The O’Jays – Ship Ahoy (1973) [Reissue 2003]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD/DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 48:49 minutes | Scans included | 4,24 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 48:06 minutes | Full Scans included | 0,98 GB
Features Stereo & Multichannel Surround sound
The “other” O’Jays album masterpiece, Ship Ahoy combined shattering message tracks and stunning love songs in a fashion matched only by Curtis Mayfield’s finest material. From the album cover showing a slave ship to the memorable title song and incredible “For the Love of Money,” Gamble and Huff addressed every social ill from envy to racism and greed. Eddie Levert’s leads were consistently magnificent, as were the harmonies, production and arrangements. “Put Your Hands Together” and “You Got Your Hooks In Me” would be good album cuts, but on Ship Ahoy they were merely icing on the cake.
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The Murder Capital – When I Have Fears (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:01 minutes | 540 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Post-Punk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Human Season Records
When I Have Fears is the debut album from Dublin, Ireland’s The Murder Capital. Produced by Flood (PJ Harvey, New Order, Foals) the album features both singles from the band so far, Feeling Fades and Green and Blue, as well as the first studio recording of breakthrough track More Is Less. An exercise in both darkness and light, When I Have Fears only serves to highlight the early ambition in the band’s sound. From the post-rock build and breakdowns of the two-part Slowdance, to the tender, bruised confessional of On Twisted Ground and industrial pulse of closer Love, Love, Love, there’s a consistent intensity throughout that marks out The Murder Capital as a band arriving fully formed on their debut album.
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The Mattan Klein Quartet – The Long Run (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 33:56 minutes | 390 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ubuntu Music
The Long Run, Mattan’s latest project, features several his regular musicians, including Toki Stern (Rhodes), Yoni Ben Ari (bass) and Joca Perpignan (percussion), with special guest Nitzan Bar (guitar). Mattan’s music has been described by Yossi Harsonsky, Senior Music critic at Maariv, as, “flowing, bright and listener friendly…his flute sound is clear, crispy and melodic, and the Israeli-Brazilian mix is the ultimate contemporary jazz sound, spiced with warm, unique flute sounds…Klein’s virtuoso improvisation lifts Jazz-flute playing to new heights.”
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The Longest Johns – Smoke & Oakum (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:03 minutes | 924 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO)
Building on the success of their viral hit “Wellerman,” British folk outfit the Longest Johns deliver their sixth album, 2022’s Smoke and Oakum. The record sees the group taking on a number of traditional and contemporary folk songs and shanties, including Ed Pickford’s “The Workers Song” with fellow folk artist Seth Lakeman. – Rich Wilson
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The Knightsbridge Theatre Orchestra And Chorus – Hello Dolly! (1965/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:46 minutes | 575 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Society Records
Society Records presents this pristine digital remaster of The Knightsbridge Theatre Orchestra And Chorus conducted by Len Stevens as they perform the musical hit Hello Dolly!
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The Kinks – Timeless Classics (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 24:53 minutes | 377 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, north London, in 1963 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. They are regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s. The band emerged during the height of British rhythm and blues and Merseybeat, and were briefly part of the British Invasion of the United States until their touring ban in 1965. Their third single, the Ray Davies-penned “You Really Got Me”, became an international hit, topping the charts in the United Kingdom and reaching the Top 10 in the United States.
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The Kinks – Party (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 20:40 minutes | 287 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, north London, in 1963 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. They are regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s. The band emerged during the height of British rhythm and blues and Merseybeat, and were briefly part of the British Invasion of the United States until their touring ban in 1965. Their third single, the Ray Davies-penned “You Really Got Me”, became an international hit, topping the charts in the United Kingdom and reaching the Top 10 in the United States.
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The Kinks – 60s Classics (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 15:28 minutes | 140 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, north London, in 1963 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. They are regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s. The band emerged during the height of British rhythm and blues and Merseybeat, and were briefly part of the British Invasion of the United States until their touring ban in 1965. Their third single, the Ray Davies-penned “You Really Got Me”, became an international hit, topping the charts in the United Kingdom and reaching the Top 10 in the United States.
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The Jazz Butcher – The Highest in the Land (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:09 minutes | 383 MB | Genre: Pop Rock, Jangle Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Tapete Records
It’s not often that an artist gets to do a Bowie by consciously carving their personal epitaph into the grooves of their final LP. The Highest in the Land is that rarity of an album, and it could not have been made by a more brilliantly poetic and fearlessly sarcastic writer than Pat Fish, also known as The Jazz Butcher.
‘My hair’s all wrong / My time ain’t long / Fishy go to Heaven, get along, get along,’ he sings, to a ticking-clock beat in ‘Time’, rhyming its title with ‘a one-way ticket to a pit of Council lime’ in just one of many existentially charged moments on a record whose songs were written throughout the last seven years of Fish’s life before his untimely passing in October 2021, aged only 63. ‘Self-knowledge, urgency,’ he wrote as a comment to this song in his private notes to the album’s producer Lee Russell, ‘He’d been around the block. and knew he was on the last lap.”We had closure,” Russell remembers, “We had worked together for three months, and then on the last day I drove him home. And for the first time we hugged and said goodbye, and that was it.’
Recent years have seen a long overdue re-appreciation of The Jazz Butcher catalogue, all the way back to that astonishing 11-album run of the first 13 years of their career, now celebrated and handily compiled in a series of box-sets after decades of shameful neglect.
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The Jacksons – The Jacksons (1976/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:41 minutes | 809 MB | Genre: Soul, Funk, R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic
After the commercial reprieve of the innovative “Dancing Machine” single (and album of the same name), the Jackson 5’s successful five-year relationship with Motown and Berry Gordy ended. Their last Motown effort, Moving Violation, had barely made a dent. After an acrimonious split, brother Jermaine Jackson stayed at Motown, and Gordy fought and won, keeping the Jackson 5 moniker. The Jacksons isn’t only their Epic label debut, it’s the first album to feature youngest brother Randy Jackson. To ensure chart success, the group was teamed with Philadelphia producers Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, as well as their staff of writers and players. Despite the promise, The Jacksons is hampered by derivative tracks and a lack of knowing what to do with the group, particularly lead singer, Michael Jackson. The big hit here, the jerky “Enjoy Yourself,” perfectly captured Michael Jackson’s late adolescence, with his newfound vocal tics and inflections. “Show You the Way to Go” best captures the Philly sound, with a pretty melody and a great vocal from Michael, but it’s a weak lyric. The Dexter Wansel-written and -produced “Keep on Dancing” matches a substandard discofied track to Michael Jackson’s singular vocals. The last track, the graceful “Blues Away” marks the writing debut of the group and is a great match between artists and producers. For the most part, The Jacksons gives the guys by-the-numbers Philly tracks that could have been easily done by Lou Rawls. Despite the best songs, The Jacksons misses more than it hits. ~ Jason Elias
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The Hated – No More We Cry (1958/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 12:15 minutes | 292 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Numero Group
The debut 7” from Annapolis, Maryland’s godfathers of emo, No More We Cry raged into 1985 in a fit of 4/4 blast beats, speed-folk, overdriven power chords, and the tortured howls of adolescence.
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The Honky Tonk Pounders – Dead End Road (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:38 minutes | 425 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rockin’Rollin’ Products
For their silver wedding anniversary in 2021, the German Honky Tonk Pounders release their fourth album. With a lot of heart and soul, passion and the still lasting joy of honest, handmade music.
Five years after their last release “20th Anniversary Session EP” the band follows up with “Dead End Road” another album on PART Records. The fine line between “we reinvent ourselves, but stay true to ourselves” succeeds amazingly well after a quarter of a century. Lots of gritty rock and roll, driving rockabilly, no frills and no compromises! The band proves that even at the age of 50 you are still able to play rock’n’roll full of energy and power. No matter if in the studio or on stage.
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Dizzy Gillespie – Dizzy Gillespie And Stuff Smith (1994/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:32 minutes | 229 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Gillespie was born one of the younger of ten children and was supported and encouraged in his musical development by his father, a construction worker and local amateur bandleader. He played the piano at age four, then self-taught on the slide trombone, and before he was twelve, he switched to the trumpet. He received a scholarship to Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina, but soon left school to become a full-time musician.
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The Duke Spirit – Sky Is Mine (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 35:08 minutes | 402 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ex Voto Records
In almost fifteen years of existence, The Duke Spirit have beautifully refined their rock’n’roll. And while Liela Moss’ crew’s singular blend of shoegaze, garage rock and cold wave has always kept a kind of fervour, Sky Is Mine shows the British band under a more radiant light than ever. Although it might be misleading to describe this beautifully dark, almost gloomy, music with the term “radiant”… Much like Wolf Alice or the Kills, the Duke Spirit have perfectly assimilated their multiple influences to create their own style. It is worth noting that Josh T Pearson from the cult band Lift To Experience is involved on the song How Could, How Come.
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