Michael Fremer

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Album Reviews
Analogue Productions "Goes to the Dogs"—Its "Scheherazade" Living Stereo Reissue Sounds Best
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 12, 2013  |  37 comments
This ravishing beauty, originally released in 1960 or fifty three years ago, has been a long-time audiophile classic. It's also considering to be among the finest if not the finest performance on record or any other format.

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News
Analogue Productions Announces Ultra Tape R2R Reissue Program
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 06, 2016  |  First Published: Oct 06, 2016  |  31 comments
Analogue Productions Ultra Tape is a new reel-to-reel reissue program that includes some highly sought after titles at 15IPS, 1/4 inch half-track..

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AAA VinylNews
Analogue Productions Launches 25,000 Copy UHQR Miles Davis Kind of Blue
Michael Fremer  |  May 03, 2021  |  First Published: May 03, 2021  |  102 comments
It's the best selling jazz album ever, one of the most influential too, arguably the one that produced a shift from riffing on chord based tunes to modal excursions that gave musicians newfound improvisational freedom. Cynics and the selfish will react to yet another Kind of Blue reissue by claiming that "everyone" already owns a copy but of course that's not true. And no one owns a 200 gram UHQR Clarity vinyl copy pressed one at a time on a manual Finebuilt press.

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AAA VinylAlbum Reviews
Analogue Productions Presents a 200 Gram, Clarity Vinyl UHQR Are You Experienced
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 25, 2022  |  49 comments
The original British pressing of Are You Experienced? (Track 612 001) was a tepid looking and sounding monophonic affair and despite the label’s name, the jacket didn’t list the tracks, nor did the front offer the band’s name.

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CES 2013
Analogue Productions Readies Deluxe Box For Its Double 45rpm Doors Reissue Series
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 12, 2013  |  3 comments
Analogue Productions and Acoustic Sounds chief Chad Kassem showed me an early edition of the deluxe Doors box he's readying for production. The box will hold the entire set of double 45rpm LPs mastered by Doug Sax from the original master tapes and pressed at Kassem's Quality Record Productions.
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News
Analogue Productions Readies Doors Box Set and Separate Box For Those Already Owning the Albums (Updated Again)
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 30, 2013  |  2 comments
Analogue Productions will have for sale on February 5th a deluxe box set edition of its six double 45rpm 180g Doors reissues. The magnetic door front opening box (there must be a tech-packaging name for it that I don't know) is beautifully and ruggedly manufactured inside and out. It feature a gray cast covering containing a ghostly iconic image of Jim Morrison on the front cover and the group on the back.
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Analogue Productions Releases First Wave of Beach Boys Albums
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 22, 2015  |  First Published: Jan 22, 2015  |  2 comments
Analogue Productions has released its first wave of mono and stereo Beach Boys albums.

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CES 2013
Analogue Productions to Reissue Roger Waters' "Amused to Death"
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 12, 2013  |  18 comments
Analogue Productions will soon reissue on double LP and SACD Roger Waters' epic, didactic Amused to Death, first released in 1992 in a very limited double LP edition. Anyone looking to purchase an original of the very limited first release could not have been amused by the going price of around $300 last time I checked.
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CES 2013
Analogue Productions to Resurrect Deluxe UHQR Record Production With Two Bill Evans Classics
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 12, 2013  |  12 comments
Analogue Productions will commence pressing UHQR records this year beginning with two classic Bill Evans titles: Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz For Debby.
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Album Reviews
Analogue Productions' Rhapsody In Blue/American in Paris "Living Stereo" Reissue Beats Original
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 05, 2014  |  9 comments
A thousand United Airlines commercials later and Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" still sounds fresh, lavish and grand. It epitomizes New York City in its golden jazz age and with every listen opens the mind's eye to yellow incandescent lit Art Deco granite skyscrapers and the general urban dazzle of pre-WWII America. I never get tired of listening to it, the later at night the better for some reason. It could only have been written in America by an American.

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