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, 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
Previous versions of this webpage are here

title(s): interpreter(s):


VALENTINO 3'22'' CHAMPAGNE
(Duiser/Tax/Hans van Hemert) Produced by Martin Duiser
7" A-side - 45 rpm Ariola (P) 1977
BACKGROUND INFO:
Remarkably catchy vinyl masterpiece, played to death here in the low lands. It has this typically Dutch very full wall of sound in it, plus a great melody and intensive arrangements. Wally Tax and producer Martin Duiser were helped by none other than Hans van Hemert (think Luv') on this track. Check Alex and Adri's pages for some info too!


SJOOH SJOOH SUGAR
3'03'' Champagne
(Martin Duiser) Produced by Martin Duiser
7" - 45 rpm Ariola Benelux (P) 1980
BACKGROUND INFO: 101- BPM
Summery sleazy pop from Holland, written, arranged and produced by Martin Duiser. It took quite some work to recover and restore sound quality of this almost forgotten vinyl, but I'm glad I did, because it's officially NOT available on CD! On the sleeve you see Bert v.d. Wiel, Paulette Bronkhorst, Trudie Huysdens and Jan Vredenburg.
I used to really have the hots for Paulette (the dark-haired one ;-)



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 phono amp ( MM SN-ratio 92dB, response 10Hz~22kHz within 0.4 dB, THD below 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 repairing the WAV, it's being encoded to a High Quality VBR audiofile. In case ticks and crackle are in there, we carefully repair the audio, but we like to keep it as original a copy as possible, including drop-outs and other sounds that were present in the original 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).