What is the latest music you downloaded, what resolution and from where?
Posted by: Stevee_S on 13 January 2014
With more music being downloaded I thought it might be interesting to see what forum members are buying and from where.
The news that HD Tracks are soon to open an online UK store means that more choice is going to be available to us. The variety and quality of downloadable music we can choose from is expanding, MP3 to 24bit studio Masters at 192kHz and beyond.
So what are you buying and downloading?
**Minority Interest Alert**
Motion Sickness Of Time Travel (aka Rachel Evans) released a series of 12 CDrs and Cassettes in a micro-edition for each of the 12 Native American moons. She has now released these 12 Ballades as a download on Bandcamp.
These won't test your system's toe-tapping or PRaT abilities: they're ambient/repetitive/trance-like (no, not that sort of trance!) and distinctly background music. But I think they're rather lovely, and for $20 you get over 11 hours of music (each moon is over 50 minutes).
You are warned: https://motionsicknessoftimetr...p.com/album/ballades
Just downloaded Emmylou's 'Red Dirt Girl' in 44.1/24 from HDtracks. This is one of my all time favourites, and this is the best I've heard it.
I also bought Supertramp's 'Crime of the Century' from Qobuz 96/24. I don't know this one but it sounds pretty good on first listen.
James Blackshaw - Apologia
Archive release from 2002. This is acoustic guitar in the style of John Fahey and Jack Rose, and rather splendid. 16/44 FLAC.
All 16/44.1 from Qobuz
Good deal from Qobuz, two high res - rest standard definition
Same Qobuz deal
Qobuz standard definition
High res audio 24/88,2
Elefant records Bandcamp,
That's great fun. Cheers sir!
Qobuz 16/44
Supertramp, Crime of the Century, 24-192 from Acoustic Sounds. The 40th Anniversary edition.
Most fabulous. I know I (we) have heard this album hundreds of times and owned many versions. All I can say is that my Qute 2 / Dynaudio X12's have never sounded better.
Will listen on the main system tomorrow sometime.
Hmm. I've had CotC on CD for many years and it's one of my favourites but a high-res version is something I think I'll explore.
Supertramp, Crime of the Century, 24-192 from Acoustic Sounds. The 40th Anniversary edition.
Most fabulous. I know I (we) have heard this album hundreds of times and owned many versions. All I can say is that my Qute 2 / Dynaudio X12's have never sounded better.
Will listen on the main system tomorrow sometime.
Hmm. I've had CotC on CD for many years and it's one of my favourites but a high-res version is something I think I'll explore.
My favourite album by Supertramp was 'Even in the quietest moments'. You even get Winston Churchill making a guest appearance - well sort of.
Supertramp, Crime of the Century, 24-192 from Acoustic Sounds. The 40th Anniversary edition.
Most fabulous. I know I (we) have heard this album hundreds of times and owned many versions. All I can say is that my Qute 2 / Dynaudio X12's have never sounded better.
Will listen on the main system tomorrow sometime.
Hmm. I've had CotC on CD for many years and it's one of my favourites but a high-res version is something I think I'll explore.
My favourite album by Supertramp was 'Even in the quietest moments'. You even get Winston Churchill making a guest appearance - well sort of.
Bill, throughout the 70's that was my favorite Supertramp album too. I hope it gets this same remastering treatment. PS Crisis is no slouch either! Supertramp continues to get heavy play here at home; can't say the same for all the stuff I listened to in the 70's. My "prog" tastes have faded quite a bit; Yes and Supertramp survive unscathed.
Supertramp, Crime of the Century, 24-192 from Acoustic Sounds. The 40th Anniversary edition.
Most fabulous. I know I (we) have heard this album hundreds of times and owned many versions. All I can say is that my Qute 2 / Dynaudio X12's have never sounded better.
Will listen on the main system tomorrow sometime.
Hmm. I've had CotC on CD for many years and it's one of my favourites but a high-res version is something I think I'll explore.
My favourite album by Supertramp was 'Even in the quietest moments'. You even get Winston Churchill making a guest appearance - well sort of.
Bill, throughout the 70's that was my favorite Supertramp album too. I hope it gets this same remastering treatment. PS Crisis is no slouch either! Supertramp continues to get heavy play here at home; can't say the same for all the stuff I listened to in the 70's. My "prog" tastes have faded quite a bit; Yes and Supertramp survive unscathed.
I love Prog and still play a lot of it: Soft Machine, Caravan, Camel, Colosseum, Supertramp, ELO, Family, Greenslade, King Crimson, Tull, Gong, Wishbone Ash. Not sure they are all Prog but I consider them to be, I have always considered Floyd to be Prog but I am not sure many others would.
Notice the omission of Peter Gabriel - That was on purpose not an accident.
Should have included Throtch though.
Qobuz all 16/44
Qobuz 16/44
16/44 Qobuz
I have just been listening to 'A Rainbow In Curved Air' by Terry Riley. I have the one (vinyl) where there is a picture of him smiling in the clouds and not the one that Amazon shows these days.
This is an amazing piece of music that we always used to bung on when we were totally blasted on the old jazz tobacco when I was at Uni about 178 years ago in the early 1970s. I have a cold at the moment so I am a bit high on the Lemsip Max Strengths and had a sudden desire to listen to this ground breaking album and boy was to worth it.
What I never understood about this album is what side 2 - 'Poppy Noggod etc' was all about - because I had never been in a Buddhist or Jain Temple. Now that I have I realise where Terry Riley was coming from. You sit in a dark temple, hardly able to breathe with the incense fumes and this cacophony breaks out. The long horns, cymbals, bells etc and it modulates like a wave on the sea, it's an extraordinary experience and you can have it for the bargain price of a Terry Riley record and a couple of Lemsip Max Strengths.
Yup I know I should of put it on that thread where Burt Slump posts but it would have disappeared as quick as something that disappears quickly!
EDIT: Oh I did put it on Bert's thread!!!!!
Big Terry Riley fan. Rainbow is an amazing album. I may be teaching a fellow T.Wellsian to suck eggs, but apart from the plethora of Poppy Nogood variants, the next best one to Rainbow is Last Camel In Paris, a live improvisation on the Shri Camel album, and one of the last time he performed that sort of stuff live. It's brilliant.
Qobuz, amazing deal 16/44
Big Terry Riley fan. Rainbow is an amazing album. I may be teaching a fellow T.Wellsian to suck eggs, but apart from the plethora of Poppy Nogood variants, the next best one to Rainbow is Last Camel In Paris, a live improvisation on the Shri Camel album, and one of the last time he performed that sort of stuff live. It's brilliant.
No Gary, we have lots of eggs in the house at the moment but I am not sucking one of them.
I really grew to love minimalist music - Glass, Reich etc and kind of lost my way with Terry Riley, but from today that will change and I will take your recs. into account. I suppose it could be argued that he started minimalist music or maybe it was Erik Satie?
Cheers Gary.
ps my reference to the T. Wells Bigs was an attempt at humour. It would have been somewhere like T.Well, which is a town I really like. I live fairly close and use to work there, right in the Pantilles - I think it was called (possibly still is) the Corn Exchange. Which is now a shopping precinct behind the band stand along that little lane. I used to have an office on the 1st floor with a veranda looking out onto the Pantilles. It was a nice place to sit cracking code all day long! But we decided we needed to get an office in The City to be at the centre of things and I missed my little office in the Pantilles.
Although come to think of it, I have been listening to 'In C' a lot recently. I have a couple of versions of this.
Not many musicians manage to go from Rock (was he? certainly was part of the Grateful Dead scene) to classical music. Macca tried it but owing to the fact that he is now rubbish he fell flat on his face.
Satie has it with Vexations, I reckon 
there are (at least) three Terry Rileys:
The minimalist tape delay stuff of In C, Rainbow, Shri Camel etc., the oddly tuned piano stuff that's whacked out blues/jazz of Harp Of New Albion, Lisbon & Padova Concerts, and the classical stuff he wrote for the Kronos Quartet such as The Cusp Of Magic, Salome Dances For Peace et al.
each style radically different, but I've grown to like them all...though the Sunshine-induced rush of Rainbow is something I'll never ever repeat.
In in the earlier style, I'd also give a listen to the In C Remixed album. It's interesting to hear what others make of it, and in such different styles....all in short form so it never drags.
Although come to think of it, I have been listening to 'In C' a lot recently. I have a couple of versions of this.
Not many musicians manage to go from Rock (was he? certainly was part of the Grateful Dead scene) to classical music. Macca tried it but owing to the fact that he is now rubbish he fell flat on his face.
He was more involved with the Lamonte Young scene than the Dead, though that would have been intriguing!