Two very different albums from Deep Purple's long history will be remixed and reissued this summer: 1975's Made in Japan and 2005's Rapture of the Deep.

Coming from Rhino on August 15 - 52 years since the first of the concerts represented on the original LP were staged - a new super deluxe edition of Made in Japan, spanning 5CD/1 Blu-ray or 10 LPs, offers new mixes by Steven Wilson of the original album and the complete trio of concerts it came from, complete with bonus encores and a few original single edits. The band's longtime bassist Roger Glover will pen new liner notes. (The 10LP box is an online exclusive, while a 2LP version of Wilson's album mix - out the same date in Europe and on October 3 in the U.S., Canada and Japan - will be sold only at independent record stores.)

The "Mk. II" line-up of Deep Purple - singer Ian Gillan, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, keyboardist Jon Lord, bassist Glover and drummer Ian Paice - were recording and touring at a breakneck pace: their fourth, fifth and sixth albums, Deep Purple in Rock (1970), Fireball (1971) and Machine Head (1972) were all Top 5 hits in their native U.K. (the latter two topping the chart), and Machine Head would even cross into the Top 10 of America's chart. The group's live act was well received by fans, and Warner Bros. thought a concert album would excite territories that hadn't caught on yet. Working with their studio engineer Martin Birch, Deep Purple recorded two sets at Festival Hall in Osaka, Japan on August 15 and 16, 1972, and one at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo the following day.

While the band were nonplussed about the album's assembly - Birch maintains that Gillan and Blackmore have never actually heard the album - the reception of the double album in Japan convinced the record company to eventually release it in other territories after their next album, Who Do We Think We Are, kicked off the band's 1973 plans. Priced as affordably as a single-disc set, Made in Japan came out just as Machine Head standout "Smoke on the Water" was beginning its unlikely climb to the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, and the American single in fact included an edited version from the live album on the single's B-side. While the band was rocked by Gillan's departure and Glover's firing before the summer of 1973 ended, Made in Japan - another Top 10 album in America - was proof of the band at their peak.

Over time, the full material from the Japan shows would come to light. (One of the encores, "Black Night," became the B-side of Who Do We Think We Are's aptly-titled "Woman from Tokyo" the year Made in Japan got a wide release.) Remixes and remasters were released in 1993, 1998 and 2014 by various engineers, but this new box features Steven Wilson lending his deft touch to the original album and the full concerts (with encores on a separate disc alongside three original single edits), working in stereo on the CDs and LPs and in Dolby Atmos on the Blu-ray Audio disc.

A 20th anniversary edition of Rapture of the Deep, the group's 18th studio album, follows on August 29. This was the second album from the band's longest-tenured line-up, the "Mk. VIII" arrangement that joined Gillan, Glover and Paice with former Rainbow keyboardist Don Airey (who replaced Lord in 2002) and guitarist Steve Morse (a member since 1994, who'd worked with Kansas and co-founded Dixie Dregs). Recorded without a label at a time when bands of Deep Purple's vintage were a bit hard to categorize, the album remains a bit of a hidden gem in the group's discography, putting a fresh coat of paint on their heavy progressive sound. (The band wouldn't release another album for nearly a decade, but the time away from the studio revitalized their bond with fans on the road, and their next five albums all performed well in England, with 2017's Infinite and 2019's Whoosh! both hitting the Top 10. Since 2022, the band has been in its "Mk. IX" configuration, replacing Morse with Irish guitarist Simon McBride.

The new 2CD or 2LP edition sports a remix and resequencing of the album by Glover, with two non-album songs ("MTV" and "Things I Never Said") added into the main body of work. The bonus disc, which will not be available digitally, offers an additional five rehearsal tracks, including a solo piece by Morse called "Closing Note." Liner notes by Geoff Barton and a newly-redesigned cover will complement the update of this album.

You can order all variants of Made in Japan and Rapture of the Deep and view their track lists below. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Made in Japan (Super Deluxe Edition) (Rhino, 2025)

5CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
10LP: Deep Purple Store / Rhino.com
2LP: Amazon U.K.

CD 1/LP 1-2: Original album (2025 Steven Wilson Stereo Remix) (released as Warner Bros. P-5066/7W (JP)/Purple TPSP 351 (U.K.), 1972/Warner Bros. 2WS-2701 (U.S.), 1973)

1. Highway Star
2. Child in Time
3. Smoke on the Water
4. The Mule
5. Strange Kind of Woman
6. Lazy
7. Space Truckin'

Tracks 1-2, 5 and 7 recorded live at Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan - 8/16/1972
Track 3 recorded live at Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan - 8/15/1972
Tracks 4 and 6 recorded live at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan - 8/17/1972

CD 2/LP 3-4: Live at Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan - 8/15/1972 (same track list as original album)

CD 3/LP 5-6: Live at Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan - 8/16/1972 (same track list as original album)

CD 4/LP 7-8: Live at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan - 8/17/1972 (same track list as original album)

CD 5/LP 9-10: Encores and Single Edits

1. Black Night (Live at Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan - 8/15/1972)
2. Speed King (Live at Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan - 8/15/1972)
3. Black Night (Live at Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan - 8/16/1972)
4. Lucille (Live at Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan - 8/16/1972)
5. Black Night (Live at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan - 8/17/1972)
6. Speed King (Live at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan - 8/17/1972)
7. Black Night (Edit)
8. Space Truckin' (Edit)
9. Smoke on the Water (Edit)

Blu-ray: Original album (2025 Steven Wilson Dolby Atmos Remix)

Alternate mixes of all tracks on Discs 2-4 not on original albums (Disc 2, Tracks 1-2 and 4-7; Disc 3, Tracks 3-4 and 6; and Disc 4, Tracks 1-3, 5 and 7) and Disc 5, Tracks 1-2 first released on Live in Japan - EMI CDEM 1510 (U.K.), 1993
Alternate mixes of Disc 5, Tracks 4-6 first released on Made in Japan - EMI 72438 57864 2 6 (U.K.), 1998
Disc 5, Track 7 (alternate mix/edit of Disc 5, Track 3) released on "Woman from Tokyo" German single - Purple/EMI Electrola 1C 006-94 185, 1973
Disc 5, Track 8 released on Capitol Mexican single EPEM-10723, 1973
Disc 5, Track 9 released on Warner Bros. U.S. single WB 7710, 1973

Rapture of the Deep (20th Anniversary Edition) (earMusic, 2025)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

CD1/LP 1-2: Remixed/resequenced album

1. Money Talks
2. Things I Never Said
3. Rapture of the Deep
4. Clearly Quite Absurd
5. MTV
6. Back to Back
7. Wrong Man
8. Girls Like That
9. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
10. Don't Let Go
11. Junkyard Blues
12. Before Time Began

Original mixes of Tracks 1, 3-4 and 6-12 released as Edel 165542ERE (U.K.), 2005
Original mix of Track 2 released on Japanese pressing - Victor VICP-63247, 2005
Original mix of Track 5 released on limited edition pressing - Edel 165762ERE (U.K.), 2005

CD 2/LP 3: 2005 Studio Jams and Rehearsals

1. MTV
2. Money Talks
3. Back to Back
4. Before Time Began
5. Closing Note