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

Every once in a while
we will put our 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 FIRST CHECK if it's already in the list

title(s): interpreter(s):


IMAGES OF HEAVEN (dance mix)
 5'00'' Peter Godwin
(Peter Godwin) Produced by Georg Kajanus
12" - 45 rpm Polydor Ltd. (P) 1982
BACKGROUND INFO: 126- BPM

nobody blessed me, with power to reach my love
one cheap illusion, can still be divine

Lost for words on these tracks, really. This is New Wave dance glamour at its finest! I've put in many hours to remove noise, crackle, pops and clicks on these, the result is quite serene for a rescue attempt from vinyl oblivion. Glad to assure you these versions are not available like this on CD. The typical sounds of the Simmons drums are by Warren Cann, bass was by Gary Twigg, guitar by Colin Wight, and hats off to the incredible engineering job by Graham Dickson on these two tracks. I have never tried to sit down and decide what the definitive synth-pop song was, but "Images of Heaven" would be as obvious a short-list candidate as "Don't You Want Me?", "Are Friends Electric?", "Fade To Grey", "Only You" or "She Blinded Me With Science", and probably leads the field for the sub-category of best keyboard riffs. What does Godwin do these days, you ask? Read here.



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 archive
  • 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 to a High Quality VBR audiofile. In case ticks from the vinyl are really 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).



    LEGAL STUFF:   According to international law these files 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, better quality) version available here. Maybe this page helps getting it released! The files on this page are for promotional and preview purposes only. We make no money with this page, it is simply a means of sharing our large and unique vinyl record collection with DeeJays and friends. Please help support the artists, purchase the music you like (if it is being sold at all).