11/22/2023 0 Comments Ultravox vienna live![]() I only wish that they had done DSD mastering of the project as well. Of course with 40 year old master tapes, we know baking has happened, if Conny Plank used Ampex tape. The DVD has every variant of the versions of the album in 5.1 and 2.0 in high-res 96/24 quality, so this will be conceivably the hottest mastering of “Vienna” ever issued. Steven Wilson has been engaged to provide a 5.1 remix on DVD and they are also including his 2.0 mix of the album which was a by-product of the 5.1 process. LP sized booklet of notes/photos and 4 A4 art prints. Vienna album – 1980 Original Analog MasterĪs we can see there’s a decent heft to this. Sleepwalk ĬD 4 – Cassette Recordings During Rehearsals 1979/80. ![]() Ultravox: Vienna 40th Anniversary BOX – UK – 5xCD + DVD ĬD 1 – Vienna Warner Music Group | UK | 5xCD + DVD-A | 2020 What’s at stake? New stuff previously unreleased in red. I have numerous Vienna editions on LP and CD, but this time I’m ignoring the vinyl. But if you know PPM, you’ll know that I’m all over CD format. There are several different formats with differing content in each. But with the industry imploded, it’s nothing so cut and dried as one format or another. So now, 12 years after releasing “Definitive Editions” of “Vienna” and declaring “there’s nothing left in the cupboard” we have the modern SDLX boxed edition tempting us with its wares. I quickly went backwards with the band’s earlier albums and sideways, with Visage and the solo John Foxx material also available on import. My nascent Record Cell had a new tentpole as of then as the band swiftly became the foundation of my way forward. That was number one with a bullet for months until I was in a Charleston, SC Musicland and finally saw the album for sale. I had a hard time finding a copy of “Vienna” in Central Florida. This made Gary Numan sound like the amateur he was. This was the Synthesizer Rock I had been waiting for. I was thrilled beyond compare once I finally heard this band I’d know of in name only. I encountered the band and music in September of that year when I happened to see the “Passing Strangers” video on “Hollywood Heartbeat.” So for this American, yes, it’s close to exactly 40 years and damn, I sure feel the sweep of that time as if it were only yesterday. Approximately 40 years on from its initial release, which was actually July 11th, 1980. Well after much ado, and chatter outside this blog, the mooted 40th Anniversary BSOG of Ultravox’s seminal “Vienna” album is getting ready for launch on the 25th of September, 2020. Outtake from “Vienna” cover session ©1980 Brian Griffin
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