INXS - Kick - 2010

INXS - Kick [Mobile Fidelity Silver Label LP / Mofi 1-003]
Жанр: Pop-Rock
Год выпуска: 2010 (1987)
Лейбл: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Страна-производитель: USA
Аудио кодек: (MP3 + FLAC)
Тип рипа: tracks+.cue
Формат записи: 24/192
Формат : 24/96
Продолжительность: 39:30
Треклист:
Side A
1. Guns in the Sky '2:21
2. New Sensation '3:39
3. Devil Inside '5:14
4. Need You Tonight '3:01
5. Mediate '2:36
6. The Loved One '3:37
Side B
1. Wild Life '3:10
2. Never Tear Us Apart '3:05
3. Mystify '3:17
4. Kick '3:14
5. Calling All Nations '3:02
6. Tiny Daggers '3:29

Album Info

Personnel

bass guitar - Garry Gary Beers;
Andrew Farriss - guitar, keyboards;
percussion, drums - Jon Farriss;
Tim Farriss - guitar;
vocals - Michael Hutchence;
Kirk Pengilly - guitar, saxophone, vocals;
All songs written by Andrew Farriss Michael Hutchence
except: A1 - Michael Hutchence; A5 - Andrew Farriss
A6 - Ian Clyne, Gerry Humphreys Rob Lovett
Mastered by Paul Stubblebine
- on MFSL Ultra Gain 2 System

Arts apples

About

Цитата:

For the first (and really only) time, INXS made a consistently solid album that had no weak moments from top to bottom. More than that, really, Kick is an impeccably crafted pop tour de force, the band succeeding at everything they try...Even without the band's sense of style, the flawless songcraft is intoxicating, and it's what makes Kick one of the best mainstream pop albums of the '80s.- Steve Huey/AMG

Цитата:

The last throes of Reagan’s presidency, big hair, carefree existence, the promise of a booming economy, preppy clothes, Nintendo 8-bit gaming systems, and MTV’s seemingly limitless reign: All happy memories conjured by INXS’ Kick, on the creative level of anything Madonna, Prince, or Michael Jackson recorded at the time. More than six million copies sold, four Top 5 singles, and still, nearly 25 years later, not one feeble moment, justify the 1987 record’s status as pure pop genius.
Anchored by the sensual purr of vocalist Michael Hutchence and frisky drumming (recorded in analog) of Jon Farriss, Kick taps into a hybrid style that freshly stays away from the era’s plastic, manufactured sounds and narrow-minded, vacant aesthetic. A seamless fusion of dance beats, sleek rock riffs, soaring hooks, horn-fueled RB, and string-laden accents, the 12-track set is an irresistibly catchy and liquidly fluid sonic miasma that contains every single element a classic contemporary pop work requires.
Above all, every song boasts a different feel and distinctive pace, characteristics that aren’t forced but natural results of the collective’s chemistry. The sexy, breathy pop-funk “Need You Tonight” clicks with interlocking arrangements and murmured vocals. The atmospheric, synth-drum-punctuated “Meditate” hallucinates with stream-of-conscious vocals and percolating grooves. Well-placed pauses, hypnotic flanged guitar passages, and so-funky-you’ll-sweat saxophone breaks pepper the liberating rock smash “New Sensation.”
INXS also kicks out upbeat dance-inflected jams on the brassy skirt-swaying title track, syncopated “Calling All Nations,” and elsewhere, but doesn’t forget the importance of a bleeding-heart ballad. Hence, the devastatingly moving “Never Tear Us Apart” the knifing strings and guitar twang proving dramatic, direct, and honest. The late 1980s produced a handful of more commercially successful pop records, but none is better than Kick.
Mastered on Mobile Fidelity’s world-renowned mastering system and pressed at RTI (America's best record plant), Silver Label numbered limited edition LP presents INXS’ studio masterpiece with the tremendous punch, transparent midrange impact, and involving depth the record has always deserved but, until now, never possessed. Textural details, Hutchence’s creamy vocals, and Farris’ diversified percussion positively explode and engage in the manner that only the best pop-rock can.

Transfer info

Источник оцифровки: tnx aksman
Код класса состояния винила: не указано

Hannllimited Record Cleaning Machine with Rotating Brush
Устройство воспроизведения:

Music Hall MMF 9.1 Turntable

Tonearm Pro-Ject 9cc Evo with Pure Silver Wires

Cartridge: Nagaoka MP-500
Предварительный усилитель:

Brocksieper Phonomax Tube Phono-PreAmp (temporarily replaced by ProJect Tube Box 2 SE)
АЦП:

E-MU 0404 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface

Interconnections: Silent Wire NF 5
Программа-оцифровщик:

Wavelab 6.1 recording software
Обработка:
Vacuum Cleaning ' TT ' Brocksieper Phonomax ' Laptop ' Wavelab 6.1 (24/192) ' manual click removal
analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) ' resampling and dithering to 24/96 with iZotope RX Advanced '
split into individual Tracks ' FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)
No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.With my vinyl transfers, I try to catch the whole beauty of vinyl records; therefore I don't use any post-processing or any sound improvement. What you get is a clear and flat transfer. For getting a clear sound, I'll do an extended washing of each record with my RCM, which can take up to 30 minutes brushing on each side. Resistant ticks and clicks I try to remove as good as possible, but the priority is not to lose any musical information in the process. Surface noises, as long they are not too high, are left in place. Only on bad pressings or on records recorded at extremely low levels do I use a fade in-/-out. As John Peel said, Life is full of surface noises. In some cases this means that I have to make a compromise.... The result has to pass my personal quality criteria, which is IMO quite high © aksman

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