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Electronic pioneer Gary Numan releases his 20th solo album, Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind), on 14 October and it will be available as a two-CD deluxe edition.
The album is produced by long-standing collaborator Ade Fenton, and the deluxe edition comes packaged in a CD sized bookpack with 24 pages. A 2LP 180g vinyl version is also available, which comes with an art print and a download card.
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Out this week, is this rather splendid Fleetwood Mac 1969 to 1972 vinyl box set. We posted the details back in July but have now had the opportunity to take a look (and listen) close-up.
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2013 has turned out to be a busy year for Close To The Edge, the fifth studio album from prog-rock band Yes.
Back in January it was issued as a remastered hybrid SACD by Audio Fidelity. No bonus tracks and no 5.1 mix, but respected engineer Steve Hoffman did the remastering.
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Salvo Music will release the Madness movie Take It Or Leave It on 7 October 2013, pairing the DVD with a 26-track soundtrack CD.
The film follows the origins of the band from the mid-to-late ’70s through various line-up changes, before they eventually find success. It dates from 1981 and was largely self-financed and directed by Stiff Records’ Dave Robinson.
Take It Or Leave It has been digitally restored and contains the commentary by Madness guitarist Chris Foreman and the film’s director found on the previous standalone DVD.
The accompanying CD soundtrack album features 26 songs including singles, B-sides and album tracks. Two non-Madness songs are included (Fats Domino’s I’m Walkin’ and The Four Tops’ Reach Out I’ll Be There), both of which can be heard in the film.
Is there such as thing as ‘too much’ content in a box set? Not, it seems, if you are prog-rock specialist Panegyric Recordings, who are preparing, The Road To Red, a 24-disc box set, that attempts to comprehensively capture the essence of King Crimson‘s US tour of 1974 and the process leading to the band’s Red album released the same year.
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With two months to go until the release of The Hurting deluxe box set, Tears For Fears have today made available a brand new studio recording – a cover version of Arcade Fire’s Ready To Start, which featured on the Canadian band’s 2010 album The Suburbs. Listen to the cover version below and tell us what you think of it.
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2CD Deluxe Edition
Sony Legacy will this October issue a career spanning 15-disc box set collecting together all of Paul Simon‘s solo albums.
The Complete Albums Collection includes all 12 of Simon’s studio albums and apart from his recent offerings (2006’s Suprise and 2011’s So Beautiful or So What) they all come with the bonus tracks appended to the previous reissues (including the three new tracks on last year’s Graceland reissue). In total this adds up to 37 bonus tracks.
The box set also includes The Paul Simon Songbook – the 1965 acoustic album recorded in London – and the live recordings Paul Simon in Concert: Live Rhymin’ (1974) and Paul Simon’s Concert in the Park (1991).
The CDs are packaged in a library book style box with magnetic enclosure and included is a 56-page book with photos and new liner notes by Ashley Kahn.
The Complete Album Collection is released on 13 October 2013 (full track listing below).
Paul Simon – The Complete Albums Collection – full track listing:
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RCA/Legacy’s Elvis at Stax deluxe set was issued very recently and the packaging mirrors the Prince From Another Planet release from last year.
Although there is no DVD this time around, the Elvis at Stax set comes in an eight inch die-cut square slip case, which is home for a six-panel wallet containing the three CDs and a 44-page softcover book with a host of archive photographs and an excellent essay by Robert Gordon (author of It Came From Memphis and Elvis Treasures, amongst others).
We very much like this style of presentation and hope to see Sony make more use of it on other releases. It’s small enough to be shelf-friendly, while different and significant enough to feel ‘special’ and justify the ‘deluxe edition’ tag.
Elvis at Stax is out now. More information about this release and the track listing can be found here.
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In a fascinating interview with Vish Khanna at Kreative Kontrol In Utero producer Steve Albini talks about working with Nirvana on the record, and his involvement in the remastering process for the 20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition and Vinyl reissues.
Many fans were not happy with the compressed remastering on the Nevermind reissue, but Albini assures fans that “the new CD master is going to be a better transfer than was done in 93” and talks in detail about efforts that were made to create a first class vinyl version, using the original half inch analogue master tapes, “No digital transfer was done prior to the analogue cut”, he says. He also details the cutting process for the new vinyl record:
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Fleetwood Mac‘s first four albums for Warner Bros. are collected in this rather fine vinyl box set. Then Play On, Kiln House, Future Games and Bare Trees all benefit from decent replica packaging, with heavy card sleeves and a couple of reproduced gatefolds. Also comes with a bonus seven-inch replica of 1969 single Oh Well – Pt. 1. 
The first album for almost five years for Travis, Where You Stand is available as this CD+DVD deluxe edition with two bonus audio tracks, videos and a making of documentary.
A UK reissue of the Jimi Hendrix Experience four-CD box originally issued in 2000. Features alternate recordings, live performances and rarities.
Never before issued on vinyl, Elvis Costello‘s Brutal Youth – his best album of the 1990s by some margin – gets a 2xLP reissue from Music On Vinyl. It comes packaged in a gatefold sleeve.
If you don’t fancy the vinyl box set, also issued today on CD is an expanded version of Fleetwood Mac‘s 1969 album Then Play On. This remastered edition features the original UK track listing on CD, with both parts of Oh Well, The Green Manalishi, and World In Harmony as bonus tracks.
Universal Music Catalogue have created Oh Yes We Can Love: A History Of Glam Rock, a new five-CD box set due for release on 28 October 2013.
This 91-track collection charts the life of the genre rather than just focussing on the usual suspects, so although you will find Slade, T Rex, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Roxy Music et al on this set, disc one takes us right back to Noel Coward, Anthony Newley and The Velvet Underground. Later discs include songs by artists such as Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Morrissey and Suede.
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XTC‘s 1992 album Nonsuch is being reissued as a deluxe edition that will include a 5.1 Surround mix, a new stereo mix and hi-res versions of both.
Steven Wilson has produced the new mixes from the original tapes, with the input of founder band member Andy Partridge and the full approval of the band.
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Repertoire Records will issue an 81 track, four-CD compilation called The Zombies In Stereo on 23 September 2013.
The box set is an apparently comprehensive exploration of the English rock band’s stereo recording history, from the 1964-1967 period with all the initial true and fake stereo versions released at the time, right through to the very latest remixes from the master tapes of those original recordings. Below gives you an idea what to expect from each disc in the four-disc set.
Electronic pioneers The Orb celebrate 25 years of music with new four-disc box set.
History of the Future is released on 7 October 2013 and collects three CDs of singles, remixes, and live tracks, and then throws in a DVD of promo videos and Top Of The Pops appearances for good measure.
The Orb will also be touring the UK in October and November this year.
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It’s that time of the month! SDE has been shopping for used records, largely in charity or thrift stores. Here’s what we’ve found…
There seems to be a few different versions Janet Jackson‘s Control The Remixes – different cover art, different track listings. This is the eight-track CD that doesn’t have any versions of The Pleasure Principle on it. It also has the “Cool Summer Mix (Part 1)” of Nasty, not Part 2. A nice find to go with the Japanese issue of the standard Control album that we found in May.
Edsel Records will reissue eighties girl group Bananarama‘s first six albums on 30 September 2013.
Details are scant at present, but the albums, originally released on London Records, all look to be 2CD+DVD sets, and will likely utilise the ‘casebound book’ packaging that Edsel have adopted for their forthcoming Belinda Carlisle reissues.
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German label Bear Family Records will issue an eight-CD box set of Hank Thompson material titled The Pathway Of My Life 1966-1986 on 24 September 2013.
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Nik Kershaw’s second album of 1984, The Riddle, gets a two-CD deluxe reissue. After some initial fan grumbling about the apparently not very comprehensive bonus disc, Nik himself came out with a defiant ‘buy it, or don’t buy it’ stance. Remastered with an additional CD of twelve-inch mixes and live tracks.
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Thanks to Amazon France the track listing has been revealed for the two-CD deluxe edition of Nirvana‘s In Utero reissue.
Fan site Nirvana Legacy offers some in-depth analysis of what’s on offer, but the long and the short of it is that disc one will contain the original remastered album, plus four tracks from the original B-sides /compilations, as well as alternate mixes of Pennyroyal Tea, Heart Shaped Box and All Apologies.
Disc two gives fans a ‘2013 Mix’ of the original album, plus a series of demo versions of tracks from various time periods.
The Super Deluxe Edition box set is widely expected to add the 17-track Live ‘n’ Loud 1993 MTV concert on both CD and DVD, to what is on offer on the two disc set.
Track listing:
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Parlophone Label Group (now owned by Warner Music) will next month issue an expanded edition of The Shadows: The Early Years 1959-1966, a six-CD box set originally issued back in 1991.
This collection includes every studio title recorded by the group (and commercially released) from early 1959, right up to the very end of 1966. This new expanded edition contains 32 tracks in mono not previously available on CD, and three tracks which are released in stereo for the very first time (full track listing below).
The Early Years 1959-1966 is issued on 16 September 2013.
‘The Early Years’ – Expanded Edition track listing:
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