Genre: Pop
Duration: 2:12:28
Year: 2017
Quality: HDTV
Video Resolution / Scan: 1080i
Container: TS
Video codec: MPEG2
Audio Codec: MP2
Video: MPEG2; 1920×1080; 27.7 Mb / s; 25,000 fps
Audio: MPEG2; 256 kb / s; 48.0 KHz; 2ch
Size: 27.23 GB
The 45th Annual American Music Awards took place on November 19, 2017, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California.It was broadcast on ABC and was hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross.
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Artist: The Doors
Title: The Singles – The Best Of The Doors 1973
Genre: Rock
Label: © Elektra Records/Rhino Entertainment
Release Date: 2017
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Container: BDMV
Duration: 00:44:08
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 3042 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: DTS-HD MA 4.0 / 192 kHz / 11785 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 4.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Size: 5.01 GB
This historic release collects all 20 U.S. singles released by The Doors, and their corresponding B-sides, gathered together for the first time. The set includes the rare, original single versions of such classics as, “Love Me Two Times,” “Love Her Madly,” “Riders On The Storm” and many more. As a bonus, the CD features four original mono radio versions of some of the band’s biggest hits which have never been made available anywhere after being sent to radio stations around their original release. All 44 tracks have been mastered from the original analog single masters by the band’s longtime engineer/mixer Bruce Botnick.
The Blu-ray disc that accompanies the expanded version of THE SINGLES features a high-resolution Quadraphonic mix of The Best Of The Doors. This 11-song compilation, available on Blu-ray for the first time, was remixed specifically for Quad in 1973 and offers a unique sonic experience on songs like “Soul Kitchen,” “Moonlight Drive” and “Love Me Two Times.” (more…)
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Hubert Laws – The Rite Of Spring (1971/2013)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 30:50 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: e-Onkyo | Booklet, Front Cover | © CTI Records
Recorded: June 8, 10 and 25, 1971 at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Long before Wynton decided he could play classical chops as well as the real long-haired interpreters, even though he was a jazz musician, Hubert Laws and his partners at CTI gave it a run with a jazz twist, and for the most part with a far more adventurous repertoire. Unfortunately, the results were just about as thrilling as Wynton’s, with a few notable exceptions. For whatever reason, flutist Hubert Laws, known for his soul-jazz deftness, decided to take on handful of classical texts with the help of Bob James on piano, harpsichord, and electric piano; bassist Ron Carter, who doubles on cello; and drummer Jack DeJohnette, along with percussionists Airto and David Friedman, a pair of classical guitarists, and a trio of bassoonists. The program ranges from Debussy’s lovely “Syrinx” and Faure’s “Pavane,” to Stravinsky on the title cut and two movements of the third Brandberg Concerto by Bach. The problem with so much variation and ambition is that it’s bound to get caught up somewhere. That catching place is in the articulation of the actual transcriptions. They are stiff, rigid, oddly intoned, and lackluster — except in Debussy’s “Syrinx,” which is gorgeous throughout with its strange meter and lilting cadence. On the rest, the only place the tunes work is in the sections where the players engage in jazz improvisation upon the score, which is a swirling, engaging free-for-all of color, texture, and nuance. But since this happens so irregularly, the pieces just seem to grate on the listener. This is a brave but ultimately failed experiment.
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Nightwish – Dark Passion Play
Artist: Nightwish | Album: Dark Passion Play | Style: Heavy Metal, Goth Metal, Symphonic Black Metal, Progressive Metal | Year: 2007 | Quality: DVD-Audio (LPCM 5.1 48kHz/24Bit, Dolby AC3 5.1, Dolby AC3 2.0) + DTS 5.1 (.wav+.cue | 44.1kHz/24Bit) | Bitrate: lossless, DTSCD ~1411 kbps | Tracks: 13 | Size: ~4.22 Gb | Recovery: 3% | Covers: in archive | Release: Universal | Spinefarm Records (172003-9), 2007 | Note: Not Watermarked
Although it is their sixth studio album,Dark Passion Play marks the beginning of a new era for Finnish symphonic metal masters Nightwish. With new vocalist Annette Olzon onboard, Nightwish returns with their most accessible material to date. Firmly rooted in their trademark symphonic sounds featuring elaborate keyboard and guitar parts blended seamlessly with intricate string and choir sections, Olzon’s vocals have more pop sensibility as they are far less operatic than those of her predecessor. This is perfectly exemplified in the vocal melodies in Amaranth, Eva and the scorching duet with bassist Marco Hietala titled Bye Bye Beautiful. Nightwish mastermind Tuomas Holopainen (keyboards) not only wrote all the lyrics and all but two songs on the album, but also helmed the project as one of the producers along with T.C. Kinnunen and Mikko Karmila, who also mixed the album. Dark Passion Play has already made history as Finland’s most expensive recording project to date with massive string sections and choirs and it is clearly evident in the impeccable production. Nightwish have taken the symphonic elements of their prior works and infused them with a new voice to create a sound representative of the album title: dark, playful and, most of all, passionate. (more…)
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Nightwish – Once (2004)
Artist: Nightwish | Album: Once | Style: Symphonic Power Metal | Year: 2004 | Quality: DVD-Audio (MLP 5.1 48kHz/24Bit, MLP 2.0 48kHz/24Bit, Dolby AC3 5.1, Dolby AC3 2.0) | Bitrate: lossless | Tracks: 12 + 3 bonus tracks + 2 videoclips | Size: ~ 4.34 Gb | Recovery: 3% | Covers: in archive | Release: Nuclear Blast (27361 16252), 2004 | Note: Not Watermarked
Following in the footsteps of the Gathering and Lacuna Coil (goth-influenced “symphonic” metal bands with female vocalists), Nightwish were formed in Kitee, Finland, in 1997 by keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen. Initially attempting to create acoustic music, he recruited trained opera vocalist Tarja Turunen, but soon added full metal-band instrumentation in the persons of guitarist Emppo Vuorinen, bassist Sami Vänskä, and drummer Jukka Nevalainen. The band’s demos landed them a contract with the Finnish label Spinefarm, which released their debut album Angels Fall First in late 1997 (it appeared in the rest of Europe the following year). The follow-up, Oceanborn, appeared in late 1998 and made Nightwish a bonafide mainstream success in their homeland; the album reached the Finnish Top Five and spun off three Top Ten singles. The band toured Europe heavily, consolidating their success, and in 2000 recorded their third album Wishmaster. Not only did it top the Finnish charts, but it also became the group’s first album to be released in the US (by Century Media, which reissued their previous albums in 2001 as well). –All Music Guide
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Roger Waters – Radio K.A.O.S. (1987/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 00:41:20 minutes | 451 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Source: Q0buz | © Columbia
Radio K.A.O.S. is the second studio album by British rock musician and former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters. It was Waters’ first album after his split from Pink Floyd in 1985. Like his previous and future studio albums and many works of his during his time with Pink Floyd, this is a concept album. The album is based around a number of key factors of politics in the late 1980s – monetarism, and its effect on citizens. It also makes criticisms of Margaret Thatcher’s government, much like Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut, another album conceived by Waters. Other influences include popular culture of the 1980s, and the choices and consequences of the Cold War and its effect on world politics and society. (more…)
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Roger Waters – Amused To Death (1992/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time – 1:12:38 minutes | 2,72 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | © Columbia/Legacy
Roger Waters’ album Amused to Death returns in a remastered release from Columbia Records/ Legacy Recordings. Amused to Death sounded the alarm about a society increasingly – and unthinkingly – in thrall to its television screens. Twenty-three years later, Amused to Deathspeaks to our present moment in ways that could scarcely have been anticipated two decades ago. (more…)
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Сomposer: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Title: Falstaff
Release Date: 2015
Genre: Classical, Opera
Director: Robert Carsen
Conductor: James Levine
Artist: Ambrogio Maestri (Falstaff), Angela Meade (Alice Ford), Franco Vassallo (Ford), Lisette Oropesa (Nannetta), Paolo Fanale (Fenton), Stephanie Blythe (Mistress Quickly), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Meg Page), Keith Jameson (Bardolfo), Christian Van Horn (Pistola), The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Production/Label: Decca
Duration: 02:06:50
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 26996 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: Italian / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3964 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: Italian / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: English, French, German, Korean, Chinese
Size: 35.22 GB
Verdi’s brilliant final masterpiece Falstaff, in its first new Met production in 50 years — and conducted by Met Music Director James Levine in his first new production since his return to his podium at the Met.
When it comes to theatrical flair, captivating costumes, stage antics and imagination, there are not many shows on Broadway to rival the Met s new Falstaff
James Levine conducts Verdi s final masterpiece with affectionate energy while Ambrogio Maestri, heading a stellar cast, projects towering bravado and rare baritonal fervour in the title role –(Financial Times)
This visual feast, served up by director Robert Carsen, is a thoughtful, affecting and hilarious staging that updates the action from the time of Henry IV to England in the 1950s –New York Times
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The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed (1969/2005/2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz / 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 42:23 minutes | 882 MB / 1,43 GB
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Digital booklet | © ABKCO Records
The Stones’ legendary 1969 masterpiece includes the classics “Gimme Shelter”, “Midnight Rambler” and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”
This album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2005.
The album marks the first appearance of guitarist Mick Taylor on a studio album and features a number of noteable guest musicians and vocalists:
Ian Stewart, Nicky Hopkins, Jack Nitzsche, Ry Cooder, Leon Russell, Al Kooper, Bobby Keys, Byron Berline, Rocky Dijon, Merry Clayton, Madeline Bell, Doris Troy, Nanette Newman and The London Bach Choir
ABKCO Music and Records Inc. and HDTracks® are announcing the first-ever release of high definition digital downloads of The Rolling Stones ground-breaking catalog of studio, compilation and live albums in High-Fidelity FLAC formats offered in both 176.4kHz/24-bit and 88.2kHz/24-bit. (more…)
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“Who is this Sasha then?” asked the Barbican ticket office, as a friend desperately tried to get a ticket. “We’ve never seen an event sell so quickly and we’ve never heard of him.” Well, they have now.
After the worry, the fretting, the rehearsing, the practicing and the rave bootcamp, Sasha and cohorts turned the Barbican into their personal triumph. Not bad for an idea that, not so many months ago, appeared to be a DJ’s folly.
It was quite unlike anything he’d undertaken in his 30 year DJ career. To help him, he pulled together a team that included longtime collaborators Charlie May, Dennis White, Dave Gardner, with technical help from Barry Jamieson and behind the scenes advice from the immensely experienced Tommy D – who’s worked with everyone from Right Said Fred to Jess Glynne – and whose wife Rosie Danvers led Wired Strings for both shows. Alongside this core team, orchestral percussionist Joby Burgess and vocalist Julie Daske were added, as well as a plethora of guest singers that included John Graham and Abigail Wyles.
It was a show of two halves. The first half, contemplative, abstract, yet with a surprising intensity, delivered a perfect iteration of 2016’s Scene Delete, with twelve compositions drawn from the album and a previously unheard tune, Interstellar, sandwiched in the middle. The livelier second half was a mixture of Sasha favourites, opening with Gothika and including crowd favourites Belfunk and Wavy Gravy, with three of his remixes – Battleships, Smile and Every Love That Ever Was – before finishing the evening with a sympathetically reworked version of Sasha classic,
Xpander, a powerful climax to two very special shows.
Naturally talk has turned to further shows and tours and bigger ambitions. For now, though, enjoy this unique live recording. Sasha as you’ve never seen him before. (more…)