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Virtuscape Audio Rhodecase88 v1.0.1 (Win/macOS) Software

Posted by melt_ at Oct. 22, 2024

Virtuscape Audio Rhodecase88 v1.0.1 (Win/macOS) | 409.5/527 Mb

Rhodecase88 is an instrument built on the cutting-edge HISE sampler engine and no modeling was involved. We used a minimalist approach to sampling this instrument focusing on efficiency, versatility, and innovation. It is our philosophy that great virtual instruments have very little to do with the number of velocity layers and everything to do with it how it makes you feel emotionally. Rhodecase88’s compact size and light CPU usage make it perfect to integrate into your existing live performance Mainstage or Ableton rig or your huge composer template.

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Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto (1964/2013) [Blu-Ray Audio Rip 24 bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Oct. 9, 2024

Stan Getz & João Gilberto featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim - Getz/Gilberto (1964/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 33:41 minutes | 739 MB
Blu-Ray Audio Rip | Sourced Track - LPCM 2.0 Stereo | No Art

One of the biggest-selling jazz albums of all time, not to mention bossa nova's finest moment, Getz/Gilberto trumped Jazz Samba by bringing two of bossa nova's greatest innovators – guitarist/singer Joao Gilberto and composer/pianist Antonio Carlos Jobim – to New York to record with Stan Getz. The results were magic. Ever since Jazz Samba, the jazz marketplace had been flooded with bossa nova albums, and the overexposure was beginning to make the music seem like a fad. Getz/Gilberto made bossa nova a permanent part of the jazz landscape not just with its unassailable beauty, but with one of the biggest smash hit singles in jazz history – 'The Girl from Ipanema,' a Jobim classic sung by Joao's wife, Astrud Gilberto, who had never performed outside of her own home prior to the recording session.

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Cream - Fresh Cream (1966) [2017, 3CD + Blu-ray Box Set] Music

Posted by v3122 at Dec. 1, 2021

Cream - Fresh Cream (1966)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
3CD | Polydor Records, 571855-1 | ~ 1094 or 539 Mb | Scans(png) -> 794 Mb
Blu-ray: MPEG-4 AVC 1979 kbps, 1080p, 23.976 fps, 16:9, High Profile 4.1
LPCM Audio 2.0, 96 kHz, 4608 kbps, 24-bit -> 17.73 Gb
Blues Rock, Pop Rock, Electric Blues

Fresh Cream represents so many different firsts, it's difficult to keep count. Cream, of course, was the first supergroup, but their first album not only gave birth to the power trio, it also was instrumental in the birth of heavy metal and the birth of jam rock…

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Jackie McLean - 4, 5 and 6 (1956) [Analogue Productions Remaster 2012] PS3 ISO + Hi-Res FLAC Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at March 27, 2020

This was McLean's third album as leader and second for Prestige. The LP at the time helped to establish McLean on the jazz scene. This album of ballads and burners features sax man Jackie McLean in various small-group combinations. He is joined on three numbers by Hank Mobley and on two numbers by Donald Byrd (one of those numbers also including Mobley). The other three cuts are jazz quartets. Thus, the album title refers to the three personnel configurations used over the two recording dates.

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Various Artists - Must Have Jazz Recordings (2018) SACD ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at Jan. 26, 2021

This compliation featuring some of jazz's most well-known names. Vickie Leigh, Sekou Bunch, Kate Mc Garry, David Garfield, Karen Knowles, and others, performed the songs of Cole Porter, John Coltrane, Billy Strayhorn, and some of their own material. This is pure analogue recording. The heart and soul of any recorded sound must surely be the acoustical properties of the room or hall itself, and the microphones being used within that acoustic.

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Alison Krauss & Union Station - Live (2002) [Reissue 2003] MCH SACD ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at Feb. 4, 2021

This two-discs, 25-song set, recorded in Louisville on two nights in the spring of 2002, finds bluegrass's most celebrated crossover band at the top of its game. Krauss's warm, feathery vocals, capable of conveying complex emotions in a single note, appear more full-bodied than in studio recordings, yet lose none of their sensual appeal or dramatic tension. At the 46th Grammy Awards, Live won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album and the traditional song "Cluck Old Hen" won the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance.

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Doug MacLeod - Whose Truth, Whose Lies (2000) [Reissue 2007] PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at Feb. 17, 2021

In 2000, you would have been hard-pressed to find a more lowdown blues-oriented recording than singer/guitarist Doug MacLeod's Whose Truth, Whose Lies?, which should appeal to anyone who likes his/her blues dark, shadowy, and moody. This isn't an album that tries to win you over with slickness; whether MacLeod is going electric or acoustic, he obviously identifies with the simplicity and honesty that characterized the country blues artists of the '30s and '40s. Not that Whose Truth, Whose Lies? sounds like a recording from that time. MacLeod's lyrics obviously aren't pre-World War II lyrics, and he has been influenced by soul, rock, and folk as well as country and urban blues. Not everything on this superb album adheres to a 12-bar format, and some of the tunes fall into the folk category. But even when he is getting into a folk or R&B groove, MacLeod can always be counted on to provide a wealth of blues feeling. Whose Truth, Whose Lies? may not be the work of a purist, but it is certainly compelling.

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V.A. - Chesky Records: The Ultimate Demonstration Disc, Vol.2 (2008) [SACD] PS3 ISO Vinyl & HR

Posted by Discograf_man at Aug. 4, 2019

V.A. - Chesky Records: The Ultimate Demonstration Disc, Vol.2 (2008) [SACD] PS3 ISO
Jazz, World, Blues, Rock'n'Roll | SACD ISO: DST64 2.0, DST64 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz
Run Time: 01:03:48 | 3.15 GB + 5% Recovery
Label: Chesky Records | Release Year: 2008

"I produced the first Ultimate Demonstration Disc in 1995, and it went on to be a huge success. It caught on with audiophiles, especially those who read audiophile magazines like "Stereophile" and "The Absolute Sound," but didn't fully understand the lexicon of sound. Audiophile reviewers use words like "transparent" and "soundstage depth" all the time, but rarely describe exactly what the words mean. With the original and now this new UDD I spell out what to listen for on each tune. And since Chesky recordings are made by and for audiophiles the entire recording chain – the microphones, mic preamps, mixer, and analog-to-digital converter – is custom built to high-end standards.

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Brian Bennett - Voyage: A Journey Into Discoid Funk (vinyl rip) (1978) {DJM} Music

Posted by TestTickles at Sept. 29, 2020

Brian Bennett - Voyage: A Journey Into Discoid Funk (vinyl rip) (1978) {DJM}
Vinyl rip | FLAC (no log) | scans | 266 mb
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 152 mb
Genre: disco, funk, electronic pop, library music

Voyage: A Journey Into Discoid Funk is a 1978 album by British artist Brian Bennett. This was released in Great Britain by DJM Records and is a vinyl rip.

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Robben Ford - Blue Moon (2002) Music

Posted by Designol at Oct. 23, 2023

Over the years many people have asked, "Will the real Robben Ford please stand up?" Those are the people who wonder if the singer/guitarist is really a blues-rock vocalist or a jazz fusion instrumentalist at heart. But truth be told, Ford is many different things. He is genuinely eclectic, which is why one never really knows from one album to the next what direction he will take. Blue Moon, Ford's first album for Concord Jazz, is primarily a vocal date. Ford gets in his share of inspired guitar solos, and he provides one instrumental: the gutsy "Indianola." But most of the time he sings. And as a vocalist, he favors an exciting blend of blues, rock, and soul on tracks like "Something for the Pain," "Don't Deny Your Love," and "The Way You Treated Me (You're Gonna Be Sorry)." Meanwhile, "It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)" and the moody "Make Me Your Only One" are among the CD's more jazz-tinged vocal offerings. Ford does not embrace a standard 12-bar blues format on all of the material, but then, he never claimed to be a blues purist.

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