Michael Fremer

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"Spirit & Time", Blue Note Review Number Two is Musical and Packaging Perfection
Michael Fremer  |  May 17, 2019  |  First Published: May 17, 2019  |  2 comments
The first bi-annual Blue Note Review may have been a somewhat tentative and ill-focused project as label head Don Was worked to re-establish with a younger generation the Blue Note brand identity and “community”, yet few who purchased were disappointed (the set sold-out) other than in the digitally mastered Blue Mitchell album and its grade B jacket.

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Album Reviews
"Star Trek The Motion Picture" Soundtrack Is Sonic Blockbuster!
Michael Fremer  |  May 04, 2017  |  15 comments
Jerry Goldsmith's remarkable 84 minute, 54 second score for Star Trek The Motion Picture here in its entirety on vinyl for the first time is a musical and sonic spectacular that's far more exciting than was the movie itself. This is one film score you can definitely enjoy without having seen the movie.

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"Station to Station" Review?
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 28, 2011  |  0 comments
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"Steep Tonearm?" Here's Why
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 22, 2012  |  30 comments
An Analogplanet reader asked about his "steep tonearm" after trying unsuccessfully trying to set the SRA to 92 degrees on his Soundsmith Boheme cartridge.

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AAA VinylAlbum Reviews
"Sunday at the Village Vanguard" Mobile Fidelity Ultradisc Sells Out
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 26, 2017  |  19 comments
Bassist Scott LaFaro's death in a Geneva, New York car accident ten days after the Sunday, June 25th, 1961 recording of this Village Vanguard set did more than add a tragic luster to the story. It upended what might have been a very different track order here and on Waltz For Debby, the second record sourced using tracks recorded that day by engineer David Jones on a modified Ampex 350 using Scotch 111 tape.

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Album Reviews
"Sunshine Seas" by New Zion w. Cyro Will "Trip You Out"
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 26, 2016  |  12 comments
The last time we heard from the adventurous Jamie Saft, he'd released The New Standard an all-analog straight ahead jazz trio album engineered by the great Joe Ferla.

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"Symphonic Dances" AAA vs. ADA Update
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 25, 2015  |  First Published: Aug 25, 2015  |  13 comments
The cover artist is working on the design, I have all of the prices for lacquer cutting, plating and pressing 1000 copies as well as for jacket fabrication.

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Album Reviews
"Tapestry" at 45rpm Forty Plus Years Later Sounding Better Than Ever
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 24, 2013  |  12 comments
In 1972 and '73 you'd hear this classic album playing in every hippie crash pad and college dorm room in America. It was a "chick" album guys could dig. Her friend James Taylor had encouraged the veteran song writer to sing her own songs.
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AAA VinylAlbum Reviews
"Tea For the Tillerman" at 45 rpm From Analogue Productions
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 12, 2015  |  27 comments
Analogue Productions has just released Tea For the Tillerman on a double 45rpm 200g, numbered, limited to 3500 copies edition, mastered by George Marino. What? Didn't he pass away a few years ago? Yes. The double 45s were cut when the tape was available "just in case". And it's "in case" time. Especially since AP's license on the title is about to expire, so it's also "get it while you can" time, "in case" you really like this record.

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"Tea For the Tillerman" Launches Quality Record Pressing Plant
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 01, 2011  |  0 comments

Poor misunderstood Steven Demetre Georgiou/Cat Stevens/Yusef Islam. Like Bob Marley or Barack Obama, he’s a “hybrid” and subject to misinterpretation and fear-mongering.

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