old JTHZ audio projects
Tribute To Vinyl
Julius Thyssen - Hens Zimmerman

Each last week of the month
JT or HZ will put his teeth in some dusty 12", 7" or LP
and create 1 new MP3 out of it !

a triple treat this time !
and as always, the 3 previous (stripped) pages: may jan mar
title(s): interpreter(s):


JE SUIS VENUE TE DIRE
QUE JE M'EN VAIS
3'39'' JO LEMAIRE + FLOUZE
(Serge Gainsbourg) Produced by Sylvain Vanholme
7" A-side - 45 rpm VERTIGO (P) 1981
BACKGROUND INFO:
This one's a special request by a girl, lable is Vertigo.
The title is french for "I've come to tell you I'm going away". The original song is crap compared to this cover, the french lyrics are but decoration for this sure piece of art in the form of a sad mysterious melancholic new-wave production on a repetitive synth sequence and slow lifting pace of 82 Beats Per Minute. The melody has a timeless feel to it, the stereo string is pure and heavy, yet soothing at the same time. To us the track marks a very exciting period of our lives, it can't do wrong in our ears; Youth springs eternal. Both me and my cousin have bought the vinyl single back then, meaning at least one of them was still of reasonable quality, hardly any clicks or other damage was found. The vinyl is pressed just a little on the edge of loudness limits, which results in some of the snares being too harsh for the needle to fiddle with, you can notice this in the end of the track, where they hit red zones in the left channel. (JT)
For an extensive Jo Lemaire et Flouze bio click here...


INSTANT LOVE 4'43'' SYLVIA LOVE
(see picture below) Produced by [see image below]
12" A-side - 45 rpm RCA (P) 1979
BACKGROUND INFO:
A Vinyl Masterpiece which has been played to death (noise everywhere), but that doesn't mean this exclusive genuine seventies disco rulez! Think music by AIR, but then what it all has been stolen from.


VICTIM OF LOVE (OH OH DUB) 5'47'' SWEET SENSATION
(see image below) see image below
12 inch Side 2 - 33 rpm NEXT PLATEAU (P) 1987
BACKGROUND INFO:
New York's Sweet Sensation cut to pieces by Oh Oh Omar Santana!
Top-voted track on this page off and on througout the year.


A REQUEST FOR
THE NEXT TRIBUTE TO VINYL?

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

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 might 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 there.

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


    JTHZ

    a.k.a. Masters In Analog :)
    a.k.a. Men Without Plan Enterprises

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