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I really hope that John Coltrane Craft One-Step is like USD$100 and the international shipping costs are under USD$30. I’m really interested in buying a copy of it when it drops! Just hate how expensive international shipping is!

I really like this John Coltrane record and absolutely love the Acoustic Sounds series pressings I picked up late last year. The addition of an audiophile pressing of Lush Life would be amazing!
 
Joe Mac said:
Find a way of fronting me the capital and I’ll be all over it! I’m sure I can get Dublin Vinyl to press them for me too...

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Impex is doing a One Step series too. And it's a 90s album so there ya go Joe! 😂

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At Impex Records, we are always looking to create new, value-added audiophile products that expand your enjoyment and immersion in great recordings. In that vein, we are excited to begin 2020 by announcing our new ultra-luxe 180-gram LP series, Impex 1STEP. As with all of our productions we...
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NathanRicaud said:
I really hope that John Coltrane Craft One-Step is like USD$100 and the international shipping costs are under USD$30. I’m really interested in buying a copy of it when it drops! Just hate how expensive international shipping is!

I really like this John Coltrane record and absolutely love the Acoustic Sounds series pressings I picked up late last year. The addition of an audiophile pressing of Lush Life would be amazing!
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I'd be really surprised if they undercut MoFi's One Steps especially since they know those sell like hot cakes. You can probably get an idea of what shipping will be because they said this will be available only through the Craft site.


edit: I believe they do have an international site as well, so maybe check there tomorrow! I think it goes on sale tomorrow as that is when the press release goes live.
 
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MikeH said:
Impex is doing a One Step series too. And it's a 90s album so there ya go Joe! 😂

www.impexrecords.com

Impex Records Announces New Ultra-Luxe 1STEP 180-GRAM LPs! - Impex Records

At Impex Records, we are always looking to create new, value-added audiophile products that expand your enjoyment and immersion in great recordings. In that vein, we are excited to begin 2020 by announcing our new ultra-luxe 180-gram LP series, Impex 1STEP. As with all of our productions we...
www.impexrecords.com www.impexrecords.com
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A jazz album called Cafe Blue? Yeah that completely breaks with the template!
 
Joe Mac said:
A jazz album called Cafe Blue? Yeah that completely breaks with the template!
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I will say that out of all the companies doing the One Steps now, Craft probably has one of the more diverse catalogues. Maybe not a ton of 90's and later stuff, but they have reissued a wider range of titles. I think they own Analog Spark now, plus Contemporary Records, Fania Records, Fantasy Records, HighTone Records, Independiente, Milestone Records, Musart, Nitro Records, Pablo, Panart Records, Prestige Records, Riverside, SLG, Specialty Records, Stax Records, Sugar Hill, Takoma, Telarc, Vanguard, Vee Jay and Victory Records.

I wouldn't mind some One Steps of Otis Redding or REM for example...I do hope that they branch out from just jazz, and that's coming from someone who loves jazz.
 
MikeH said:
I will say that out of all the companies doing the One Steps now, Craft probably has one of the more diverse catalogues. Maybe not a ton of 90's and later stuff, but they have reissued a wider range of titles. I think they own Analog Spark now, plus Contemporary Records, Fania Records, Fantasy Records, HighTone Records, Independiente, Milestone Records, Musart, Nitro Records, Pablo, Panart Records, Prestige Records, Riverside, SLG, Specialty Records, Stax Records, Sugar Hill, Takoma, Telarc, Vanguard, Vee Jay and Victory Records.

I wouldn't mind some One Steps of Otis Redding or REM for example...I do hope that they branch out from just jazz, and that's coming from someone who loves jazz.
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Honestly I’m not so fussed with one steps, they are special one off purchases for all time favourite albums. Unless someone is going to start pressing Radiohead or The Smiths one step I am likely out lol!

What I would like would be to see a series doing pressings along the line of MoFi and AP normal lines that focuses using such great techniques and mastering engineers to really elevate modern classics. I’d be happy to just see these labels have a shake and freshen up as much as anything else.
 
Joe Mac said:
Honestly I’m not so fussed with one steps, they are special one off purchases for all time favourite albums. Unless someone is going to start pressing Radiohead or The Smiths one step I am likely out lol!

What I would like would be to see a series doing pressings along the line of MoFi and AP normal lines that focuses using such great techniques and mastering engineers to really elevate modern classics. I’d be happy to just see these labels have a shake and freshen up as much as anything else.
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Yea--I'd love that too. A few labels have tried to do so and failed, but I'd bet that with vinyl purchasing at a fever pitch now, if some new label came in and did some AAA or just really solid reissues of more modern albums, they'd make a killing.
 
Joe Mac said:
Honestly I’m not so fussed with one steps, they are special one off purchases for all time favourite albums. Unless someone is going to start pressing Radiohead or The Smiths one step I am likely out lol!

What I would like would be to see a series doing pressings along the line of MoFi and AP normal lines that focuses using such great techniques and mastering engineers to really elevate modern classics. I’d be happy to just see these labels have a shake and freshen up as much as anything else.
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Agreed, I'll thrilled to have the Mingus. It's literally the main one I've wanted out of all of them, and didn't expect to be able to find one. But in general I don't really need these.
 
MikeH said:
Yea--I'd love that too. A few labels have tried to do so and failed, but I'd bet that with vinyl purchasing at a fever pitch now, if some new label came in and did some AAA or just really solid reissues of more modern albums, they'd make a killing.
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I mean I think they’d have to pull away from AAA as they move into the 90s, and particularly 00s. That’s no bad thing, digital in the stream isn’t necessarily a bad thing so long as the transfers are done well and at a high enough rate and/or that it’s then mastered correctly for the limitations of the vinyl format. I’m absolutely not an AAA absolutist.
 
Mather said:
Agreed, I'll thrilled to have the Mingus. It's literally the main one I've wanted out of all of them, and didn't expect to be able to find one. But in general I don't really need these.
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Absolutely, Blood on the Tracks is one of the most important albums to me. Having such a stunning pressing of it is amazing. The rest equally I’ve been very happy to pass on, even if they’ve been albums that I like a lot.
 
Joe Mac said:
Honestly the standard Mofi press of that whilst good, and probably better than most starboard pressings, is nothing special at 33 in comarsion to all the mofi mono and stereo 45s that they did of some of his other albums.
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I've got the Blonde on Blonde Mofi box set and Mofi Highway 61 Revisited Stereo 45, so to me really BOTT is the only other one I need...
 
Joe Mac said:
I mean I think they’d have to pull away from AAA as they move into the 90s, and particularly 00s. That’s no bad thing, digital in the stream isn’t necessarily a bad thing so long as the transfers are done well and at a high enough rate and/or that it’s then mastered correctly for the limitations of the vinyl format. I’m absolutely not an AAA absolutistzz
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Right--don't have to be AAA. KG does wonders with digital files too, but those are mostly from really high res flat transfers from analogue sources from my experience. I'd love if they pressed some high quality stuff from the 90s/00s though especially if they have access to non-brickwalled masters.
 
MikeH said:
Right--don't have to be AAA. KG does wonders with digital files too, but those are mostly from really high res flat transfers from analogue sources from my experience. I'd love if they pressed some high quality stuff from the 90s/00s though especially if they have access to non-brickwalled masters.
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Hahahaha! That’s as likely as getting certain 80s albums without that horrid drum echo sound that plagued the mainstream music of the decade...

Sure it wouldn’t be a 90s record if it wasn’t so uniformly ear bleedingly loud right across the range!
 
Joe Mac said:
Hahahaha! That’s as likely as getting certain 80s albums without that horrid drum echo sound that plagued the mainstream music of the decade...

Sure it wouldn’t be a 90s record if it wasn’t so uniformly ear bleedingly loud right across the range!
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One can dream :) I do believe that some of the brickwalling was done in the mix/master not recording though right? Maybe I'm mistaken...I'm not super knowledgable about that aspect of it!
 
Joe Mac said:
Honestly I’m not so fussed with one steps, they are special one off purchases for all time favourite albums. Unless someone is going to start pressing Radiohead or The Smiths one step I am likely out lol!

What I would like would be to see a series doing pressings along the line of MoFi and AP normal lines that focuses using such great techniques and mastering engineers to really elevate modern classics. I’d be happy to just see these labels have a shake and freshen up as much as anything else.
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If they start pressing Radiohead one steps...I’ll be a broke broke man💸💸
 
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