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Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall - George Frideric Handel: Water Music; Music for the Royal Fireworks (1993)

George Frideric Haendel: Water Music; Music for the Royal Fireworks (1993)
Le Concert des Nations; Jordi Savall, direction

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 384 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 176 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Baroque | Label: Astree | # E 8512 | Time: 01:13:49

Jordi Savall's exemplary performance of Handel's Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks is among the finest available on disc: refined and precise, but very big, with blood-stirring grandeur. This is just the kind of extroverted, rousing presentation that best highlights the music's open-air ceremonial function. Savall's Le Concert des Nations is essentially a chamber orchestra with double or triple winds, but the sound he elicits from the group is majestic and surprisingly powerful. The playing is crisp and the rhythmic articulation bracing, but the sound is never brash. In fact, more often than not it is seductively sensual, a heady integration of precision and supple, shapely phrasing. Handel left no authoritative edition of the score of Water Music and it has traditionally been divided into three suites, but Savall reorders the material into two suites, a decision that makes more sense in terms of key relationships and that sounds entirely satisfying.

Lovelock - Burning Feeling (2011)  Music

Posted by Designol at March 21, 2018
Lovelock - Burning Feeling (2011)

Lovelock - Burning Feeling (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 325 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 122 Mb | Scans included
Electronic, Disco, Synthpop | Label: Internasjonal | # INTCD003 | Time: 00:48:48

Some people will seek out the debut album by Lovelock, because the man behind it is Steve Moore of the band Zombi – a New York duo who play faintly absurd horror soundtrack music enjoyed mainly by metalheads. Yet they will discover, in ‘Burning Feeling’, one of the least horrific or metallic records ever. Lovelock is where Moore lives out his oiliest, most moustachioed cosmic-disco-meets-yacht-rock fantasies. Largely paced languidly enough for the cruise ship dancefloor’s erection section, synths fizz like fireworks and vocals, when they feature, are shameless requests for unnamed ladies to disrobe. Despite being a good 30 years out of time, it’s absolutely brilliant.
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Acoustic Sounds Series, Reissue, Stereo Vinyl) (1963/2021) [24bit/192kHz]

Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Acoustic Sounds Series, Reissue, Stereo Vinyl) (1963/2021)
Vinyl Rip | FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Artwork | Time - 39:12 minutes | 1,57 GB
Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop | Label: Acoustic Sound Series

Acoustic Sounds Series reissues from Verve/Universal Music Enterprises! Monthly releases highlighting the world's most historic and best jazz records! Mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the original analog tapes. 180-gram LPs pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights (1982) [Reissue 2004] PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights (1982) [Reissue 2004]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 37:58 minutes | Scans included | 1,14 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 1,07 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 883 MB

Richard & Linda Thompson's marriage was crumbling as they were recording Shoot Out the Lights in 1982, and many critics have read the album as a chronicle of the couple's divorce. In truth, most of the album's songs had been written two years earlier (when the Thompsons were getting along fine) for an abandoned project produced by Gerry Rafferty, and tales of busted relationships and domestic discord were always prominent in their songbook.

V.A. - Naxos The 30th Anniversary Collection (30CD Box Set, 2017)  Music

Posted by Discograf_man at Sept. 10, 2020
V.A. - Naxos The 30th Anniversary Collection (30CD Box Set, 2017)

V.A. - Naxos The 30th Anniversary Collection (30CD Box Set, 2017)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Run Time: 34:22:34 | 4,78 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos

In 2017, Naxos Records celebrates its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, the label now boasts a catalogue of over 9,000 albums spanning every genre of classical music. This limited edition anniversary boxed set comprises thirty CDs spanning the wide range of the label's repertoire. Featuring releases from 1987 to 2016 and a host of stellar artists, every one of these discs has received critical acclaim and has contributed towards the huge success of Naxos: the world's largest independent classical record label. Naxos was launched in 1987 as a budget classical CD label, offering CDs at teh price of an LP when CDs cost about three times more than LPs.
V.A. - Naxos The 30th Anniversary Collection (30CD Box Set, 2017) Part 2

V.A. - Naxos The 30th Anniversary Collection (30CD Box Set, 2017) Part 2
WEB FLAC (Tracks) | Run Time: 16:34:04 | 4,04 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos

In 2017, Naxos Records celebrates its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, the label now boasts a catalogue of over 9,000 albums spanning every genre of classical music. This limited edition anniversary boxed set comprises thirty CDs spanning the wide range of the label's repertoire. Featuring releases from 1987 to 2016 and a host of stellar artists, every one of these discs has received critical acclaim and has contributed towards the huge success of Naxos: the world's largest independent classical record label. Naxos was launched in 1987 as a budget classical CD label, offering CDs at teh price of an LP when CDs cost about three times more than LPs.

Jim White - Misfit's Jubilee (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Dec. 23, 2020
Jim White - Misfit's Jubilee (2020)

Jim White - Misfit's Jubilee (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 311 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 110 Mb | 00:45:24
Psychedelic Rock, Folk Rock | Label: Fluff & Gravy Records

The ever-elusive Americana maverick Jim White returns with his most upbeat, hallucinogenic record to date.

Dead Can Dance ‎- SACD Box Set (2008) [CD Layers] Re-up  Music

Posted by v3122 at July 26, 2017
Dead Can Dance ‎- SACD Box Set (2008) [CD Layers] Re-up

Dead Can Dance ‎- SACD Box Set (2008)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
9CD | 4AD, DCDBOX 2 | ~ 2696 or 1092 Mb | Scans
Modern Classical / Indie Rock / Experimental / Ethereal | Remastered

Limited edition of 1500 copies. Housed in a white cardboard box, containing another black velvet box and all albums and the EP, re-mastered on hybrid stereo SACD in vinyl replica sleeves. SACD mastered at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab…

Kode9 & Burial - Fabriclive 100 (2018)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 28, 2018
Kode9 & Burial - Fabriclive 100 (2018)

Kode9 & Burial - Fabriclive 100 (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 482 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 174 Mb | 01:16:03
Electronic, Downtempo, Future Garage | Label: Fabric Worldwide

For the 100th and final instalment of the iconic FABRICLIVE mix CD series, in its current form, two UK pioneers unite for a hypnotic 74-minute mix. Burial and Kode9 are each credited with fostering esoteric, hyperlocal sounds and steering them to global recognition, helping to shape the landscape of contemporary electronic music as we know it. They are also close peers, having influenced each other’s careers immeasurably over many years.

Byron Westbrook - Body Consonance (2017)  Music

Posted by aasana at Oct. 18, 2017
Byron Westbrook - Body Consonance (2017)

Byron Westbrook - Body Consonance (2017)
Electronic, Abstract, Ambient | 36:18 min | WEB FLAC (tracks) & front cover | 187 MB
Label: Hands in the Dark

Body Consonance is the follow up to Precipice, Byron Westbrook’s critically acclaimed debut LP from 2015 (Root Strata).