Tangerine Dream / Japan reissues
The Japanese Tangerine Dream SHM-SACD/CDs are released this week and SDE brings you an exclusive photo gallery of these exquisite packages.
It is the band’s first four albums for Virgin Records that are being reissued, namely, Phaedra (1974), Rubycon (1975), Ricochet (1975) and Stratosfear (1976).
Each album is available in three formats, all of which use brand new 2015 mastering from the original UK analog master tape. All also boast splendid Japan vinyl replica packaging. Your options are:
- • SHM-SACD: Hi-res better-than-CD sound. Single layer non-hybrid discs that won’t play on ‘normal’ CD players, just SACD players.
- • Platinum SHM-CD: Compatible with all CD players. Uses platinum in place of the aluminium to form the reflective coating on the disc for supposed improvement in performance.
- • SHM-CD: As above but no platinum coating. Compatible with all CD players.
Since Universal Music Japan appear to have abandoned the outer boxes (see this image) which used to be exclusive to SACD and Platinum CD, the latter have now arguably lost any appeal since they were really only worth buying for the enhanced packaging. The SACDs are obviously still desirable for the high resolution sound.
These are all officially released tomorrow, 25 February 2015.
Images courtesy of Universal Music Japan.
Phaedra
SHM-SACD
Platinum SHM-CD
SHM-CD
Rubycon
SHM-SACD
Platinum SHM-CD
SHM-CD
Ricochet
SHM-SACD
Platinum SHM-CD
SHM-CD
Stratosfear
SHM-SACD
Platinum SHM-CD
SHM-CD
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