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 !

sorry for the delay, were too busy, so: 2 treats this time !
title(s) this month: interpreter(s):

SEE YOU TONIGHT 3'58'' TOWER

(A.Mol/E.F.Veerhoff/G.Hessing/C.R.Bergman/E.v.Prehn) Produced by Cat Music / Hans Hollestelle

LP B-side - 33 giri Dureco Benelux (P) 1982
DOWNLOAD MP3-file packed to 5.4 Mb using RAR
BACKGROUND INFO: 170-BPM
Amazing pop-rock hit-single. We picked the pressing from the album Titan, since the 7-inch sounded awful (played too often for twenty years in a row). There's no record that sounds like this baby, and on the sleeve it says The sound of the tulip. A flat spectrum up to 23 kilohertz, too much high frequencies for this vinyl to handle. Violin arrangements by Hans Hollestelle. Engineers: Sander Bos (yes, SB from SBBL) and Sietse Gardenier. Recorded partly in Weesp, Holland at Cat Music and Dureco, partly in CTS studio, Wembley (UK). Europe clearly stole their sound from this dutch band.
The dutch (Leiden, ZH) group Tower was founded in 1976 by Henk van Loon, Bob Poncin, Roy Poncin and Hans Prins. In 1980, the group changed some, featuring Henk van Loon, Ben Petersen, Tone Hoogeboom but most noticeably the vocalists Marianne Pijnacker and Cor v/d Hoogt. After the second hit-single "Going Home", the group split up in 1986. Marianne and Cor enjoyed some success with their next project, Split Decision. Their single "Action" was written and produced by FWO's Robert Pot. All Tower and Split Decision records were released by Dureco. Tower was among the first dutch bands to use a vocoder. Lookin' for Goin' Home, try this server.
Top-voted track on this page at the start of 2001

GET UP
(Rock Your Body) 7'22'' THE 202 MACHINE

(B.Arnel/S.Loeb/J.Gordon) Produced by Arnel & Loeb
For Fire-Sign LTD.

12" A-side - 45 rpm CARRERE (P) 1981

from Italy!
DOWNLOAD (VBR) MP3-file packed to 9 Mb
BACKGROUND INFO:
Around 120 BPM, but the track is drummed live, not sequensed; Very cool special kind of DISCO. Great electric piano-jamming. Has obviously been cut by ¼-inch tape-slicing, you can hear them all 'flip' by. Nonetheless a great recording, good vinyl quality, exceptional and interesting sound on the bass-drum as well as on the vocals. Full of disco-effects too. You probably remember it, but it has never been a big hit, which is weird. If you don't know this track, shame on you, you should not miss this one in your lifetime. Top-voted track on this page off and on througout the year 2000..

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 servers (see mainpage)
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 our studio, 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 ! sorry for the delay, were too busy, so: 2 treats this time !
title(s) this month:		interpreter(s):
SEE YOU TONIGHT	3'58''	TOWER
(A.Mol/E.F.Veerhoff/G.Hessing/C.R.Bergman/E.v.Prehn)		Produced by Cat Music / Hans Hollestelle
LP B-side - 33 giri	Dureco Benelux	(P) 1982
DOWNLOAD MP3-file packed to 5.4 Mb using RAR
BACKGROUND INFO: 170-BPM Amazing pop-rock hit-single. We picked the pressing from the album Titan, since the 7-inch sounded awful (played too often for twenty years in a row). There's no record that sounds like this baby, and on the sleeve it says The sound of the tulip. A flat spectrum up to 23 kilohertz, too much high frequencies for this vinyl to handle. Violin arrangements by Hans Hollestelle. Engineers: Sander Bos (yes, SB from SBBL) and Sietse Gardenier. Recorded partly in Weesp, Holland at Cat Music and Dureco, partly in CTS studio, Wembley (UK). Europe clearly stole their sound from this dutch band. The dutch (Leiden, ZH) group Tower was founded in 1976 by Henk van Loon, Bob Poncin, Roy Poncin and Hans Prins. In 1980, the group changed some, featuring Henk van Loon, Ben Petersen, Tone Hoogeboom but most noticeably the vocalists Marianne Pijnacker and Cor v/d Hoogt. After the second hit-single "Going Home", the group split up in 1986. Marianne and Cor enjoyed some success with their next project, Split Decision. Their single "Action" was written and produced by FWO's Robert Pot. All Tower and Split Decision records were released by Dureco. Tower was among the first dutch bands to use a vocoder. Lookin' for Goin' Home, try this server. Top-voted track on this page at the start of 2001

GET UP (Rock Your Body)	7'22''	THE 202 MACHINE
(B.Arnel/S.Loeb/J.Gordon)		Produced by Arnel & Loeb For Fire-Sign LTD.
12" A-side - 45 rpm	CARRERE	(P) 1981
DOWNLOAD (VBR) MP3-file packed to 9 Mb
BACKGROUND INFO: Around 120 BPM, but the track is drummed live, not sequensed; Very cool special kind of DISCO. Great electric piano-jamming. Has obviously been cut by ¼-inch tape-slicing, you can hear them all 'flip' by. Nonetheless a great recording, good vinyl quality, exceptional and interesting sound on the bass-drum as well as on the vocals. Full of disco-effects too. You probably remember it, but it has never been a big hit, which is weird. If you don't know this track, shame on you, you should not miss this one in your lifetime. Top-voted track on this page off and on througout the year 2000..

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 servers (see mainpage) 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 our studio, 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!