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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy / Secondary Phase 3LP coloured vinyl

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Demon Record will issue Secondary Phase a new 3LP coloured vinyl deluxe set that features the second series of Douglas Adams’ classic comedy science fiction radio show The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.
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Out This Week / on 21 September 2018

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Prince / A Piano & A Microphone 1983 CD, Vinyl

A Piano & A Microphone 1983 isa brand new Prince album that features previously unreleased home studio cassette recording of Prince at his piano captured in 1983.

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DEAL: Four music blu-rays for €30

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List updated Monday 17th

Nice blu-ray deal over at Amazon Germany. You get four blu-ray for €30 (which is about £27). There are loads of features films, but for the physical music fan this is a great deal because there’s an abundance of excellent documentaries, concerts and the odd blu-ray audio studio album in the mix, including The Who, The Doors, Steven Wilson, Black Sabbath, a-ha, Deep Purple, Rage Against The Machine, The Rolling Stones and a whole lot more. You can view the whole list (with movies) here, (you’ll have to filter ‘music concerts and documentaries’ on the left) but here’s SDE’s pick of the bunch…
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The Prog Chorus: McCartney back on track with new album Egypt Station

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Paul McCartney’s latest album Egypt Station is full of invention, great melodies and more than a few flashes of the old brilliance

How many times have you read that Paul McCartney‘s new record is his “best since Band on the Run“? Almost every Macca studio album over the years has been framed as a supposed ‘return to form’ and this hype surely reached its nadir in 1993, when the very average Off The Ground was likened to The Beatles’ ‘White Album’!

The problem is, hearing a new Paul McCartney album is quite exciting. The man has written some of best pop songs ever recorded, and it’s easy to get carried away. Egypt Station has been getting very good reviews, and the question is whether this is reliable testimony or the usual hyperbole. Let’s investigate…
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Deal alert / League of Gentlemen ‘Vinyl Cuts’ 12LP coloured vinyl box set

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The recently announced 12LP coloured vinyl box set of British comedy TV series The League of Gentlemen is now even cheaper!
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Jimi Hendrix / Electric Ladyland 50th anniversary super deluxe edition

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This November, Sony’s Legacy Recordings and Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. will reissue a 50th anniversary edition of Jimi Hendrix‘s third and final studio album Electric Ladyland.
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Universal Music blame ‘hand-packing’ issue for Soft Cell DVD problems

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Universal Music have issued a statement to Soft Cell fans who are having playback issues with the DVD from their Keychains and Snowstorms box set.
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Steven Wilson / Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall

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2CD+blu-ray combo set • Limited 5LP vinyl box set next year

Steven Wilson is to release a concert film, Home Invasion: In Concert At The Royal Albert Hall, in November on various audio-video formats and (later) as a special limited edition 5LP vinyl box set.
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King Crimson / Meltdown (Live in Mexico City) / 3CD+blu-ray deluxe set

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3CD+blu-ray • 5.1 surround • deluxe packaging

King Crimson will next month issue Meltdown (Live in Mexico City), a new four-disc deluxe set next month that features over three and a half hours of material performed during the band’s five nights residency at Teatro Metropolitan, Mexico City in July 2017.
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Frank Sinatra / Only The Lonely 60th anniversary deluxe edition

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We don’t get too many 60th anniversary editions around these parts, but Universal Music are about to celebrate Frank Sinatra‘s 1958 album, Only The Lonely, with just such an edition.
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Bronski Beat / The Age of Consent CD and vinyl reissues

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London Records have announced a remastered and expanded reissue of Bronski Beat‘s 1984 album The Age Of Consent and will issue the album on three physical formats.
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