Vinyl/ Monthly MP3

Tribute To Vinyl
Julius Thijssen - 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 !

title(s) this month: interpreter(s):

IT TAKES A MUSCLE TO FALL IN LOVE 3'28'' SPECTRAL DISPLAY

(Henri Overduin/Michel Mulders) Produced by Michel Mulders

LP Side 1 - 33 rpm E M I (P) 1982

BACKGROUND INFO: 114+ BPM
This should have been a worldwide hit-record, but only sold big in The Netherlands; Shame on all you foreigners! If you're lucky you can still get their first album in second-hand stores and the likes, it's really an outstanding piece of work. Music composed, arranged, performed and produced by Michel Mulders, the guy in the picture. Henri Overduin co-composed this track with Michel in 1981. Some equipment used by synth-wizzard Mulders: Oberheim OB-X Moog III ARP Odyssey Prophet 10 and 5, Roland TR 808, CR 78, CSQ 600 and CSQ 100 Digital Sequencers. Synton 20 Channel Vocoder, Synton Vocoder 221, and a whole lot of accessories! Also acoustic piano and drums, by the way. As you may notice, the vinyl has been played an awful lot. We took quite some time to remove dust and stuff from the grooves.
The EMI-vinyl was high quality so luckily still some of that can be heard ;-)
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 server (see main page)...
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 weren't supposed to be there.

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

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

Alia
THE MIXFREAKS LINKS
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). Maybe this page helps getting it released! No CD? You may STILL download the MP3 file, but legally keep it in your possession for only 24 hours. 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 here, 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!

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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 !
title(s) this month:		interpreter(s):
IT TAKES A MUSCLE TO FALL IN LOVE	3'28''	SPECTRAL DISPLAY
(Henri Overduin/Michel Mulders)		Produced by Michel Mulders
LP Side 1 - 33 rpm	E M I	(P) 1982

BACKGROUND INFO: 114+ BPM This should have been a worldwide hit-record, but only sold big in The Netherlands; Shame on all you foreigners! If you're lucky you can still get their first album in second-hand stores and the likes, it's really an outstanding piece of work. Music composed, arranged, performed and produced by Michel Mulders, the guy in the picture. Henri Overduin co-composed this track with Michel in 1981. Some equipment used by synth-wizzard Mulders: Oberheim OB-X Moog III ARP Odyssey Prophet 10 and 5, Roland TR 808, CR 78, CSQ 600 and CSQ 100 Digital Sequencers. Synton 20 Channel Vocoder, Synton Vocoder 221, and a whole lot of accessories! Also acoustic piano and drums, by the way. As you may notice, the vinyl has been played an awful lot. We took quite some time to remove dust and stuff from the grooves. The EMI-vinyl was high quality so luckily still some of that can be heard ;-) 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 server (see main page)... 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 weren't supposed to be there. Enjoy ! (and definitely try them on headphones! ;-) JTHZ a.k.a. Masters In Analog :) a.k.a. Men Without Plan Enterprises Alia THE MIXFREAKS LINKS 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). Maybe this page helps getting it released! No CD? You may STILL download the MP3 file, but legally keep it in your possession for only 24 hours. 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 here, 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!