Hot Stamper Pressings of Exotica and Bachelor Pad Recordings Available Now
There are some records that, no matter how amazing the sound, and how good the music is, simply will not find favor with our customers. This is one of them. I happen to like the music, and the sound is shockingly good, a true Demo Disc for those of you with big speakers pulled well out from the back wall in a spacious, heavily treated room like the one you see below.
We are most likely not going to be doing shootouts for this title in the future, so we thought we would share with everyone what we know about the record, which boils down to which stampers have the potential to do well and which do not.
As you can see, Stan Goodall did a much better job mastering the early Blueback London pressings for Decca than Jack Law.
What information can you rely on when trying to find the best sounding pressings?
The originals all have the same Blueback cover.
In this case, the stamper numbers are the only way to separate the potential winners from the sure losers.
| 11/2023 | Ros, Edmundo | Rhythms of the South (PS 114 London) | early Blueback | 3 | 3 | 1E | 1E | other copies: 2.5/2, 2/2.5 | |
| 11/2023 | Ros, Edmundo | Rhythms of the South (PS 114 London) | early Blueback | 1.5 | 1 | 2D | 2D | s1 dry, flat, trashy. s2 smeary, messy, boring | |
| RE ABOVE: | I FOUND THIS IN A BOX. | THOUGHT IT SOUNDED REALLY GREAT, ESP. | T1, S1 |
Jack Law’s cutting for side one was