Vinyl/ Monthly MP3

Tribute To Vinyl
Julius Thyssen - Hens Zimmerman

Every once in a while
JT or HZ will put his teeth in some dusty 12", 7" or LP
and create a digital version out of it !

Check what's on this page, obviously it gets updated more often than some of you suggest. This stuff costs us many free hours and gigabytes of bandwidth. We do it all for free. As a result we've decided to be more strict with the voting list;
Entries in the list below that are not in the correct format will be deleted.
Title, followed by '-' and the Interpreter(s), and
PLEASE check if it's already in the list first

title(s): interpreter(s):

WITNESS THE CHANGE
5'08'' Martin Rushent/Pete Shelley

(M.Rushent/P.Shelley) Produced by M.Rushent/P.Shelley

12" B-side - 45 rpm GENETIC RECORDS (P) 1981

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD 14 MB HIGH-END OGG

BACKGROUND INFO:
Hard to believe this one is already 24 years old. It features the incredible sounds of all those huge hits by The Human League from the new wave disco age, dropped in one nutshell of instrumental beauty. This was a collector's item before anyone even knew on what record it was released, it's always been just a hidden B-side project by Pete Shelley and the legendary producer/remixer Martin Rushent. Somehow it seems this track has been bombarded to be related to the 'gay-scene', we don't know why and we don't care, it's just an amazingly well-done piece of vinyl music, with some of the coolest synths and bass-sounds ever, which you should definitely try on headphones.
You may notice the fact that it is a 48 kHz file, this is because we didn't feel like messing up sample rates, it's encoded straight from the 24 bit digital mastering. One should be able to notice that the quality is truly bliss, although there's some small particles of a little audible background noise in the silent parts of the grooves, but you won't get it restored any better than this. Oh and yes, the destructive ending is exactly what it is on the vinyl-disc...

A REQUEST FOR
THE NEXT TRIBUTE TO VINYL?

WE ONLY DO TRACKS/VERSIONS NOT CLEARLY AVAILABLE ON CD
AND PREFER OLD DISCO/DANCE RELATED STUFF

Your entry suddenly disappeared from the list? This means:

The track/version you added has been encoded by us before! If you're lucky it's still available from the huge archive: CLICK HERE FOR FTP instructions
The track/version you added is WIDELY AVAILABLE ON CD.
You can check this at cd-Europe, amazon or cd-links
We simply don't like or don't have the track you entered! Sometimes we search in local record stores and look for the requested vinyl. If we find it you're lucky ;-)
Somewhere during the last week of each month we pick the top voted track to encode, this entry logically disappears from the list. Previous votes on other entries are added (we never reset the vote-count).

This is how we party :
For this purpose we have a special bypass-connection in 1 of our studios, using a dedicated luxman RIAA amp ( MM SN-ratio 92dB, response 10Hz~22kHz within 0.4 dB, THD 0.01 % ) to achieve the highest possible quality without any loss or additional noise or hum. A fresh Nagaoka needle is used on our best record-player, with 2grams needlepressure on cleaned vinyl (although most vinyl-damage can't be undone...) Pure vinyl audio then goes to the analog inputs on a Gina24, and after checking and normalizing the WAV, it's being encoded using L.A.M.E. to a High Quality VBR MPEG Layer 3 audiofile. In case ticks from the vinyl are really too heavy we repair the wav-file a little first, but we like to keep it as original a copy as possible, including drop-outs and other sounds that were in the master(s).

Enjoy !
(and definitely try them on headphones! ;-)

JTHZ
a.k.a. Men Without Plan Enterprises

Robert's Twelve Inches
Needledoctor | OffTheRecord
The Chosen Few - Headphones Air-Play Top 9
JT favorites | JTHZ music | HZ favorites

LEGAL STUFF: According to international law MP3's are perfectly legal to download, provided you own a (legal) CD with the given music on it. However, the copyrighted music on this site is not being printed anymore or not on CD (yet), or (in most cases) the CD lacks the (longer) version available here. Maybe this page helps getting it released! The MP3 on this page is for promotional and preview purposes only. We are not responsible for any problems that may arise from the possession of the file; We make no money with this page, it is simply a means of sharing our large and special vinyl record collection with DeeJays and friends. Please help support the artists, purchase the music you like!

Check what's on this page, obviously it gets updated more often than some of you suggest. This stuff costs us many free hours and gigabytes of bandwidth. We do it all for free. As a result we've decided to be more strict with the voting list; Entries in the list below that are not in the correct format will be deleted. Title, followed by '-' and the Interpreter(s), and PLEASE check if it's already in the list first
title(s):		interpreter(s):
WITNESS THE CHANGE	5'08''	Martin Rushent/Pete Shelley
(M.Rushent/P.Shelley)		Produced by M.Rushent/P.Shelley
12" B-side - 45 rpm	GENETIC RECORDS	(P) 1981
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD 14 MB HIGH-END OGG
BACKGROUND INFO: Hard to believe this one is already 24 years old. It features the incredible sounds of all those huge hits by The Human League from the new wave disco age, dropped in one nutshell of instrumental beauty. This was a collector's item before anyone even knew on what record it was released, it's always been just a hidden B-side project by Pete Shelley and the legendary producer/remixer Martin Rushent. Somehow it seems this track has been bombarded to be related to the 'gay-scene', we don't know why and we don't care, it's just an amazingly well-done piece of vinyl music, with some of the coolest synths and bass-sounds ever, which you should definitely try on headphones. You may notice the fact that it is a 48 kHz file, this is because we didn't feel like messing up sample rates, it's encoded straight from the 24 bit digital mastering. One should be able to notice that the quality is truly bliss, although there's some small particles of a little audible background noise in the silent parts of the grooves, but you won't get it restored any better than this. Oh and yes, the destructive ending is exactly what it is on the vinyl-disc...


A REQUEST FOR THE NEXT TRIBUTE TO VINYL? WE ONLY DO TRACKS/VERSIONS NOT CLEARLY AVAILABLE ON CD AND PREFER OLD DISCO/DANCE RELATED STUFF Your entry suddenly disappeared from the list? This means: The track/version you added has been encoded by us before! If you're lucky it's still available from the huge archive: CLICK HERE FOR FTP instructions The track/version you added is WIDELY AVAILABLE ON CD. You can check this at cd-Europe, amazon or cd-links We simply don't like or don't have the track you entered! Sometimes we search in local record stores and look for the requested vinyl. If we find it you're lucky ;-) Somewhere during the last week of each month we pick the top voted track to encode, this entry logically disappears from the list. Previous votes on other entries are added (we never reset the vote-count). This is how we party : For this purpose we have a special bypass-connection in 1 of our studios, using a dedicated luxman RIAA amp ( MM SN-ratio 92dB, response 10Hz~22kHz within 0.4 dB, THD 0.01 % ) to achieve the highest possible quality without any loss or additional noise or hum. A fresh Nagaoka needle is used on our best record-player, with 2grams needlepressure on cleaned vinyl (although most vinyl-damage can't be undone...) Pure vinyl audio then goes to the analog inputs on a Gina24, and after checking and normalizing the WAV, it's being encoded using L.A.M.E. to a High Quality VBR MPEG Layer 3 audiofile. In case ticks from the vinyl are really too heavy we repair the wav-file a little first, but we like to keep it as original a copy as possible, including drop-outs and other sounds that were in the master(s). Enjoy ! (and definitely try them on headphones! ;-) JTHZ a.k.a. Men Without Plan Enterprises Robert's Twelve Inches Needledoctor \| OffTheRecord The Chosen Few - Headphones Air-Play Top 9 JT favorites \| JTHZ music \| HZ favorites LEGAL STUFF: According to international law MP3's are perfectly legal to download, provided you own a (legal) CD with the given music on it. However, the copyrighted music on this site is not being printed anymore or not on CD (yet), or (in most cases) the CD lacks the (longer) version available here. Maybe this page helps getting it released! The MP3 on this page is for promotional and preview purposes only. We are not responsible for any problems that may arise from the possession of the file; We make no money with this page, it is simply a means of sharing our large and special vinyl record collection with DeeJays and friends. Please help support the artists, purchase the music you like!