Reply With QuoteEclipse: I'm in nearby Alameda. Can you contact me for some info please? thanks. tijuanaterror@yahoo.comOriginally Written by Eclipse
I finally got around to ordering the Revanche/Peter Jacques/Macho set from Goody Music in Italy, and I have to say I am very impressed. Ordering was easy - once I found out that I could get the order form in English - and delivery was pretty quick. The set itself is very nicely packaged in a small box with five cardboard sleeves that mimic the original record covers. Two discs (Macho and Revanche) each contain two albums, so the little cardboard sleeves have the front cover of each album on opposite sides. (Too bad for those looking for the back cover of the Macho "I'm A Man" album!)The other three sleeves have the original album front and back reproduced. Tiny type on the backs!
The CDs themselves are quite snazzy - they are black and glassy and look like 12" singles on top and even have printed "grooves". There is a great booklet included with all the credits, musicians, producers, tracks, and times.
The music is taken from vinyl, as is noted in all the credits. It sounds very good, though I haven't listened to every track all the way through. I didn't hear much in the way of surface noise, and there don't seem to be any obvious artifacts from the de-noising. It doesn't suffer from that too-bright sound that often mars tracks lifted from vinyl. They sound about a thousand times better than the vinyl copies that I have in my collection!
The bonus tracks tend to be edits of the more popular tracks, but in some cases they are extended or "disco edit" versions. I have to say that the product is well worth the price, which was just under 50 Euros for discs and shipping to the US.
Hope you get it soon.
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