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 !

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):

REMEMBER
9'03'' VIVIEN VEE

(Claudio Simonetti, Meo) Produced by Giancarlo Meo

12" A-side - 33 rpm BANANA (P) 1979

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD 12 MB zipped HIGH QUALITY MP3

BACKGROUND INFO:
Vivien's vocal talents have proven to be way up there in many New Wave/Disco charts for many years after this one came out. The arrangements are almost too good for the theme itself, a somewhat dark and sad sounding song, not the average happy-go-round disco one would expect from 1979, but you can hear this one has been orchestrated by passionate professionals, who have been locked up in their studios for weeks per track. Keyboard-master Claudio Simonetti, born in Sao Paulo in Brazil, studied piano and composition in the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, and helped make it stand out from the rest.
We deliberately tagged this MP3 as if it was Trance from 1979. It sounds raw and pure because of the many (truly original) acoustics involved, yet uses repetitive synth sequences one would only expect to hear in techno-music of today. Check out the long 'break' at 6m.40s. We still believe that old disco like this, and late seventies synthesizer music from Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, UK, Japan, France, Canada and the US, have been the most important influence and root for current techno, trance and house music. When you hear this track on a pair of good headphones you will undoubtedly agree with us that the creators of the first really brilliant trancey synthesizer disco lived in Italy, not in Chicago or some club in London, but in sunny Italy or a post-war suffering Germany. That's all we need to say, we hope, for you to go and listen to this amazing european piece of vinyl. You may notice the fact that it is a 48 kHz file, this is because we didn't feel like messing with the original samplerate of the recording too much...

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):
REMEMBER	9'03''	VIVIEN VEE
(Claudio Simonetti, Meo)		Produced by Giancarlo Meo
12" A-side - 33 rpm	BANANA	(P) 1979
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD 12 MB zipped HIGH QUALITY MP3
BACKGROUND INFO: Vivien's vocal talents have proven to be way up there in many New Wave/Disco charts for many years after this one came out. The arrangements are almost too good for the theme itself, a somewhat dark and sad sounding song, not the average happy-go-round disco one would expect from 1979, but you can hear this one has been orchestrated by passionate professionals, who have been locked up in their studios for weeks per track. Keyboard-master Claudio Simonetti, born in Sao Paulo in Brazil, studied piano and composition in the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, and helped make it stand out from the rest. We deliberately tagged this MP3 as if it was Trance from 1979. It sounds raw and pure because of the many (truly original) acoustics involved, yet uses repetitive synth sequences one would only expect to hear in techno-music of today. Check out the long 'break' at 6m.40s. We still believe that old disco like this, and late seventies synthesizer music from Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, UK, Japan, France, Canada and the US, have been the most important influence and root for current techno, trance and house music. When you hear this track on a pair of good headphones you will undoubtedly agree with us that the creators of the first really brilliant trancey synthesizer disco lived in Italy, not in Chicago or some club in London, but in sunny Italy or a post-war suffering Germany. That's all we need to say, we hope, for you to go and listen to this amazing european piece of vinyl. You may notice the fact that it is a 48 kHz file, this is because we didn't feel like messing with the original samplerate of the recording too much...


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!