KALEIDOSCOPE Tangerine Dream LP 1967 MONO 1st Press EARLIEST EVER

	£		412
	$		546

On offer here is one of the RAREST LPs you will EVER see (especially in this condition!!!!) by Kaleidoscope called "Tangerine Dream" and is an ORIGINAL 1967 UK MONO 1st Pressing on the 1st Press Fontana label!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND!!!!  THIS IS ONE OF THE RAREST LPs ON THE FONTANA LABEL (AND ONE OF THE RAREST UK PSYCH LPs EVER!) - AND VIRTUALLY NEVER TURNS UP FOR SALE!!!!  JUST TRY AND FIND ANOTHER ONE!!!!  BACK IN 1967 WHEN THIS LP WAS FIRST RELEASED, IT ONLY EVER SOLD IN ABSOLUTELY TINY AMOUNTS AND WAS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY DELETED!!!!  AS A RESULT IT IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND INCREDIBLY HARD TO LOCATE TODAY!!!!  BUT THERE IS ONE VERY IMPORTANT DETAIL THAT MAKES THIS LP THE RAREST KALEIDOSCOPE LP EVER RELEASED - EVER!!!!  AND THAT IS THAT THIS LP IS THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING EVER MADE - WITH 1 INCREDIBLE DIFFERENCE THAT ALL LATER ONES SIMPLY DO NOT HAVE!!!!  I WILL NOW EXPLAIN EXACTLY WHAT MAKES THIS LP SO INCREDIBLY RARE!!!! 

IN THE 1960s (FROM AROUND 1963 THROUGH TO 1967) ALL LPs MADE BY FONTANA HAD VERY DISTINCTIVE LABELS & VINYL.  THEY WERE ALWAYS MADE WITH A 'DOUBLE RIDGED' CENTRE HOLE, HAD EXTREMELY THICK QUALITY VINYL, AND HAD 'FULLY TEXTURED' LABELS!!!!  HOWEVER JUST BEFORE THIS LPs RELEASE IN SEPTEMBER 1967, THE DECISION WAS TAKEN TO UPGRADE ALL OF FONTANA'S PRESSING MACHINES.  THE 'HEADS' WERE REPLACED, AND AS YOU MAY ALREADY KNOW (BY LOOKING AT OTHER FONTANA LPs LISTED ONLINE) THE LABELS IMMEDIATELY CHANGED FROM THE 'FULLY TEXTURED' LABELS (USED ON ALL FONTANA LPs PRIOR TO  OCTOBER 1967) TO THE 'SMOOTH' FONTANA LABELS WHICH WERE USED FROM OCTOBER 1967 ONWARDS!!!!  AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT MAKES THIS LP VERY VERY SPECIAL INDEED!!!!  BECAUSE, IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES OF THE LABELS - YOU CAN VERY CLEARLY SEE THAT BOTH LABELS ARE FULLY TEXTURED!!!!   AND THIS IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ON THIS LP!!!!  ONLY TRUE 1ST PRESSINGS BOUGHT ON THE VERY 'DAY OF RELEASE' EVER CAME WITH FULLY TEXTURED LABELS - BEFORE FONTANA DROPPED THIS LABEL STYLE, WITH ALL LATER COPIES BEING MADE WITH THE COMMON SMOOTH LABELS INSTEAD!!!!  AND SO - NOT ONLY IS THIS ONE OF THE ALL TIME RAREST UK PSYCH LPs IT IS POSSIBLE TO FIND, BUT IT IS THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING EVER MADE WITH ULTRA RARE 'FULLY TEXTURED' LABELS!!!!  SO THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT AT ALL, THAT THIS IS THE 'EARLIEST' & RAREST KALEIDOSCOPE LP EVER RELEASED - AND ALMOST NEVER SEEN LIKE THIS TODAY!!!!

NOT ONLY THAT, BUT THIS LP IS IN GREAT CONDITION - AND HAS BARELY BEEN PLAYED AT ALL!!!!  JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES!!!!  THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1967 UK 'EARLIEST' MONO 1ST PRESSING ON THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 'FULLY TEXTURED' FONTANA LABELS, 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 1/1 MONO MATRIXES, 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS INNER SLEEVE, AND 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS FLIPBACK MONO COVER!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS - SO DONT MISS THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!!   This is the ORIGINAL Fontana UK 1st Pressing from 1967 and is in GREAT condition!!!!  The record is pressed on THICK quality vinyl.  The Cat. No is TL 5448 on the ORIGINAL 1st Press Fontana label (see picture) and is a UK MONO 1st Pressing!!!! 

The record labels are in BRILLIANT condition (see pictures) with NO wear, NO stickers, only 2 VERY faint ink traces on 1 label ONLY (see pictures), NO tears, and barely ANY spindle marks AT ALL!!!!  IT IS VERY CLEAR THAT THIS RECORD HAS BARELY BEEN PLAYED AT ALL!!!!  The vinyl is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  Most of these 60s LPs had been to a lot of wild parties and are usually found totally worn out, and almost unplayable. This one is NOT and has NO scratches, only a few absolutely TINY surface marks, NO hairlines, only 2 or 3 MEGA light scufflines, and only a VERY few of the lightest paper scuffs only visible under light!!!!  THE RECORD STILL RETAINS ITS ORIGINAL 'JUST PRESSED' LOOK AND SHINES LIKE NEW!!!!  It is also great to find that the playing of the record is as STUNNING as the visual!!!!  It plays with NO skips, only a few light clicks (though mostly NONE!), NO jumps, NO sticks, and barely ANY crackle AT ALL!!!!  The sound quality is simply SUPERB with NO groovewear and NO distortion either!!!!  The record must grade Very Good+ if not better!!!!  Believe me this record is NOT overgraded in ANY way!!!!  I use STRICT RC grading standards - it is not in my interest not to!!!! Brillant!!!!  The record also comes in its ORIGINAL 1st Press inner sleeve which is in SUPERB condition!!!!  The ORIGINAL 1st Press Flipback MONO Cover is in GREAT condition!!!!  In particular the AWESOME 'Psychedelic' cover front for this LP is in SUPERB condition - and one of the best I have EVER seen!!!!  It has NO splits, NO edge wear (apart from some almost INVISIBLE 'touching in' traces!), NO sticker marks, only slight spinal wear, NO sticker tears, only VERY slight corner wear (NOT through the colour!), only a VERY few VERY light creases (cover is VERY flat looking indeed!), NO ringwear, NO rubbing, only 2 or 3 ULTRA light indentation traces, NO annotations, and NO writing!!!!  The opening edge is beautifully straight with barely ANY feathering AT ALL!!!!  Even the unlaminated back is in GREAT condition overall with NO yellowing, a clear area of wear in the top right corner (this does NOT affect the text OR the cover design!), NO grubbyness (apart from 2 or 3 ULTRA faint imprint traces on the opening edge), NO rubbing, NO ringwear, and NO writing!!!!  The cover must grade Very Good (PROPERLY graded, NOT trashed!) if not better - though without the wear on the back (which doesnt even affect the design and is on the white part of the cover ONLY!), this cover would be more like Excellent(Minus) towards FULL Excellent!!!!  And it has one of the BEST cover fronts for this LP that I have EVER seen!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS (ESPECIALLY AS THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING EVER MADE!) - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY!!!! 

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