Vinyl Me Please Anthology

I reached out to Egon on Instagram. He confirmed that the Fireballs album was sourced from tape, but the rest of the records were sourced and restored from vinyl.

That's not uncommon for reissues of these types of records, and I'm sure they'll sound fine, but it's disappointing to see VMP's inaccurate and misleading description of how these records were mastered.
 
topofthedial said:
I reached out to Egon on Instagram. He confirmed that the Fireballs album was sourced from tape, but the rest of the records were sourced and restored from vinyl.

That's not uncommon for reissues of these types of records, and I'm sure they'll sound fine, but it's disappointing to see VMP's inaccurate and misleading description of how these records were mastered.
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Will be interesting to hear how this sounds. I do have a few albums restored from vinyl (Plantasia comes to mind) and they sound fantastic, but yes--disappointed, but not shocked, that VMP is lying about the sourcing...
 
topofthedial said:
I reached out to Egon on Instagram. He confirmed that the Fireballs album was sourced from tape, but the rest of the records were sourced and restored from vinyl.

That's not uncommon for reissues of these types of records, and I'm sure they'll sound fine, but it's disappointing to see VMP's inaccurate and misleading description of how these records were mastered.
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I mean.. as I mentioned earlier, it wasn't really surprising to me but this is not misleading, this is blatant false advertising.
 
Armanaz still looks available (but is sold out on rappcats) on Now Again's website, so the other three must be Ngozi, Witch, due to those being seen on their website, not sure what the last one is
 
Clint Howard said:
And not to pick nits here, but the idea these all came from 'pristine copies' is probably about 95% bullshit too. Not sure there exists a single pristine copy of any of these records in the entire world.
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Yeah, Egon even said that doesn't exist, which is confusing. And don't get me wrong, I'm used to that being the case for hard to find African and Latin American reissues and comps. I love albums I have from Analog Africa and Soundway, etc. where they used rips. But, they would never try to pretend vinyl rips came from original masters. That is a complete lie and clearly the CS rep doesn't even understand what he is talking about.

I don't know why I still get worked up about it when they do it over and over again, just blows me away every time that they really have no fucking clue and no interest in knowing any better.
 
dhodo said:
Yeah, Egon even said that doesn't exist, which is confusing. And don't get me wrong, I'm used to that being the case for hard to find African and Latin American reissues and comps. I love albums I have from Analog Africa and Soundway, etc. where they used rips. But, they would never try to pretend vinyl rips came from original masters. That is a complete lie and clearly the CS rep doesn't even understand what he is talking about.

I don't know why I still get worked up about it when they do it over and over again, just blows me away every time that they really have no fucking clue and no interest in knowing any better.
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It's a record company that doesn't seem to understand how records are made.
 
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