Creation Rebel: Rebel Vibrations 1979 EX/NM

	£		72
	$		95

Creation Rebel - Rebel Vibrations, produced by the HitRun Dub Syndicate. Rebel Vibrations label APLP 9004. Purchased when released in 1979.

Appearing shortly before Prince Far I's Dub To Africa (APLP 9006), this outing from his backing band is another killer dub in that heavy but sparse style. It was their 2nd as Creation Rebel. Talented engineer Mark Lusardi puts some echo on the instruments but often allows the rhythms to manifest their organic "acoustic" naturalness. Melodica player Doctor Pablo features prominently. And the sound !!! This is really captured with an immense clarity and a supreme heaviness. No bass rolloff at all - your speakers and power amps will set the limit to what you hear !!! Accept no crappy VG copies of this beauty. (Coz that is what you will get from most sellers even when calling it something fancy - we all know eBay now, don't we?)

I have played the vinyl perhaps half a dozen of times during the past 25 years to check out the improvements whenever I had performed some hi-fi upgrade. Only a few years ago, when entering into the Hi End league did I realize just how fantastic this album was. The direct simplicity and closeness of the instruments will truly manifest on a good stereo. Vinyl is absolutely perfect, not a hairline or scuff while sleeve is a very healthy EX with only slight ringwear at the top and bottom to prevent it from being NM. Corners sharp, hardly a single minor crease to the spine and all that... Both a collector's and an audiophile's copy so... Grab it !

The item is part of my collection purchased new between circa 1974-83. Recorded to cassette tape at the time, I now possess a number of original records in an enviable condition! NONE HAS SEEN ANY "PARTY" or "DJ" USE WHATSOEVER !!!

The occasional spin throughout the years has always been using very good cartridges & turntables. Products like Empire 4000 - a serious cartridge in the 70s - an AKG (that made very little impression on me), a Goldring Eroica leading on a powerful Clearaudio Aurum Alpha and most recently a Dynavector D17 Karat Mk II should give you an idea. The players too have certainly not been hard on the vinyl: a legendary belt-driven Micro-Seiki, a Pro-ject during the 90s when my interest in vinyl was low, but recently a serious piece of British engineering from Nottingham Analogue Studios.

I follow the modified Goldmine definitions (inserting the useful EX midway between NM and VG+) and try to be conservative, carefully describing any peculiarities to the record. Even if groove wear is not an issue with any of my records I will honestly tell you if the pressing is not the sharpest one.

By this I want to point out that what has not been picked up by my audiophile gear is probably not there at all. In the unlikely event there will be a question of returning items, this will therefore be carefully considered on a per item basis. I am not a professional seller and I therefore know what I am selling by route. Hope you take that as an assurance of accurate descriptions. I have myself grown rather tired of buying EX and NM records on eBay only to find an alarming percentage of even top graded material to suffer from clearly audible groove wear.

When auctioning my several collectable items I address collectors with a feel for vinyl reproduction. I expect only serious bidders to participate; people willing to honour their bids and and able to pay for their purchases within 7 days. Items will be shipped immediately upon receipt of payment. If you want a valuable record insured, write me and say so before you make the payment.

Swedish postal fees are somewhat less attractive than those of the UK but as most of my items are collectables, I hope this won't detract from the appeal of the auctioned objects.

As a last general remark I must stress these are scans of the actual object being auctioned.