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Northern Exposure Recordings: at it again!
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| SYSTEM-J |
This is rapidly becoming my favourite digital label around. For those who don't already know, they're dedicated entirely to re-releasing old Sasha and Digweed bombs in digital format, often with rafts of new remixes.
This time around it's Pete Lazonby again. Having already re-released Wavespeech they've reissued the absolute trance classic Sacred Cycles with the original mix (featured on the second Renaissance Mix Collection) and, for me, three best remixes by Jens, Gary D and Yum Yum. I've been looking for all of these remixes for a while now and to be able to download them in perfect quality digital format from Beatport is brilliant.
All hail Northern Exposure Recordings is all I can say. |
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| RebeL9 |
| Planet BEN remix all the way |
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| DJ_Lord |
| i don't know why but i find lack of creativity in this idea of a label. |
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| kitphillips |
| Good to see. Some classic tracks there IMO. |
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| Kris G |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ_Lord
i don't know why but i find lack of creativity in this idea of a label. |
Anything wrong with re-releasing up until now hard to find classics for digital download, and putting out a couple of new remixes at the same time? |
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| Chimney |
| Hopefully the new remixes won't apply to the negative sides of today's scene. Otherwise a nice idea. |
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| Progsounds |
The mastering on some of the classics leaves a little to be desired, and some of these yesteryear classics dont even exist in a proper source master.
And well, new remixes are all well and good but I think there has to be a certain standard to be met rather than just letting the latest random production outfit to emerge out of Russia or some barely established trance producer lose on some of these tracks.
The other point to be raised is that some of these classics have been resurrected previously (in some cases more than once) and all the previous reimagingings and reinterpretations pretty much cover all bases, making some of the releases this label outputs pretty unnecessary. |
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| kitphillips |
| Its still good to have them in digital. And WTF do you mean the mastering leaves something to be desired? its a different sound because different production values held sway. And it just proves that mastering isn't everything. Often those classics are actually better because they aren't squashed out of existence. |
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| Progsounds |
| quote: | Originally posted by kitphillips
Its still good to have them in digital. And WTF do you mean the mastering leaves something to be desired? its a different sound because different production values held sway. And it just proves that mastering isn't everything. Often those classics are actually better because they aren't squashed out of existence. |
What I meant that a lot of these labels back in the day had a very low volume level. The point I was actually getting at is that some of the original labels these tracks came out on no longer exist, and even if they do, half the time the labels dont have a proper digital master and use a recording from the vinyl as the source for the digital release. |
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| DJNeuro1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Progsounds
What I meant that a lot of these labels back in the day had a very low volume level. The point I was actually getting at is that some of the original labels these tracks came out on no longer exist, and even if they do, half the time the labels dont have a proper digital master and use a recording from the vinyl as the source for the digital release. |
exactly the problem. well said. it's almost impossible to remaster a vinyl recording (or acetate) to today's digital standards. maybe we should just let some tracks die... or just remake them :) |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Frankly I'm not really interested in "today's digital standards". I'm interested in the music. The sound quality on a couple of these re-releases might be slightly lower than a brand new release, but if that's going to stop you appreciating some great music then you have only my pity.
A lot of the new mixes on this label aren't up to much, granted, but certainly in the case of Sacred Cycles it was new remix packages that gave us most of these great remixes. The Gary D, Jens and Yum Yum remixes all came years after the original, and then there's the Quivver remix which is also on Beatport that was released six or seven years after the original.
The main reason I'm pleased with this label is because a lot of these tracks are damn hard to find, and to have them available for instant download is fantastic. |
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