The Rhino Excessive Constancy limited-edition reissue of The Vehicles (1978). Photograph Credit score: Warner Music GroupWarner Music Group’s Rhino Data has introduced a high-fidelity “quarterly premium vinyl collection” that’s kicking off with reissues of The Vehicles’ eponymous 1978 debut album and John Coltrane’s Coltrane’s Sound (1964).
Rhino reached out to Digital Music Information with phrase of the Hello-Fi vinyl collection right now, making clear off the bat that every of the 2 quarterly releases will likely be out there to buy solely by way of its web site. Moreover, the WMG subsidiary emphasised that the concerned information, contrasting the vast majority of vinyl right now, will pull from analog masters versus digital variations.
In fact, it was solely final week {that a} choose accredited an estimated $25 million settlement from Cellular Constancy Sound Lab, which was named in a class-action lawsuit (and subjected to ample audiophile criticism) over alleged misrepresentations. Particularly, the corporate is alleged to have connected an “Authentic Grasp Recording” label to merchandise that integrated “direct stream digital” into the manufacturing course of.
However Rhino Hello-Fi vinyl is being “minimize from the unique analog grasp tapes by” veteran mastering engineer Kevin Grey, per the reissue product descriptions of The Vehicles and Coltrane’s Sound, that are restricted to five,000 numbered copies apiece.
Priced at $39.98 (plus one other $7.99 for delivery and dealing with), the 180-gram Optimum-pressed information at hand will likewise boast “shiny covers and ‘tip-on’ jackets,” in keeping with Rhino.
Plus, the merchandise are anticipated to function “unique content material,” referring right here to “a brand new interview with guitarist Elliot Easton” in addition to “producer Roy Thomas Baker’s monitoring notes for ‘Good Instances Roll’” with The Vehicles. Coltrane’s Sound, however, will per Rhino embrace “notes and pictures from the grasp tapes” and “an archival essay by legendary producer Tom Dowd.”
Rhino is ready to announce its subsequent Hello-Fi releases “within the coming weeks,” higher-ups disclosed, and the venture represents simply the newest in a line of current efforts to capitalize upon robust vinyl demand in the US, Japan, and numerous totally different markets.
March noticed Metallica buy a 70,000-square-foot urgent facility, as an illustration, whereas Common Music’s Interscope Data earlier in Could unveiled a group of (extraordinarily) limited-edition vinyl from acts together with Billie Eilish, 9 Inch Nails, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Girl Gaga, Dr. Dre, Blackpink, Lana Del Rey, Machine Gun Kelly, and 50 Cent.
Superfans keen to half with $2,500 – neither taxes nor an roughly $12.50 delivery fee is included within the huge price ticket – should buy the merchandise, that are mentioned to function Gucci-designed packaging and new paintings crafted by high-profile visible artists. Web income will likely be donated to the Iovine and Younger Basis, per Interscope.