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Boston - Greatest Hits (2008)

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Boston - Greatest Hits (2008)

Boston - Greatest Hits (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 551 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 193 Mb
Full Scans | 01:12:23 | RAR 5% Recovery
Classic Rock, Hard Rock | Epic / Legacy / Sony Music #88697 33343 2

Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by American rock band Boston. The album released on June 3, 1997 features songs originally released on both the Epic and MCA labels, as well as three previously unreleased recordings ("Higher Power", "Tell Me", and "The Star-Spangled Banner"). Tom Scholz, the band's leader, felt that the album's sound quality was not up to his standards, so a remastered version of the album was released in 2009 with a slightly different track listing. The album was certified double platinum by the RIAA on December 4, 2003, and it has sold 2,234,000 copies in the US as of August 2014.

Rory Gallagher - Original Album Classics (2008) {5CD Box Set}

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Rory Gallagher - Original Album Classics (2008) {5CD Box Set}

Rory Gallagher - Original Album Classics (2008) {5CD Box Set}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 1,83 Gb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 700 Mb
Full Scans | 04:15:45 | RAR 5% Recovery
Blues Rock, Electric Blues | Capo / Sony BMG Music #88697311862

The Original Album Classics series, courtesy of Sony/BMG, packages together five classic albums from one of the most popular artists on the label's roster, housing them in an attractive slipcase. This set from the Irish guitar legend features the albums Deuce (1971), Calling Card (1976), Top Priority (1979), Jinx (1982) and Fresh Evidence (1988). 56 tracks. For a career that was cut short by illness and a premature death, guitarist, singer, and songwriter Rory Gallagher sure accomplished a lot in the blues music world. Although Gallagher didn't tour the U.S. nearly enough, spending most of his time in Europe, he was known for his no-holds-barred, marathon live shows at clubs and theaters around the United States.

M. Griffin - Fabrications (2008)

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M. Griffin - Fabrications (2008)

M. Griffin - Fabrications (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 239 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 141 MB | Covers - 92 MB
Genre: Ambient | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Hypnos (hyp2806)

Generally known as an ambient minimalist, utilizing synthesizers for most of his work, this time M. Griffin took advantage of "real world" sounds, captured with binaural microphones using a portable digital audio recorder. For this release, Griffin built up collages of numerous location recording elements, including cars driving on freeways, people walking in long echoing hallways, the ocean waves in Kona at night, a metalworking factory with heavy machinery crunching away, distant trains, and clothes driers. These elements were manipulated, combined, worked-on and re-worked, and overlaid with looped spoken elements later created by Griffin in the studio. The end result comes out something like the Zoviet France soundtrack to a David Lynch film, that is, a dark and dream-like collage of loops, spoken fragments, disembodied whispers, and the echo of far-off machinery.

Kenny Chesney - Greatest Hits (2000) {2008, Reissue}

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Kenny Chesney - Greatest Hits (2000) {2008, Reissue}

Kenny Chesney - Greatest Hits (2000) {2008, Reissue}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 468 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 187 Mb
Full Scans | 01:02:57 | RAR 5% Recovery
Country | BNA Records / Sony BMG Music #88697 22779 2

The culmination of seven years' work, Kenny Chesney's Greatest Hits CD is a good overview of his career and also throws in four unreleased tracks and a live version of "Back Where I Come From." His unique blend of traditional country vocal stylings and contemporary, slick pop orchestration is showcased on songs like "She's Got It All" and "All I Need to Know." Among these songs of heartache and loss, there hides a little sunny gem of a song in "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy," in which Chesney reveals that his girl is kinda crazy about his farmer's tan and how she brings him a "basket 'a chicken and a big cold jug 'a sweet tea." Greatest Hits stands as a good introduction to one of the most popular country artists of the '90s or a worthwhile addition to the die-hard fan's collection.

VA - Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros Records - The First Fifty Years (2008)

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VA - Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros Records - The First Fifty Years (2008)

VA - Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros Records - The First Fifty Years (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 4.9 GB | MP3 CBR 320kbps - 1.7 GB
12:51:32 | Hip Hop, Jazz, Rock, Reggae, Latin, Funk, Soul, Blues, Non-Music, Pop, Children's, Folk, Country, Stage & Screen
Label: Warner Bros.

Unlike other labels subjected to exhaustive multi-disc retrospectives like this whopping ten-disc Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros. Records – The First Fifty Years, Warner Brothers never embodied a scene or sound: they've always embodied what a major label should be – a dominant force that chronicles and dictates the sound of the mainstream. Coming out at the tail-end of 2008, when the influence of major labels is on a slow steady decline, Revolutions in Sound can be seen as a portrait of a time that's beginning to recede into the past: a time when there was such a thing as mass entertainment, when the pop audience all shared a common bond of hit records they either loved or rallied against. Perhaps the greatest things about this monumental box set is that it captures that colossus while also illustrating that for a while, majors did take risks. Of course, Warner was the riskiest of all the majors, never held back by an anti-rock & roll sourpuss like Mitch Miller, who struggled to keep CBS out of the tumult of the '60s (this with no less than Bob Dylan as the label's flagship rock artist). Instead, Warner embraced the underground, recording some of the strangest to shake out of the '60s, and that adventure fits a label that turned to rock & roll to help establish themselves as a real player at the turn of the '60s.

Dave Stewart & His Rock Fabulous Orchestra - The Dave Stewart Songbook, Volume One (2008)

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Dave Stewart & His Rock Fabulous Orchestra - The Dave Stewart Songbook, Volume One (2008)

Dave Stewart & His Rock Fabulous Orchestra - The Dave Stewart Songbook, Volume One (2008)
2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 749 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 242 Mb
Full Scans ~ 168 Mb | 00:53:21 + 00:46:58 | RAR 5% Recovery
Art Rock / Pop Rock / Soft Rock / Classic Rock / Power Pop / Ballad
Surfdog Records / Weapons Of Mass Entertainment #2-512190

Along with his Rock Fabulous Orchestra, Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame presents what amounts to a best-of collection on The Dave Stewart Songbook Volume One. In addition to smash-hits from Eurythmics such as “Sweet Dreams” and “Here Comes the Rain Again,” the songbook includes timeless tracks penned by Stewart including Tom Petty’s “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” No Doubt’s “Underneath It All,” Mick Jagger’s “Old Habits Die Hard” (which earned Dave and Mick a Golden Globe award), Celine Dion’s “Taking Chances” and songs written and produced for U2, Sinead O’Connor, Jon Bon Jovi, Bryan Ferry, Bob Geldof, Beyonce, Sarah McLaughlan, Shakespear’s Sister and Candy Dulfer. All songs have been with recorded with his touring band and a full orchestra.

Uriah Heep - Wake The Sleeper (2008) {Japan 1st Press}

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Uriah Heep - Wake The Sleeper (2008) {Japan 1st Press}

Uriah Heep - Wake The Sleeper (2008) {Japan 1st Press}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 398 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 123 Mb
Full Scans ~ 120 Mb | 00:50:45 | RAR 5% Recovery
Progressive Rock, Hard Rock | Sanctuary Records / Universal Music #UICO-9038

Although Uriah Heep is known for its extensive personnel changes, its lineup has been stable since the mid-'80s; unfortunately, that stability coincided with the band's commercial decline (its last album to chart in the U.S. came in 1983, its last in its native U.K., 1985). So, no one outside the group's fan base noticed that the quintet of founding member and guitarist Mick Box, drummer Lee Kerslake (1971-1978, 1982-2007), bassist Trevor Bolder (who joined in 1977, left during the band's hiatus in the early '80s, and returned a couple of years after its re-formation), singer Bernie Shaw, and keyboard player Phil Lanzon (both of whom joined in the mid-'80s) remained in place through numerous world tours and the studio albums Raging Silence (1989), Different World (1991), Sea of Light (1995), and Sonic Origami (1998).

moderntimes_1800 - Sinfonias From The Enlightment: Hasse, Graun, C.P.E. Bach, W.F. Bach, J. Haydn, Mozart (2008)

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moderntimes_1800 - Sinfonias From The Enlightment: Hasse, Graun, C.P.E. Bach, W.F. Bach, J. Haydn, Mozart (2008)

moderntimes_1800 - Sinfonias From The Enlightment: Hasse, Graun, C.P.E. Bach, W.F. Bach, J. Haydn, Mozart (2008)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:33:14 | 483 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Challenge Classics | Catalog: CC72193

The symphonic works featured on this 2CD set all come from a period during the second half of the eighteenth century that has come to be known as the “Age of Enlightenment” when Frederick the Second ruled over Prussia. Alongside acknowledged masterpieces by Mozart and Haydn, the program also includes pieces by Hasse, Graun and C.P.E Bach that are receiving their first ever recording. The music is performed by the rising stars of the Austrian Chamber Group “Modern Times_1800”.

Daniel Raiskin - Brahms arr. Schoenberg: Piano Quartet; Brahms arr. Berio: Clarinet Sonata (2008)

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Daniel Raiskin - Brahms arr. Schoenberg: Piano Quartet; Brahms arr. Berio: Clarinet Sonata (2008)

Daniel Raiskin - Brahms arr. Schoenberg: Piano Quartet; Brahms arr. Berio: Clarinet Sonata (2008)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 61:46 | 311 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 777356-2

"The main attraction on this disc is the Berio orchestral arrangement of the Clarinet Sonata op.120/1. Like Schoenberg, it’s a harmonically and melodically “straight” transcription, not a modern re-imagining of the work. Berio, no stranger to orchestrations and adaptations - Puccini’s Turandot, works by Schubert, Mahler, and Verdi - tackled this last major work of Brahms’ for reasons we don’t know. Iosif Raiskin speculates that the tinges of Mahler in late Brahms may have been a reason for the Mahler-loving Berio. Be that as it may, the result is a wonderfully graceful Brahms Clarinet Concerto.

Matthias Maute, Ensemble Caprice - Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria! Vivaldi et ses anges (2008)

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Matthias Maute, Ensemble Caprice - Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria! Vivaldi et ses anges (2008)

Matthias Maute, Ensemble Caprice - Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria! Vivaldi et ses anges (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 310 Mb | Total time: 66:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Analekta | # AN 2 9917 | Recorded: 2008

The four works presented here were written for the Ospedale della Pietà, the female orphanage where Vivaldi taught voice and violin. Although the scores for the two choral works on this recording, the Gloria and the Magnificat, are written for the traditional four voices from soprano to bass, we must wonder who could have supplied the tenor and bass voices for concerts given by the orphans. Boys were not admitted to the orphanage, and there were very few men among its staff. In his notes for this recording, conductor Matthias Maute states that the tenor and bass parts were sung by the girls of the Ospedale. Michael Talbot, who has written extensively on Vivaldi’s life and sacred music, agrees with this assertion. According to Talbot, the tenor line would have been sung at the written pitch, while the bass line would have been sung an octave higher.

Dire Straits - Dire Straits (1978) {2008, Japanese SHM-CD, Remastered}

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Dire Straits - Dire Straits (1978) {2008, Japanese SHM-CD, Remastered}

Dire Straits - Dire Straits (1978) {2008, Japanese SHM-CD, Remastered}
EAC Rip | WavPack (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 299 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 127 Mb
Full Scans | 00:41:53 | RAR 5% Recovery
Classic Rock / Country Rock / Blues Rock / Roots Rock
Vertigo / Universal Music #UICY-93727

Dire Straits is the debut studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits released on 7 October 1978 by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. The album produced the hit single "Sultans of Swing", which reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 8 on the UK Singles Chart. The album reached #1 on album charts in Germany, Australia and France, #2 in the United States and #5 in the United Kingdom. Dire Straits was later certified double-platinum in both the United States and the United Kingdom.

Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, José Ramón Encinar - Albéniz: Iberia, suite for orchestra (orchestrated by Guerrero) (2008)

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Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, José Ramón Encinar - Albéniz: Iberia, suite for orchestra (orchestrated by Guerrero) (2008)

Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, José Ramón Encinar - Albéniz: Iberia, suite for orchestra (orchestrated by Guerrero) (2008)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 52:06 | 299 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Glossa | Catalog: GSP98006

The arrangement of Isaac Albéniz's Iberia for orchestra was the last major enterprise undertaken by Francisco Guerrero, although the composer's sudden and unexpected death in October 1997 unfortunately left the project only half-finished. Of the twelve numbers that comprise the famous piano suite, Guerrero managed to orchestrate six. In an interview published in 1989, when asked whom he regarded as the foremost Spanish composer from the last hundred years, he answered thus: "for me the greatest beyond doubt is Albéniz. Iberia is the greatest Spanish work in the last hundred years. It is sumptuous, fabulous music, an extraordinary masterpiece of inexhaustible richness.".

Barry White - Triple Best Of (2008)

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Barry White - Triple Best Of (2008)

Barry White - Triple Best Of (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.3 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 503 MB
3:37:03 | Soul, Funk, Disco | Label: Mercury / Universal Music France

Here is the triple Best Of from the 100% love soul heavyweight! You will find in this compilation the 40 hits of this extraordinary author and composer; eleven albums, one hundred million records sold worldwide! If James Brown is the undisputed king of soul funk, Barry White is definitely the emperor of unstoppable and indispensable lascivious melodies. An “almost French” artist??? NO ! But still, the “Ultimate Collection” compilation has just passed the million mark in our territory!

Roomful Of Blues - Raisin' A Ruckus (2008)

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Roomful Of Blues - Raisin' A Ruckus (2008)

Roomful Of Blues - Raisin' A Ruckus (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 412 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 145 Mb
Full Scans | 00:53:59 | RAR 5% Recovery
Modern Electric Blues, Jump Blues, Chicago Blues | Alligator Records #ALCD 4919

The hard-edged, horn-fueled R&B band Roomful of Blues has been going strong since the 1960s, building its reputation with electrifying live shows and an irresistible blend of blues, swing, rock, and soul. RAISIN' A RUCKUS shows the group has lost none of its punch. New lead singer Dave Howard brings his gruff, growling pipes to the Roomful's brass-tacks charge, and the rhythm section, horns, and lead instruments have never sounded better. With a sound that nods to the jump blues of yesteryear, but with steely contemporary edge, RAISIN' A RUCKUS does precisely what its title suggests. Get your dancing shoes and head for the floor.

VA - Ström - Music For Alien Civilisations (2008)

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VA -  Ström - Music For Alien Civilisations (2008)

VA - Ström - Music For Alien Civilisations (2008)
FLAC (tracks) - 349 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 182 MB
1:14:26 | Electronic, Downtempo, Minimal, Ambient | Label: Container Recordings

Music For Alien Civilizations is a project in collaboration with the Swedish Space Corporation and Space Port Esrange in the very north of Sweden. Specially composed music was sent out in space from Esrange’s 13 meter antenna, as a business card from humanity. 12 artists were given the challenge to compose music for non-human ears – or whatever sensory organs possible non terrestial civilisations might have. Now that we have decided to actually send as message, what should we send? Images, language, code? Or maybe the content of the internet? Music seems like a good idea as it’s unique for us humans on earth, maybe it’s a common thing for all technologically advanced civilizations throughout the Universe. Maybe it’s what once made us human.