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Depeche Mode – Songs Of Faith And Devotion (1993) [DMCD8 – 2006 Remaster] {SACD ISO + FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz}

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Depeche Mode – Songs Of Faith And Devotion (1993) [DMCD8 – 2006 Remaster]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 46:55 minutes | Scans included | 3,44 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 47:14 mins | Scans included | 963 MB

Songs of Faith and Devotion is the eighth studio album by the English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released in the United Kingdom on 22 March 1993 by Mute Records and in the United States and Canada on 23 March by Sire and Reprise Records. The album incorporated a more aggressive, darker rock-oriented tone than its predecessor, Violator (1990), largely influenced by the emerging alternative rock and grunge scenes in the United States.

Upon its release, Songs of Faith and Devotion reached number one in several countries, and became the first Depeche Mode album to debut atop the charts in both the UK and the US. To support the album, Depeche Mode embarked on the fourteen-month-long Devotional Tour, the largest tour the band had ever undertaken to that date.

Recording the album and the subsequent tour exacerbated growing tensions and difficulties within the band, prompting Alan Wilder to quit, making this album the final with him as a band member. The ordeal had exhausted their creative output following the enormous success they had enjoyed with Violator, leading to rumours and media speculation that the band would split. Depeche Mode subsequently recovered from the experience, and released Ultra in 1997.

In between Violator and Songs of Faith and Devotion, a lot happened: Nirvana rewrote the ideas of what “alternative” was supposed to be, while Nine Inch Nails hit the airwaves as the most clearly Depeche-influenced new hit band around. In the meantime, the band went through some high-profile arguing as David Gahan turned into a long-haired, leather-clad rocker and pushed for a more guitar-oriented sound. Yet the odd thing about Songs of Faith and Devotion is that it sounds pretty much like a Depeche Mode album, only with some new sonic tricks courtesy of Alan Wilder and co-producer Flood. Perhaps even odder is the fact that it works incredibly well all the same. “I Feel You,” opening with a screech of feedback, works its live drums well, but when the heavy synth bass kicks in with the wailing backing vocals, even most rockers might find it hard to compete. Martin Gore’s lyrical bent, as per the title, ponders relationships through distinctly religious imagery; while the gambit is hardly new, on songs like the centerpiece “In Your Room,” the combination of personal and spiritual love blends perfectly. Outside musicians appear for the first time, including female backing singers on a couple of tracks, most notably the gospel-flavored “Condemnation” and the uilleann pipes on “Judas,” providing a lovely intro to the underrated song (later covered by Tricky). “Rush” is the biggest misstep, a too obvious sign that Nine Inch Nails was a recording-session favorite to unwind to. But with other numbers such as “Walking in My Shoes” and “The Mercy in You” to recommend it, Songs of Faith and Devotion continues the Depeche Mode winning streak.  ~~ AllMusic Review by Ned Raggett

Tracklist:
01. I Feel You
02. Walking In My Shoes
03. Condemnation
04. Mercy In You
05. Judas
06. In Your Room
07. Get Right With Me
08. Rush
09. One Caress
10. Higher Love

SACD ISO

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FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz

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Depeche Mode – Ultra (1997) [DMCD9 – 2007 Remaster] {SACD ISO + FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz}

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Depeche Mode – Ultra (1997) [DMCD9 – 2007 Remaster]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 60:02 minutes | Scans included | 4,31 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 59:43 mins | Scans included | 1,17 GB

Ultra is the ninth studio album by the English electronic band Depeche Mode, released on 14 April 1997 by Mute Records. The album was the band’s first since the departure of Alan Wilder, who had left the band in 1995 having become disillusioned with life in Depeche Mode. Wilder’s departure and lead singer Dave Gahan’s drug problems, which culminated in a near-fatal overdose, had caused many people to speculate that the band was finished.This is their first album as a trio since 1982’s A Broken Frame, along with it being their first album where the band themselves were not involved with production.

Ultra debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and at number five on the Billboard 200. By April 2006, the album had sold 584,000 copies in the United States.The project was initially conceived as an EP.

In 1999, Ned Raggett ranked the album at number 50 on his list of “The Top 136 or so Albums of the Nineties”. That same year, the annual Ultra Music Festival in Miami was named after the album by its co-founder Russell Faibisch,and acknowledging its influence on the Polish rock scene, Tylko Rock ranked it at number 71 in its list of “100 Albums That Shook Polish Rock.”

When news surfaced in 1995 that Alan Wilder had departed Depeche Mode to concentrate on his solo project Recoil, the immediate concern among fans was whether the band would be able to hit past heights again. Though Wilder’s profile was always much lesser than that of Martin Gore and David Gahan — and almost even that of Andy Fletcher, whose nonperformance live has always been a running joke in the fan community and who freely admits to generally being around merely to maintain a vibe with his childhood friend Gore — his capability at arranging the songs over the years gave the band its increasingly distinct, unique edge. Combined with Gahan’s near suicide and lengthy recovery from drugs, things looked bleak. Happily, Ultra turned out a winner; hooking up with Tim Simenon, longtime U.K. dance maven and producer of arty fare such as Gavin Friday’s Adam ‘n’ Eve, Depeche delivered a strong album as a rejuvenated band. The most immediate change was Gahan’s singing; for the first time ever, he took singing lessons beforehand, and his new control and projection simply shines, especially on the marvelous “It’s No Good,” a pulsing, tense, yet beautiful song with another deeply romantic Gore lyric. Opener “Barrel of a Gun” continues in the vein of arena-level stompers like “Never Let Me Down Again” and “I Feel You,” with huge drum slams and scratching to boot, but Ultra mostly covers subtler territory, such as the slightly creepy “Sister of Night” and the gentle “The Love Thieves.” Gore sings two winners: the orchestral, slow dance groove “Home” and “The Bottom Line,” featuring steel guitar and Can’s Jaki Liebezeit on drums, distinctly different territory for Depeche. Closing with “Insight,” a quite lovely, building ballad, Ultra showed Depeche wasn’t ready to quit by any means.  ~~ AllMusic Review by Ned Raggett

Tracklist:
01. Barrel Of A Gun
02. The Love Thieves
03. Home
04. It’s No Good
05. Uselink
06. Useless
07. Sister Of The Night
08. Jazz Thieves
09. Freestate
10. The Bottom Line
11. Insight
12. Junior Painkiller

SACD ISO

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FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz

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Depeche Mode – Exciter (2001) [DMCD10 – 2007 Remaster] {SACD ISO + FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz}

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Depeche Mode – Exciter (2001) [DMCD10 – 2007 Remaster]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 56:23 minutes | Scans included | 4,22 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 56:20 mins | Scans included | 1,13 GB

Exciter is the tenth studio album by the English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released in the United Kingdom on 14 May 2001 by Mute Records and in the United States on 15 May by Reprise Records. The album was produced by Mark Bell of Björk and LFO fame. The album also launched the Exciter Tour, one of the band’s most successful tours.

Exciter debuted at number nine on the UK Albums Chart and at number eight on the Billboard 200, selling 115,000 copies in its first week in the US.It is the only Depeche Mode album to debut higher in the US than in the UK. As of April 2006, Exciter had sold more than 426,000 copies in the US, and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album was also certified Gold in Canada for shipments of 50,000 units.The remastered album was released on “deluxe” vinyl 30 March 2007 in Germany and 1 October 2007 internationally.

The plant that appears on the cover is the agave attenuata, a species of agave sometimes known as the “lion’s tail”, “swan’s neck,” or “foxtail” for its development of a curved stem, unusual among agaves. It is used to produce tequila.

It’s rare to find bands capable of keeping their own best qualities to the fore while trying something new each time out, but Depeche Mode demonstrate that balance in full on the marvelous Exciter. Arguably the first album made by the group as a cohesive unit since Violator (and bearing some resemblance to that record in overall title and song names — compare “The Sweetest Condition” with “The Sweetest Perfection”), Exciter finds the trio again balancing pop catchiness with experimental depths. As with Ultra, an outside producer helps focus the end results in new, intriguing directions — in this case, said producer is Mark Bell, known for his work with Björk but also as part of Warp Records’ flagship act LFO, which always acknowledged their own debut to Depeche. Bell’s ear for minimal, crisp beats and quick, subtle arrangements and changes suit Martin Gore’s songs beautifully. If there are few storming arena-shaking numbers this time out, the exquisite delicacy throughout is addicting, with Gore’s guitar providing slippery and stinging leads to the smoky, romantic flow of Exciter. “When the Body Speaks” is a particular winner, his gentle work and a backing string section combining just right. David Gahan’s voice, already audibly benefiting from lessons on Ultra, is even more supple and passionate than before, ranging from the fuller delivery on the snaky charm of “Shine” to the haunting album-closer, “Goodnight Lovers,” a romantic lullaby with perfect counterpoint backing vocals. Gore’s own singing remains equally fine, as does his lyrical obsessions on, well, obsession — “Breathe,” which quotes more Bible names per verse than most preachers, makes for a good example on both fronts. When the band fully crank it up, the results work there too — “The Dead of Night” makes for a far superior nod to Gore’s glam roots and Depeche’s own industrial dance descendants than Songs of Faith and Devotion’s “Rush” did.  ~~ AllMusic Review by Ned Raggett

Tracklist:
01. Dream On
02. Shine
03. The Sweetest Condition
04. When The Body Speaks
05. The Dead Of Night
06. Lovetheme
07. Freelove
08. Comatose
09. I Feel Loved
10. Breathe
11. Easy Tiger
12. I Am You
13. Goodnight Lovers

SACD ISO

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DM-ISO-2001ExciterDMCD102007RemasterSACDIS.part2.rar
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FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz

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Depeche Mode – Playing The Angel (2005) [LCDStumm260 – 2005 Deluxe Edition] {SACD ISO + FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz}

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Depeche Mode – Playing The Angel (2005) [LCDStumm260 – 2005 Deluxe Edition]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 52:36 minutes | Scans included | 3,56 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 52:10 mins | Scans included | 1,01 GB

Playing the Angel is the eleventh studio album by the English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released in the United Kingdom on 17 October 2005 by Mute Records and in the United States and Canada on 18 October by Sire Records and Reprise Records. It was supported by the Touring the Angel tour.

When Ultra was declared the best Depeche Mode album since Violator, those who said so must have forgotten about Songs of Faith and Devotion. When Exciter was declared the best Depeche Mode album since Violator, those who said so must have also forgotten about Songs of Faith and Devotion, in addition to having found a roundabout way of saying that it was merely better than Ultra. There’s no doubt this time: Playing the Angel is both the band’s best album since Violator and, more significantly, an album that is near Violator in stature. The biggest clue dropped by the band prior to its release was a quote from Dave Gahan, who said that being in Depeche Mode is better than it has been in 15 years. Some quick math reveals that Gahan was hinting at the Violator era, a time when the band’s creativity and popularity peaked synchronously. It also turns out that this is a time as good as any other to be paying attention to the band. Playing the Angel lacks Songs of Faith and Devotion’s end-to-end chest-beating, Ultra’s grinding murk, and Exciter’s desiccated patches. It takes the best qualities from those releases, combines them with a few subtle allusions to Violator — tiptoeing the border that separates retread from reinvention — and makes for a highly concentrated set of songs that all but demand to be heard in one uninterrupted shot. Gahan, still riding the confidence he gained as a songwriter from Paper Monsters, his 2003 solo debut, contributes three songs co-written with band associates Christian Eigner and Andrew Phillpott. Though none of them vie to be the album’s centerpiece, it’s apparent that the move wasn’t a concession of desperation on anyone’s part. The friendly competition seems to have kicked chief songwriter Martin Gore into high gear; he’s in top form. Musically, a lot of analog gear was used, and it’s apparent that the arrangements and extra sounds were less fussed over than they have been in the recent past. You get the sense that everything fell into place, as opposed to being forced or aimlessly manipulated. Despite the favoring of older gear, there’s no other year in which any of the songs could’ve been made. Like the best Depeche Mode, almost everything on the album will make an initial wowing impact while remaining layered enough in subtle details to surprise and thrill with repeated listens. It is not the kind of album a 25-year-old band is supposed to make.  ~~AllMusic Review by Andy Kellman

Tracklist:
01. A Pain That I’m Used To
02. John The Revelator
03. Suffer Well
04. The Sinner In Me
05. Precious
06. Macro
07. I Want It All
08. Nothing’s Impossible
09. Introspectre
10. Damaged People
11. Lilian
12. The Darkest Star

SACD ISO

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DM-ISO-2005PlayingTheAngelLCDStumm2602005DeluxeEditinSACDIS.part2.rar
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FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz

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Depeche Mode – A Broken Frame (1982/2013) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

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Depeche Mode – A Broken Frame (1986/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:40 minutes | 1,76 GB | Genre: Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Front cover | © Rhino/Warner Bros.

Released in 1982, this was Depeche Mode’s first album following Vince Clarke’s departure. Certified Gold in the U.K., the recording includes the hits “See You,” “The Meaning Of Love” and “Nothing To Fear.” Written entirely by Martin Gore and featuring more complex arrangements, A Broken Frame is one of the band’s most ambitious efforts to date.

Martin Gore has famously noted that Depeche Mode stopped worrying about its future when the first post-Vince Clarke-departure single, “See You,” placed even higher on the English charts than anything else Clarke had done with them. Such confidence carries through all of A Broken Frame, a notably more ambitious effort than the pure pop/disco of the band’s debut. With arranging genius Alan Wilder still one album away from fully joining the band, Frame became very much Gore’s record, writing all the songs and exploring various styles never again touched upon in later years. “Satellite” and “Monument” take distinct dub/reggae turns, while “Shouldn’t Have Done That” delivers its slightly precious message about the dangers of adulthood with a spare arrangement and hollow, weirdly sweet vocals. Much of the album follows in a dark vein, forsaking earlier sprightliness, aside from tracks like “A Photograph of You” and “The Meaning of Love,” for more melancholy reflections about love gone wrong as “Leave in Silence” and “My Secret Garden.” More complex arrangements and juxtaposed sounds, such as the sparkle of breaking glass in “Leave in Silence,” help give this underrated album even more of an intriguing, unexpected edge. Gore’s lyrics sometimes veer on the facile, but David Gahan’s singing comes more clearly to the fore throughout — things aren’t all there yet, but they were definitely starting to get close.

Tracklist:
01 – Leave In Silence
02 – My Secret Garden
03 – Monument
04 – Nothing To Fear
05 – See You
06 – Satellite
07 – The Meaning Of Love
08 – My Secret Garden (Further Excerpts)
09 – A Photograph Of You
10 – Shouldn’t Have Done That
11 – The Sun And The Rainfall

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Depeche Mode – Black Celebration (1986/2013) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Depeche Mode – Black Celebration (1986/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:19 minutes | 554 MB | Genre: Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Front cover | © Rhino/Warner Bros.

Depeche Mode’s Black Celebration is an emotionally intense, anthemic masterpiece that introduced the classics “Stripped,” “A Question Of Time” and “Black Celebration.” With their fifth studio album, the quartet explores a new sound, earning praise from publications including Rolling Stone, NME and many others. It is widely regarded as one of the most influential albums of the ‘80s. This pivotal recording is included on Spin’s “25 Greatest Albums of All Time”.

Whether the band felt it was simply the time to move on from its most explicit industrial-pop fusion days, or whether increased success and concurrently larger venues pushed the music into different avenues, Depeche Mode’s fifth studio album, Black Celebration, saw the group embarking on a path that in many ways defined their sound to the present: emotionally extreme lyrics matched with amped-up tunes, as much anthemic rock as they are compelling dance, along with stark, low-key ballads. The slow, sneaky build of the opening title track, with a strange distorted vocal sample providing a curious opening hook, sets the tone as David Gahan sings of making it through “another black day” while powerful drums and echoing metallic pings carry the song. Black Celebration is actually heavier on the ballads throughout, many sung by Martin Gore — the most per album he has yet taken lead on — with notable dramatic beauties including “Sometimes,” with its surprise gospel choir start and rough piano sonics, and the hyper-nihilistic “World Full of Nothing.” The various singles from the album remain definite highlights, such as “A Question of Time,” a brawling, aggressive number with a solid Gahan vocal, and the romantic/physical politics of “Stripped,” featuring particularly sharp arrangements from Alan Wilder. However, with such comparatively lesser-known but equally impressive numbers as the quietly intense romance of “Here Is the House” to boast, Black Celebration is solid through and through.

Tracklist:
01 – Black Celebration
02 – Fly On The Windscreen
03 – A Question Of Lust
04 – Sometimes
05 – It Doesn’t Matter Two
06 – A Question Of Time
07 – Stripped
08 – Here Is The House
09 – World Full Of Nothing
10 – Dressed In Black
11 – New Dress
12 – But Not Tonight

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Depeche Mode – Construction Time Again (1983/2013) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Depeche Mode – Construction Time Again (1983/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:47 minutes | 586 MB | Genre :Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Front cover | © Rhino/Warner Bros.

Construction Time Again is Depeche Mode’s third studio album and was released in 1983. It was engineered by Gareth Jones and recorded at John Foxx’s Garden studios in London. The album featured the band’s first use of a Synclavier; the band members used this instrument to incorporate “found” sound samples from their neighborhood, manipulating them with the Synclavier. The sounds used on the album consisted mainly of hammering anvils, clanging pipes, running water, and other similar sounds.

The full addition of Alan Wilder to Depeche Mode’s lineup created a perfect troika that would last another 11 years, as the combination of Martin Gore’s songwriting, Wilder’s arranging, and David Gahan’s singing and live star power resulted in an ever more compelling series of albums and singles. Construction Time Again, the new lineup’s first full effort, is a bit hit and miss nonetheless, but when it does hit, it does so perfectly. Right from the album’s first song, “Love in Itself,” something is clearly up; Depeche never sounded quite so thick with its sound before, with synths arranged into a mini-orchestra/horn section and real piano and acoustic guitar spliced in at strategic points. Two tracks later, “Pipeline” offers the first clear hint of an increasing industrial influence (the bandmembers were early fans of Einstürzende Neubauten), with clattering metal samples and oddly chain gang-like lyrics and vocals. The album’s clear highlight has to be “Everything Counts,” a live staple for years, combining a deceptively simple, ironic lyric about the music business with a perfectly catchy but unusually arranged blending of more metallic scraping samples and melodica amid even more forceful funk/hip-hop beats. Elsewhere, on “Shame” and “Told You So,” Gore’s lyrics start taking on more of the obsessive personal relationship studies that would soon dominate his writing. Wilder’s own songwriting contributions are fine musically, but lyrically, “preachy” puts it mildly, especially the environment-friendly “The Landscape Is Changing”.

Tracklist:
01 – Love, In Itself
02 – More Than A Party
03 – Pipeline
04 – Everything Counts
05 – Two Minute Warning
06 – Shame
07 – The Landscape Is Changing
08 – Told You So
09 – And Then…
10 – Everything Counts [Extended Version]

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Depeche Mode – Speak & Spell (1981/2013) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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Depeche Mode – Speak & Spell (1981/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:55 minutes | 923 MB | Genre: Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Front cover | © Rhino/Warner Bros.

The band’s 1981 debut features the classic early singles, “New Life”, “Dreaming Of Me” and the signature track, “Just Can’t Get Enough.” Speak & Spell reached the Top Ten in the U.K., earning Gold certification. It is the sole album to feature Vince Clarke as a band member. Record Mirror gave the album a five-star review and stated “…sparkling songs…much to admire and little to disappoint”.

Though probably nobody fully appreciated it at the time — perhaps least of all the band! — Depeche Mode’s debut is at once both a conservative, functional pop record and a groundbreaking release. While various synth pioneers had come before — Gary Numan, early Human League, late-’70s Euro-disco, and above all Kraftwerk all had clear influence on Speak & Spell — Depeche became the undisputed founder of straight-up synth pop with the album’s 11 songs, light, hooky, and danceable numbers about love, life, and clubs. For all the claims about “dated” ’80s sounds from rock purists, it should be noted that the basic guitar/bass/drums lineup of rock is almost 25 years older than the catchy keyboard lines and electronic drums making the music here. That such a sound would eventually become ubiquitous during the Reagan years, spawning lots of crud along the way, means the band should no more be held to blame for that than Motown and the Beatles for inspiring lots of bad stuff in the ’60s. Credit for the album’s success has to go to main songwriter Vince Clarke, who would extend and arguably perfect the synth pop formula with Yazoo and Erasure; the classic early singles “New Life,” “Dreaming of Me,” and “Just Can’t Get Enough,” along with numbers ranging from the slyly homoerotic “Pretty Boy” to the moody thumper “Photographic,” keep everything moving throughout. David Gahan undersings about half the album, and Martin Gore’s two numbers lack the distinctiveness of his later work, but Speak & Spell remains an undiluted joy.

Tracklist:
01 – New Life
02 – Puppets
03 – Dreaming Of Me
04 – Boys Say Go!
05 – Nodisco!
06 – What’s Your Name
07 – Photographic
08 – Tora! Tora! Tora!
09 – Big Muff
10 – Any Second Now (Voices)
11 – Just Can’t Get Enough

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Depeche Mode – Delta Machine (2013) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Depeche Mode – Delta Machine (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 1:18:51 minutes | 938 MB | Genre: Alternative, Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Front cover | © Columbia

Delta Machine is Depeche Mode’s eagerly-awaited thirteenth studio album. The band, one of VH1’s “100 Greatest Artists of All Time,” is in exhilarating form. The band succeeds in their quest to deliver an album for modern times. Produced by Ben Hillier and mixed by Flood, the album is led by the hit single, “Heaven”.

The British electronic group that continues to dominate the movement it pioneered 30 years ago delivers a hefty, exhilarating combo of pop precision and industrial clank on its 13th album. – USA Today

The strange thing about Depeche Mode is that even when they possess the wisdom that comes from being put through the wringer — both as a band about to break up and lead singer David Gahan’s struggles with addiction — they are still quite good at making self-destruction sound seductive. Everybody knows that was the devil talking in “Personal Jesus,” while “Strangelove,” “Behind the Wheel,” and so many other prime Depeche tunes sink in a sea of sin or drown in damnation, and the band sound like they’re in the throes of ecstasy while doing it. Delta Machine, the band’s 13th album, feeds off this negative energy and winds like a snake the whole time, slithering through a well-written (ten songs from Martin Gore with three coming from Gahan) and lusciously recorded set of serpentine siren songs (behind the boards there’s Playing the Angel and Sounds of the Universe producer Ben Hillier, plus longtime asset Flood providing the mix). “Heaven” is a simmering ballad, combining the sexy and lusty attitude of “Personal Jesus” with the reserve of their 2005 hit “Precious.” The great “Alone” seems the quintessential post-millennial Depeche track with music that glitches, groans, and somehow grabs the listener, while the lyrics give away the big conundrum “I couldn’t tell if you were blessed or cursed,” which is the sexiest trait ever according to the Mode. With some blues-rock guitar and the darkest synthetic landscape underneath, key track “Slow” is a lusty wish to delay la petit mort, while “Should Be Higher” suggests “When the shame and the guilt are removed and the truth will appear” as if the Rocky Horror Picture Show’s “Don’t Dream It, Be It” traded its camp for carnal desire. “Should Be Higher” is also one of the rare moments where the beat is pushed, so those who still expect the dancefloor side of the group will be disappointed with this slower set. Those who don’t buy into the dark eroticism that drives the album will be disappointed as well, but don’t mistake “dour” for “down for it” when it comes dressed-in-leather pants, because the simmering and dark Delta Machine is certainly the latter.

Tracklist:
01 – Welcome To My World
02 – Angel
03 – Heaven
04 – Secret To The End
05 – My Little Universe
06 – Slow
07 – Broken
08 – The Child Inside
09 – Soft Touch/Raw Nerve
10 – Should Be Higher
11 – Alone
12 – Soothe My Soul
13 – Goodbye
14 – Long Time Lie
15 – Happens All The Time
16 – Always
17 – All That’s Mine
18 – Heaven

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Depeche Mode – Delta Machine (2014) [Blu-Ray Pure Audio Disc]

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Artist: Depeche Mode
Title: Delta Machine
Genre: Synthpop, Dance-Rock, Alternative Dance
Label: © Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment
Release Date: 2014
Recorded: March–October 2012; Sound Design (Santa Barbara, California); Jungle City Studio (New York City, New York)
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 01:16:42
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 14876 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 96 kHz / 7101 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 15.06 GB

Depeche Mode have announced the global release of their CD/DVD/Blu-ray release of Depeche Mode Live In Berlin for November 17th via Columbia Records. Directed by their longtime creative collaborator, Anton Corbijn, Depeche Mode Live in Berlin features two hours worth of never before released, live concert footage.

Depeche Mode Live in Berlin was filmed on location at the O2 World Berlin on November 25th and 27th, 2013 during the band’s extremely successful Delta Machine Tour which saw them play to over 2.4 million people in 32 countries. Depeche Mode was touring in support of their lauded 13th studio album, Delta Machine, which debuted at #1 in 12 countries worldwide in March 2013. The CD/DVD will include not only performances of tracks from Delta Machine but also some of their most memorable and biggest hits including “Personal Jesus” and “Policy of Truth”.

The deluxe version offers a total immersion, all access experience for fans. This will include the Live in Berlin DVD, the Live in Berlin full show audio across two CDs, as well as a second DVD, Alive in Berlin. Also directed by Corbijn, Alive in Berlin includes the full live show, inter-spliced with behind-the-scenes footage, multiple interviews with the band and their fans, and a 2-song acoustic session, which was filmed at Salon Bel Ami, the oldest existing brothel in Berlin.

The package also includes the band’s 2013 album Delta Machine 5.1 mix on Blu-Ray CD. All this comes specially packaged in a beautiful lift off box that includes 5 CD mini-jackets housing the aforementioned discs and a 16 page booklet.

“Alive in Berlin is a record of Depeche Mode visiting Berlin for two concerts and the impact it has on fans following the band. Berlin has a special place in the hearts of Depeche Mode. Likewise, Depeche Mode has a strong following in the German capital and the film tries to capture the highlights of these concerts as well as that special connection through interviews with fans and bands alike,” states director Anton Corbijn.

Also available will be a double CD package of the full audio from Live in Berlin.

Tracklist:
1. Welcome To My World
2. Angel
3. Heaven
4. Secret To The End
5. My Little Universe
6. Slow
7. Broken
8. The Child Inside
9. Soft Touch/Raw Nerve
10. Should Be Higher
11. Alone
12. Soothe My Soul
13. Goodbye
14. Long Time Lie
15. Happens All The Time
16. Always
17. All That’s Mine

Personnel:
Dave Gahan – lead vocals
Martin Gore – keyboards, backing and lead vocals; guitars
Andy Fletcher – keyboards, backing vocals

DISC INFO:

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Miles Davis – In Person: Saturday Night At The Blackhawk, San Francisco Vol.2 (1961) [Japanese Reissue 2000] {SACD ISO + FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz}

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Miles Davis – In Person: Saturday Night At The Blackhawk, San Francisco Vol.2 (1961) [Japanese Reissue 2000]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 60:53 minutes | Scans included | 2,47 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,21 GB
Genre: Jazz

The second volume in the (finally) complete recordings from Miles Davis’ legendary two-night stand at the Blackhawk in 1961 with his new quintet — which featured Hank Mobley, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb — is as stunning as the first. While this set has been available in many different configurations in the U.S. and Japan over the years, it has never been complete until now. In Person: Saturday Night at the Blackhawk features no less than nine unreleased performances — including an unprecedented fourth set on two CDs. The groove is quite different on Saturday evening. Rather than the slashing bop of Sonny Rollins’ “Oleo” from Friday, a loping, bluesed-out version of “If I Were a Bell” opens the program. Kelly’s interplay with Davis here is enlightening and inspiring; his comps and fills dance around the trumpeter’s solo without ever punching through its center. His sense of timing is remarkable in how he anticipates the end of Miles’ lines. He shifts gears with Mobley, who is in a speedier Coleman Hawkins mood here and pushes the middle harder, more percussively, as Mobley then plays all around the changes. This gives way to an unbelievably speedy “So What,” clocking in at over 12 minutes and driven by Chambers’ pizzicato bass playing. Davis’ solo in the first few choruses is more reminiscent of his tenure with Charlie Parker than anything of his own, except for the warmer tone. The tune is an odyssey of harmonic invention with Kelly acting as a bridge between Davis and Mobley, offering wide-open sevenths and diminished fifths for each player to wander in and out of. Kelly’s solo comes right out of the blues, pure and angular; his touch is heavier — deep left-hand accents and trills decorate it.

Tracklist:
01. Well You Needn’t
02. Fran-Dance
03. So What
04. Oleo
05. If I Were A Bell
06. Neo

Personnel
Miles Davis – trumpet
Hank Mobley – tenor sax
Wynton Kelly – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Jimmy Cobb – drums

SACD ISO

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mqs.link_MilesDavisInPersn.Vl.21961Japan2000SACDIS.part2.rar
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FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz

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Melanie Martinez – Cry Baby (2015) [7Digital FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Melanie Martinez – Cry Baby (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:02 minutes | 696 MB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Master, Official Digital Download  – Source: 7digital | Artwork: Digital booklet | @ Atlantic Records

Melanie Martinez wants to tell you a story. It’s fictional, but it’s also about her, in a way that’s somewhat exaggerated and darker than reality. The tale traces through Melanie’s debut album Cry Baby, a collection of pop songs that draw inspiration from singer-songwriter folk and hip-hop and follow a character who learns to be more comfortable with who she is. The journey of the character, who Melanie dubbed Cry Baby, mirrors the musician’s own.

Building upon the conceptual ideas of her 2014 EP, Dollhouse, Melanie Martinez’s 2015 full-length debut, Cry Baby, finds her taking the innocent imagery of youth and family (“Carousel,” “Training Wheels,” “Milk and Cookies”) and subverting them into angular R&B and electro-infused anthems of familial strife, abuse, and romance gone wrong. An arty, self-assured singer with a style that falls somewhere between Beyoncé and Björk, Martinez first came to the public’s attention singing Britney Spears’ “Toxic” as a contestant on the third season of NBC’s The Voice. Perhaps not surprisingly, then, her songs also fit nicely next to the work of contemporaries like Lorde and Lana Del Rey. As with Dollhouse, aiding Martinez on Cry Baby are a handful of hip-hop and pop-steeped producers including Kinetics & One Love (B.o.B, Pitbull, Neon Hitch), SmarterChild (Krewella, Usher, Tori Kelly), and Frequency (Eminem, Royce da 5’9″, Slaughterhouse). Featured on Cry Baby are the singles “Sippy Cup,” “Soap,” and “Pity Party”.

Tracklist:
01 – Cry Baby
02 – Dollhouse
03 – Sippy Cup
04 – Carousel
05 – Alphabet Boy
06 – Soap
07 – Training Wheels
08 – Pity Party
09 – Tag, You’re It
10 – Milk And Cookies
11 – Pacify Her
12 – Mrs. Potato Head
13 – Mad Hatter
14 – Play Date
15 – Teddy Bear
16 – Cake

Download:

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Miike Snow – iii (2016) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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Miike Snow – iii (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:45 minutes | 828 MB | Genre: Rock, Indie
Studio Master, Official Digital Download  – Source: Qobuz | @ Downtown – Atlantic

Miike Snow is a Swedish indie pop band formed in 2007. The band consists of producing team Bloodshy & Avant and singer Andrew Wyatt. The band is often represented by a silhouette image of a jackalope. Since their debut, they have released three studio albums: Miike Snow (2009), Happy to You (2012), and iii (2016).

The band’s third album, iii, wasn’t crafted in one fell swoop. Instead, the musicians collaborated across space and time, meeting in Stockholm, Los Angeles and New York for short periods over almost two years. They brought in a variety of other musicians and producers into the studios with them, feeling more open to outside collaboration this time around. Each musician began with different songs, sometimes sending them back and forth digitally when they couldn’t be together in one room. As a whole, the album feels resolutely like a Miike Snow project, defined both by the two efforts that have come before and by the collective work of the three musicians. The combination of the musicians is an electric one, as exemplified on the album and in their live shows.

Tracklist:
01 – My Trigger
02 – The Heart Of Me
03 – Genghis Khan
04 – Heart Is Full
05 – For U (feat. Charli XCX)
06 – I Feel The Weight
07 – Back Of The Car
08 – Lonely Life
09 – Over And Over
10 – Longshot (7 Nights)
11 – Heart Is Full (feat. Run The Jewels) [Remix, Bonus Track]

Note: Track “11” is 24bit/44,2kHz recording.

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Mike Oldfield – Discovery (1984/2015) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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Mike Oldfield – Discovery (1984/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:29 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download  – Source: Qobuz |  @ Universal Music GmbH

Originally released in June 1984, the UK Top 20 album contains two songs which Oldfield would later include on Two Sides his career best of – ‘The Lake’, an expansive instrumental reflection on Lake Geneva and ‘To France’, a classic folk-pop ballad featuring Maggie Reilly. Featuring the newest remaster.

With 1984’s Discovery, Mike Oldfield seems to be back on track, utilizing the vocal power of Maggie Reilly and the drum playing of Simon Phillips to create some rather appealing selections. “The Lake” is a simply gorgeous instrumental inspired by Switzerland’s Lake Geneva, the location in which the album was recorded, while “To France” is a powerful pop/rock tune based on the life of Mary, Queen of Scots. Both Reilly and Barry Palmer share the vocal duties throughout the tracks, signifying Oldfield’s subtle emergence into a more pop-infused atmosphere. “Tricks of the Light” is a wonderful instrumental that relies on the keyboard to give it energy, while even so-so efforts like the title track and “Poison Arrows” come off as upbeat and inspired. Discovery peaked at number 15 in the U.K., and even though it didn’t garner much attention elsewhere, it serves as one of Mike Oldfield’s most entertaining releases from the decade.

Tracklist:
01 – To France
02 – Poison Arrows
03 – Crystal Gazing
04 – Tricks Of The Light
05 – Discovery
06 – Talk About Your Life
07 – Saved By A Bell
08 – The Lake
09 – To France [Extended Version, Bonus Track]
10 – In The Pool [Bonus Track]
11 – Bones [Bonus Track]
12 – Afghan [Bonus Track]
13 – Tricks Of The Light [Instrumental, Bonus Track]

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Mothxr – Centerfold (2016) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Mothxr – Centerfold (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:58 minutes | 508 MB | Genre: Electronic, Rock,
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | @ Washington Square

Mothxr is a four-piece alternative band from Brooklyn, led by actor/artist Penn Badgley (Gossip Girl). In May 2015, their top ten Hype Machine track, Easy, secured them the #1 spot on Billboard & Twitter s Emerging Artist charts. Centerfold is the band’s debut album.

Whether they like it or not, Brooklyn’s Mothxr are most likely going to be known as the band fronted by former Gossip Girl actor Penn Badgley. But that’s not to say there isn’t a lot to like about the band’s atmospherically sultry, ’80s new wave and R&B-inflected debut, Centerfold. Produced by the band’s bassist, Jimmy Giannopoulos (who seems to have a talent for actor-led bands, as he also plays with the Zoe Kravitz-fronted LolaWolf), Centerfold is a slow-burn, slightly psychedelic production born out of the group’s initial eight-day recording session in a rented house in Los Angeles. Also coloring Mothxr’s chilled-out slow jams are guitarist Simon Oscroft and keyboardist Darren Will. As a singer, Badgley proved he had a knack for yearning falsetto when he played doomed singer/songwriter Jeff Buckley in the 2012 biopic Greetings from Tim Buckley. On Centerfold, he takes a similar approach, all breathy low-end come-ons one minute, and soaring loverman falsetto the next. The result is surprisingly effective and brings to mind ’80s Prince as much as it does more contemporary acts like MGMT. Cuts like the hazy “Impossible” and the fluorescent “Underground” have a half-lidded sensuality that sounds something along the lines of France’s Air scoring an episode of Miami Vice. Others, like the buoyant “Stranger” and drowsily funky “Easy,” while no less steamy, evince more light-hearted club-ready tropicality. Throw in the cheeky album cover featuring what looks like an ’80s catalog model donning a purple, pink, and green windbreaker and listening to an old-school Walkman and one gets the sense that Mothxr’s retro cocktail of synthesizers and soul contains at least a few drops of knowing irony. Ultimately, on Centerfold, Badgley and his bandmates stay camera cool, never flashing a smile, but if you listen closely, you might just hear them winking at you.

Tracklist:
01 – Impossible
02 – Stranger
03 – Centerfold
04 – Underground
05 – Touch
06 – Fight the Feeling
07 – Easy
08 – Victim
09 – She Can’t Tell
10 – Wild Ride
11 – I Can See You’ll Never Make It Out

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Natalie Cole – Natalie Cole En Espanol (2013) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Natalie Cole – Natalie Cole en Español (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:37 minutes | 519 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Digital booklet | @ Verve Records

Produced by Rudy Perez (“Latin Music Producer of the Decade“ – Billboard), Natalie Cole En Espanol finds the multi-GRAMMY® winner inspired by both the bilingual recording legacy of her father Nat King Cole and a growing passion for the timeless romanticism of the great Latin music composers. The must-have recording will reintroduce a new generation of fans to many of Latin Music’s most romantic standards – with both new interpretations of Spanish-language classics previously recorded by Nat King Cole, and Natalie’s own personal selection of songs that have touched her heart and make this album truly her own. This wonderful balance of both old and new classics is perfectly illustrated by the special vocal collaborations that highlight the album, with Natalie joining Juan Luis Guerra on the Dominican Maestro’s own “Bachata Rosa,” while looking further back with Andrea Bocelli on the eternal “Besame Mucho.” But without question, the most emotional pairing of the album finds Natalie joining her father in a heartfelt duet of “Acercate Mas” – utilizing the same technique as their GRAMMY® winning, globally multi-Platinum recording of “Unforgettable.”

In 1958, Nat King Cole released Cole Español, the singer’s first of three Spanish-language albums. He went to Mexico, and took his daughter along, to promote the release. Over half a century later, she takes a cue from her father with En Español. The album contains Natalie’s own versions of songs her father recorded, including “Quizás, Quizás, Quizás” and “Solamente una Vez.” Additionally, “Acércate Más” incorporates Nat’s 1958 take à la “Unforgettable” and “Walkin’ My Baby Back Home.” Despite the likenesses, this isn’t a mere throwback to a brief phase in Nat’s career. Produced by Rudy Pérez – who also translates the Beatles’ “And I Love Her” for a sleepy “Yo Lo Amo” – much of the material was originally written and recorded well after the early ’60s. There are several guests, including Andrea Bocelli on “Bésame Mucho,” Juan Luis Guerra on an update of his “Bachata Rosa,” and pianist Arthur Hanlon on a brisk five-song medley that leads with Tito Puente’s “Oye Como Va.” Natalie’s connection to the source probably isn’t much deeper than that of her father; interviews noted her enthusiasm for Mexican food and that she took Spanish classes in high school. The album, nonetheless, is a likable diversion from her norm. What she lacks in fluency is made up with zest.

Tracklist:
01 – Frenesi
02 – Voy A Apagar La Luz / Contigo Aprendi – Medley
03 – Acércate Más
04 – Mañana De Carnaval
05 – Bésame Mucho
06 – Quizás, Quizás, Quizás
07 – Solamente Una Vez
08 – Oye Como Va – Medley
09 – Yo Lo Amo (And I Love Him)
10 – El Día Que Me Quieras
11 – Bachata Rosa
12 – Amapola

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Natalie Cole – Ask A Woman Who Knows (2002) [SACD Reissue 2003] {SACD ISO + FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz}

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Natalie Cole – Ask A Woman Who Knows (2002) [SACD Reissue 2003]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 53:31 mins | Scans included | 3,4 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,16 GB
Genre: Jazz, Pop

This CD reunites Cole with producer by Tommy LiPuma, who produced “Unforgettable” and was the hit maker behind George Benson and Diana Krall. This collection is a classic blend of jazz-inflected pop, with the best and the brightest in the business. Backed by a plethora of stars, including trumpeter Roy Hargrove, bassist Christian McBride, pianist Joe Sample, and drummer Lewis Nash, Cole’s lithe, Ella Fitzgerald-tinged vocals are showcased in a number pleasing settings. Whether it’s the Brazilian sound of Sergio Mendes’s “So Many Stars,” the scat-happy “My Baby Just Cares for Me,” or the big band swing of “It’s Crazy” and “Soon,” courtesy of the Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra, Cole projects her aura on these songs once sung by Sarah Vaughan, Barbra Streisand, Nina Simone, and Dinah Washington. Natalie Cole is a jazzy soul survivor in the literal sense of the term, and this recording represents her finest hour.

Natalie Cole is a fascinating vocalist who represents more than 30 years of worldwide critical acclaim, tremendous commercial success, the continuation of a family legacy, and consummate artistry. Her new dreams, ideas, and efforts unfold on Ask a Woman Who Knows, her debut for the Verve recording label and first recording in three years. Ms. Cole’s musical choices include songs that depict the various aspects of love — its joy, its sorrow, its loneliness, and its consolation. Included are two of Dinah Washington’s gems — “I Haven’t Got Anything Better to Do” and the title track, “Ask a Woman Who Knows” — both songs about love gone wrong. Cole changes the tone of the set with great scatting on the up-tempo swinger “My Baby Just Cares for Me”; “It’s Crazy,” the hit written by her father, Nat King Cole; and the soulful “I’m Glad There Is You,” which features Roy Hargrove on flugelhorn. Natalie Cole sings her engaging musical stories with priceless, nuanced phrasing accompanied by a distinguished core quintet of Joe Sample, Russell Malone, Christian McBride, Lewis Nash, and Rob Mounsey. The added dimension of Natalie Cole performing all background vocals and the backing of the Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra on two songs makes the recording extra special. Overall, this is an exceptional recording that re-teams her with Tommy LiPuma, the producer of her biggest hit, Unforgettable: With Love. The listener who has followed her career will hear and understand that the consistency of all her exploring has been to arrive at a higher level of musical accomplishment through support from great musicians and a positive musical family.

Tracklist:
01. I Haven’t Got Anything Better To Do
02. Tell Me All About It
03. Ask A Woman Who Knows
04. It’s Crazy
05. You’re Mine You
06. So Many Stars
07. I Told You So
08. Soon
09. I’m Glad There Is You
10. Better Than Anything
11. The Music That Makes Me Dance
12. Calling You
13. My Baby Just Cares For Me

SACD ISO

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FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz

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陳潔靈 (Elisa Chan) –隨想 (2014) SACD ISO

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產品名稱: 隨想 (SACD)
歌手名稱: 陳 潔靈 (歌手)
推出日期: 2014-09-04
語言: 粵語
製作來源地: 中國香港
光碟格式: Super Audio CD

http://www.yesasia.com/us/%E9%9A%A8%E6%83%B3-sacd/1036698633-0-0-0-zh_TW/info.html

MADE IN GERMANY

LIMITED EDITION

An Extra Glimpse of Thoughts 隨想

Elisa Chan 陳潔靈

國際級樂手陣容 Producer: Clarence Chang Music Arrangement: Sylvain Gagnon

Eugene Pao Roel Garcia Ted Lo Sylvain Gagnon Joey Villanueua Melchoir Sarreal Kaori Wilson

Barnaby Bruce Michael Kurtz Gallant Ho Guillermo de Fuego Anthony Lun Leslie Moonsun Ryang

Bob Morcarsky Anthony Chue Richard Bamping Bob Morcarsky Miles Li……

ORIGINAL MASTERED BY JOE GASTWIRT MASTERING, CA. U.S.A.

1. 當天那真我
2. 隨想曲
3. 千枝針刺在心
4. 白金升降機
5. 滴汗
6. 水中花
7. 煙雨淒迷
8. 細水長流
9. 星夜星塵
10. 但願人長久
11. 笛子姑娘
12. 結他低泣時
13. 千千闋歌
14. 只怕不再遇上
15. 哭…可以麽
16. 哭…可以麽 (Gypsy Version)
17. 哭…可以麽 (Tribute Version Featuring 潘源良 )

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陳百強 (Danny Chan) –深愛著你 (2015) SACD DFF

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產品名稱: 深愛著你 (SACD) (限量編號版)
歌手名稱: 陳百強 (歌手)
推出日期: 2015-07-02
語言: 粵語
製作來源地: 中國香港
光碟格式: Super Audio CD

http://www.yesasia.com/global/%E6%B7%B1%E6%84%9B%E8%91%97%E4%BD%A0-sacd-%E9%99%90%E9%87%8F%E7%B7%A8%E8%99%9F%E7%89%88/1044149814-0-0-0-zh_TW/info.html

內容簡介/曲目
華納唱片SACD
(Super Audio Compact Disc)

首批1,000張編碼版,日本壓碟SACD (Hybrid),限量發行!

01. 深愛著你
02. 盼望的緣份
03. 戀愛預告
04. 我和你
05. 永恆的愛
06. 傷心人
07. 在這孤獨晚上
08. 最深刻的記憶
09. 冷風中
10. 不再問究竟
11. 如果沒有你
12. 永不改變

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陳百強 (Danny Chan) –眼淚爲你流 (2004) SACD DSF

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表演者: 陳百強
流派: 流行
專輯類型: 選集
介質: SACD
發行時間: 2004
出版者: EMI

https://music.douban.com/subject/20277637/

04年香港百代唱片公司發行 德國制造的SACD系列

曲目

01. 眼淚爲妳流
02. 盼三年
03. 我的故事
04. 情人
05. 恩情
06. 昨夜夢見妳
07. 初戀
08. 凝望
09. 至愛
10. 癡心眼內藏
11. 漫長盼望
12. 煙雨淒迷
13. 從今以後
14. 感情到老
15. 冬戀
16. 不再流淚

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