Andromeda Strain Orig Hexagon LP Gil Melle Psych Never Seen RARE Sealed MINT SS

$

250

The Andromeda Strain Orig Hex LP Still Sealed Psych

The only time I will lower the price, here's your chance, don't let it get away!

Welcome to our listing.
Perhaps the only sealed copy in the world!
We are offering an original hexagonal / still sealed / 1st pressing of the Original Soundtrack Recording of The Andromeda Strain by Gil Mellé.
Released by Kapp records in 1971, Catalog number KRS 5513.
Track Listing
Wildfire Hex Andromeda Desert Trip The Piedmont Elegy Op Xenogenesis Strobe Crystal Green
Condition:
Cover: Near Mint Still Factory Sealed, Small BB Hole on the upper right front. (Please excuse the reflections of our photography lights on the very reflective surface of the album cover!)
Record: Mint, Never Opened!
EVERYBODY, who didn't buy this record for the soundtrack, opened it just to see what the record looked like!
So, how many could be left in the world that haven't been opened?
I think it's safe to say this is probably one of the very few still sealed copies of this record in the world!...and remember there were 10,000 copies that were produced in 1971, and keep in mind that was 40 years ago!
More about the record below...but for now... We have other LPs for sale at the moment as well...
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Hexagonal Music: How I Manufactured The Andromeda Strain Soundtrack LP by Dr. Rick Steinberg
In 1970, during the editing of his now classic movie The Andromeda Strain, the director, Robert Wise, approached me with a view to have the soundtrack album marketed in a special manner. I was then in charge of Order Service for MCA Records; that is, record manufacture. He asked if it was possible to have the record pressed in a hexagonal shape as the extra terrestrial viral strain called Andromeda in the film was hexagonal. I said anything was possible, but that it would cost an estimated $20,000. While this was then a high figure for record production, it was minimal to the movie business and was agreed.
The executives at Kapp Records were only too happy to go along with the scheme as it relieved them of the production costs. (The soon to be defunct Kapp Records was one of several labels under the MCA umbrella at the time.) I discussed the matter with the president of Monarch Records, who pressed all MCA record requirements for the West Coast at that time. My idea was to have the music recorded in 10 Au format but put on a 12 Au matrix and manufactured as a 12 Au record. A steel hexagonal mold would then be made and this would be used in a press to trim the excess material from the 12 Au record to make a hexagonal shape, leaving the 10 inches of recorded material intact. This became the production method.
Kapp had agreed to a production run of 10,000 records. The pressing process encountered some problems: the unrecorded surface of the record had to be roughed so that it could be gripped for the cutting. This left unsightly corners on the finished record, therefore a more careful method of roughing only those edges that would not form the corners of the finished record had to be devised. Also, for a run of 10,000, the edges of the mold had to be sharpened frequently so as to leave a clean edge on the record.
The packaging into the record jackets also required extra time compared with normal jacketing. However, the total cost, including a spare mold, came to somewhat less than the quoted figure of $20,000. MCA were fortunate in having a very creative design team for their record jacket production. John LeProvost and Virginia Clark wanted to reflect the fact that it was music from a movie, thus they came up with the idea that the jacket should emulate a camera lens surrounding the actual record, but nevertheless pasted on a 12 Au square board.
The original 10,000 records sold out fairly rapidly. Gil Melle, the composer of the music, urged a second pressing, but the Kapp management did not want to go to the expense of reproducing the original format. It was therefore decided to repress the 10 Au recording on a 12 Au standard record and package it in a standard jacket. This did not sell well, and MCA soon lost interest in the record.
Hope that's of some interest to the ANDROMEDA STRAIN fans out there.
Gil Mellé (31 December 1931 – 28 October 2004) was an American artist, jazz musician and film composer.
In the 1950s, Mellé's paintings and sculptures were shown in New York galleries and he created the cover art for albums by Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins. Mellé played the tenor and baritone saxophone with George Wallington, Max Roach, Tal Farlow, Oscar Pettiford, Ed Thigpen, Kenny Dorham and Zoot Sims, and led a number of sessions recorded for the Blue Note and Prestige labels between 1953 and 1957.
It was Mellé who introduced engineer Rudy Van Gelder to Alfred Lion, Blue Note Records founder in 1952. Lion had been impressed with the sound of Mellé's recordings, which were engineered by Van Gelder. Van Gelder was responsible for hundreds of recordings on Blue Note, virtually every session on the label from 1953 to 1967.
As a film and television composer, Mellé was one of the first to use electronic instruments (which he built himself), either alone or as an added voice among the string, wind, brass, and percussion sections of the orchestra. He was the first to compose a main theme for an American television series arranged entirely for electronic instruments (Rod Serling's Night Gallery).
His film credits span 125 motion pictures including My Sweet Charlie, That Certain Summer, The Savage is Loose, The Andromeda Strain, Starship Invasions, The Judge and Jake Wyler, several Columbo TV movies, Frankenstein: The True Story, The Six Million Dollar Man, Night Gallery and Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Mellé died of a heart attack at his home in Malibu, California.
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