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The New Mastersounds - Old School (2024)

Posted By: Rtax
The New Mastersounds - Old School (2024)

The New Mastersounds - Old School (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 247 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 101 MB
42:08 | Funk, Jazz, Fusion | Label: One Note Records

The album comprises ten original instrumental tunes composed and performed at the keyboard player's studio in the heart of the English Peak District during a rainy week in July 2023. The tracks showcase the earthy essence of the band via its signature vocabulary of uncomplicated funk, soul-jazz, classic R&B and reggae-infused grooves. Eddie Roberts - guitar & tambourine Simon Allen - drums Pete Shand - bass guitar Joe Tatton - organ and piano.

ZZ Top - The Best Of ZZ Top (1977) {1986, Japan 1st Press}

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ZZ Top - The Best Of ZZ Top (1977) {1986, Japan 1st Press}

ZZ Top - The Best Of ZZ Top (1977) {1986, Japan 1st Press}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 202 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 86 Mb
Scans Included | 00:34:32 | RAR 5% Recovery
Blues Rock, Boogie Rock, Southern Rock | Warner-Pioneer Co. #32XD-537

ZZ Top closed out their tenure with London Records in late 1977 with The Best of ZZ Top, a basic but terrific ten-song retrospective of highlights from their first five albums (well, four, actually, since the underwhelming Tejas is ignored). There are no surprises here, just album rock favorites, which means it does draw heavily on Tres Hombres (four songs, total), adds Fandango's "Tush," "Blue Jean Blues," and "Heard It on the X" for good measure, then rounds it out with two songs from Rio Grande Mud and a selection from the debut. Yeah, there are a couple good album tracks missing, but as a ten-song summary of their early years, this can't be beat.

Emilie Simon - Polaris (2024)

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Emilie Simon - Polaris (2024)

Emilie Simon - Polaris (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 310 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 124 MB
43:22 | Pop | Label: Play Two

"Nothing and no one can extinguish this flame within you," sings Emilie Simon from the opening title of Polaris, her first true album in ten years. An apparent long eclipse that the French singer, musician, and producer has nevertheless used to explore new territories, open uncharted paths, and reinvent her musical vocabulary and narrative threads. Like Ariane in a dreamlike world, she stretches these threads along her journey, inviting us to blindly follow.

Deep Purple - Machine Head (Super Deluxe Edition) (1972/2024)

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Deep Purple - Machine Head (Super Deluxe Edition) (1972/2024)

Deep Purple - Machine Head (Super Deluxe Edition) (1972/2024)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 1,3 GB | Cover | 03:58:10
Rock | Label: Reprise/FSE

Nach Abschluss der Aufnahmen Ende 1971 veröffentlichte Deep Purple Machine Head am 25. März 1972. Die sechste LP der Band schoss sofort auf Platz 1 in Großbritannien und blieb wochenlang in den Charts, auch dank der Singles »Never Before«, »Lazy« und »Highway Star«.

Styx - The Best Of Styx (1973-1974) (1999) {Japan}

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Styx - The Best Of Styx (1973-1974) (1999) {Japan}

Styx - The Best Of Styx (1973-1974) (1999) {Japan}
EAC Rip | WavPack (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 554 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 186 Mb
Covers Included | 01:15:07 | RAR 5% Recovery
Art Rock, Progressive Rock | BMG / RCA #BVCM-31021

Styx is an American rock band from Chicago that formed in 1972 and became famous for its albums released in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They are best known for melding hard rock guitar balanced with acoustic guitar, synthesizers mixed with acoustic piano, upbeat tracks with power ballads, and incorporating elements of international musical theatre. The band established itself with a progressive rock sound in the 1970s, and began to incorporate pop rock and soft rock elements in the 1980s. Styx is best known for the hit songs "Lady", "Come Sail Away", "Babe", "The Best of Times", "Too Much Time on My Hands", "Renegade" and "Mr. Roboto". Other major hits include "Show Me the Way" and "Don't Let It End". Styx has had 4 consecutive albums certified multi-platinum as well as 16 top 40 singles in the US, 8 of which hit the top 10.

De-Phazz - Pit Sounds (2024)

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De-Phazz - Pit Sounds (2024)

De-Phazz - Pit Sounds (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 261 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 103 MB
42:57 | Electronic | Label: Phazz-a-delic New Format Recordings

The importance of De-Phazz in electronic entertainment music since the turn of the millennium is undoubted. Anyone who has held a cocktail in a lounge in Berlin, Miami or Ibiza since 1997 knows the band from Heidelberg. Pit Baumgartner, creative head of De-Phazz, presents his magnum opus "Pit Sounds", which combines different sounds in an unconventional way. Baumgartner describes his working method as creatively mining a huge collection of sounds to find acoustic precious metal and bring it into a new context. Even though it is of course an expression of pure self-irony, the album certainly stands up to the tongue-in-cheek comparison with the Beach Boys classic "Pet Sounds". Cozy 60s choirs meet classy jazz guitar licks, syrupy retro strings à la Bert Kaempfert, singing cowboys, Latin American standard dances, multilingual language snippets and even football horns.

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - The Roaring Silence (1976) {2021, Japanese Reissue, Remastered}

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band - The Roaring Silence (1976) {2021, Japanese Reissue, Remastered}

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - The Roaring Silence (1976) {2021, Japanese Reissue, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 313 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 119 Mb
Covers Included | 00:47:03 | RAR 5% Recovery
Progressive Rock, Art Rock | Belle Antique #BELLE 213574

The Roaring Silence is an album released in 1976 by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Like other Earth Band albums, this includes material by other composers. "Blinded by the Light", which reached number one the Billboard Hot 100, is a cover version of a song by Bruce Springsteen; "Questions" is based on the main theme of Franz Schubert's Impromptu in G flat Major; "Starbird" takes its theme from Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird. This album also marked the arrival of vocalist/guitarist Chris Hamlet Thompson.

Deep Purple - Machine Head (Super Deluxe Edition) (1972/2024)

Posted By: Rtax
Deep Purple - Machine Head (Super Deluxe Edition) (1972/2024)

Deep Purple - Machine Head (Super Deluxe Edition) (1972/2024)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 577 MB
3:58:08 | Hard Rock | Label: Reprise/FSE

A 3-CD / 1 LP / 1 Blu-ray super deluxe edition of one of defining rock albums of the 20th century, Deep Purple's Machine Head. The original album, remastered, is a comprehensive version introducing new mixes and previously unreleased live recordings, including a new mix of the original album on smokey purple vinyl. The 3-CDs feature new stereo by Dweezil Zappa, the 1974 quadraphonic mix, and a newly remastered version of the original album. The Super Deluxe Edition also contains two captivating live performances. The first, recorded on March 9, 1972, at the Paris Theatre in London, captures the group’s unrivaled stage presence during the “Machine Head Tour.” The second, previously unreleased, was recorded in April 1971 at the Montreux Casino in Switzerland. The band planned to record Machine Head there that December, but the venue burned down right before the sessions began, an event immortalized in “Smoke On The Water.” This extraordinary set includes new liner notes by Rolling Stone's Kory Grow, enhanced by contributions from generations of bands influenced by Deep Purple.

Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Concerto Koln, Peter Dijkstra - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (2016) 3CDs

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Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Concerto Koln, Peter Dijkstra - Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion (2016) 3CDs

Johann Sebastian Bach - Johannes-Passion (2016) 3CDs
Julian Prégardien (Evangelist), Tareq Nazmi (Jesus), Christina Landshamer (soprano)
Ulrike Malotta (alto), Tilman Lichdi (tenor), Krešimir Stražanac (bass)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Concerto Köln, conducted by Peter Dijkstra

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 787 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 409 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Choral | Label: BR Klassik | # 900909 | Time: 02:57:16

The music of Bach's 'St. John Passion', which the composer wrote for Holy Week in 1724 immediately after his appointment as cantor of St Thomas's Church in Leipzig, still retains all its freshness and vitality nearly 300 years later, and is a true Baroque delight. The two main choruses Herr, unser Herrscher and Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine form the beginning and culmination of a large-scale orchestral and vocal structure in which Bach reveals his absolute mastery of polyphony. Inwardly reflective chorales are as much interwoven into the events of the Passion as the haunting arias which comment on the biblical texts of the Gospel of St John. Throughout this solemn Passion oratorio, there is a constant emphasis on Baroque musical magnificence. What makes this live recording of the concert version of March 7, 2015 in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz so special? The fresh voices of the young and excellent vocal soloists, the regularly praised "astonishing three-dimensionality" and "crystalline clarity" of the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks under the direction of Peter Dijkstra and, of course, the renowned period instrument ensemble Concerto Köln.

Covered, A Revolution In Sound - Warner Bros. Records (2009)

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Covered, A Revolution In Sound - Warner Bros. Records (2009)

Covered, A Revolution In Sound - Warner Bros. Records (2009)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Image) +CUE, LOG | 642 MB | Covers Included
Rock | Label: Warner Bros. Records | Catalog Number: 0093624983460

Covered, A Revolution in Sound is a tribute album produced and released by Warner Bros. Records to commemorate its 50th anniversary as a record label. The album consists of some of the greatest hits from previous and current artists from the late 20th century, while the songs featured on the album themselves are performed by current artists that are signed to Warner Bros. Records. Warner's sister label Elektra Records had done something similar to this nearly 20 years before with an album titled Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary, which featured then-current Elektra artists covering other songs originally released on Elektra or sister label Asylum Records.

Michael Alexander Willens, Kölner Akademie - Georg Philipp Telemann: Easter Cantatas (2021)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Michael Alexander Willens, Kölner Akademie - Georg Philipp Telemann: Easter Cantatas (2021)

Michael Alexander Willens, Kölner Akademie - Georg Philipp Telemann: Easter Cantatas (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 341 Mb | Total time: 71:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 555 425-2 | Recorded: 2020

Our CD presents a selection of five works from the extensive, largely unexplored Easter Cantata oeuvre created by Georg Philipp Telemann during the course of his sixty years in Eisenach (1708-12), Frankfurt am Main (1712-21), and Hamburg (1721-67). Four of the works recorded here date from the 1720s and take us back to the years in Telemann’s creative life as a composer when he was the new music director of Hamburg’s five principal churches and was reorganizing the city’s church music and modernizing it in musical respects.

Sándor Végh, Wiener Philharmoniker - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39 & 40 (2014)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Sándor Végh, Wiener Philharmoniker - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39 & 40 (2014)

Sándor Végh, Wiener Philharmoniker - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39 & 40 (2014)
XLD | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 61:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: belvedere | # BVE10147 | Recorded: 1992

Very late in his career Sándor Végh came together with the world class orchestra renowned for its supremely Viennese interpretations of Mozart: the Vienna Philharmonic. It was not until 1991 that Végh and the orchestra worked together briefly, in the Konzerthaus in Vienna, and this led to a memorable concert during the Mozart Week, on 30 January 1992 in the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg. Two of the “late” Mozart symphonies were played, the Symphony in G minor, K. 550 and the Symphony in E flat major, K. 543. The recording of this legendary interpretation can be heard on the third CD in the edition.

Alessandra Visentin, Luca Oberti, Ensemble Pietro Antonio Locatelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Motets & Stabat

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Alessandra Visentin, Luca Oberti, Ensemble Pietro Antonio Locatelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Motets & Stabat

Alessandra Visentin, Luca Oberti, Ensemble Pietro Antonio Locatelli - Antonio Vivaldi: Per la Sig.ra Geltruda - Motets & Stabat Mater (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 291 Mb | Total time: 63:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pan Classics | # PC 10414 | Recorded: 2019

The autograph reference “Per la Sig.ra Geltruda” on the manuscript of Vivaldi’s motet “Clarae stellae, scintillate” has long aroused the curiosity of researchers. By years of research around the Vivaldi expert Michael Talbot is now revealed who this “Signora Geltruda” is: Geltruda della Violetta was a girl from the Venetian orphanage La Piet , where Vivaldi worked for over a decade. Geltruda probably had an exceptionally beautiful voice that quickly attracted the interest of important personalities.

Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra - Skyliner: 1940-1945 (1996) featuring Lena Horne, Kay Starr & Peanuts Holland

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Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra - Skyliner: 1940-1945 (1996) featuring Lena Horne, Kay Starr & Peanuts Holland

Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra - Skyliner: 1940-1945 (1996)
featuring Lena Horne, Kay Starr & Peanuts Holland

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 343 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 170 Mb | Scans included
Big Band, Swing | Label: Giants Of Jazz, Promo Sound | # CD 53280 | Time: 01:08:32

Skyliner was one of Charlie Barnet's most exciting hit records, and quickly became as closely identified with his big band as was Ray Noble's Cherokee. This 1996 EPM Musique Jazz Anthology compilation is one of at least six Barnet albums with the word "Skyliner" in the title. Tracks one through twelve were recorded for the Bluebird label between June 19, 1940 and April 30, 1942. Tracks thirteen through twenty follow Barnet's progress through the turbulent wartime years with a trail of Decca sides cut between July 1942 and February 1944. "Skyliner" comes from a V-Disc recorded on July 13, 1944; "E-Bob-O-Lee-Bob," like "Oh Miss Jaxon" a vocal feature for trumpeter Peanuts Holland, was harvested from a Jubilee broadcast on December 6, 1945. Some of this band's arrangements were written by Horace Henderson, Billy May and by the leader himself. Most Charlie Barnet albums are well worth investigating. This one lives somewhere near the top of the heap.

Julieta Venegas - Otra Cosa (2010)

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Julieta Venegas - Otra Cosa (2010)

Julieta Venegas - Otra Cosa (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 266 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 106 Mb | Scans included
Label: Sony Music | # 88697659002 | Time: 00:38:33
Latin Pop/Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Ranchera

Otra Cosa, the eagerly awaited fifth studio album by Julieta Venegas, is remarkably similar to her previous two, Sí (2003) and Limón y Sal (2006). The similarity is remarkable because both those albums were all-around excellent, loaded with Latin pop hits and first-rate album tracks. There wasn't a bad track on either album, and Otra Cosa is likewise rock-solid, starting off with three fantastic songs in a row, "Amores Platónicos," "Bien o Mal," and "Despedida." Moreover, all three albums are similar in style, produced by Cachorro López and comprised of upbeat pop songs with clever lyrics, rich melodies, and a range of instrumentation (guitar, piano, accordion, and beats, above all). Otra Cosa was eagerly awaited in part because of the four years since Limón y Sal. During that time, Venegas became one of the most popular and critically acclaimed Latin pop artists in the world.