Now that the tidal wave of Taylor Swift’s new album has passed (over a million vinyl records sold), pressing plants have been able to get back to work to prepare for the end-of-year rush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sony Music was the first to announce a 5 LP\/Blu-Ray box set and comprehensive booklet of Jimi Hendrix’s second album, Axis Bold As Love<\/em>, containing the landmark 1967 album in stereo, mono, and Dolby Atmos, as well as 40 alternative bonus tracks recorded in the studio and live (including 28 previously unreleased tracks). The LPs include the original stereo and mono mixes mastered by Bernie Grundman from the master tapes, as well as the previously unreleased tracks. The Blu-Ray features the new immersive Dolby Atmos mix of the album created by Eddie Kramer \u2013 the Experience’s original sound engineer \u2013 and Chandler Harrod. It’s fair to say that the label has gone all out for this reissue. It should also be noted that the album will be released in both mono and stereo by Analogue Productions in 45 RPM UHQR in the first half of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also at Sony Music, the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s album Wish You Were Here <\/em>led to the release on 12 December of a new box set entitled Wish You Were Here (50th Anniversary)<\/em>, available in a three-vinyl version, two CDs, or a deluxe box set with Blu-ray. This box set contains a new Dolby Atmos mix of the album, nine studio rarities including a new stereo mix of all nine parts of \u2018Shine On You Crazy Diamond\u2019 played back-to-back, as well as a complete concert recorded on 26 April 1975 at the Los Angeles Sports Arena by renowned bootlegger Mike Millard. It also includes a book filled with previously unseen photos, a comic book-style tour program and a poster from the Knebworth concert. Enough to satisfy even the most die-hard fans!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, also on 12 December, but this time on Mack Avenue Records, the campaign to reissue the Strata East catalogue continued with four new titles that are particularly sought after by collectors. These include the genius of Cecil McBee with his legendary Mutima<\/em>, a sublime spiritual jazz epic with strong avant-garde influences, as well as Marchin’ on! by The Heath Brothers, supported by Stanley Cowell, and Music Inc. by Charles Tolliver & Stanley Cowell. As with previous reissues, Kevin Gray is once again responsible for mastering the analogue master tapes, all pressed at the excellent RTI factory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n 16\/12\/2025<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now that the tidal wave of Taylor Swift’s new album has passed (over a million vinyl records sold), pressing plants have been able to get back to work to prepare for the end-of-year rush. Sony Music was the first to announce a 5 LP\/Blu-Ray box set and comprehensive booklet of Jimi Hendrix’s second album, Axis Bold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":4767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4768,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions\/4768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}