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Ten Deluxe Editions for a fiver

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Please note all prices are correct at the time of writing and are based on the Amazon UK price. If you are ordering outside the EU these prices will actually be cheaper! Have fun.

Deep Purple / Made in Japan 2CD – £2.99


Last year’s excellent reissue of Deep Purple‘s Made in Japan – often cited as one of the best live albums of all time – contains the 2013 remix of the original album on disc one, with all the encores on CD 2.

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Kim Wilde / Close 2CD – £2.99


Excellent 2013 reissue for Kim Wilde‘s most successful album comes with a massive 21 bonus tracks including seven-inch mixes, extended versions and B-sides. Another unbelievable deal at just £2.99

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Review / Love & Hate: A Compact Introduction to Act

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I have a confession to make. I didn’t buy Act’s one and only album Laughter, Tears and Rage at the time (1988). A strange thing to do (or not to do), since I was a big fan of anything ZTT and I did pick up their first single, Snobbery & Decay, in ’cabaret-cassette’ guise. Thinking back, that was probably more to do with keeping my ZTT cassette single collection up-to-date that any massive desire to investigate the new ‘group’ formed by Propaganda’s Claudia Brücken and Scottish musician/songwriter Thomas Leer. As it happens, three out of the four tracks on that tape make an appearance on Love & Hate – A Compact Introduction to Act, a new two-CD set from Salvo/Union Square and ZTT.
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Out This Week / 15 June 2015

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Air / The Virgin Suicides (box set / reissue)

Air‘s fine soundtrack to Sofia Coppola’s 1999 film is reissued as a double CD deluxe edition and a lavish box, which features CDs, coloured vinyl and a picture disc. Read more

David Bowie / Hours (vinyl release)

Bowie‘s 1999 album Hours was probably his weakest of that decade but it still has its moments and he did manage to squeeze three UK top 40 hit singles from it. Remarkably, never issued on vinyl – until now. Read more
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Saturday Deluxe / 13 June 2015

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Hi folks. It’s the weekend, so time to take your foot off the gas and kick back with ‘Saturday Deluxe’ – the informal feature to round off the week where SDE reflects on the week past and the week yet to come. Or ‘next week’ as we like say in the 21st century.

The Joys of Vinyl Ripping

One of the delights of deluxe reissues is getting all those ‘new-to-CD’ tracks that somehow have escaped being released on the format for decades. These are often obscure remixes from the 1980s (dub mixes, promo-only reworkings) or perhaps a forgotten B-side. If there has never been a deluxe reissue (Sade‘s Diamond Life comes to mind) then to enjoy all those non-album tracks within iTunes or burnt to a CD, you have to do a ‘vinyl rip’ of the songs in question, which means finding away of transferring the vinyl to digital.
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First Pictures / The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers deluxe reissues

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Welcome to this SDE guide to the various formats on which Universal/Polydor have this week released The Rolling Stones‘ 1971 album Sticky Fingers. This feature isn’t about an examination of the bonus audio or an appraisal of the mastering, rather a look at the packaging and what you get beyond the audio/video. You can click on any photo for an enlarged hi-res look. Hope you enjoy!
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