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Yaz: Upstairs At Eric's - Original Sire Pressing - 24/96 rip to redbook
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LPMarauder
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10 Oct 2009 23:20:51
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Yaz: Upstairs At Eric's - Original Sire Pressing
Sire Records 1-23737 (near-mint vinyl pressing, 1982)
Vinyl remaster in 24-bit/96kHz resampled and dithered to redbook | FLAC | Hires LP Scans | 252MB
Sire Records 1-23737 (near-mint vinyl pressing, 1982)
Vinyl remaster in 24-bit/96kHz resampled and dithered to redbook | FLAC | Hires LP Scans | 252MB
| “ | There was a time when you couldn't step into a dance club without hearing at least part of this recording booming over the sound system. The often over-played hit, "Situation," was a bubbling caldron of nasally synth noodlings, a whopping bass line, and drum machine wallops. Alison Moyet's looped laugh in the middle of the song ended up as a sample, over-used a thousand times over. Yaz (who was known as "Yazoo" in the UK) is an interesting blend of Moyet's smoky blues and jazz tinged vocals with Vince Clarke's digital disco. Moyet's voice alone was instrument enough, and the melodies here perfectly showcased her incredible range. Upstairs easily moved between energetic dance floor exuberance ("Don't Go" and "Good-bye Seventies"), blues-inspired wailers ("Midnight"), and icy electronic minimalism ("Winter Kills"). It was an explosion of a debut, touching upon '80s gay disco, synth pop, and diva-ism in one fell swoop. The album closes with the overlooked "Didn't I Bring Your Love Down," an infectious barn burner with a call/response break that blows the roof off of Eric's little techno-pop room. A great album and an excellent disc to show off your audio system! | ” |
Side A:
01 Don't Go
02 Too Pieces
03 Bad Connection
04 I Before E Except After C
05 Midnight
06 In My Room
Side B:
07 Only You
08 Goodbye Seventies
09 Situation (Remix by François Kevorkian)
10 Winter Kills
11 Bring Your Love Down (Didn't I)
Principal Equipment used:
Clearaudio Champion 2 turntable & Unify tonearm
Benz Micro L2 cartridge
Extremephono Tonearm cable
Aqvox USB-2 MKII D/A
(manual declicking)
NOTE: Burn gapless (no track gaps) to match original track layout
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I have a dilemma; How am I supposed to file this?
what's the _right_ name for the parent folder?
Looks like it should be Yazoo to me...
Were they not from the UK?
So, the intention of the artist was to be named Yazoo.
If you search for them at -AMG- you will find them under Yazoo.
If you search -Amazon.com- you will find them under Yaz.
I'm confused...
PS:
Even the name gives it away...Eric is a very common English name.
It means that it was recorded from the vinyl source at 24/96 and then dithered and transcoded to 16/44 (the Redbook standard). This allows for a better transfer than if it were recorded directly to 16/44, since doing the manual de-clicking on the original 24/96 file reduces sound quality loss during the digital editing, and the dithering makes the conversion to 16/44 sound more natural. Look up "dithering" on wikipedia for why this is a good thing.
So yes, the fact that it was originally recorded at a higher bitrate and bitdepth, but is provided in a form that can be burned directly to CD, is important info.
Also, this album is definitely fun nostalgia.
This band was English so file under their English name 'Yazoo'. The name 'Yaz' was their Euro name I believe. Confusingly, 'Yaz' was a dreadful, unrelated 1-hit- wonder Euro-disco act who sang 'The Only Way Is Up' (I STILL cringe thinking of this song!). I hope this helps!
THANKS FOR THE UP! Any chance of their other album?
Cheers!
;-)