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"Audiophile" refers to records that are specifically manufactured to a standard that is higher than the norm : e.g. either remastered or "re-stored" sound, original master pressing or recordings, or as is becoming increasingly common, 45 RPM speed albums. Usually they are of a heavier duty, high quality vinyl (usually 180 gram) to ensure a flat playing surface. We are blessed these days in that there are quite a few specialist Audiophile companies, where once they were few and far between - Pure Pleasure, Speakers Corner, Mobile Fidelity and others including newcomers Boxtar and Original Recording Group are but a few. Even the major companies are having a go with specialist deluxe pressings from Sony, EMI and Warners (Rhino Label). You can pay a premium for some labels, but if you want the best... We sholesale basis with these companies as agent and distributor, our prices are comparable to their cost overseas without you having to worry about postage, insurance, and if (god forbid) you have any problems, we are here right here to sort things out - not a thousand kilometres away.
Analogue Productions continue their superb 45 RPM 2 record sets with new releases from Nat King Cole. 
"Using the original 3-track session tapes from Capitol's vaults and all-analogue systems including custom headstacks, 3-track preview heads, console and monitoring chain installed at AcousTech specially for these releases, mastering engineers Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman realize the stunning wide-range potential and beauty of these recordings. Original releases contained 14 tracks, omitting two superb tracks recorded for the album, "Don't Blame Me" and "There Is No Greater Love," due to space constraints, but the full 16 tracks are included in this double 45-RPM 180-gram album set. Included with this deluxe reissue is a striking six-panel booklet complete with rare photos, a 3,400-word essay by Chris Hall on the album and a 1,200-word essay by Michael Fremer about the remastering process. This truly is a no-expenses-spared project, resulting in the ultimate version of this title and a historic reissue.
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Love is the theme for twelve ballads of heavenly strings orchestrated by the distinctive Gordon Jenkins, sympathetically backing the intimately expressive and supremely musical voice of the incomparable Nat "King" Cole. Featuring such legendary classics as "Stardust" and "When I Fall In Love," Love Is The Thing topped the charts upon its release, is among its era's finest, most stylistically defining recordings of popular music and continues to enchant listeners to this day.
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Nat "King" Cole and arranger Gordon Jenkins followed their hit album Love Is The Thing with The Very Thought Of You, foraging further into romantic and sensual bliss and creating the audio equivalent of a distillation of romantic ardor in a bottle. The sixteen ballads of The Very Thought Of You, each with their own euphoric tinge, include the title track "The Very Thought of You," "For All We Know," "Paradise," and "But Beautiful." Again orchestrated with the heavenly strings of the distinctive Gordon Jenkins, sympathetically backing the intimately expressive and supremely musical voice of the incomparable Nat "King" Cole, the result again stands among its era's finest, most stylistically defining recordings of popular music and continues to enchant listeners to this day.
Plus These New Titles
Analogue Productions Nat 'King' Cole: Just One Of Those Things (45rpm-edition)
Mark Knopfler : "Get Lucky"
The sixth solo studio release from Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler. Recorded at Knopfler's award-winning British Grove Studios in West London, Get Lucky was co-produced with longtime collaborators engineer Chuck Ainlay and keyboardist Guy Fletcher and featured Richard Bennett, Danny Cummings, John McCusker, Matt Rollings and Glenn Worf. The 11-track album explores a lifetime of musical roots exemplified by the title track. "The first itinerant person I ever met would sing in soul bands in winter, then work part-time in fairgrounds or 'go pick fruit down south' when the weather turned warm," explains Knopfler. "I was about 15 years old, stuck in school and envious. 'Get Lucky' came from him and other traveling characters I went on to meet in places I'd find myself working short-term, like farms, warehouses, building sites, before I got lucky with my songs." A two record ausiophile set on heavy duty vinyl. 
Dian Krall : "Live in Paris"
The first in long promised releases by a new audiophile label, Original Recordings Group, of Diana Krall's early Verve recordings. "Live in Paris" offers listeners Diana Krall's understanding of the musical techniques of composition, piano, and vocal improvisation on 12 songs from the Great American Songbooks of Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, George and Ira Gershwin and contemporary artists Joni Mitchell and Billy Joel. Accompanied by the award-winning Anthony Wilson on guitar, John Pisano on acoustic guitar, John Clayton on bass, Jeff Hamilton on drums, and Paulinho Da Costa on percussion as well as the Orchestra Symphonies European on 'Let's Fall in Love' and 'I've Got You Under My Skin,' the lovely vocalist heightens your listening pleasures with distinctive phrasings and tangible pathways to inside the creative imagination by getting inside harmony, the changes, and melodic structures." - All Music Guide.
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