Sold Date:
October 28, 2021
Start Date:
October 1, 2021
Final Price:
$43.99
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This Is Only A Test!
Label:
Razormaid Records – SP-017
Series:
This Is Only A Test! –
Format:
2 × Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Promo, Red Transparent
Country:
US
Released:
1990
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
House, New Wave, Synth-pop, Euro House
Tracklist Hide Credits
A1–Deee-LiteWorld Clique Medley (Digital Deconstruction By Art Maharg)
Remix – Art Maharg
A2–Bizz NizzGet Into Trance (Digital Mix By Joseph Watt)
Remix – Joseph Watt
B1–Pet Shop BoysSo Hard (Digital Mix By Art Maharg)
Remix – Art Maharg
B2–The GridA Beat Called Love (Digital Mix By Joseph Watt)
Remix – Joseph Watt
C1–Dux DuxC'Mon Boy (Digital Mix By Joseph Watt)
Remix – Joseph Watt
C2–Dusty SpringfieldBorn This Way (Digital Mix By Art Maharg)
Remix – Art Maharg
D1–Depeche ModeHappiest Girl (Digital Mix By Art Maharg)
Remix – Art Maharg
D2–Inga HumpeGhostloverdance (Digital Mix By Joseph Watt)
Remix – Joseph Watt
Credits
Producer [Produced By] – Art Maharg, Joseph Watt
Notes
Produced for Razormaid! Productions
USA TRANSPARENT RED VINYL DOUBLE 12 INCH SINGLE.
This 12 inch is from a large former distributor's collection. They have been in storage for decades. The discs are unplayed. The sleeves may have minor storage wear.
SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+.
DISCS: UNPLAYED.
Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?
First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl. Why experience the worse elements of both formats? These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared. They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound. There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.
First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider. Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive. Inner details are clearer.
On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant. The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.
1. USA BY MEDIA MAIL IS $5.99 FOR ANY AMOUNT OF LPs PURCHASED AND PAID FOR AT THE SAME TIME