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Rhino will issue a five CD Bee Gees collection in April.
The Warner Bros. Years 1987-1991 includes all three studio albums recorded during this period (E.S.P., One and High Civilization) as well as bonus tracks including demos, remixes, and edits.
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Having been roundly criticised by fans for being too expensive and missing key content, Sony have taken some action and dropped the price of the Cyndi Lauper She’s So Unusual deluxe edition.
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26/2/14 Update: These sets are now shipping to North America and most countries around the world!
Demon Music have announced two Suede singles box sets that compile virtually every seven inch and B-side the band have put out.
A 24-CD Singles Box will round up all tracks that were dotted around all the various formats of the day (CD 1, 2, 3 – DVD singles – cassette single B-sides etc.). It’s not *quite* everything. If you’re looking for “Rollo’s Vocal Mix” of Everything Will Flow, you’ll be disappointed and some live tracks have gone AWOL (three live numbers from New Generation CD 2 are missing). Continue reading “Suede / CD Singles box and Seven-inch vinyl box set”
Ocean Colour Scene‘s 1997 album Marchin’ Already is reissued this week as a two-CD deluxe edition and this four disc box set.
Surprisingly, Universal have opted for a square box (slightly bigger than seven-inches) rather than the usual rectangular ‘shoe box’ (see: Tears For Fears, Level 42). Continue reading “FIRST PICTURES: Ocean Colour Scene deluxe box set”
Out this week is a new Small Faces greatest hits, which is available in this gorgeous limited edition blue vinyl. All the classic A and B-sides have been newly mastered from the original mono master tapes.
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J.J. Jeczalik is a founder member of the Art of Noise and played an important role in many early Trevor Horn and ZTT projects as the creative programmer of the Fairlight CMI, the digital sampling synthesiser that transformed the way much music was made in the early 1980s.
As part of our celebration of the 30th Anniversary of ZTT Records, we recently caught up with JJ and spoke at length about his time at ZTT and the Art of Noise. I started by reminding him that we’d met before a few months earlier…
SDE: You might remember me from that evening at the Southbank [19:Eighties] I accosted you with an Into Battle cassette single in hand…
J.J. Jeczalik: And it wasn’t so much the cassette – it was just in such beautiful condition.
SDE: That was a very good evening, actually.
JJ: I thought it was brilliant. I loved it. Actually brought a tear to my eye and there was one of the tunes in the bit that Anne had arranged for I wrote and then she turned it into the most beautiful chords and it was – it just – it got me.
Continue reading “#ZTT30: J.J. Jeczalik on Fairlights, the Art of Noise and life at ZTT”
George Michael has confirmed that Let Her Down Easy from his forthcoming Symphonica album was edited to remove the sounds of the audience to satisfy the demands of radio.
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We have a fantastic Blue Öyster Cult box set to give away to one lucky SuperDeluxeEdition reader.
The Columbia Albums collection is a 17 CD set released this time last year and it includes 11 studio albums, three live releases, a concert DVD and two CDs of rare and previously unreleased performances.
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Embrace return from a seven year hiatus in April with a new self-titled album available in a variety of formats including a lavish super deluxe edition box set which boasts a broad array of content, much of which is personally signed by the band.
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Belinda Carlisle being kept busy today at Demon Music HQ as she personally signs 500 Certificates of Authentication exclusively for fans who order the forthcoming five-disc Anthology through her web store. It’s not too late, apparently, to get a copy with the signed certificate, you just select ‘Ultimate Fan Bundle’ from her shop.
The 1993 debut from The Auteurs is expanded with 21 bonus tracks including the demos that got Luke Haines’ band signed in the first place. 
Having issued the vinyl box last year, Demon Records are putting out all Suede‘s albums on vinyl individually, including this 3LP Sci-Fi Lullabies set.
Ocean Colour Scene‘s 1997 Marchin’ Already album is issued as a four-disc deluxe box set and their debut is also out today as a two-CD deluxe.
If the spectacular Here Come The Nice box was more Small Faces than you really wanted, then this one disc greatest hits might do the job. It uses the same excellent mastering as the box and all the singles are in glorious, original mono. There is a blue vinyl version available too, if you’re quick.
So8os Presents ZTT (Mixed & Reconstructed By Blank & Jones) will be released at the end of April 2014. More details on this project can be found here.
Edsel’s five-disc T Rex Tanx and Zinc Alloy deluxe book which comes with four CDs of Tony Visconti remastered audio and a DVD of videos and TV appearances had just tumbled significantly in price on Amazon in the UK.
At the time of writing the set is available for just under £44, having previously been priced at £68. Full track listing and other details can be found here.
Omnivore Recordings will issue Bob Mould‘s 1989 debut album Workbook as an expanded CD and LP set later this month.
The CD edition of Workbook 25 will feature a complete 1989 live performance at Chicago’s Cabaret Metro, with 13 of those 17 tracks previously unreleased. The B-side All Those People Know is appended to the album on disc one.
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On this February Friday, Rob Puricelli remembers the classic era of Zang Tuum Tumb – the excitement, the intrigue, the posters, the T-shirts and the records. Move with him inside the strange world of ZTT Records…
Some would have you believe that the 1980s were a decade of decadence and poverty, two social polar opposites created by Thatcher and her cronies. Some would have you believe that it was the decade that style forgot and also the one that gave birth to groundbreaking design. If anything, these statements go to prove that this decade was all about change, diversity and a nation, nay a global society, emerging from gloom, oppression and a desperate lack of creativity.
In 1984, when Frankie Goes To Hollywood finally topped the UK charts (it had taken three months from the day of release) with their debut single, Relax, I was 13 going on 14. I was impressionable. I was confused and in need of a fashion to follow or, at the very least, the inspiration to set a fashion of my own. Continue reading “#ZTT30 / One February Friday”
ABBA‘s 1992 greatest hits album ABBA Gold will be reissued in April this year as part of the band’s 40th anniversary celebrations.
There have been various versions of this evergreen compilation over the years, including a 2CD edition and a CD+DVD offering. This new edition will actually be a three-CD set, presented in a digi-pack, and will feature the standard 19-track compilation on disc one, the More ABBA Gold set on disc two, and a third CD made up of B-sides (see full track listing below).
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Gary Langan has enjoyed a successful 40-year career in the music industry as a recording engineer, producer, a mixer (and remixer) and is perhaps most celebrated as a founding member of the Art of Noise during the time when he was part of Trevor Horn’s studio team in the early 1980s. This period coincided with the formation of ZTT Records, indeed the Art of Noise were the label’s first official signing.
As part of our celebration of the 30th Anniversary of ZTT Records, we recently caught up with Gary and spoke at length about his career and in particular his time at ZTT and working with the Art of Noise.
SuperDeluxeEdition: Let’s talk about the old days. You first started working in the early days on some Queen records, didn’t you?
Gary Langan: Yes.
SDE: Did you always want to get into music? Were you always interested in working in recording studios?
GL: Yes, I did, from the age of 14, [I] always wanted to work in a recording studio. My father was a musician and used to do a lot of sessions for the BBC and I used to tag along with him in the summer holidays, so from an early age I was introduced to recording studios. He was a dance band musician, he wasn’t a rock musician. I sat on the piano stool from the age of seven and really hated it but still enjoyed music, so I saw this thing that I could be involved in music, but I didn’t necessarily have to be the guy playing it.
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After much anticipation, Demon Music yesterday revealed the track listing for their five-disc Belinda Carlisle Anthology deluxe set.
One of the main talking points amongst fans, was whether In Your Wildest Dreams – a track was used on the 1987 film Mannequin – would be included as part of this release. Unfortunately, no master tape for this song could be located, despite the best efforts of Demon. The fact that the track has never had a commercial release makes the hunt for a master even trickier. Should anyone out there know where a master tape of In Your Wildest Dreams might be (without film sound effects over the top) then do get in touch!
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The original founding members of influential avant-garde synthpop outfit the Art Of Noise are hoping to get back together and tour again, possibly in 2015.
Interviewed (separately) for this blog, Fairlight Programmer J.J. Jeczalik and Engineer/Producer Gary Langan both confirmed that there were ongoing “conversations” about hitting the road.
Langan told us: “What I’d really like, my wish for the future, is that somehow the Art of Noise gets back together again and we go on tour, and we do it properly. There are conversations, everybody’s aware of it.”
Continue reading “#ZTT30: Art of Noise in talks about reforming for possible live dates”
Scottish pop duo Hue and Cry are reissuing one of their most successful albums as a special deluxe book set.
Their second album, 1988’s Remote, becomes Remote: Major To Minor – a 3CD+DVD set packaged within a 48-page hardback book.
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