Dexter Gordon - Landslide, BN/Tone Poet (2025)
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Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain, Mofi ULTRADISC One Step (2025)
If you have deep pockets and don’t mind the DSD step which doesn’t bother me so long as it sounds ok.
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Tyreek McDole - Open Up Your Senses, Artwork Records (2025)
Excellent young Jazz vocalist his debut LP has a great version of The Creater Has a Masterplan.
Oasis - Time Flies 1994 -2009 The Complete Singles Collection, Big Brother Recordings (2025)
The promo says remastered and it would have to be but by who I can’t say I’ve looked around but can’t find so it’s a case of waiting for the reviews. Some cracking music on this 4 LP collection though lets just hope it’s a vast improvement on all their other vinyl releases which to me are virtually unlistenable.
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Think I’ll give it a chance. Have first pressing of Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory but as you point out not very well mastered. More of an investment now.
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Alerts from Sounds of the Universe & Juno. Pricey but sure this will already be on @Bobthebuilder list but if not looks right up your street.
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Ordered mine from Diverse it feels pricey but when broken down into 5 Craft OJC reissues that £153 is not too extortionate.
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I’m on the fence about this. $200 in the U.S.
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Are they worth something then?
Edit. Just looked, blimey. And my 12” singles of theirs. I can retire!
Wish I’d bought less Blur now…
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I’m not sure I can retire but they are worth more than most my other records.
Also, no Blur in my collection. 
Paul Weller - Find El Dorado, Parlophone Records (2025)
Paul Weller returns with a covers and collaborations LP when I say covers there isn’t a single one I’ve ever heard the original of so a bit more interesting than his previous covers album Studio 150. Collaborators include Robert Plant, Noel Gallagher, Declan O’Rourke and Seckou Keita featuring arrangements by Hannah Peel produced, engineered by Steve Cradock and Charles Rees and mastered by Geoff Pesch at Abbey Road.
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Handouts in the Rain (Richie Havens)
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Small Town Talk (Bobby Charles)
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El Dorado (Eamon Friel)
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White Line Fever (The Flying Burrito Brothers)
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One Last Cold Kiss (Christy Moore)
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When you are a King (White Plains)
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Pinball (Brian Protheroe)
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire (Willie Griffin)
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I Started a Joke (Bee Gees)
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Never the Same (Lal and Mike Waterson)
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Lawdy Rolla (The Guerrillas)
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Nobody’s Fool (The Kinks)
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Journey (Duncan Browne)
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Daltry Street (Jake Fletcher / PP Arnold)
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Clive’s Song (Hamish Imlach)
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Paul Weller - Lawdy Rolla/Pinball, Parlophone Records (2025)
Limited edition 7" single taken from Find El Dorado Paul Weller’s new LP
Lawdy Rolla, which was originally by an obscure French studio band called The Guerrillas, who featured African jazz star Manu Dibango in their ranks. The second track is Brian Protheroe’s 1974 hit “Pinball,” with saxophone contribution from long time collaborator Jacko Peake.
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I’m so glad these finally seem to be appearing. I got very excited when they were first announced as part of the British Explosion series, then everything went rather quiet on that front. I have the CDs and also a rather dodgy vinyl reissue of Pendulum that must be a fake (and likely taken from the CD) but having a really good vinyl copy of each will fill a big hole for me, and no need to pay a four figure sum either! Gearbox are doing the mastering and cutting, so hopefully the results will be up to their usual high standard. Can’t wait!
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These apparently will be taken from digital files but - what the heck - it has taken 60 years for legitimate vinyl reissues to see the light of day. New essays and a limited edition cover art print too.
The CD reissues from the 2000s were very good but ‘Pendulum’ came and went like a pendulum due to legal issues.
I read this from Mike Flynn on Jazzwise;
Pendulum (first released in 1966) has been remastered at Gearbox Records’ Studios, London, with the high resolution digital source files, taken from the original master tapes, transferred to a Studer C37 reel-to-reel tape machine and mastered using an all-valve analogue mastering chain, including an ex-Decca Studio 3-band EQ and Telefunken U73b compressors. Lacquers were cut using a Scully disc mastering lathe with Westrex cutter head and cutting amps. The Mike Taylor Trio album (from 1967) has also been remastered at Gearbox Records’ Studios, London, directly from the original tapes, using a Studer C37 ¼-inch stereo tape machine. They were then equalised through an all-valve mastering desk built bespoke for Decca studios in the late 1950s, Vintage Lang Pultec EQ, Prism Maselec EQ and Telefunken U73b valve limiters from 1959. The LP lacquers were cut on a beautifully restored Haeco Scully Lathe from 1967 with Westrex (Western Electric) head and cutting amps; the same lathe that Rudy Van Gelder used.
This seems to imply that Trio may be all-analogue…
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Could be - can be read either way but why do one digital and one analogue, if Universal are the source of the music?
Maybe one tape is in a condition where they feel a digital step is a necessary precaution.