Vinyl Me Please (store, exclusives, swaps, etc)

[mitchwagz]

It isn't.

Seriously! I’ll laugh when they accidentally posted the studio album but everyone instead gets the soundtrack But in all seriousness these titles are great. I haven’t bought a store exclusive in ages but went for this set. I only have the 2015 issue of Space is the Place which sounds just OK.

 

[D Jilla]

Great titles, even though no Interstellar Space. I have a clean OG of the Pharoah, but grabbed the others.

 

[MikeH]

Great titles, even though no Interstellar Space. I have a clean OG of the Pharoah, but grabbed the others.

shoulda grabbed the bundle and sold Pharoah to save some cash!

 

[Mather]

Oh no, oh god no.

They have fancy Obi's.

MMMMUST RESIST

 

[duke86fan]

Had $163,50 in credits. I now have $3,50.

impulse will kill you

 

[MikeH]

Oh no, oh god no.

They have fancy Obi's.

MMMMUST RESIST

but they aren't all AAA so you can rest easy

 

[Mather]

but they aren't all AAA so you can rest easy

Oh thank God.

 

[duke86fan]

only one of them (i think pharoah sanders) is AAA,

the others are ADA because they original tapes were quadrophonic.. but because they used the original tapes they could say from the analog tapes

 

[Skalap]

impulse will kill you

Warped records will kill VMP before Impulse kills me.

 

[D Jilla]

shoulda grabbed the bundle and sold Pharoah to save some cash!

Good point! Maybe I’ll just do that and cancel the individuals. I can compare to the OG Pharoah, too

 

[mitchwagz]

Has the actual song Space Is The Place (side A) always sounded a little crappy? Just spinning my copy right now and the bass really isn’t there and the music sounds distant. Side B sounds fantastic. I do know that it was released in Quad but maybe the fold down to two channel stereo loses some bass? This is the 2015 reissue. I’ve never heard any other pressings.

 

[duke86fan]

Warped records will kill VMP before Impulse kills me.

you think they'll go out of business in 1 month.. because that's when impulse is on sale

 

[RHANDMJ]

but they aren't all AAA so you can rest easy

The individual descriptions say from analog tapes, but I guess that is stretching it. Still - a fantastic drop.

 

[MikeH]

The individual descriptions say from analog tapes, but I guess that is stretching it. Still - a fantastic drop.

yea as @duke86fan said, they had the original quad tapes for 3/4 of the albums and used those so had to do ADA. Pharoah is AAA.

 

[RHANDMJ]

yea as @duke86fan said, they had the original quad tapes for 3/4 of the albums and used those so had to do ADA. Pharoah is AAA.

It doesn't bother me too much. RKS knows how do do this really well.

I ordered the whole set within minutes of getting the email.

 

[MikeH]

It doesn't bother me too much. RKS knows how do do this really well.

I ordered the whole set within minutes of getting the email.

yea got the bundle plus the Sun Ra for @avecigrec !

 

[Skalap]

you think they'll go out of business in 1 month.. because that's when impulse is on sale

Not what I meant nor think. If they survive shipping tons of replacements every month, I'll survive purchasing this bundle and maybe the Anthology.

 

[MikeH]

very excited for the spiritual jazz drop. more excited about that than the anthology to be honest...

 

[NewsFedora]

very excited for the spiritual jazz drop. more excited about that than the anthology to be honest...

Same. The already announced anthology titles didn’t do much for me, but the Shepp and Michael White are right in my wheelhouse, and the Sun Ra and Pharoah are solid enough for me to jump on the whole bundle for the discount.

 

[keylime_5]

Yeah, the Impulse and Blue Note anthologies to me are outliers in the VMP Anthology series because they are basically leftover stuff they were able to reissue, not the best, most important or definitive albums from the label or artist — which is what all the other anthologies tend to be.