Beatles

Med undantag av den medvetna retroprojektet Let It Be i slutet av The Beatles karriär är For Sale det enda album i katalogen där bandet inte tog två steg spikrakt framåt, utan istället snarast rörde sig bakåt eller i sidled. Efter att på förra albumet enbart presenterat egna Lennon/McCartney-kompositioner botaniserade man nu i repertoaren från klubbåren i Hamburg - drivna av hetsen att hinna ut med en ny LP till julhandeln. Derek Taylors omslagstext innehåller flera pärlor, bl.a raderna: "When, in a generation or so, a radio-active, cigarr-smoking child, picnicking on Saturn, asks you what the Beatles affair was all about - ?Did you actually know them?" - don't try to explain all about the long hair and the screams! Just play the child a few tracks from this album and he'll probably understand what it was all about. The kids of AD 2000 will draw from the music much the same sense of well being and warmth as we do today". <br/>- Claes Olson<br/><br/>Alla Beatles studioalbum har för första gången har remastrats digitalt. Varje album behåller sin ursprungliga design, och har kompletterats med unika bilder och utökade CD-häften med nyskrivna kommentarer. Under en begränsad period kommer varje CD också att innehålla en kort dokumentärfilm om respektive album. <br/><br/>Albumen har remastrats under en fyraårsperiod av ett hängivet team på EMI's Abbey Road Studios i London. Med hjälp av den allra modernaste tekniken, kompletterad med den ursprungliga studioutrustningen från sextiotalet, har teamet varit noggranna med att behålla äktheten och integriteten i de ursprungliga analoga inspelningarna. Resultatet av denna omsorgsfulla process är den bästa ljudåtergivningen av albumen sedan de releasades för första gången.<br/><br/>Releaserna inkluderar alla 12 Beatlesalbumen i stereo, med låtordning och utseende som de ursprungligen releasades i England och i Sverige, samt 'Magical Mystery Tour', som har varit en del av The Beatles albumkatalog allt sedan CD-skivorna först releasades 1987. Dessutom är nu 'Past Masters Vol I och II' sammanslagna till en dubbel-CD, vilket gör att det totalt är 14 album som releasas, varav två är dubbel-CD. Detta är första gången som de första fyra Beatlesalbumen releasas i stereo i sin helhet på CD. Dessa 14 album, tillsammans med en DVD som innehåller de korta dokumentärerna om varje album, finns också tillsammans i en stereobox.<br/><br/>I varje CD-häfte ingår detaljerade inspelningsdetaljer och en historisk tillbakablick på respektive album. Med undantag av 'Past Masters', så innehåller varje album QuickTime-filer med nyproducerade minidokumentärer om respektive inspelning, regisserade av Bob Smeaton. Dokumentärerna innehåller arkivfilmer, unika bilder och aldrig tidigare publicerat småprat i studion mellan tagningarna, vilket ger en unik och mycket personlig insyn i studioatmosfären.<br/><br/><center><object width="500" height="305"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iP0t6u2FZyw&hl=sv&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iP0t6u2FZyw&hl=sv&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="305"></embed></object></center><br/><center><object width="500" height="305"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/osj6ew4vKNE&hl=sv_SE&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/osj6ew4vKNE&hl=sv_SE&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="305"></embed></object></center>

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The 'Let It Be' album has been newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell in stereo, 5.1 surround DTS, and Dolby Atmos. All the new 'Let It Be' releases feature the new stereo mix of the album as guided by the original "reproduced for disc" version by Phil Spector and sourced directly from the original session and rooftop performance eight-track tapes. The Super Deluxe collections also feature 27 previously unreleased session recordings, a four-track 'Let It Be' EP, and the never before released 14-track 'Get Back' stereo LP mix compiled by engineer Glyn Johns in May 1969. Additionally, the Super Deluxe editions feature a 100 page hard-back book with an introduction by Paul McCartney, extensive notes and track-by-track recording information and many previously unseen photos, personal notes, tape box images and more.<br/><br/>CD1: Let It Be (New Stereo Mix Of Original Album)<br/>CD2: Get Back - Apple Sessions<br/>CD3: Get Back - Rehearsals And Apple Jams<br/>CD4: Get Back LP - 1969 Glyn Johns Mix<br/>CD5: Let It Be EP<br/><br/>BLU-RAY: Dolby Atmos, 96kHz/24-Bit DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, 96kHz/24-Bit High Res Stereo (2019 Stereo Mix)<br/><br/>105-Page Hardbound Book In Slipcase<br/><br/>Limited Edition

5CD (stereo & mono audio) with 100-page hardbound book in a 12.56" x 12.36" slipcase.<br/><br/>DISC 1: Revolver (New stereo mix): 14 tracks.<br/>DISCS 2 & 3: Sessions (stereo & mono): 31 tracks.<br/>DISC 4: Revolver (Original mono master): 14 tracks.<br/>DISC 5: Revolver EP: 4 tracks - "Paperback Writer" & "Rain" (New stereo mixes & Original mono mixes remastered).<br/><br/>The Revolver album's 14 tracks have been newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell in stereo and Dolby Atmos, and the album's original mono mix is sourced from its 1966 mono master tape. Revolver's sweeping new Special Edition follows the universally acclaimed remixed and expanded Special Editions of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (2017), The BEATLES ('White Album') (2018), Abbey Road (2019), and Let It Be (2021). <br/> <br/>All the new Revolver releases feature the album's new stereo mix, sourced directly from the original four-track master tapes. The audio is brought forth in stunning clarity with the help of cutting edge de-mixing technology developed by the award-winning sound team led by Emile de la Rey at Peter Jackson's WingNut Films Productions Ltd.<br/><br/>The Super deluxe collection also feature the album's original mono mix, 28 early takes from the sessions and three home demos, and a four-track EP with new stereo mixes and remastered original mono mixes for "Paperback Writer" and "Rain".

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REMASTERING THE BEATLES' ORIGINAL STUDIO ALBUMS FOR VINYL.<br/>180 gram. <br/><br/>There has always been demand for The Beatles' albums on vinyl. Indeed, 2011's best-selling vinyl LP in the United States was Abbey Road. Following the success of The Beatles' acclaimed, GRAMMY Award-winning 2009 CD remasters, it was decided that the sound experts at EMI's Abbey Road Studios should create new versions of The Beatles' vinyl LPs. The project demanded the same meticulous approach taken for the CD releases, and the brief was a simple one: cut the digital remasters to vinyl with an absolute minimum of compromise to the sound. However, the process involved to do that was far from simple.<br/><br/>The first stage in transferring the sound of a master recording to vinyl is the creation of a disc to be used during vinyl manufacture. There were two options to consider. A Direct Metal Master (DMM), developed in the late seventies, allows sound to be cut directly into a stainless steel disc coated with a hard copper alloy. The older, alternative method is to cut the sound into the soft lacquer coating on a nickel disc - the first of several steps leading to the production of a stamper to press the vinyl. <br/><br/>A 'blind' listening test was arranged to choose between a 'lacquer' or 'copper' cut. Using both methods, A Hard Day's Night was pressed with ten seconds of silence at the beginning and end of each side. This allowed not only the reproduction of the music to be assessed, but also the noise made by the vinyl itself. After much discussion, two factors swung the decision towards using the lacquer process. First, it was judged to create a warmer sound than a DMM. Secondly, there was a practical advantage of having 'blank' discs of a consistent quality when cutting lacquers. <br/><br/>The next step was to use the Neumann VMS80 cutting lathe at Abbey Road. Following thorough mechanical and electrical tests to ensure it was operating in peak condition, engineer Sean Magee cut the LPs in chronological release order. He used the original 24-bit remasters rather than the 16-bit versions that were required for CD production. It was also decided to use the remasters that had not undergone 'limiting' - a procedure to increase the sound level, which is deemed necessary for most current pop CDs. <br/><br/>Having made initial test cuts, Magee pinpointed any sound problems that can occur during playback of vinyl records. To rectify them, changes were made to the remasters with a Digital Audio Workstation. For example, each vinyl album was listened to for any 'sibilant episodes' - vocal distortion that can occur on consonant sounds such as S and T. These were corrected by reducing the level in the very small portion of sound causing the undesired effect. Similarly, any likelihood of 'inner-groove distortion' was addressed. As the stylus approaches the centre of the record, it is liable to track the groove less accurately. This can affect the high-middle frequencies, producing a 'mushy' sound particularly noticeable on vocals. Using what Magee has described as 'surgical EQ,' problem frequencies were identified and reduced in level to compensate for this.<br/><br/>The last phase of the vinyl mastering process began with the arrival of the first batches of test pressings made from master lacquers that had been sent to the two pressing plant factories. Stringent quality tests identified any noise or click appearing on more than one test pressing in the same place. If this happened, it was clear that the undesired sounds had been introduced either during the cutting or the pressing stage and so the test records were rejected. In the quest to achieve the highest quality possible, the Abbey Road team worked closely with the pressing factories and the manufacturers of the lacquer and cutting styli.<br/><br/>An additional and unusual challenge was to ensure the proper playback of the sounds embedded in the 'lock-groove' at the end of side two of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Requiring a combination of good timing and luck, it had always been a lengthy and costly process to make it work properly. In fact, it was so tricky, it had never been attempted for American pressings of the LP. Naturally, Sean Magee and the team perfected this and the garbled message is heard as originally intended on the remastered Sgt. Pepper LP. <br/><br/>Highly-skilled technicians have worked long and hard to make The Beatles on vinyl sound better than ever. All we need to do is listen to the results of their dedicated labour on the remastered LPs. Handle with care. But most of all, enjoy the music.

Beatles: From us to you #2 March 1964 EP [Vinyl 7"]