Needle Time

  The KLF - Chill Out [JAMS LP5 UK 1990 24-Bit FLAC] Excuse my tardiness of late, I've been waiting for a few bits of upgrade hardware (mostly cables), so have been experimenting with cleaning up rips even more with iZotope. Some of the tutorials available are very dry & complex, however I have been able to extract a few worthwhile tips and this old rip from April 2017 was used as a basis for learning. Given the ambience on this album (and the issues with a vinyl pressing & general cleanliness), it was a very worthwhile exercise. My next post is a brand new rip using some of the same basics ...on what could be considered a classic of it's genre. Except for a the occasional clicks'n'pops (and some of those come from railroad-side campfires) - I'd say I am please with the results of this re-work.  The cover states there are 14 tracks but it rips as one complete piece of music (I've split the tracks as per the published timings) however I strongly recommen...

  The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Shag Times [JAMS LP 3 UK 1989 24-Bit FLAC] Here is an old ESWA post, recreated on Needle Time just for the hell of it, warts'n'all. This was never my best rip and also the pressing quality is a bit shagged! Shag Times  features a few tracks from the classic 1987 album, and moves things on a bit with excerpts from the more mundane Who Killed The Jams? , then some of the JAMs singles and those from the Disco 2000, Timelords and KLF alter-egos. Nobody is safe from the master samplers as they flaunt copyrights at every opportunity set to an eighties scotch-rap beat. Whitney Joins The Jams was a big favourite back then as the late pop-soul songstress gets mullered by Drummond and Cauty to an Isaac Hayes disco beat, British heirloom Petula Clark goes gospel house in the glorious Downtown which in truth celebrates alcoholic down'n'outs, Sly Stone gets ripped off on the hi-energy Burn The Bastards , then follows the huge hit Doctorin...