Post #540716 by DejaVoodoo on Sun, Jul 4, 2010 9:13 AM

On 2010-06-21 02:29, Quiet Village Idiot wrote:
Ethel Azama's "Exotic Dreams" was reissued earlier this year in the UK on a two-fer with the mono version of Tak Shindo's "Mganga!". Unfortunately mastered from vinyl, like many of the UK exotica reissues.

So what if it's mastered from vinyl? It sounds great! At least there are record companies out there still reissuing exotica music on actual, honest-to-goodness, commercially manufactured CDs. WITH full color artwork and, more often than not, liner notes. Sure you could make the argument that anyone with access to an LP copy of the album could hypothetically make their own CD, but as anyone who's tried to transfer vinyl LPs to either CD or MP3s cleanly knows, it's typically a long and frustrating process with varying results. Why not let someone else do the hard work for you? Of course it would be nice if such CDs were mastered from the original tapes, but like I alluded to before, it's nice to have what we have at all!