Out This Week / on 7 October 2022

Reissues and releases

Japan / Exorcising Ghosts

Classic compilation reissued on half-speed mastered vinyl

David Sylvian / vinyl reissues

‘Blemish’ and ‘Manafon’

Chaka Khan / Japanese Singles Collection: Greatest Hits

CD+DVD Japan-only package

More ABBA Voyage formats emerge

CD singles and three-disc Japan SHM-CD

Japan / Quiet Life unboxed

SDE lifts the lid on the new four-disc deluxe set

Out This Week / on 5 March 2021

Steve Jansen and Robert Dean on Japan’s Quiet Life

Japan legends talk to SDE about the album and reissue

Japan / Quiet Life box set

1979 album remastered and expanded for new deluxe box set

What are the bonus tracks like on the Japanese CD edition of McCartney III?

Four bonus tracks for Japan

Beck / Hyperspace Japanese deluxe CD

18-track Japanese CD exclusively features the ‘Paisley Park Sessions’

Prince / His Majesty’s Pop Life: The Purple Mix Club to be issued on CD

First time on CD • Japan-only • ‘Paper Sleeve’ vinyl replica packaging The 1985…

Cyndi Lauper / Greatest Hits: Japanese Singles Collection / CD+DVD set

Japanese compilation offers singles on CD and DVD

Paul Young / Greatest Hits: Japanese Singles Collection / CD+DVD set

CD+DVD package • First time videos on DVD outside the recent box set Sony…

Out This Week / on 29 March 2019

Rain Tree Crow reissued on 180g vinyl

As predicted, when the David Sylvian vinyl reissues were announced, the 1991 Japan reunion album…

SDEtv: UK v Japanese CD packaging, featuring Trevor Horn’s new album

Is the demise of the CD a self-fulfilling prophecy? Record labels are sometimes guilty…

David Sylvian / deluxe vinyl reissues

Four albums from 1984 – 1987 issued on ‘deluxe’ vinyl

David Sylvian / Dead Bees On A Cake / expanded 2LP black vinyl edition

David Sylvian‘s 1999 solo album Dead Bees On A Cake was issued on (white)…

Japan half-speed mastered vinyl sets

The half-speed mastered vinyl editions of Japan‘s Gentlemen Take Polaroids and Tin Drum (that SDE…