Metric - Romanticize the Dive
One of Canada’s finest bands, new album due 24 April. The two lead singles sound excellent.
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Just heard one on the radio (Sirius XMU) and I really liked it. Will duly order this album. Thanks for posting.
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True Mono LP – Catalogue Number: ERC127
Edition of 300.
ERC will not undertake a repress of any release at any future point.
Maybe for @JosquinDesPrez and others
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Miles Davis, truympet
Wayne Shorter, tenor saxophone
Herbie Hancock, piano
Ron Carter, bass
Tony Williams, drums
*Registered at Messuhali, Helsinki, Finland
6.X.1964, MONO ℗ 1964 YLE
Recorded during the Jazztage, Berlin Philharmonie, Germany
25.IX.1964, MONO ℗ 1964 RBB
Restored by ℗ & © 2026 THE LOST RECORDINGS from the original analog tapes
- Ref.: TLR-2504067VS
- 33rpm Lacquer-cuts: Kevin Gray
- 200g Triple Ultimate Record®
- Limited edition : 500 copies
- Photos: © 1964 Jan Persson
- Tip-on Gatefold printed in Italy
- Deluxe Boxset
- Phoenix Pressings
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Definitely not for me. I’ve never bought anything from ECR. I don’t even buy One-Step and UHQR releases anymore (I have just a couple of each). The ultra-boutique reissues are way overpriced, AFAIC and I couldn’t care less about exclusivity either. I guess it’s not as crazy as $500-600 for reissues on 15IPS open-reel tape.
My threshold of pain is about $65 for a 45RPM and $45 for a single LP
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I was a bit tongue in cheek and was quite sure of your response. I even don’t know if it’s an interesting album to have for classical music lovers. And the price is indeed silly.
If it were a $40 reissue I might be interested. It’s good music and Oistrakh is a great violinist.
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It’s got a great cover too. I had a copy of this many years ago. I sold it (along with a small collection of other rare and interesting classical LPs) to a visiting Korean chap for a fair sum IIRC. I’m not sure what EX-Mint copies go for nowadays but maybe more than the cost of the ERC reissue??
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Maybe, but I also don’t buy expensive OGs. There are plenty of great deals otherwise. For example, last fall I got a minty copy of the complete Bruckner Symphonies by Barenboim/CSO on DG, a 12-LP set. It was $50 shipped. 
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I cant be bothered with these rip off merchants, 300? seriously?
Martin
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I hate exclusive and limited editions, and I think serial numbers on albums are really silly, and don’t mean anything, at least not to people who buy records to enjoy music.
Me neither, and will never be. But most audiophile reissues do that, be it Mobile Fidelity, Analog Productions, Tone Poets…
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I don’t include Tone Poets and non-UHQR Analogue Production reissues among what I consider excessive pricing, exclusivity and limited production of the ERC, One-Step, UHQR examples.
The Tone Poets – for example – are not limited editions, and priced fairly, considering what you get for them (excellent production, pressings, packaging). Ditto for a lot of other ongoing reissue series from Craft, DG, Decca, etc. I consider these very good value. They are all about $40 or less, not $150 or $300.
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I just said they are generally in limited numbers, not very expensive.
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OK.
Tone Poet, Craft OJC, Acoustic Sounds Series are not officially limited. They may go OOS, but are not technically OOP. Some don’t get represses if they didn’t sell well to begin with, but I have seen Tone Poets from the 2019 series get repressed. For the most part, anyone who wants one can get one, eventually. The ones that sell well do sell out, but get repressed, eventually.
DG’s The Original Source series are limited/numbered editions. However, the ones that sell well get repressed as non-numbered 2nd editions.
MoFi’s One-Step and AP’s UHQRs are limited editions, but those are the overpriced ones I don’t buy anyway.
What I really mean is that I would not put Tone Poet, et al. in with the same category as UHQR, et al.
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Younger Brother | Mutually Assured Destruction | Releases 1st May
Available to pre-order now from bandcamp and other sites.
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One box set I thought we would never see, Cream - Wheels Of Fire ( Super Deluxe Edition ) , available as a 5cd set, 3LP set and a cd and vinyl set. Released 12th June
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The UHQR and Mofi One Steps are undoubtably overpriced however I wouldn’t just cross them off of your to buy list completely because of that I’d treat it on an individual basis the recent UHQR 45rpm Bob Marley releases are two of the best sounding records I have heard, ever.
As someone who spends multiple thousands of pounds just on cartridges I would say buy the best to get the best out of them. Why are those cartridges you own so expensive because they are the best and are labour intensive to produce as are the UHQR and the Mofi One Steps.
Of course I wouldn’t buy them blindly but some are universally reviewed as excellent and if they are a favourite title then they definitely deserve consideration. You owe it to your system to feed it the best signal and as excellent as they can be the Tone Poets and Acoustic Sounds releases in my opinion are not that.
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The inclusion of this looks very interesting - a previously unreleased phase-corrected version of the entire album. The latter version was achieved by using software to reverse the Haeco-CSG effect originally applied to the album. This was a 1960s audio processing technique intended to make stereo recordings compatible with mono turntables but had a side-effect of ‘blurring’ the stereo imaging.
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I just don’t agree with you. I didn’t build up my system to play all the fancy boutique reissues, and if I were to focus on collecting those I’d be far more limited in the music I can buy. For the cost of just one UHQR 45 RPM I can buy four Tone Poet reissues, and still have money left over for a tasty six-pack of IPA.
I built up my system to where it is specifically to bring out the best of the collection I already have (i.e. classical and jazz from the 60s-80s) and to enjoy all the great reasonably priced reissues like the Tone Poets, DG TOS, and so on. And despite what you say many of the standard reissues are of excellent quality and show how good my system can sound. I think the UHQR/One-Steps are over-rated and over-hyped. I have a few of them so I can hear. They sound better, but not by all that much, compared to best of contemporary reissues at normal prices.
The other part is that most (nearly all) of the UHQR and MoFi One-Steps are 45 RPM and I’m pretty much just done with that. I grant that they sound somewhat better, but the 45s in my collection just don’t get played as much as the 33s. I’ve mostly stopped buying 45 RPM reissues if I have a choice.
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