Demon Music Group has recently launched a new series of Half-Speed Master Editions, all cut from original stereo tapes at AIR Mastering and pressed on 180-gram vinyl. Today, we’re looking at three of these titles. Demon has had a long history with The Yardbirds’ Roger the Engineer (1966) including a 1986 expanded edition on CD, a single-LP vinyl reissue in 2019, a double-LP vinyl reissue in 2020 for Record Store Day, and a generous 2-LP/3-CD/1-7″ single box set in 2021. Appropriately enough, Roger has been selected as one of the first Half-Speed…
Cherry Pop Goes Plus One on Double-Disc Haircut One Hundred Reissue
Fans of the sumptuous ’80s pop of British outfit Haircut One Hundred are in for a treat with Cherry Pop Records’ exhaustive double-disc edition of the band’s 1982 debut album, Pelican West. Fronted by singer/songwriter Nick Heyward, Haircut One Hundred blended New Wave, jazz and funk into a dazzling sonic package, all biting guitar chords and propulsive bass lines chased with expressive saxophone lines and horn charts for a little cosmopolitan extra. In the band’s home country, they logged their first four singles into the U.K. Top 10, with biggest hit “Love…
