geils Band circa 1975, guitarist Ken Ramm unleashes a backsliding electric blues scrawl over a crushing four-on-the-floor groove and doesn't let up until Howard Levy drops in with some gut-bucket harmonica. Since their semi-hit "Delirium" on the first CD, Euphoria has traded on an organic brand of electronica, picking up on Moby's rustic roots sampling ethos. But instead of samples, Euphoria boasted the real guitar playing of Ramm. On Precious Time, he dials up some changes, with Steve Sidelynk (Madonna, Massive Attack) mixing live drums with the programmed rhythms for an even more organic sound. In addition, vocalists top out several tunes. Tina Dico, who has sung with Zero 7, adds a sophisticated yearning cadence to the song called "Blue," and her "Sinners and Saints" is a strong bid for a pop single. Tracy Bonham brings her soulful voice to the mournful, yet still propulsive, title track. But most of Precious Time is instrumental, with "Cowboys" and "The Getaway" returning to the more countrified electronica of earlier CDs. Euphoria is still an exploration in sound, even at their most pop. Ramm mixes fingerstyle guitar with Indian tabla drums and vocal percussion on the aforementioned "Blue," and goes purely acoustic on the solo 12-string-guitar idyll, "The Glendale Train." "Vapor," an impressionistic 10-minute excursion composed with Brian Eno's Oblique Strategy cards, is an odd closer for an album that otherwise relentlessly lives up to the Euphoria name and promise. --John Diliberto

ArthurDent · « **Reply #66057 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 05:20 pm »

Jade Warrior: Last Autumn's Dream '72

ArthurDent · « **Reply #66058 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 05:54 pm »

Joe Satriani: Crystal Planet '98

elasticnorseman · « **Reply #66059 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 01:05 am »

Angels Hide Their Faces - Dawn Upshaw (2001)

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