Tocp Genesis

The Ventures - History Box, Vol.1 (1992) {4CD Set, Liberty ‎Japan TOCP-7129~32 rec 1960-1962}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks) -> 1.35 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 540 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 69 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1960-62, 1992 Liberty ‎/ Toshiba-EMI Japan | TOCP-7129~32
Rock / Pop / Rock & Roll / Surf Rock

Box set containing 4 jewel case CDs (TOCP-7129, TOCP-7130, TOCP-7131, TOCP-7132) and two booklets. The Ventures are an American instrumental rock band, formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington, by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle. The band, a quartet for most of its existence, helped to popularize the electric guitar in the United States and across the world during the 1960s. While their popularity in the United States waned in the 1970s, the group remains especially revered in Japan, where they tour regularly to this day. The classic lineup of the band consisted of Wilson (rhythm guitar), Bogle (initially lead guitar, switched to bass), Nokie Edwards[3](initially bass, switched to lead guitar), and Mel Taylor (drums).

After three eponymous discs noteworthy for their thematic richness and musical experimentation, Peter Gabriel yielded to conventional wisdom by actually titling this 1982 successor. In every other respect, however, Security was another stride beyond the progressive rock terrain Gabriel had explored from Genesis forward. Most crucially, he goes deeper into the heart of world music, and further investigates the African sources first invoked on the prior album's magisterial track, "Biko." …

The debut album from amalgamated progsters John Wetton, Bill Bruford, Eddie Jobson, and Allan Holdsworth has the edge over both Danger Money and Night After Night because of the synthesis of melody and rhythm that is inflicted through nearly every one of the eight track…

In one regard, Queen II does indeed provide more of the same thing as on the band's debut. Certainly, of all the other albums in Queen's catalog it bears the closest resemblance to its immediate predecessor, particularly in its lean, hard attack and in how it has only one song that is well-known to listeners outside of their hardcore cult: in this case, it's "Seven Seas of Rhye," which is itself more elliptical than "Keep Yourself Alive," the big song from the debut…

Jethro Tull - 17 Chrysalis Album Collection (1968-87) [19CD+DVD] {2001-2005 Japan Mini LP Remaster} [combined repost]
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC(tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 6.36 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 2.39 Gb
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© 2001-2005 Toshiba-EMI / Chrysalis | TOCP-65879~67682
Rock / Prog Rock / Art Rock

Jethro Tull's first album, THIS WAS, recorded and released in 1968, shows a band that is a far cry from their better-known incarnation as a prog rock outfit in the late 1970s. Instead, Tull come across here as a solid and talented blues band with elements of jazz, folk, and psychedelia thrown in. The band's sound was heavily influenced by guitarist, singer, and songwriter Mick Abrahams, whose bluesy singing and leads distinguish this disc in Tull's discography. Frontman Ian Anderson also shines with tunes like "Some Day the Sun Won't Shine for You" and the excellent cover of Rashaan Roland Kirk's "Serenade to a Cuckoo."

Genesis (1968). The Gods' debut album was the sound of a band capturing the transition of British psychedelia into more ostentatious progressive hard rock. Ken Hensley's heavy Hammond organ was the center of their sound, and both that and the sometimes overbearing vibrato vocals pointed toward the less psychedelic sounds he and drummer Lee Kerslake would pursue in Uriah Heep. Genesis is undoubtedly lighter than Uriah Heep, though, often employing characteristically late-'60s British vocal harmonies. Some tunes, like "Candles Getting Shorter" and "Radio Show," even skirt a pop-soul sensibility. But the songs weren't terribly memorable, though they were segued together by brief odd'n'goofy instrumental bits at the end of tracks in keeping with the modus operandi of the psychedelic era…

Genesis 1970 - 1975 Vinyl Box-Set
5 Albums on 6 * 200 gr 1/2 Speed Mastered LP's
24-bit/96kHz | FLAC (seperated tracks) | ~ 6 GB
Genre: ProgRock/Rock | 1970-75

Trespass (1970); Nursery Crime (1971); Foxtrot (1972); Selling England by the Pound (1973) and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974)

Great sounding new mix of Genesis' early studio work of the "Gabriel-Era"…

(Genesis 1975)

Eric Clapton Discography
Rock, Blues | 45 CD | 1965-2006 | Flac | 23 GB

LED ZEPPELIN
40th Anniversary: The Definitive Box Set (12CD)
WavPack | IMG+CUE+LOGs+Covers | 569:23 min | 4,1 GB
12 SHM-CD. Japanese Limited Edition, September 2008

Dr. Ebbetts specializes in releasing digital remasterings from long-deleted and hard-to-obtain vinyl records, particularly issues from the audiophile Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs (MFSL) label. Although the Ebbetts catalogue has many artists, it is most known for Beatles CDs transferred from the best quality MFSL releases, US releases and mono vinyl sources. While lables like Millenium, BEAT, Mirror Spock and Fabulous Sound Labs (FSL) also issue 'needle drops' of Beatles vinyl, Dr. Ebbetts is regarded by many audiophiles as being the highest quality. For those interested in the technical, one source close to the Dr says that Ebbetts says that he uses no noise reduction and that there's no magic formula…just a good ear and patience.

The John Lennon Collection Reup
Albums, Bootlegs, Videos
10,68 GB | 7Zip @ RS.com

John Lennon Mini LP Box Set (2007) [11 CD Japan EMI TOCP-70390-70400]
EAC Copy (Flac+Cue+Log) | ~3.37GB | Full Artwork

Bruce Springsteen - 2005 Japan mini-LP sleeve collection
Rock | 19 CD | FLAC | Cue + Log | 7,05 GB

Very nice 2005 Japanese mini-LP sleeve reissues

Diva: The Singles Collection picks up where the Classics anthology (a collection of songs from Time To Say Goodbye, Eden and La Luna) left us in 2001: longing for more of Brightman's career-spanning hits including music from the Broadway musical that launched her international career…

If boiled down to a simple synopsis, the Beatles' LOVE sounds radical: assisted by his father, the legendary Beatles producer George, Giles Martin has assembled a remix album where familiar Fab Four tunes aren't just refurbished, they're given the mash-up treatment, meaning different versions of different songs are pasted together to create a new track. Ever since the turn of the century, mash-ups were in vogue in the underground, as such cut-n-paste jobs as Freelance Hellraiser's "Stroke of Genius" – which paired up the Strokes' "Last Night" with Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle" – circulated on the net, but no major group issued their own mash-up mastermix until LOVE in November 2006.