Deep Purple – Machine Head (1972/2001)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:43 minutes | 870 MB | Genre: Rock
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Released in 1972, Deep Purple’s best-selling album remains a landmark hard rock recording. The album hit #1 in the UK and #7 in the US and was eventually certified Double Platinum. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, Deep Purple-—particularly Machine Head-—paved the way for countless progressive rock bands who followed in their wake.

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Deep Purple – Live in Rome 2013 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:48:29 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Rock
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The Soundboard Series finally enters its second round! This time it takes the audience back to the Now What?! Tour of 2013, when Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Steve Morse and Don Airey celebrated their first album after the passing of former bandmate and good friend Jon Lord. ‘Live in Rome 2013’ captures an energetic and emotional performance by the masters of Classic Rock featuring musical highlights from their now 5 decades-spanning career.

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Deep Purple – Live in London 2002 (Remastered) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:49:17 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Rock
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The Soundboard Series focuses on the last three decades of concerts around the world. While some of the shows were previously available as rare and limited fan club editions, others are concerts from the artist archive, mixed and mastered for the occasion. In both cases, great care is spent to achieve the best audio quality.

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Deep Purple – Johnny’s Band EP (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 24:03 minutes | 300 MB | Genre: Rock
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CD pressing of the third single from the album infinite. ‘Johnny’s Band’ follows the singles “Time For Bedlam” and “All I Got Is You”. The song is an affectionate portrait of a fictional band that quickly gain success and enjoy every side that comes with it. As often happens, Johnny’s Band can´t help but lose it, and break up, only to find out later that the pleasure still to be performing live is all that matters, even when the hype, the success and the glory have long vanished. As special bonus treats, the single includes four previously unreleased songs. Starting with the rehearsal recording by no other than Roger Glover, the “In & Out Jam” gives fans a glimpse behind the scenes of the album recordings. On top, the EP is peppered with three amazing and previously unreleased live versions. “Strange Kind Of Woman”, “The Mule” and “Hell To Pay” were recorded on the successful NOW What?! world tour in Gaevle, Sweden on August 10th, 2013 and are, just like the rehearsal recording, only available on this EP.

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Deep Purple – Infinite (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:43 minutes | 589 MB | Genre: Rock
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Infinite is the 20th studio album by English rock band Deep Purple, released on 7 April 2017. The track “Time for Bedlam” was released via YouTube and Spotify on 14 December 2016 and “All I Got Is You” followed on 10 March 2017.

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Deep Purple – In Concert ’72 (2012/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:36 minutes | 1,77 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone UK

If you’re a Deep Purple fan, then you’ll definitely want to check out In Concert ’72, which arrived on record store shelves earlier this week, but we’ll forgive you if you do a momentary double-take and ask yourself, “Wait, do I already have this?”

The truthful answer to that question is that you might already have a fair amount of it, but even at that, you definitely don’t have all of it. And, yes, we realize that’s an answer which requires a bit of further clarification, so here goes.

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Deep Purple – Fireball (1971/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:34 minutes | 855 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
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Fifth studio album from English Rock band Deep Purple, released in 1971. Second studio album to include Mark II Line-up with Ian Gillian and Roger Glover.

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Deep Purple – In Rock (1970/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:48 minutes | 918 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
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Deep Purple in Rock, also known as the In Rock, is the fourth studio album by English rock band Deep Purple, released on 3 July 1970. It was the first studio album recorded by the classic Mark II line-up. Rod Evans (vocals) and Nick Simper (bass) had been fired in June 1969 and were replaced by Ian Gillan and Roger Glover, respectively.

Deep Purple in Rock was their breakthrough album in Europe and would peak at No. 4 in the UK, remaining in the charts for months (the band’s prior MK I albums had been much better received in North America than in their homeland). The album was supported by the hugely successful In Rock World Tour which lasted 15 months.

Although this was the first studio album to feature the MK II line-up of the band, it was this line-up that had earlier recorded the live Concerto for Group and Orchestra. The album was also preceded by the single “Hallelujah”, the first studio recording that Gillan made with Deep Purple. “Hallelujah” was a Greenaway-Cook composition released in late 1969, but the song flopped. A second single, “Black Night”, was developed around the same time as the In Rock album, but not included on the album. “Black Night” fared much better, as it rose all the way to No. 2 on the UK charts.

In 2005 the album won the Classic Rock and Roll of Honour Award (given by the British monthly magazine Classic Rock) in the category Classic Album. The award was presented to Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Jon Lord and Ritchie Blackmore.

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Deep Purple – Deep Purple (1969/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:24 minutes | 1000 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone Records

This is a record that even those who aren’t Deep Purple fans can listen to two or three times in one sitting — but then, this wasn’t much like any other album that the group ever issued. Actually, Deep Purple was highly prized for many years by fans of progressive rock, and for good reason. The group was going through a transition — original lead singer Rod Evans and bassist Nick Simper would be voted out of the lineup soon after the album was finished (although they weren’t told about it until three months later), organist Jon Lord and guitarist Ritchie Blackmore having perceived limitations in their work in terms of where each wanted to take the band. And between Lord’s ever-greater ambitions toward fusing classical and rock and Blackmore’s ever-bolder guitar attack, both of which began to coalesce with the session for Deep Purple in early 1969, the group managed to create an LP that combined heavy metal’s early, raw excitement, intensity, and boldness with progressive rock’s complexity and intellectual scope, and virtuosity on both levels. On “The Painter,” “Why Didn’t Rosemary?,” and, especially, “Bird Has Flown,” they strike a spellbinding balance between all of those elements, and Evans’ work on the latter is one of the landmark vocal performances in progressive rock. “April,” a three-part suite with orchestral accompaniment, is overall a match for such similar efforts by the Nice as the “Five Bridges Suite,” and gets extra points for crediting its audience with the patience for a relatively long, moody developmental section and for including a serious orchestral interlude that does more than feature a pretty tune, exploiting the timbre of various instruments as well as the characteristics of the full ensemble. Additionally, the band turns in a very successful stripped-down, hard rock version of Donovan’s “Lalena,” with an organ break that shows Lord’s debt to modern jazz as well as classical training. In all, amid all of those elements — the orchestral accompaniment, harpsichord embellishments, and backward organ and drum tracks — Deep Purple holds together astonishingly well as a great body of music. This is one of the most bracing progressive rock albums ever, and a successful vision of a musical path that the group might have taken but didn’t. Ironically, the group’s American label, Tetragrammaton Records, which was rapidly approaching bankruptcy, released this album a lot sooner than EMI did in England, but ran into trouble over the use of the Hieronymus Bosch painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights” on the cover; although it has been on display at the Vatican, the work was wrongly perceived as containing profane images and never stocked as widely in stores as it might’ve been. –Bruce Eder

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Deep Purple – Concerto For Group And Orchestra (1970/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 53:49 minutes | 1,88 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino Atlantic

Deep Purple, one of the pioneers of hard rock, integrated classical elements into their 1970 masterpiece Concerto For Group And Orchestra. Each movement is an innovative display of raw orchestral power blended with an exhilarating rock band. The work composed by keyboardist Jon Lord found the band joined by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. This undeniable masterwork will have listeners at the edge of their seats.

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Deep Purple – Burn (1974/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:26 minutes | 940 MB | Genre: Hard Rock
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Deep Purple’s 8th studio album, originally released in 1974. Features slight influences from funk/boogie sounds that would become more prominent in their following album, Stormbringer.

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