Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
The Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley‘s early ’80s work with producer Martin Rushent is celebrated in a new and highly limited vinyl box set The Genetic Years.
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FR: R.E.M. / Automatic For The People SDE 3CD + blu-ray – €52 or £45
Dolby Atmos surround mix on blu-ray, demos, live material, remastered + book.
DE: Rolling Stones Sticky Totally Stripped CD + 4 x Blu-ray – €19.99
UK deal over, but good price in Germany, too!
Live Frenzy. A week of gigs.
It’s been a busy week here at SDE HQ. I’ve been to four gigs in the last week, with two of them on the same night! I do enjoy going to live concerts, but I’m also a bit of a lazy git and like to stay in and watch a good TV drama (current favourite, BBC’s The Split).
Continue reading “Saturday Deluxe / 26 May 2018”
After three previous releases –C86 (2014), C87 (2016) and C88 (2017) – Cherry Red contain their indie-pop ‘C’ series of compilations with C89, a three-CD various artists set vaguely themed around 1989.
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The original six episodes of Douglas Adams’ classic BBC radio series The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy will be available on vinyl for first time ever, in August.
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Howard Shore‘s ‘Complete Recordings’ of the The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers will be released on vinyl for the first time in July as a 5LP blue vinyl box set.
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As predicted the SDE 2018 reissue preview, Howard Jones‘ first two albums are to be re-released, later this year.
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In July, Universal Music will issue two massive 40th anniversary Public Image Ltd (PiL) career-spanning box sets which are packed with hits, rarities, radio sessions, live concerts, promos, TV footage and more.
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The 2002 Jesus and Mary Chain compilation 21 Singles will be issued on vinyl for the first time in July.
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A single CD remaster of George Michael‘s Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1 will be released next month.
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Tom Bailey of Thompson Twins fame, will release Science Fiction, his first solo album in July.
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UK: Peter Gabriel / So 3CD deluxe box set – £5.79
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Exclusively on vinyl next month comes eighties alternative. This offers 30 ‘alternative’ eighties songs from a variety of artists including Scritti Politti, Pixies, Propaganda, Bauhaus and John Foxx.
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SDE takes a look at the recent (and forthcoming) Saxon vinyl which is all pressed on spectacular looking ‘splatter’ coloured vinyl…
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James will release a new album, Living In Extraordinary Times, in August.
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The excitement at the release of this Prince rarity is rather soured by the unabashed commercialism demonstrated the Estate. The picture disc version of Nothing Compares 2 U can only be ordered from the official site in the US and you can’t even buy it on its own – just as part of a vinyl+T-shirt bundle! The black vinyl version is widely available, though. 
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Amazing price right now in the USA for the forthcoming 5LP vinyl version of the What’s That Sound? Buffalo Springfield Complete Albums Collection.
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SDE takes a look at the new Bruce Springsteen vinyl box set, The Album Collection Vol. 2 with this unboxing video.
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Audio Fidelity call it a day
Marshall Blonstein, President of US audiophile label Audio Fidelity has announced that the business will close.
In a message, he told fans that “after much deliberation and much back and forth, I have decided to wind down Audio Fidelity.”
Continue reading “Saturday Deluxe / 19 May 2018”
Bad news. After initially confirming coloured vinyl for The Rolling Stones No Security. San Jose ’99 ‘From The Vault’ release, Eagle Rock have now told SDE that the coloured vinyl will only be available in America.
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