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Act / Love & Hate: A Compact Introduction / new 2CD set

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ZTT Records‘ long running Element series continues with Love & Hate, a double CD introduction to Act, the late eighties’ musical collaboration between Thomas Leer and Claudia Brücken.
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Record Store Day Competition

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As promised last weekend, SDE is giving away some Record Store Day product from the 2015 releases. I’ve actually changed the originally plan which was to giveaway a different item every day, to simply offering up 10 different releases all at once (less work!)
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Out This Week / 20 April 2015

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Frank Sinatra / Ultimate Sinatra 4CD deluxe box

Frank Sinatra / Ultimate Sinatra: Centennial Collection

100 tracks for 100 years. This Centennial Frank Sinatra 4CD set is also available in slightly reduced form across two LPs and even a 25-track single disc offering. Read more

Catatonia / Deluxe 2CD reissues

Edsel’s Catatonia reissues are finally a reality. 2CD sets for Way Beyond Blue, International Velvet and Equally Cursed and Blessed. 2001’s Paper Scissors Stone brings up the rear as CD+DVD package.

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Deal alert / Pink Floyd: The Endless River CD+DVD deluxe set

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Crazy price for the Pink Floyd Endless River deluxe set on Amazon UK at the moment (11.45am Sunday 19th April). This is the CD+DVD set which gives you the album in stereo and 5.1 surround sound, plus 40 minutes of bonus material (six videos and three audio tracks). Comes packaged in smart 24-page hardcover book with postcards.
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Saturday Deluxe / 18 April 2015

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Record Store Day

Happy Record Store Day! I hope some of you have managed to get out and snag some vinyl from your ‘wants’ list. Twitter is full of great photos of passionate music fans up with the birds, standing in a queue. Controversially, for the first time in four or five years I haven’t got up early this time around but will be heading down to Flashback in Islington a bit later on, in the knowledge that I will have exactly zero chance of picking up an a-ha picture disc or any of the David Bowie items. Can’t complain though, because I’ve been lucky enough to get some items to preview as you may have noticed during this week.
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RSD15 Preview / Universal Music: Simple Minds, Small Faces & more

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Record Store Day is almost upon us, but just enough time to show you some of the items that Universal Music are issuing for one day only, including this Simple Minds Waterfront picture disc, a blue vinyl Who seven inch single, a Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols 12-inch picture disc, a Small Faces seven-inch box set, the vinyl debut of the soundtrack to Wes Anderson‘s The Darjeeling Limited, an EP of Dire Straits Charlie Gillet sessions from 1977 and a Johnny Cash white vinyl seven-inch.
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FIRST PICTURES / The Who: Brunswick Singles seven-inch box

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Released last week is The Brunswick Singles 1965-1966, the first in a series of four limited edition seven-inch vinyl box sets from The Who. Check out the SDE picture gallery below to see this set in all its glory.
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RSD15 Preview / Demon Music: Belinda Carlisle, Suede & Ian Dury

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More Record Store Day goodies on show today, as SDE checks out what Demon Music have in store for those queuing early on 18 April for some limited edition vinyl. The label have a great range of items to suit most tastes and budgets including (pictured below) Suede, Ian Dury, Belinda Carlisle and The Beat.
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