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BRIAN ENO - COLLECTORS TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN BY STRATEGY - 1ST EDITION EVER IN A AUDIOPHILE DSD MASTERED CD - COLLECTORS JAPAN OBI REPLICA WITH GATEFOLD JACKET COVER OUT OF PRINT FOR OVER A DECADE LIMITED EDITION

THIS IS A SPECIAL LISTING IS FOR THOSE LOOKING FOR RARE JAPAN ORIGINAL LABEL RELEASES ON THIS RARE SPECIAL ONE TIME OFFER.

CONSIDERED THE BEST AUDIOPHILE CD PRESSING EVER OF THIS TITLE

Collectors Note: This limited edition JAPAN REPLICA OBI pressing HAS BEEN OUT OF PRINT SINCE FOR OVER A DECADE AND gone from the AUDIOPHILE MARKET AND ONE THE LAST PRISTINE SEALED COLLECTORS pressing left IN THE WORLD. This means that this specific title is "Here Today but For Sure Gone Tomorrow Forever". So Don't Miss Out on adding this to your collection because mymusicfix only has a couple copies left forever.

THIS TITLE IS IN IT'S ORIGINAL COLLECTORS PRISTINE SEALED CONDITION WITH NO STORE STICKERS EVER ATTACHED. A COLLECTORS DREAM.

MYMUSICFIX HAS CHECKED ALL AUDIOPHILE SITES AND OUR PRICE ON THIS ITEM IS THE LOWEST PRICE WE'VE FOUND OF THESE RARE JAPAN MASTERPIECE. IN FACT THE FEW SITES HAVE THIS TITLE REMAINING ARE TWICE THE PRICE WE HAVE HERE. THAT'S HOW RARE AND COLLECTIBLE THIS TITLE IS IN THIS RARE JAPAN REPLICA OBI PRESSINGS

WHAT IS A JAPAN "MINI/REPLICA-LP-SLEEVE" CD?

Have you ever lamented the loss of one of the 20th Century's great art forms, the 12" vinyl LP jacket? Then "mini-LP-sleeve" CD's may be for you.

Mini-sleeve CDs are manufactured in Japan under license. The disc is packaged inside a 135MM X 135MM cardboard precision-miniature replica of the original classic vinyl-LP album. Also, anything contained in the original LP, such as gatefolds, booklets, lyric sheets, posters, printed LP sleeves, stickers, embosses, special LP cover paper/inks/textures and/or die cuts, are precisely replicated and included. An English-language lyric sheet is always included, even if the original LP did not have printed lyrics.

Then, there's the sonic quality: Mini-sleeves have dedicated remastering (20-Bit, 24-Bit, DSD, K2/K2HD, and/or HDCD), and can often be superior to the audio on the same title anywhere else in the world. There also may be bonus tracks uvailable elsewhere.

Each Japan mini-sleeve has an "obi" ("oh-bee"), a removable Japan-language promotional strip. The obi lists the Japan street date of that particular release, the catalog number, the mastering info, and often the original album's release date. Bonus tracks are only listed on the obi, maintaining the integrity of the original LP artwork. The obi's are collectable, and should not be discarded.

All mini-sleeve releases are tremendously limited editions mainly pressed on future orders only and once released immediately out of print. This fact along with other latter features we've mentioned make these titles rare collectibles that sell in the collectors markets for $100's of dollars apiece

TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN BY STRATEGY -

Detailed item info

Track listing
1. Burning Airlines Give You So Much More 2. Back in Judy's Jungle 3. Fat Lady of Limbourg, The 4. Mother Whale Eyeless 5. Great Pretender, The 6. Third Uncle 7. Put a Straw Under Baby 8. True Wheel, The 9. China My China 10. Taking Tiger Mountain
Details
Playing time:	2894000 ms
Contributing artists:	Phil Collins, Phil Manzanera, Andy MacKay
Producer:	Brian Eno
Distributor:	MSI Music Distribution
Recording type:	Studio
Recording mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album notes
Japanese limited edition in an LP-style slipcase. The music is not 'remastered' but instead has been re-transferred by Simon Heyworth from the original analogue masters, as they are not technically re-EQ'd but transferred to the digital domain using the best technology currently available. This Japanese import comes packaged in a limited edition vinyl LP-style slipcase and was digitally transferred to disc from the original analog masters by Simon Heyworth. CD comes in Jpn LP Sleeve. Personnel: Brian Eno (vocals, keyboards, electronics); Phil Manzanera (guitar); Brian Turrington (bass guitar); Fred Smith (drums); Robert Wyatt (percussion, background vocals). Arrangers: Brian Eno; Phil Manzanera. TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN (BY STRATEGY), Brian Eno's sophomore solo outing, is a grab bag of freaky, science-fiction-dipped confections. Filled with a battery of innovative, unsettling effects, the album is darker and more complex than HERE COME THE WARM JETS. The artist shows an increasing willingness to experiment with texture, as on "The Great Pretender," whose whirling, oozing keyboard line and synthesized vocals approximate delirium tremens or a hatching hive of maggots, or on "Put A Straw Under Baby," which features the Portsmouth Sinfonia, whose members have no knowledge of their instruments. Yet Eno's grasp of melody and songcraft is everywhere: on the bouncing, absurdist/philosophical "Burning Airlines (Give You So Much More)," and on straight-out rockers, like the deliciously intense "Third Uncle" (which is propelled by the churning guitar of Roxy Music's Phil Manzenera, and is, arguably, the album's highlight). Concurrent with David Bowie's ALADDIN SANE-era alien aesthetic, Eno's tunes are even more otherwordly and warped than his glam cohort, making use of the full palette of bizarro synthesizer effects and creepy-cheeky postures. The songs, however, are as inventive and appealing as their treatments, and make for Eno's most solid--and experimental--pop album. TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN holds up magnificently, even years on in the artist's brilliant career.
Editorial reviews
3 stars out of 5 - Silly songs, quirky playing, bizarre chord changes are all there... Mojo 5 stars out of 5 - Eno has done more than anyone to bring us round to the pleasures of texture over text... Uncut

Special VERY RARE LIMITED EDITION

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These are Japanese digitally DSD re-mastered Mini LP replica CDs (the OBI Edition).

AS OF Sep-26-2008 per USPS policy, seller added the following information:

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