MINT The Doors TRUE MONO ERC EC081 Electric Recording Company UK Limted LP Nt CD
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PRE-ORDER - SHIPS TO YOU IN MARCH, 2023
ERC081 The Doors - The Doors (True Mono)
Recorded in 1966 and released the following year, The Doors self titled debut album was the soundtrack to the summer of love. Widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest debut albums of all time, it still continues to influence the evolution of the psych-rock genre.
e.g. All Music Guide gives this album 5 Stars - please see the review at the bottom.
Possessing the hypnotic magnetism of pure transcendence this album containing so many influences, acts as a portal to social revolution, the collective conscience, and psychedelic immortality.
Cut all valve on our 1965 Lyrec system in True Mono directly from the original dedicated mono master tapes.
No equalization, compression or any other processing was added during the cutting process.
Sleeve artwork authentically letter-pressed on a 1963 Heidelberg SB and hand finished.
This edition is limited to 450 worldwide and Sold Out in seconds.
TRUE MONO Where everything in the chain from the tape head, the tape pre-amplifier, the cutting amplifier and the dedicated mono cutter head is a single channel pathway: This early technology avoids phase issues (smearing of the sound) that is frequently encountered when cutting with todays dual” or “pseudo” mono cutting systems
About the master tapes used on the ERC cut.
This mono master marked LEDO (a term coined by Jac Holzman and used exclusively by Elektra and its associated labels) is the exact tape that was used to cut lacquers for the original 1967 US pressing, as confirmed by Bruce Botnick.
LEDO stands for Leadered, Edited, Duplicate of the Original;
1. Leadered Master = Master mix takes leadered.
2. Edited = All of the Master mixes Sequenced and Edited together to form an album.
3. Duplicate = A Mono or Stereo Mix Master from a multitrack, in this case a 4 track.
4. Original = Multitrack or Mono or Stereo session master
This pre-order will ship to you as soon as it is received in March, securely packed in ERC's original "bullet proof" packaging.
Please Note: For this very rare, sealed collector's LP, a returned (un)opened LP will incur a re-stock fee TBD - 30% minimum. Thanks.
International Shipping - Shipping and insurance only by Ebay at their cost (no mark up), to give all peace of mind.
Continental USA Shipping - Free shipping + Free full value insurance.
ALL MUSIC GUIDE - 5 STARS A tremendous debut album, and indeed one of the best first-time outings in rock history, introducing the band's fusion of rock, blues, classical, jazz, and poetry with a knockout punch. The lean, spidery guitar and organ riffs interweave with a hypnotic menace, providing a seductive backdrop for Jim Morrison's captivating vocals and probing prose. "Light My Fire" was the cut that topped the charts and established the group as stars, but most of the rest of the album is just as impressive, including some of their best songs: the propulsive "Break on Through" (their first single), the beguiling mystery of "The Crystal Ship," the mysterious "End of the Night," "Take It as It Comes" (one of several tunes besides "Light My Fire" that also had hit potential), and the stomping rock of "Soul Kitchen" and "Twentieth Century Fox." The 11-minute Oedipal drama "The End" was the group at its most daring and, some would contend, overambitious. It was nonetheless a haunting cap to an album whose nonstop melodicism and dynamic tension would never be equaled by the group again, let alone bettered.
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