Pre-Order Thread

“Transfer from the tapes” makes it sound like they transferred to digital. It’s a hugely popular album and if it was AAA i think they would have said it was analogue.
But what's the point of doing a fresh transfer to digital instead of just using the old digital files used for the previous pressing that was mentioned a few posts up?
 
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If anyone ordered this and is wondering where it is, I reached out to BV and they said it's delayed from the plant with no estimated ship date as of yet, so might be awhile before this shows up
 
But what's the point of doing a fresh transfer to digital instead of just using the old digital files used for the previous pressing that was mentioned a few posts up?
The one posted above says DMM from digital master tapes. Doesn't specify what source those digital tapes are from though. Very possible they used a different tape for this one. I just think it's such a huge album that if it's AAA, they would say it. Don't even know when the last AAA reissue was of it.

also for those wondering, looks like release date is pushed back to April 29.
 
Getting this simply so I can have an affordable version of Talk Show Host by Radiohead

And just got a cancellation notice. Poop.
 
I really made it through this entire thread today unscathed and that Adia signed gets posted. Dang it. Bought. It says sold out on the site but lete check out so we will see

That R&J has been on and off of Amazon at retail too.
 

Says it will also hit stores worldwide in May. If anyone finds other variants please post.
 
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED REISSUES FROM THE BLACK EDITIONS

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Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction

Station '70
Call in Question / Live Independence​

Deluxe 3LP Box Set w/ heavy chip board, textured uncoated paper wrap, black pigment foil stamping, three heavy inserts and Japanese language insert

RELEASE DATE: April 18, 2022

In August 1969, Masayuki Takayanagi formed his first New Direction group and embarked on an unparalleled musical journey that over the final 22 years of his life would define him as an uncompromising artist who would forge a visionary new musical language. Comprised of himself on acoustic and electric guitar and joined by Motoharu Yoshizawa on bass and Yoshisaburo 'Sabu' Toyozumi on drums, Takayanagi's group created a new unconstrained form of music; It expanded on the most radical, fiery elements of American and European Free Jazz, while refracting them through an avant garde prism. Harmonic and melodic development were rejected in favor of feedback and complete spontaneity. With New Direction Takayanagi had achieved a "decisive break" from the past and created his own revolutionary musical language - a ferocious, often violent sound that paradoxically took both musical movement and stillness to their extremes.



Takayanagi's New Direction soon recorded one of the landmark albums of free jazz and the avant garde, Independence: Tread on Sure Ground (1970). It was Takayanagi's first album as a group leader and nothing short of groundbreaking. As profound as it's release was, it was not until 25 years later that a wider audience would finally able to hear Takayanagi's vision with the group in its most explosive and unmitigated realization; Japan's P.S.F. records released two CD's, Call in Question (1994) and Live Independence (1995) which featured unearthed, previously unheard 1970 recordings made by the group at the legendary Shibuya Tokyo venue, Station '70. The recordings were revelatory; They presented nascent, jarring versions of Takayanagi's "Gradually Projection" and "Mass Projection" modalities in uncut, unvarnished long form. Joined on some tracks by renowned saxophonist Mototeru Takagi, the performances are intensely physical and visceral - each player creating a vivid self contained sound that at the same time merges with the overall group imperative to create something entirely new and beautiful. Yoshizawa, Toyozumi as well as Takagi would, in their own right, go on to join Takayanagi as iconic players in the world of Japanese free jazz and avant garde. It is these performances, in a crucial moment of societal and cultural upheaval, that would help lay the groundwork for the rich world of free improvisation, free jazz and, to a large degree, underground music in Japan for decades to come.



Later Takayanagi would write "It is improvisation alone that transcends genre and academicism to become music as raw, independent existence, the most unique living organism within a yet-to-be unknown". It is in these recordings that that "yet-to-be unknown" can begin to be heard.



Black Editions is proud to present the entirety of the recordings presented on both P.S.F. albums as well as a previously unreleased side-long Mass Projection in a deluxe, remastered 3LP box set. The set features the stark photography of the late Yuji Itsumi and presents the original liner notes by key Japanese music critics and historians Yoshiyuki Kitazato and Toshihiko Shimizu newly translated into English as well as in the original Japanese.

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Masayuki Takayanagi
and New Direction Unit

ECLIPSE​



Deluxe heavy tip-on gatefold LP w/ matte black paper, second tipped-on metallic gold wrap and insert

RELEASE DATE: April 18, 2022

Masayuki Takayanagi was one of the truly iconoclastic musicians to emerge from Japan, or anywhere else, in the 20th Century. Though he won acclaim in the 1950’s and 60’s as a master of the electric guitar and jazz improvisation, Takayanagi was a restless spirit, deeply engaged with the era's new movements in contemporary art, music, literature and philosophy. His work, beginning in the late 1960’s placed him on the leading edge of these developments; he began expanding on the most radical elements of American and European free jazz, infusing them with the raw feedback and dissonance of electronic and avant-garde music. With his various “New Direction” groups, Takayanagi broke free of traditional structures and developed a new theory of music that embraced an aggressive and unrelenting style of playing that has remained almost completely unparalleled in its ferocity.



Of all the albums to be released during Takayanagi's lifetime, 1975’s Eclipse was perhaps the most enigmatic and sought after. Released in an edition of only 100, it almost immediately disappeared and became a Holy Grail for Japanese connoisseurs of adventurous music, and rightly so. It’s first side contained a two part realization of Takayanagi’s “Gradually Projection” modality – a searching interplay between instruments- slowly emerging from a sparse open field and building with the tension of a looming thunder storm. The second side contains an epic performance of a “Mass Projection”, a high energy, densely layered barrage of sound that in its 25 minutes, never once slackens its intensity. It would be another 31 years before this key album in Takayangi’s oeuvre would finally have a (slightly) wider audience through a CD release by Japan's P.S.F. Records.



Black Editions is proud to present a deluxe vinyl edition of this masterwork, revealingly remastered from the original tapes by Elysian Masters. The album is packaged in a heavy double tip-on gatefold jacket that pays tribute to the original handmade packaging and features a previously unseen studio photograph of Takayanagi by Tatsuo Minami.

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Bundle for both here
 
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Originally released in 1997, "Crab Rangoon" is THE definitive MU330 album, and one of the few third wave ska records from that era to truly stand the test of time. The big trombone-driven hooks are reminiscent of the Specials, while the personal lyrics and wistful melodies give "Pinkerton" a run for its money. If you're an old fan whose been waiting for this to finally come out on vinyl again, or if you're new to the band but want to hear one of the best records to ever come out on Asian Man, now's the time to pick this up!

New cover artwork for this release by Gilbert Armendariz.

1. Tune Me Out
2. Ireland
3. Funny Papers
4. Neighbors
5. Father Friendly
6. Understand
7. Fragile
8. Jason
9. X-mas Card
10. Around You
11. Good Homes
12. The Struggle of Helen
13. Organic Gun
14. Now

Pressing Information
1st press: 1,000 black vinyl
2nd press: 500 clear green vinyl
3rd press: 500 random half/half vinyl
 

Decided to toss this in here as it relates to the upcoming Tool Fear Inoculum vinyl box. Interview with Mackie Osborne who oversaw the overall design and product details of the box.

Bottom line I got from interview….

Fancy packaging and printing techniques.
Lots of artwork.
Best quality black vinyl offered by pressing plant was used.
NOT #ed and no 1st pressing quantity details.
All Pressed at GZ Vinyl Czech.
 
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