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The Bunch - Rock On
(1972, A&M) French pressing

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The Electric Flag - The Trip Motion Picture Soundtrack
(1967, Sidewalk) ST-5908

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H.P. Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft II
(1968, Phillips)

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Various - Freakout U.S.A
(1967, Sidewalk) MONO

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Pearls Before Swine - Balaklava
(1968, ESP-Disk)

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Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat The Songs Of Leonard Cohen
(1986, Cypress) Mastered by Bernie Grundman Mastering

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Uriah Heep - The Best Of Uriah Heep
(1974, Mercury) Canadian pressing, SNB in the deadwax; mastered at Sabin Brunet Mastering

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earlier...

Spooky Tooth - Witness
(1973, Island) STERLING LH in the deadwax; mastered by Lee Hulko at Sterling Sound




album advert from Island records:





now...

The Animals - Animalism
(1966, MGM) SE-4414




includes a cover of Fred Neil's The Other Side Of This Life.

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earlier...

Strawbs - Ghosts
(1975, A&M)





now...

Zager & Evans - 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)
(1968, RCA)

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Allan Holdsworth - Velvet Darkness
(1976, CTI)

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yesterday I ran across a copy of The Eurythmics "Touch" ....I have a copy, but this one looked somewhat different ...flipped it over ...yup, made in West Germany ...TELDEC ..DMM .
So Direct Metal Mastering is a new one to me ... but, thanx Wiki ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Metal_Mastering

Direct Metal Mastering is a vinyl record manufacturing technology by TELDEC. Records manufactured with this technology are often marked by a "DMM" logo on the outer record sleeve. The cutting lathe for DMM engraves the audio signal directly onto a copper-plated master disc, instead of engraving the groove into a lacquer-coated aluminum disc. Examination of early DMM discs revealed what appeared to be a high frequency modulation in the groove, thought to be caused by the use of an ultrasonic carrier tone. In fact, there was no carrier tone and the modulation was simply caused by the vibration (squeal) of the cutter head as it was dragged through the copper disc. There is one drawback of this approach and that is because of the modulation arising from this cutting method, criticisms have arisen of the sound of such 'DMM' records. They are often labelled as bright or edgy. The Direct Metal Mastering technology addresses the lacquer mastering technology's issue of pre-echoes during record play, caused by the cutting stylus unintentionally transferring some of the subsequent groove wall's impulse signal into the previous groove wall. In particular, a quiet passage followed by a loud sound often clearly revealed a faint pre-echo of the loud sound occurring 1.8 seconds ahead of time (the duration of one revolution at 33 rpm). This problem could also appear as post-echo, 1.8 seconds after a peak in volume. Another improvement is noise reduction. The lacquer mastering method bears a higher risk of adding unwanted random noise to the recording, caused by the enclosure of small dust particles when spraying the silvering on the lacquer master, which is the necessary first step of the electroplating process for reproduction of the master disc. As the DMM master disc is already made of metal (copper), this step is not required, and its faults are avoided.

Anyway , this is the best sounding LP that I've ever played.

Also grabbed the picture disk For Blood and Empire (AntiFlag)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Blood_and_Empire
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1847965
which my son is hot to get .... his record sales are doing great http://www.discogs.com/seller/pdxpunk52

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Fleetwood Mac - Heroes Are Hard To Find
(1974, Reprise) PROMO; KENDUN CSM in the deadwax; mastered at Kendun Recorders, pressed at the Columbia records plant in Santa Maria, CA




Great LP especially the Christine McVie tracks.

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Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous
(1978, Warner Bros)




2 LPs with London, UK dates from the Johnny The Fox tour in '76 and Seneca College, Toronto dates from the Bad Reputation tour in '77. Listening to record #1.

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yesterday I ran across a copy of The Eurythmics "Touch" ....I have a copy, but this one looked somewhat different ...flipped it over ...yup, made in West Germany ...TELDEC ..DMM .

Direct to Disc LPs are nice too. the space between tracks are longer because the musicians need to catch their breath and bearings before the next song.

Direct to disc recording refers to sound recording methods which bypass the use of magnetic tape recording and record audio directly onto analogue disc masters.

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Syzygy - self titled
(1977, 1750 Arch Records) Promo/NFS stamped on back cover




Denny Zeitlin on synthesizers, melodica, organ, clavinet, and acoustic & electric piano with bass, sax, percussion backing. A four part suite of bluesy fusion-y free jazz.