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Mongolia Gets Its First Specialty Record Store!
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 10, 2015
Writing in the BBC online Magazine, reporter Liana Aghajanian writes that Mongolian vinyl fans, who once had to travel more than six hundred miles across the Gobi desert to Beijing to get a vinyl fix, can now visit a new store in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator.

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MONOCHROME Recordings Takes Vinyl Exclusivity to New Extremes
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 19, 2014
Monochrome Recordings is a new vinyl label with a seriously exclusive business model.
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More Blue Note "Tone Poet" All-Analog Reissues Coming in 2020!
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 10, 2019
Blue Note Records just announced the 2020 continuation of the acclaimed Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series. "Tone Poet" Joe Harley (so named by jazz great Charles Lloyd) produces the series, originally launched in 2019 to honor the label's 80th anniversary. The all-analog 180g series mastered directly from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and pressed at Camarillo, CA-based RTI features deluxe Stoughton Printing "Old Style" Gatefold Tip-On Jackets.

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More From Bernie Grundman Mastering
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 09, 2016
Here's more video from Bernie Grundman Mastering, including a tour of head tech Beno May's shop, filled with "cool stuff".
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More Record Store Day News
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 03, 2019
Two recently announced Record Store Day offerings may interest you. One is from the jazz label Newvelle. The other is from Reverb LP, the online record marketplace created by reverb, a website for buying and selling musical instruments and accessories.

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More Video From The 10th Annual Manila Hi-Fi Show
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 16, 2013
Not as much going on in this video but I had it so decided to post it.
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Mosaic Returns to Vinyl Box Sets With New Monk Set
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 09, 2009
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MPS Reissues '70s Era Jazz Classics AAA
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 11, 2016
The German MPS label has just released five excellent jazz albums originally released in the early 1970s under the supervision of noted German audio journalist and record producer Dirk Sommer. All have been mastered AAA from the original master tapes by mastering engineer Christoph Stickel, who was responsible for the Oscar Peterson box set Exclusively For My Friends.

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Mr. Leefe's Wave Radio Days Numbered!
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 15, 2014
The outpouring of offers to help Eric Leefe move beyond the "room filling" sound of the Wave radio has been overwhelming, both in the comments beneath the story and in emails.

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Music Angle Announces Complete Site Upgrade!
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 31, 2009
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Music Direct's Josh Bizar Asked For a Quarantine Album Fave So We Delivered
Michael Fremer  |  May 14, 2020
Music Direct's Josh Bizar asked if Malachi and I to contribute short reviews to his website feature "Notes From My Listening Room" so we did.
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Music Hall Turntable Sweepstakes Winner Announced!
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 06, 2012
Jeff Camden is the lucky winner of the Music Hall MMF-7.1 Turntable Sweepstakes!
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Music Matters Returns to 33 1/3 and Some Mono For New Blue Note Reissues
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 18, 2013
Music Matters, the jazz reissue label best known for its beautifully packaged double 45rpm stereo jazz reissues cut by Kevin Gray from original analog master tapes recently announced a new 33 1/3 Blue Note series. While this may sound like "old news" to some, please listen up!

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Musicangle.com Welcomes Randy Wells!
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 28, 2011
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Mystery Solved!
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 06, 2006

Who engineered The Searchers tunes? \"Mystery\" solved!

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