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Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge (1974)  Music

Posted by v3122 at March 15, 2021
Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge (1974)

Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge (1974)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
1984 | Virgin, CDV 2013 | ~ 209 or 95 Mb | Scans(png) -> 37 Mb
Prog Rock / Ambient

Released as another lengthy composition, Hergest Ridge was the album that followed Mike Oldfield's momentous Tubular Bells release, with many of the same instrumental elements and methods employed throughout its two sections…
Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge (1974) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2010] (Repost)

Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge (1974) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2010]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 689 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 290 MB | Covers - 142 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mercury Records (532675-4)

Released as another lengthy composition, Hergest Ridge was the album that followed Mike Oldfield's momentous Tubular Bells release, with many of the same instrumental elements and methods employed throughout its two sections. Because of the time of its release, Hergest Ridge was overshadowed by the effects of Oldfield's first album for Virgin, but even so he manages to invoke some interesting patches of music by using instruments like the glockenspiel, sleigh bells, the Lowrey organ, oboes, and a variety of mandolins and guitars to maintain the same type of diversity as Tubular Bells. Symphonic throughout most of the album's two parts, the highlight of Hergest Ridge is Oldfield's use of 90 multi-tracked guitars clustered together to create one of the most unique sounds ever to surface on his albums…
Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge (1974) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2010] (Repost)

Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge (1974) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2010]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 689 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 290 MB | Covers - 142 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mercury Records (532675-4)

Released as another lengthy composition, Hergest Ridge was the album that followed Mike Oldfield's momentous Tubular Bells release, with many of the same instrumental elements and methods employed throughout its two sections. Because of the time of its release, Hergest Ridge was overshadowed by the effects of Oldfield's first album for Virgin, but even so he manages to invoke some interesting patches of music by using instruments like the glockenspiel, sleigh bells, the Lowrey organ, oboes, and a variety of mandolins and guitars to maintain the same type of diversity as Tubular Bells. Symphonic throughout most of the album's two parts, the highlight of Hergest Ridge is Oldfield's use of 90 multi-tracked guitars clustered together to create one of the most unique sounds ever to surface on his albums…
Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge (1974) [2010, 2CD + DVD Deluxe Edition] Repost

Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge (1974)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Universal/Mercury, 532 675-4 | ~ 690 or 300 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 142 Mb
DVD-5: Video: NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR | Dolby AC3, 6 ch -> 1.98 Gb
Progressive Rock, Electronic, Experimental

This 2010 Deluxe Edition features versions of the original record, remastered for a modern audience, unheard demo versions, plus the mixes found on the vinyl version first released in 1974 - along with DVD footage to accompany both parts of Hergest Ridge.
Mike Oldfield - Incantations (1978) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2011] (Repost)

Mike Oldfield - Incantations (1978) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2011]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 762 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 309 MB | Covers - 121 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock, New Age | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mercury Records (533463-7)

After a two-year pause following the release of Boxed, Mike Oldfield returned with a new epic project, this one spread over four vinyl sides and devoted to Native American themes rather than hewing once more toward the Celtic end of the spectrum. Included was Oldfield's musical adaptation of "The Song of Hiawatha," grandiose but empty; there was a nice sense of the dramatic when it came to dynamic range, but no sense of time – the piece ran far too long as Oldfield searched for enough musical ideas to prop the whole thing up. After this, Oldfield avoided album-length concepts for quite some time.
Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out (1982) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2013] (Repost)

Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out (1982) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2013]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 859 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 324 MB | Covers - 118 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock, Pop Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mercury Records (374 043-7)

Mike Oldfield was back into the extended composition game with Five Miles Out, continuing the "Taurus" series with the mammoth "Taurus II," an entertaining enough romp with references to Irish music, brass bands and Oldfield's beloved Morris. The true standout, though, was the title track, a paean to flying in bad weather that could easily double for Oldfield's feelings about the sort of monumental critical drubbing he was accustomed to receiving. "Family Man" became a huge worldwide hit for Hall & Oates.
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn (1975) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2010] (Repost)

Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn (1975) [2CD Deluxe Edition 2010]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 587 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 247 MB | Covers - 131 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Mercury Records (532676-1)

Although it features the beautiful recorder of Leslie Penny and the Chieftains' Paddy Maloney playing the uilean pipe, Ommadawn didn't gain Mike Oldfield the success he was looking for. The album was released in the same year as the David Bedford-arranged Orchestral Tubular Bells and nine months after Oldfield picked up a Grammy award for the original Tubular Bells album. The most pleasing attribute of Ommadawn is its incorporation of both African and Irish music in its symphonic rock & roll mainframe. Boosted by a hearty amount of different horns, piano, cello, trumpet, and synthesizer, the album has its moments of rising action, but the whole of Ommadawn fails to keep its lovely segments around long enough, and there are some rather lengthy instances that include bland runs of unvaried music…
Mike Oldfield - Boxed (1979) [4LP, Vinyl Rip 16/44 & mp3-320 + DVD] Re-up

Mike Oldfield - Boxed (1979)
Vinyl Rip 16/44 | Flac(Image + Cue) > 761 Mb
MP3 CBR 320Kbps > 330 Mb | Artwork(jpg) > 159 Mb
DVD-9: NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR | LPCM, 2 ch, 24 bit, 96 kHz > 5.76 Gb
Virgin – VBOX1 | Progr-Folk, Prog-Rock

A curious four-LP set consisting of the original version of Ommadawn, a vastly remixed version of Hergest Ridge, a remixed/remodeled version of Tubular Bells, and a platter called Collaborations in which Oldfield's bits on the recordings of others were excerpted, often with the result that sans context, the excerpts made little sense (certainly the case with Oldfield's work alongside David Bedford)…

Mike Oldfield - The Platinum Collection (2006)  Music

Posted by v3122 at Sept. 28, 2021
Mike Oldfield - The Platinum Collection (2006)

Mike Oldfield - The Platinum Collection (2006)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
3CD | Virgin, 00946 3 54936 2 7 | ~ 1271 or 500 Mb | Scans
Pop Rock / Symphonic Rock / Progressive Rock / Electronic

Mike Oldfield is a bit of an enigma. On the one hand is the artist who almost single-handedly ushered in the genre of new age music with his epic masterpiece Tubular Bells, and then followed that with several albums, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, and even Tubular Bells II and III, all with tracks that invariable meandered for half an hour or more through various musical ideas and soundscapes – and no doubt would have gone on a lot longer had it not been for the constraints of vinyl and the restrictions on the length of musical compositions that would physically fit on two sides of a piece of plastic with micro grooves…
Mike Oldfield - The Space Movie (The Full Original Unreleased 103 Minute Soundtrack) (2019)

Mike Oldfield - The Space Movie (The Full Original Unreleased 103 Minute Soundtrack) (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 542 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 236 Mb | 01:42:56
Classical, New Age, Chamber Music, Soundtrack | Label: Gonzo Multimedia

A few years back Gonzo released the original soundtrack for Tony Palmer's "The Space Movie" 1979 documentary by Mike Oldfield. It consisted of consists of the un-edited sountrack (movie commentaries and all) which includes pieces from Oldfield's released "Tubular Bells", "Hergest Ridge", "Ommadawn" and "Portsmouth" and also excerpts from what was Oldfield's then-new album, "Incantations". The film also made use of the orchestral arrangements of Oldfield's first two albums, "The Orchestral Tubular Bells" and notably "The Orchestral Hergest Ridge" (with the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra), which has never been released before. And now… The demos.