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

D Jilla said:
Yeah, great point. If it was a true jazz album, I could see it, but this seems more new agey like the EP.

Also, fucking Storf, man: "I saw him play Pharoah Sanders' parts of Promises at the Hollywood Bowl in September, and wept for most of the performance" 😂
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Hype man gonna hype. That said, I saw Shabaka perform many of these songs live last week...it was an incredible performance and I haven't been this excited for a new release in a *long* time. The man (Shabaka, not Storf) is a living legend and this one is going to be special.
 
D Jilla said:
I don't question whether it was performance worthy of getting emotional over, I question the validity of the statement in the same way that I question that he first heard John Coltrane via the album Sun Ship at a rural Wisconsin library (as one example among many other things). But, that's just me.
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I mean the first Miles I heard was Tutu that I checked out with Siesta and Think of One by Wynton Marsalis from the Alexandria Va library when I was at my Grandfather’s house one summer in high school.
 
Portland Sheriff said:
Normally, I want the RKS master. That’s the only thing giving me pause.
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Curious who cut the generic release...but it seems like RKS cut is exclusive to VMP. This could very well be similar to the David Gray - White Ladder VMP situation where the VMP is substantially better sounding than the generic 33 cut. If RKS did the 33 too then I'd go 33.
 
MikeH said:
Curious who cut the generic release...but it seems like RKS cut is exclusive to VMP. This could very well be similar to the David Gray - White Ladder VMP situation where the VMP is substantially better sounding than the generic 33 cut. If RKS did the 33 too then I'd go 33.
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Brb going to spin my David Gray, that one was a vast improvement over the standard. The standard was rather disappointing if I remember correctly.

Edit: just saw @Portland Sheriff comment, forget I said anything at all 🤣
 
Ghost said:
Brb going to spin my David Gray, that one was a vast improvement over the standard. The standard was rather disappointing if I remember correctly.
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yea. everybody was convinced that the VMP one wasn't 45 and that storf and co were lying and it was just a color variant. but it ended up sounding real good. IIRC the generic 33 suffered from distortion on a few tracks
 
MikeH said:
Curious who cut the generic release...but it seems like RKS cut is exclusive to VMP. This could very well be similar to the David Gray - White Ladder VMP situation where the VMP is substantially better sounding than the generic 33 cut. If RKS did the 33 too then I'd go 33.
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The first thing they have in the short description after "VMP-exclusive edition" is, "mastered for vinyl by Ryan K. Smith". Either they are exploiting the lack of pressing details of the 33, or the 45 is the only RKS cut.

I understand 45 should technically sound better, but enough to warrant an "exclusive pressing" if both the 33 and 45 are RKS?
 
roffle24 said:
The first thing they have in the short description after "VMP-exclusive edition" is, "mastered for vinyl by Ryan K. Smith". Either they are exploiting the lack of pressing details of the 33, or the 45 is the only RKS cut.
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VMP isn’t involved in the 33 so not sure if they’d know one way or another who cut that one. I don’t think that description is misleading or exploitative. because they do seem to have the only 2x45 pressing which makes it exclusive. I’ll try to do some digging to see who’s cutting the 33. The VMP Honky Chateau was also a different cut than the generic release and there are a few other cases where VMP’s cut was different to wide release.

roffle24 said:
I understand 45 should technically sound better, but enough to warrant an "exclusive pressing" if both the 33 and 45 are RKS?
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If they are both RKS, I’d personally go for the 33. Mostly because I’m lazy. if only VMP is RKS (which wouldn’t surprise me) then I’d probably go with the VMP.
 
MikeH said:
VMP isn’t involved in the 33 so not sure if they’d know one way or another who cut that one. I don’t think that description is misleading or exploitative. because they do seem to have the only 2x45 pressing which makes it exclusive.


If they are both RKS, I’d personally go for the 33. Mostly because I’m lazy. if only VMP is RKS (which wouldn’t surprise me) then I’d probably go with the VMP.
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Agreed. I'm just wondering if they're flexing the RKS mastering because there is a lack of details available for the 33. You'd also think that if the 33 is RKS that they'd advertise that in some fashion.
 
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