Audiophile Jazz LP M&K RealTime SUPER SAMPLER Direct-to-Disc With Cover Letter

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Shiny Vinyl in NM Condition with Cover Letter...Great Addition to Your Audiophile Collection...

 M&K RealTime Direct-to-Disc Records # ? Stereo - Various Artists Audiophile Super Sampler - c.1978 original pressing w/ an insert sheet/letter

SUPER SAMPLER M&K RealTime (NM/NM) Vinyl LP
Record label/brand: M&K RealTime SS 1 upc/mpn: None year: 1978
A hard to find 1978 "Super Sampler" from audiophile label, M&K RealTime. Features one track each from the 11 RealTime Direct-To-Disc albums. TAS recommended! Pressed in West Germany.
Record is still in it's original shrink wrap and looks as if it's never been played. Vinyl and cover are in beautiful NEAR MINT condition (our highest rating for an unsealed LP!).
Songs:
Side 1 1. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Fourth Movement - The “March” and Prestissimo” finale 2. The Power and the Glory, Volume 1 - Excerpt from Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” 3. Flamenco Fever - “Llorana” 4. Encore - “Set Down Servant” and “Dry Bones” 5. The Magnificent Basso - Excerpt from Mozart’s :Marriage of Figaro” 6. The Power and the Glory, Volume ll - Excerpt from Bach’s “Nun Danckt Alle Gott”
Side 2 1. For Duke - "Take the A Train” 2. Fatha - "Birdland” 3. Hot Stix - "Excerpt from “Caravan” 4. Yeti Chasers - "I’ve Got My Fingers Crossed” 5. Golden Themes - "The Godfather Theme”
Review: An incredible mix of direct to disc classics including Ed Graham's Hot Stix, Bill Berry and His Ellington All Stars and Flamenco Fever... All TAS recommendations.
About M&K RealTime: After creating probably the most significant track in English jazz club history, and having creaated a soundsystem for Walter Becker to mis Steely Dan's classic "Pretzel Logic" on... in 1976, Dan Kreisel and his partner, Jonas Miller, decided to make Direct-To-Disc recordings. Kreisel went to the “Celebrity Center” in California where he heard Don Baaska and Valli Scavelli playing with their band. He liked their sound, and wanted to use them for M&K Sound’s first Direct-To-Disc demonstration record. Don Baaska said, “ I recall now that Ken was more interested in the quality of the sound on his recordings, rather than the musical content. It was all direct to disc at 45rpm with specially designed mics and absolutely no editing of any kind. Really organic. Musicians were pleased to record gratis under those conditions.”
This is what made Ken Kreisel such a genius, for he had the ability to record and provide the most incredible range of sounds, that were used as source material for the testing of subwoofer speakers. He would use pipe organs with saxophones and orchestras, music boxes with high bells, real howitzer cannons fired simultaneously for level and impact comparisons between speakers. Ken also used marching bands, flamenco dancers, and even recorded the sound of a steam locomotive using a microphone that was set a few feet away from the wheels as they rolled by.