Bob Dylan BLOOD ON THE TRACKS Ultradisc 1 ONE-STEP 2-disc 45rpm box NEW/Sealed

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Bob Dylan Blood On The Tracks Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab ULTRADISC 1 ONE-STEP 2-disc 45rpm box set NEW / Sealed

Label:

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab – UD1S 2-006

Series:

UltraDisc One-Step, Original Master Recording

Format:

2 x Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Album, 180 gram, SuperVinyl Box Set, Limited Edition № 3532 of 9,000

Country:

US

Released:

Aug 8, 2019

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Folk Rock, Acoustic, Ballad

Tracklist

A1 Tangled Up In Blue A2 Simple Twist Of Fate

B1 You're A Big Girl Now B2 Idiot Wind B3 You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

C1 Meet Me In The Morning C2 Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts

D1 If You See Her, Say Hello D2 Shelter From The Storm D3 Buckets Of Rain

• Manufactured by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Inc.
• Lacquer Cut At – Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Pressed By – Record Technology Incorporated
• Copyright © – Ram's Horn Music

• Lacquer Cut By – KW
• Mastered By – Krieg Wunderlich
• Musician – Eric Weissberg And Deliverance
• Musician, Bass – Tony Brown (3)
• Musician, Organ – Paul Griffin
• Musician, Steel Guitar – Buddy Cage

Notes

1/4" / 15 IPS / Dolby A analog master to DSD 64 to analog console to lathe
Limited to 9,000 hand-numbered copies. Pressed at RTI on SuperVinyl.
Mastered at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab®, Sebastopol, CA on The Gain 2 Ultra Analog System™
©1975, 2018 Columbia Records

Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 Grams of High Definition Vinyl. SuperVinyl™ formulae developed and manufactured by NeoTech.
Includes jacket with reproduction artwork (featuring black printing), each LP housed in individual jacket, and info sheet insert.
© 1974 Rams Horn Music

TAS Super LP List! Special Merit

TAS Rated 5/5 Music, 4/5 Sonics in the October 2019 Issue of The Absolute Sound!

Limited to Just 9000 Hand-Numbered Copies!
MoFi SuperVinyl Pressing!

Mastered from the 1/4" / 15 IPS / Dolby A Analog Master to DSD 64 with Mobile Fidelity's One-Step Process: Blood On The Tracks UD1S 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set the Ultimate Analog Version

Lavish Packaging Includes Opulent Box, Foil-Stamped Jackets, and SuperVinyl LPs: Deluxe Audiophile Pressing Strictly Limited to 9,000 Hand-Numbered Copies (Limit Two Per Customer)

Ranked #9 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Includes "Tangled Up in Blue" and "Simple Twist of Fate": Dylan Pours Out Scarred Emotion, Opens His Veins, and Bleeds

Bob Dylan was at several crossroads in the mid 1970s. Artistically, he was largely written off as being past his prime. Emotionally, he was suffering through a painful divorce from his then-wife Sara Lowndes. Creatively, he appeared at a stalemate, his previous decade's unprecedented run of transformational brilliance finished. Then came Blood on the Tracks. A start-to-finish cycle that documents a lover's pursuit of, entanglement with, and loss of a woman, the bracingly intimate 1975 effort remains one of the most encompassing break-up albums ever made and ranks as the most personal statement of the Bard's career.

Presenting the record's acoustic and band-supported songs with the utmost transparency, dynamics, presence, immediacy, spaciousness, and imaging, Mobile Fidelity's opulent UD1S (UltraDisc One-Step) box set makes Blood on the Tracks reach three-dimensional sonic and emotional heights never before attained. Strictly limited to 9,000 numbered copies and pressed at RTI on SuperVinyl, this ultra-hi-fi collector's edition shines a high-powered light on the fluid vocal phrasing, timbral shifts, functional rhythms, and inward-looking strumming crucial to the album's aura. You'll enjoy deep-black backgrounds, boundless soundstaging, pointillist details, staggering dynamics, and arguably, the most lifelike tonalities and nuances ever committed to vinyl. Every note, breath, and movement is reproduced with exquisite accuracy, wowing clarity, and impeccable balance.

The lavish packaging and beautiful presentation of Mobile Fidelity's Blood on the Tracks UD1S pressing befit its extremely select status. Housed in a deluxe box, the collectible version contains special foil-stamped jackets and faithful-to-the-original graphics that illuminate the splendor of the recording. Aurally and visually, it exists a curatorial artifact meant to be preserved, poured over, touched, and examined. It is made for discerning listeners that prize sound quality and creativity, and who desire to fully immerse themselves in the art – and everything involved with the album, from the images to the textures and liner notes.

Ranked 9 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and replete with existential thought, piercing directness, raw singing, and majestic arrangements, Blood on the Tracks remains a soul-exposing confessional. To hear it is to experience the agony, frustration, trauma, highs, lows, confusion, sadness, and, ultimately, requisite redemption associated with intimate relationships gone astray. Dylan maintains it's a work of fiction, but the evident close-vested autobiographical premise is what helps make it universal: It's the icon singing through tears, going out of his mind, battling hallowing emptiness, firing shots across the bow, and accepting culpability. Blood on the Tracks serves, in short, as a consummate expression of love's darker sides and the consequences of what happens when dreams unravel.

For all the melancholic pain, unresolved questions, shattered memories, wasted times, unrequited dialogs, and weary regret within, Blood on the Tracks remains as daring as it is reflective. Rather than follow for a monotone caustic vibe, Dylan's songs burrow into the subconscious for the manners in which they are even-keeled, mellow, and occasionally, even peaceful. Dignity, honor, poignancy, and fairness – all traits uncommon in any situation in which partners dissolve histories, change hearts, and attribute blame – instill the record with equilibrium on par with the consistency of the flowing melodies.

Throughout, tunes come on and proceed as if they could continue forever, Dylan spinning poetic verses and conversations amidst finely tied knots of acoustic notes, chords, and fills, the deceivingly simple architecture conjuring the intertwined refractions of a bezeled jewel, various angles, colors, and textures conjoining into a gorgeously inseparable whole. Backed by Tony Brown's flexible albeit subtle bass, Buddy Cage's country-streaked pedal-steel guitar, and Paul Griffin's soul-baring organ – an instrument used to shadow, tuckpoint, and illuminate here as effectively as any time in rock history – Dylan pours out scarred emotion, open his veins, and bleeds.

MoFi SuperVinyl: The World's Quietest Surfaces and Cleanest Grooves:
Developed by NEOTECH and RTI, MoFi SuperVinyl is the most exacting-to-specification vinyl compound ever created. Analog lovers have never seen (or heard) anything like it. Extraordinarily expensive and extremely painstaking to produce, the special proprietary compound addresses two specific areas of improvement: noise floor reduction and enhanced groove definition. The vinyl composition features a new carbonless dye (hold the disc up to the light and see) and produces the world’s quietest surfaces. This high-definition formula also allows for the creation of cleaner grooves that are indistinguishable from the original lacquer. MoFi SuperVinyl provides the closest approximation of what the label’s engineers hear in the mastering lab.

"...MoFi brings these tender rocky, lyrical tunes to life with a 45rpm 180-gram 2-LP box set using its One-step Process, which skips the conventional "father" and "mother" sequence and brings the disc significantly closer to the cutting lacquer and original master tape. "Shelter from the Storm" is a prime example of how One-Step recovers detail and layers, emboldens presence range, and further extends the upper and lower octaves. From the guitar / acoustic bass intro to the forward and full-bodied Dylan vocal, the absence of veiling is clear. Importantly, the detail and resolution that emerges is from lack of distortion, not dialed-in EQ. A revelation when compared with the midrange-centered, reedy, and edgier character of the original Columbia vinyl, the One-Step BOTT is a flat-out must have." - Neil Gader, The Absolute Sound, October 2019

These double 45rpm single-step AAA boxed set pressings are as good as vinyl records get. If they don't sound good on your system, it's your system. -Michael Fremer, Analog Planet's Best Reissues of the Decade, March 2020 Features:
• Hand-Numbered, Limited Edition - Only 9000 Copies
• MoFi SuperVinyl Pressing
• UltraDisc One-Step
• 45rpm Speed Edition
• 2LP Box Set
• Special foil-stamped jackets
• Housed in an opulent box
• Faithful to original graphics
• Mastered from the 1/4" / 15 IPS / Dolby A Analog Master to DSD 64
• Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

More About Mobile Fidelity UltraDisc One-Step and Why It Is Superior
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab's UltraDisc One-Step (UD1S) technique bypasses generational losses inherent to the traditional three-step plating process by removing two steps: the production of father and mother plates, which are created to yield numerous stampers from each lacquer that is cut. For UD1S plating, stampers (also called "converts") are made directly from the lacquers. Since each lacquer yields only one stamper, multiple lacquers need to be cut. Mobile Fidelity's UD1S process produces a final LP with the lowest-possible noise floor. The removal of two steps of the plating process also reveals musical details and dynamics that would otherwise be lost due to the standard multi-step process. With UD1S, every aspect of vinyl production is optimized to produce the best-sounding vinyl album available today.

MoFi SuperVinyl
Developed by NEOTECH and RTI, MoFi SuperVinyl is the most exacting-to-specification vinyl compound ever devised. Analog lovers have never seen (or heard) anything like it. Extraordinarily expensive and extremely painstaking to produce, the special proprietary compound addresses two specific areas of improvement: noise floor reduction and enhanced groove definition. The vinyl composition features a new carbonless dye (hold the disc up to the light and see) and produces the world's quietest surfaces. This high-definition formula also allows for the creation of cleaner grooves that are virtually indistinguishable from the original lacquer. MoFi SuperVinyl provides the closest approximation of what the label's engineers hear in the mastering lab.

Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine      Its' massive success -- it is one of the rare albums to be certified as diamond in the U.S. and it went platinum all over the world; it also won the Album of the Year Grammy for 1992 -- makes it difficult to place Eric Clapton's 1992 MTV Unplugged in context, but it's important to do so. It arrived three years into MTV Unplugged's run -- 1989 also being the year Clapton stirred artistically with the assured AOR of Journeyman -- and a year after Paul McCartney established the practice of an official album release of an Unplugged session with his own Unplugged (The Official Bootleg). Also in 1991, Clapton's young son Conor died in a tragic accident. The guitarist wrote "Tears in Heaven" as a tribute to his late son and, via its inclusion on the 1991 soundtrack to Rush, it became a hit single and, later, a centerpiece to the Unplugged set. The passage of time has blurred the lines separating all these events, suggesting Clapton's 1992 Unplugged was the first-ever MTV album, that it alone was responsible for revitalizing EC's career, that it is was the place where "Tears in Heaven" premiered, when none of that is quite true. What is true is that Unplugged is the concert and album that established the MTV program as a classy, tony showcase for artists eager to redefine themselves via reexamination of their catalogs, which is what Clapton cannily did here. The album's hit was a slow crawl through Derek & the Dominos' "Layla," turning that anguished howl of pain into a cozy shuffle and the whole album proceeds at a similar amiable gait, taking its time and enjoying detours into old blues standards. Clapton is embracing his middle age and the pleasure of Unplugged is to hear him opt out of the pop star game as he plays songs he's always loved. Tellingly, it's these blues and folk covers -- Jesse Fuller's "San Francisco Bay Blues," Big Bill Broonzy's "Hey Hey," the standard "Alberta," Muddy Waters' "Rollin' and Tumblin'," two songs from Robert Johnson ("Walkin' Blues," "Malted Milk") -- that are the best performances here; they're alternately lively and relaxed, Clapton happily conforming to the contours of the compositions. These capture a moment in time, when EC was settling into his age by reconnecting with the past, whereas the originals -- whether it's the revised versions of "Layla" and "Old Love," "Tears in Heaven," or the debut of "My Father's Eyes," originally heard here (and on the 2013 expanded anniversary edition) but released as a single much later in the decade -- point forward to the sharply tailored adult contemporary crooner of the '90s, one who turned out to be very comfortable existing in a world of high thread counts and designer duds. These are the tunes that belong to the '90s -- and several of these also appear on the 2013 expansion, which contains songs that didn't appear on the album, almost all of which are originals apart from an alternate "Walkin' Blues" and "Worried Life Blues" -- but the rest of MTV Unplugged manages to transcend its time because it does cut to the quick of Clapton's musical DNA.