Fourth album from Geoff Downes and Chris Braide
Downes Braide Association (DBA) is a collaboration between keyboardist Geoff Downes (of Buggles, Yes and Asia fame) and singer-songwriter-producer Chris Braide. The pair came together back in 2012 and have just released their fourth studio album, Halcyon Hymns.
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Unique song issued only with the ‘limited edition of one’ box set
As promised Alan Lastufka – who spent £10k on Steven Wilson‘s limited-edition-of-one Ultra Deluxe version of The Future Bites – has shared the track exclusive to that box, called ‘The Tastemaker’.
In fact, Alan has gone much further than that, he’s produced a video for the song, very much in keeping with the whole TFB concept. Listen to ‘The Tastemaker’ and watch the video, below…
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Superb live set now improved with more than an hour of unreleased music.
Fleetwood Mac Live will be reissued as a six-disc super deluxe edition in April.
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Second album reissued on anniversary
Following the now out-of-print Our History box set from last year, London Records will release a standalone deluxe reissue of Shakespears Sister‘s second album Hormonally Yours.
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SDE examines the brand new box set
John Mayall The First Generation 1965-1974 is a 35CD box set. It was released on Friday last week. SDEtv lifts the lid and shows you around the mammoth package….
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Second chance to grab the acclaimed box set reissue
The previously out-of-print Tears For Fears The Seeds of Love box set is once more available to order.
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The Robert Palmer Collected three-CD set will be made available again next week.
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Black Sabbath‘s 1972 album Vol 4 is reissued as expansive CD and vinyl super deluxe edition box sets.
Generous 3CD set and a single vinyl LP
May sees the release of Lulu Gold, a new best of that offers 60 tracks across three CDs and a more limited selection on one vinyl record.
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The reissue series continues
Toyah‘s 1980 album The Blue Meaning has been remastered and will be reissued as an expanded 2CD+DVD set and on limited neon pink vinyl.
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A music entrepreneur with a passion for collecting snagged the ultimate limited edition box set and reveals his motivations to SDE
Late last year music fan Alan Lastufka pre-ordered the ‘Ultra Deluxe’ box set edition of Steven Wilson‘s new album The Future Bites. It was a limited edition of one and cost a cool ten thousand pounds. He has recently taken delivery of the package and wasted no time in filming an unboxing video.
So who is Alan Lastufka and just what motivated him to spend so much money on a music box set? SDE tracked him down and put some questions to him…
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SDE reports exclusively on mastering
Abbey Road mastering engineer Miles Showell has confirmed to SDE that the forthcoming vinyl reissues of both Dire Straits‘ Brothers in Arms and Mark Knopfler‘s Local Hero soundtrack were half-speed mastered from the very original master tapes.
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Exclusive formats and signed editions
The Coral return in April with a brand new studio album, Coral Island.
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2008 album back in print on vinyl
Goldfrapp‘s Seventh Tree will be reissued as a limited edition coloured vinyl LP in March.
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The box is back in stock
If you missed out on the recently out-of-print Thin Lizzy Rock Legends package – one of SDE’s best reissues of 2020 – then you’re in luck, Universal Music have made some more available to fans.
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Fans can now pre-order a cheaper edition
Taschen’s Depeche Mode book by Anton Corbijn was published last year as a limited numbered/signed edition and came in a clamshell box. That £750 tome sold out very quickly, but the good news for fans is that a standard edition is coming next month for a considerably reduced sum.
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John Mayall’s The First Generation 1965-1974 is an enormous 35CD box set that documents the early career of ‘The Godfather of British Blues’ with remastered studio albums, unreleased BBC recordings, previously unheard live gigs and more.
Watch the unboxing video of the £10k Steven Wilson box
The one-off ‘Ultra Deluxe Music Product On Obsolete Media Limited Edition of One’ version of Steven Wilson‘s The Future Bites – as previously covered on SDE – cost its buyer, Alan Lastufka, £10,000. The physical item has now been delivered and true to his word, Alan has posted a really good unboxing video of the package. Have a watch, below:
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Chris Cornell’s last studio album
In March, Universal Music will issue No One Sings Like You Anymore, a volume of cover versions recorded by Chris Cornell in 2016, the year before his death.
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