Master tapes located, retrieved and transferred. Thanks to all of you who have remained patient on this. We have been working very hard with Minder Music, Cherry Red Records and Sony Music Entertainment to make sure you got the best sound quality possible on our long promised Total Experience remasters. We could not give you any more information before now while negotiations continued but now we can. Released September 2012.

a newish reissue company CULTURE FACTORY

Deluxe Vinyl Replicas by Culture Factory constitute high quality reissued compact-discs which reproduce meticulously all the components of the original LPs and are their exact replicas in compact-disc size (5.3 x 5.3 inches), with authentic single or gatefold cardboard jackets and paper sleeves.

In addition to the above, each compact-disc Deluxe Vinyl ReplicaTM includes a black finish CD complete with the original label to give it the look and feel of the original record album. The music is encoded using state of the art, high definition remastering in 96 kHz / 24 BIT audio.

OUR COMPACT-DISC DELUXE VINYL REPLICAS ARE ALL REMASTERED AND OFFERED TO COLLECTORS IN LIMITED EDITIONS

For example The Motels “Little Robbers”
Deluxe Vinyl Replica of Original 1979 Album Cover

Front	Back

Deluxe Vinyl Replica of Original 1979 Album Inner Sleeve		Compact-Disc
Front	Back	With LP groove design and 1979 original label art

Across 110th Street 40th Anniversary [deluxe 2CD edition]

'Across 110th Street Is One Of The Finest (And Most Successful) Creations To Emerge From Black America.' UNCUT

'A world with Bobby Womack in it is a richer place.' DAMON ALBARN

THREE ORIGINAL HIT ALBUMS IN ONE DELUXE 2CD DIGIBOOK PACKAGE

One of the few surviving links to the pre-Soul/R&B era, Bobby Womack - who was originally discovered as a teenager singing Gospel music by the late Sam Cooke - nowadays enjoys full-blown “Living Legend” status. Blessed with one of the warmest, most readily-identifiable voices in Soul music, he carved out his reputation with a series of classic albums and singles in the early 70s, re-emerging again in the 80s with his career masterpieces, The Poet and The Poet II, the latter achieving platinum status in Europe alone.

This unique package concentrates on the early 70s, and is built around the iconic, award-winning original soundtrack to Across 110th Street (1972), the critically-acclaimed - albeit violent, bloodthirsty and deeply disturbing - Blaxploitation movie which starred Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto and Anthony Franciosa. Perhaps Womack’s most celebrated album, this compelling OST remains the most important soundtrack of the genre, the powerful title song later featuring heavily in both Quentin Tarantino’s 1997 homage to Blaxploitation, Jackie Brown, and Ridley Scott’s 2007 opus, American Gangster.

The bonus disc features Womack’s two subsequent LPs, Facts Of Life (1973) and Looking For A Love Again (1974), which were, at that stage of his career, his biggest-selling albums.

Between them, these three LPs include a handful of Womack’s biggest hit singles, notably ‘Across 110th Street’, ‘Nobody Wants You When You’re Down And Out’, the million-selling ‘Lookin’ For A Love’, and ‘You’re Welcome, Stop On By’. Also featured are a number of Bobby’s famously eccentric, unlikely cover versions, including Dylan’s ‘All Along The Watchtower’, the Goffin & King classic, ‘A Natural Man’, and Bacharach & David’s ‘The Look Of Love’.

Womack has enjoyed a long, rich career and still retains a strong cult status in the UK and Europe. He continues to record and tour sporadically and after battling ill-health in recent years, a new album is scheduled for release in June. The album is co-produced by Damon Albarn and Richard Russell, who also produced Gil Scott Heron's acclaimed final album.

Disc One
Across 110th Street OST (1972)
1. Across 110th Street
2. Harlem Clavinette (instrumental)
3. If You Don’t Want My Love
4. Hang On In There (instrumental)
5. Quicksand
6. Harlem Love Theme (instrumental)
7. Across 110th Street (instrumental)
8. Do It Right
9. Hang On In There
10. If You Don’t Want My Love (instrumental)
11. Across 110th Street (part 2)

Disc Two
Facts Of Life (1973)
1. Nobody Wants You When You’re Down And Out
2. I’m Through Trying To Prove My Love To You
3. If You Can’t Give Her Love, Give Her Up
4. That’s Heaven To Me
5. Holdin’ On To My Baby’s Love/Nobody
6. Fact Of Life / He’ll Be There When The Sun Goes Down
7. Can’t Stop A Man In Love
8. The Look Of Love
9. Natural Man
10. All Along The Watchtower
Looking For A Love Again (1974)
11. Lookin’ For A Love
12. I Don’t Wanna Be Hurt By Ya Love Again
13. Doing It My Way
14. Let It Hang Out
15. Point Of No Return
16. You’re Welcome, Stop On By
17. You’re Messing Up A Good Thing
18. Don’t Let Me Down
19. Copper Kettle
20. There’s One Thing That Beats Failing

forthcoming

KC & THE SUNSHIE BAND - DO IT GOOD (1974) BBR expanded remaster

The Beach Boys have announced plans for the CD and digital release of two new commemorative hits collections by Capitol/EMI on September 24^th outside of North America and on October 9^th in North America. 12 remastered Beach Boys studio albums will also be released by Capitol/EMI on September 24^th outside of North America and on September 25^th in North America.

For many years, The Beach Boys have happily embraced the title of “America’s band.” And why not? The group proved the stateside answer to the Beatles, both commercially and artistically, in the band’s heyday of the 1960s, and has rarely stopped since then in spreading the California gospel of “fun, fun, fun” to audiences worldwide. Sure, like any family, The Beach Boys have had more than their share of growing pains and rough patches. But the American spirit is embodied in The Beach Boys’ resilience, tenacity and optimism, so beautifully expressed in the band’s current, headline-making 50^th Anniversary reunion tour featuring Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks, and on the band’s new album, That’s Why God Made the Radio. Late last year, Capitol Records promised “commemorative catalog releases” among the Beach Boys’ plans for 2012. Now, it has been confirmed that those releases are on the schedule!

The website of EMI Japan first revealed that exciting plans were underway. A group of twelve remastered titles were released in Japan on July 25, and these are the same reissues due in the U.S. on September 25. Ten of these albums contain both mono and stereo versions, which is particularly exciting news because many of The Beach Boys’ most enduring early classics have never before been available in true stereo. The rundown is as follows

1. Surfin’ USA (Capitol ST-1890, 1963)
2. Surfer Girl (Capitol ST-1981, 1963)
3. Little Deuce Coupe (Capitol ST-1998, 1963)
4. Shut Down Vol.2 (Capitol ST-2027, 1964)
5. All Summer Long (Capitol ST-2110, 1964)
6. The Beach Boys Today! (Capitol T-2269, 1965)
7. Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!) (Capitol T-235, 1965)
8. Beach Boys’ Party! (Capitol DMAS-2398, 1965)
9. Pet Sounds (Capitol T-2458, 1966)
10. Smiley Smile (Brother 9001, 1967)
11. Sunflower (Brother/Reprise RS 6382, 1970)
12. Surf’s Up (Brother/Reprise RS 6453, 1971)

In addition, two newly-curated compilations will also arrive from America’s Band, both of which are due on October 9 in America. Greatest Hits features 20 of the band’s most popular songs, including “California Girls,” “Good Vibrations,” “Surfin’ U.S.A.,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “God Only Knows,” “Kokomo,” their latest single “That’s Why God Made The Radio,” and many more. (This collection offers ten fewer tracks than 2003′s smash Sounds of Summer.) More enticing is Greatest Hits: 50 Big Ones. Taking its title cue from 1976′s 15 Big Ones, this 2-CD deluxe set offers two tracks from 2012 hit album That’s Why God Made the Radio including the title song and the new single version of “Isn’t It Time?” This 2-CD box seems to have been compiled based on the band’s recent concert setlists, including favorites such as “All This is That,” “Add Some Music to Your Day,” “I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times,” “Cotton Fields,” and “California Saga” that haven’t frequently appeared on Greatest Hits sets. The inclusion of these tracks makes for a fine souvenir of the record-breaking reunion tour. The lift-top package also includes an expanded booklet with liner notes by Rolling Stone contributing editor David Wild and seven postcards. (Oddly, “Be True to Your School” is on the single-disc edition, but not the 2-CD version.)

Hit the jump for more details on these upcoming reissues including full track listings for both compilations! Plus: a new Blu-Ray/DVD documentary is also on the way!

Every title is a 2012 remaster with the exception of Sunflower and Surf’s Up, both of which will utilize remasters created in 2009. In addition, every title will feature mono and stereo versions with the exception of the stereo-only Sunflower and Surf’s Up. Of course, eagle-eyed readers will notice that this program does not (yet) encompass every one of The Beach Boys’ classic LPs. From their first decade, the series omits the band’s very first album Surfin’ Safari (Capitol T-1808, 1962) plus The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album (Capitol ST-2164, 1964), The Beach Boys’ Concert (Capitol STAO-2198, 1964) and a trio of late-1960s, post-SMiLE underrated classics: Wild Honey (Capitol T-2859, 1967), Friends (Capitol ST-2895, 1968) and 20/20 (Capitol SKAO-133, 1969). Of course, any of these titles could be addressed in a second wave of releases, along with some beloved post-Surf’s Up albums that found the band stretching out artistically (1972’s Carl and the Passions: So Tough, 1973’s Holland and In Concert), returning to their rock-and-roll roots (1976’s 15 Big Ones) and pioneering lo-fi pop (1977’s The Beach Boys Love You). And so on and so forth…ideally, diehards would like to have every one of the band’s catalogue titles remastered to the highest, most advanced standard.

The SMiLE Sessions team of Mark Linett, Alan Boyd and Dennis Wolfe has spearheaded this campaign, and the prospect of true stereo versions of Today, Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!), Party! and Smiley Smile should already have fans of the Beach Boys salivating. While those stereo debuts may be the most enticing part of the new remastered editions, the series will also make mono versions available of those titles previously only released on CD in stereo. As seen in the photo above, the titles are also designed in the same clean style with a vertical stripe on the left as Capitol/EMI’s Beatles remastered series. The bonus tracks contained on Capitol’s last round of CD reissues have not been retained, so fans and collectors should certainly hold on to those discs.

The documentary The Beach Boys: Doin’ It Again is also on the way. Featuring vintage footage as well as new interviews and concert film from 2012′s tour, Doin’ It Again arrives on August 28 on both DVD and Blu-ray! And that’s not for all for 2012: Capitol is promising that ”a career-spanning Beach Boys 50th Anniversary box set is planned for release later this year,” with details to follow.

In the meantime, which Beach Boys album reissue are you most excited about? Please take a moment to respond in our survey way down below, which we began back on July 4! We just might even create a special feature on the album you select! Both compilations can be pre-ordered below, too!

The Beach Boys, Greatest Hits (Capitol/EMI, 2012)

1. That’s Why God Made The Radio [That's Why God Made the Radio]
2. California Girls [Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)]
3. Sloop John B [Pet Sounds]
4. Wouldn’t It Be Nice [Pet Sounds]
5. Surfer Girl [Surfer Girl]
6. Do It Again [20/20]
7. Surfin’ Safari [Surfin' Safari]
8. Surfin’ USA [Surfin' USA]
9. Don’t Worry Baby [Shut Down, Vol. 2]
10. Little Deuce Coupe [Little Deuce Coupe]
11. I Get Around [All Summer Long]
12. Fun, Fun, Fun [Shut Down, Vol. 2]
13. Be True to Your School [Little Deuce Coupe]
14. Dance, Dance, Dance [The Beach Boys Today!]
15. All Summer Long [All Summer Long]
16. Help Me, Rhonda [SummerDays (And Summer Nights!!)]
17. Rock And Roll Music [15 Big Ones]
18. God Only Knows [Pet Sounds]
19. Good Vibrations [Smiley Smile]
20. Kokomo [Cocktail: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

The Beach Boys, Greatest Hits: 50 Big Ones (Capitol/EMI, 2012)

CD 1

1. California Girls [Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)]
2. Do It Again [20/20]
3. Surfin’ Safari [Surfin’ Safari]
4. Catch a Wave [Surfer Girl]
5. Little Honda [All Summer Long]
6. Surfin’ U.S.A. [Surfin’ USA]
7. Surfer Girl [Surfer Girl]
8. Don’t Worry Baby [Shut Down, Vol. 2]
9. Little Deuce Coupe [Surfer Girl]
10. Shut Down [Surfin’ USA]
11. I Get Around [All Summer Long]
12. The Warmth of the Sun [Shut Down, Vol. 2]
13. Please Let Me Wonder [The Beach Boys Today!]
14. Wendy [All Summer Long]
15. Getcha Back [The Beach Boys]
16. The Little Girl I Once Knew [non-LP single, 1965]
17. When I Grow Up (To Be a Man) [The Beach Boys Today!]
18. It’s OK [15 Big Ones]
19. Dance, Dance, Dance [The Beach Boys Today!]
20. Do You Wanna Dance [The Beach Boys Today!]
21. Rock And Roll Music [15 Big Ones]
22. Barbara Ann [Beach Boys Party!]
23. All Summer Long [All Summer Long]
24. Help Me, Rhonda [Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)]
25. Fun, Fun, Fun [Shut Down, Vol. 2]

CD 2

1. Kokomo [Cocktail: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
2. You’re So Good To Me [Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)]
3. Wild Honey [Wild Honey]
4. Darlin’ [Wild Honey]
5. In My Room [Surfer Girl]
6. All This Is That [Carl and the Passions “So Tough”]
7. This Whole World [Sunflower]
8. Add Some Music To Your Day [Sunflower]
9. Cotton Fields [non-LP single, 1970]
10. I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times [Pet Sounds]
11. Sail On, Sailor [Holland]
12. Surf’s Up [Surf’s Up]
13. Friends [Friends]
14. Heroes and Villains [Smiley Smile]
15. I Can Hear Music [20/20]
16. Good Timin’ [L.A. (Light Album)]
17. California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a) [Holland]
18. Isn’t It Time (single version) [original version from That’s Why God Made The Radio]
19. Kiss Me, Baby [The Beach Boys Today!]
20. That’s Why God Made The Radio [That’s Why God Made The Radio]
21. Forever [Sunflower]
22. God Only Knows [Pet Sounds]
23. Sloop John B [Pet Sounds]
24. Wouldn’t It Be Nice [Pet Sounds]
25. Good Vibrations [Smiley Smile]

Peter Gabriel‘s So limited edition box set has been confirmed and officially announced via his website. Interestingly, there is no reference to it being an ‘Immersion’ box (as described on amazon.com) with Gabriel’s site referring to it as a ‘Limited Edition Box Set’ or a ‘Deluxe Box Set’.

The specification of the eight disc box is exactly as described the contents are as follows:

• Newly remastered So CD
• So DNA CD (Audio evolution of So)
• Live In Athens 1987 double CD and DVD
• Classic Albums: So DVD
• 180g So 12-inch LP
• 12-inch AA vinyl collectible
• 60 page case-bound book

The three disc variantcontains the newly remastered So CD plus the two disc Live In Athens 1987 CD.

[Edited 8/16/12 10:02am]

Polydor will release will release Level 42′s 1987 album Running In The Family as a 3CD+DVD 25th Anniversary edition deluxe box set on 1 October 2012.

The box will feature a remastered version of the album, plus two bonus audio discs featuring remixes, acoustic ‘re-interpretations’ and live tracks. A DVD with promo videos will complete the set which will also contain a book and prints/art cards.

A cheaper two disc deluxe version will also be available, as will a no-frills one disc variant.

Full track listing details below:

Level 42 / Running In The Family 3CD+ DVD version track listing

Disc 1 – Original Album + 12″ Mixes

Lessons In Love
Children Say
Running In The Family
It’s Over
To Be With You Again
Two Solitudes
Fashion Fever
The Sleepwalkers
Freedom Someday
Lessons In Love (Shep Pettibone Remix)
Running In The Family (Dave ‘O’ Remix)
It’s Over (Mark King Remix)
Disc 2 – Running In The Family – Acoustic Re-Interpretations 25 Years On

Lessons In Love
Children Say
Running In The Family
It’s Over
To Be With You Again
Two Solitudes
Fashion Fever
The Sleepwalkers
Freedom Someday
Disc 3 – Live At Wembley 1987

Thunderbirds
Fashion Fever
World Machine
Children Say
The Chinese Way
Love Games
Leaving Me Now
The Chant Has Begun
Lessons In Love
The Sun Goes Down
Something About You
Hot Water
Disc 4 DVD

Part 1 ‘Fait Accompli’

Onstage, Offstage, Backstage
Part 2 The Promo Videos

1. Lessons In Love
2. Running In The Family
3. To Be With You Again
4. It’s Over
5. Children Say
6. Fashion Fever
Level 42 / Running In The Family 2CD track listing

Disc 1 – Original Album:

Lessons In Love
Children Say
Running In The Family
It’s Over
To Be With You Again
Two Solitudes
Fashion Fever
The Sleepwalkers
Freedom Someday
Disc 2 – Bonus Remixes

Lessons In Love (Shep Pettibone remix)
Running In The Family (Dave ‘O’ remix )
It’s Over (remix)
Lessons In Love
Running In The Family
To Be With You Again
Two Solitudes
The Sleepwalkers
Freedom Someday
Fashion Fever: Live at Wembley (audio tracks from 1987 video)
Children Say
Lessons In Love

Expect a Deluxe Edition of Alexander O'Neal's Hearsay in the next 12 months, since Demon Music Group have signed a licensing deal with the 'Tabu' label it was released on originally.

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R.E.M. join the 25th anniversary bandwagon, with a deluxe reissue of their 1987 Document album, due to be released on 25 September.

The two-disc set will be packaged in a lift-top box with a disc of previously unreleased live recordings, a newly remastered version of the album, along with a booklet and some postcards.

Full track listings below:

CD 1: Original album

1. Finest Worksong
2. Welcome To The Occupation
3. Exhuming McCarthy
4. Disturbance At The Heron House
5. Strange
6. Its The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
7. The One I Love
8. Fireplace
9. Lightnin Hopkins
10. King Of Birds
11. Oddfellows Local 151
CD 2: Previously unreleased 1987 concert

1. Finest Worksong
2. These Days
3. Lightnin Hopkins
4. Welcome To The Occupation
5. Driver 8
6. Feeling Gravitys Pull
7. I Believe
8. The One I Love
9. Exhuming McCarthy
10. Wolves, Lower
11. Fall On Me
12. Just A Touch
13. Oddfellows Local 151
14. Little America
15. Its the End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
16. Begin The Begin
17. Disturbance At The Heron House
18. Moral Kiosk
19. Life And How To Live It
20. So. Central Rain

Thank you for this thread!

getxxxx said:

Expect a Deluxe Edition of Alexander O'Neal's Hearsay in the next 12 months, since Demon Music Group have signed a licensing deal with the 'Tabu' label it was released on originally.

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Hopefully, Cherrelle's CDs will receive expanded releases, too.

^^^^ we may finally get the SOS BAND remastered.

I still have my Sony, EMI/The Right Stuff & A&M CD pressings of the TABU recordings.

I also have two different copies (Sony & EMI) of Alexander O'Neal's Christmas Album, but that is tucked away with my Christmas CD's.

The EMI re-issues were re-mastered and sound AMAZING! The Sony CD pressing are not bad either. These have NO bonus tracks, but are great to have on CD.

ARE THESE RARE ITEMS NOW!!??

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Tabu Productions was an American record label founded by Clarence Avant in 1975. The label, Tabu Records, focused on R&B and funk.

Founding

Avant founded the label after Sussex Records went out of business in June 1975. Tabu Record's flagship release, “Stormin'” by Brainstorm, was released in 1977. Tabu Records had a short-lived distribution pact with RCA, which lasted a year before moving to CBS Records.

The label focused on R&B and funk but expanded into other genres such as disco. Its artists included Lalo Schifrin ("No One Home", 1979) and the SOS Band ("Take Your Time (Do it Right)," 1980).

The label languished in 1982, and Avant nearly lost his home in 1983 before discovering Dina R. Andrews, a young music executive who had worked for Dick Griffey's Solar Records. Andrews, who had just begun managing the duoJimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (of the Time), met with Avant and, through her relationship with him, introduced Jam & Lewis, who produced their first recordings for Avant. Jam & Lewis went on to produce several other recordings for Avant under Dina Andrews Management.

The Time was hired to produce The SOS Band's fourth album for Tabu, On the Rise, which was certified gold on January 16, 1984.^{[citation needed]} While recording in SOS's home stomping grounds in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 24, 1983, a freak snowstorm hit, grounding all flights from the city. The duo was scheduled to perform as a part of The Time in San Antonio at the Hemisfair Arena that night but couldn't get away. Prince, who owned and managed the Time, fired them on April 18, 1983. The duo stayed in Los Angeles and became songwriter-producers at Larrabee Studios in West Hollywood.

Working with Jam and Lewis gave Tabu a much-needed shot in the arm. They brought Cherelle and Alexander O'Neal (the original Time lead vocalist) to the label and both had done well; O'Neal released his self-titled album in 1985, and Cherelle's "Fragile" hit the American R&B charts in 1984. The SOS Band had more hits with "Just The Way You Like It" in 1984 and "Sands of Time" in 1986, the album of which was certified gold on April 6, 1987.^{[citation needed]} So influential was the sound that Robert Palmer covered Cherelle's "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On" in 1986 (again produced by Jam & Lewis^{[citation needed]}), and Beats International covered the SOS Band's "Just Be Good to Me" in 1990. In 1986, Cherelle and Alexander O'Neal dueted on "Saturday Love," which was a hit in the UK but caught on later with American radio. Other acts like Kid Fire and Demetrius Perry recorded on this label.

Sony era

Tabu Records, in its deal with CBS, became associated with Sony Music Entertainment in November 1987 when the Japanese group bought the CBS Records. In this period, Tabu released Diamonds in the Raw by the SOS Band, which performed disappointingly. In 1991, Alexander O'Neal's All True Man was the last album Tabu Records released under the new Sony regime; it was certified gold on August 26, 1991.^{[citation needed]}

A&M era

In 1991, the label reappeared through PolyGram's A&M Records, who distributed it from 1991 until 1993, releasing four albums and about 20 singles. Avant was hired to run Motown (another PolyGram label), and, in August 1993, he brought Tabu Records under its aegis. It released collections by the SOS Band, Alexander O'Neal and Cherelle, while signing other artists such as Lucky Dube and Identity Crisis. However, this reappearance was short-lived as well.

In 1999, Seagram bought PolyGram and merged it with the MCA family of labels, which became Universal Music Group. Shortly after, Tabu Records was absorbed into A&M Records.

Re-issues

In 2002, Avant brought Tabu Records to EMI's reissue label the Right Stuff, which began to re-release Tabu Record's catalogue.

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