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March 6, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Tangerine Dream's breakthrough album will be celebrated in a box set that features a host of audiovisual material taken from a bigger box set. Virgin/UMR will reissue the German group's 1974 hit Phaedra as a 5CD/Blu-ray box set featuring all the relevant album-related material featured in 2019's 16 CD/2BD In Search of Hades (The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979). Beyond the remastered album, extras include two discs of outtakes, the band's first U.K. concert and some 5.1 surround and stereo

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD Genre: Electronic Tags: Steven Wilson, Tangerine Dream

December 18, 2021 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! A quiet week before Christmas offers a new Bowie remix, rare soundtracks from Tangerine Dream and The Simpsons, plus a legendary funk label on Bandcamp. David Bowie, Changes (2021 Alternative Mix) (Parlophone/Rhino) (Spotify) Alongside a newly-announced 50th anniversary picture disc of Hunky Dory, slated for

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Comedy, Country, Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: David Bowie, Jackie Gleason, Johnny Winter, Loretta Lynn, Mac Davis, Madonna, Organized Konfusion, Tangerine Dream, The Simpsons

September 23, 2020 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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Tangerine Dream will collect their early '80s works into a box set next month - including two unreleased soundtracks. Pilots of Purple Twilight: The Virgin Recordings 1980-1983, due in stores October 30, offers 10 CDs of work from the German electronic rock band as they began a new era of live performance and work in film and television. During this era, group founder Edgar Froesse and longtime member Christopher Franke were augmented with a third keyboardist, Johannes Schmoelling, to

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Tangerine Dream

June 14, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Johnny Mathis, Killing Me Softly with Her Song/When Will I See You Again (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music continue celebrating Johnny Mathis' discography with two albums on one CD. 1973's Killing Me Softly with Her Song and 1975's When Will I See You Again both spotlight Mathis' silky interpretations of the day's greatest hits. Killing Me Softly with Her

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: ABBA, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen, Carole King, Grateful Dead, Hank Williams, Isaac Hayes, Johnny Mathis, R.E.M., Roger Daltrey, Stan Getz, Tangerine Dream, ZZ Top

April 19, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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Tangerine Dream was among the "true pioneers of electronic and ambient music, and the albums they recorded for Virgin Records between 1973 and 1979 remain classics of the genre" - so says progressive rocker and remixer extraordinaire, Steven Wilson.  And he should know, as Wilson has been heavily involved in a Tangerine Dream box set that spotlights the era, entitled In Search of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979. Due from UMC/Virgin on June 14, In Search of Hades celebrates Tangerine

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD Genre: Everything Else Tags: Tangerine Dream

February 22, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! We kick off with not one, but two, releases from The Zombies! The Zombies, The Complete Studio Recordings (Varese Vintage) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees are being celebrated this week with two comprehensive vinyl box sets - one for the U.S., and one for the U.K. market.  The 5-LP, 61-track U.S. version, from Varese Vintage, includes the band's two American albums in mono - She's Not

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Curtis Mayfield, Engelbert Humperdinck, Greenslade, Ian Hunter, Judy Garland, Kurt Weill, Leonard Bernstein, Ray Charles, Renaissance, REO Speedwagon, Santana, Tangerine Dream, Tear Gas, The Byrds, The Flamin' Groovies, The Zombies, U2

January 15, 2019 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

Eso Renaissance AshesAreBurning

February promises to be a packed month for music fans, as Esoteric brings listeners a new, expanded reissue of Renaissance's 1973 classic, Ashes Are Burning, as well as a reissue of The Byrds, the reunion album by the legendary folk-rock group.  Also on the way are reissues of Tear Gas's self-titled album, an expanded edition of Greenslade's Time and Tide, and a new 3-CD set called Revolution: Underground Sounds of 1968.  Meanwhile, Esoteric's Reactive imprint will issue a 4-CD set

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Brian Auger, Caravan, Dave Mason, Deep Purple, Genesis, Greenslade, Jeff Beck, Jethro Tull, John Martyn, Julie Driscoll, Pentangle, Procol Harum, Renaissance, Spooky Tooth, Status Quo, Tangerine Dream, Tear Gas, The Byrds, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, The Incredible String Band, The Move, The Pretty Things, Traffic, Van Der Graaf Generator

April 20, 2018 By The Second Disc 9 Comments

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Welcome to our annual rundown of Must-Haves for this year's Record Store Day event!  Once you're through reading, let us know what you're most looking forward to picking up tomorrow at your favorite local independent retailer!  Our list features just a sampling of our favorites from our friends at Legacy Recordings, Varese Sarabande, Rhino Records, Real Gone Music, Demon Music Group, Walt Disney Records, Omnivore Recordings, and more! Joe's kicking things off with five essential picks (in

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Belinda Carlisle, Bob Dylan, Bobbie Gentry, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Eric Clapton, Harry Nilsson, John Lennon, John Williams, Johnny Cash, Johnny Mathis, Led Zeppelin, Lulu, Madonna, Record Store Day, T Rex, Tangerine Dream, The Beau Brummels, The Police, The Rascals

March 12, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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We've already filled you in on the upcoming Record Store Day releases from Legacy Recordings, Rhino, and Real Gone Music, but there's still much more on offer from many of our other favorite labels!  Here's a selection of "the best of the rest" to be released in brick-and-mortar independent record stores on Saturday, April 21! ABBA, Summer Night City (Polydor) (2000 copies) (Record Store Day UK) (Quantity TBA) Clear/yellow-splatter 7-inch release of ABBA's 1978 non-LP single Baby Huey,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: ABBA, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, David Bowie, Def Leppard, Dr. Dre, Duran Duran, Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Eric Clapton, Evanescence, Frank Zappa, Gloria Gaynor, John Williams, Marvin Gaye, Neil Young, Record Store Day, Soundgarden, Sublime, Tangerine Dream, Taylor Swift, The Beau Brummels, The Police, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Tom Waits

November 24, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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From all of us here at Second Disc HQ to all of you, we hope you've enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving in the company of beloved family and friends.  Of course, from this day which conjures nostalgic and warm feelings comes a celebration of a different kind with this year's annual Black Friday - and Record Store Day's miniature cousin to April's yearly event. In keeping with tradition, Mike, Randy and I have once again selected our top picks of the numerous titles being released tomorrow from

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Categories: Features Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Blue Oyster Cult, Chet Atkins, Chris Bell, Chris Cornell, Danny Elfman, Leonard Nimoy, Oingo Boingo, Paul McCartney, Petula Clark, Queen, Record Store Day, Soundgarden, Tangerine Dream, The Turtles, Tori Amos, Toto, Utopia

November 13, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Stephen King Varese

There's been a flurry of great catalogue activity from our friends at soundtrack label Varese Sarabande! A trio of limited editions, an exciting wide reissue of two soundtracks to a popular film series, and a quirky, cool box set tied to a popular novelist have all been announced by the label in the last few weeks. Varese recently put the latest titles in their long running limited edition CD Club on sale, right around Halloween--so it's fitting that the first is a horror score from the late,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: James Newton Howard, Jerry Goldsmith, Jerry Reed, Maurice Jarre, Tangerine Dream

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