MARVIN GAYE LP x 4 What's Going On AUDIOPHILE Half-Speed REMASTERED 2016 + MP3s

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MARVIN GAYE

LP x 4

What’s Goin’ On

Half-Speed Remastered

180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE RELEASE

2016

Considered not only one of his finest albums but also one of pop music's landmark recordings, Marvin Gaye's 1971 LP What's Goin' On received a reissue in a Deluxe Edition (half speed remastered) in 2011 with 28 additional tracks. It of course contains the well known title track, the follow-up single, "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" plus the third and final single "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)". In its entirety, it is an incredibly touching album, telling the story of a war veteran (inspired by his own brother Frankie) returning home to the country he fought for and sadly having to bare witness to a world of prejudice, poverty, drug abuse and police brutality. Songs were co-written by legends Al Cleveland and Obie Benson and recorded in Detroit at Motown's Hitsville, Golden World and United Sound Studios.

This release will offer a superior vinyl experience with Half Speed Mastering from Abbey Road. It has been exclusively re-mastered at Half Speed to bring you a new level of depth and clarity.

This limited edition range, all pressed on 180gm vinyl, come in deluxe packaging which also includes a digital download voucher. 

The album was cut from high-resolution digital transfers from the best known analogue tapes by Abbey Road mastering engineer Miles Showell, one of the foremost practitioners of this artisan process in the world today. Only minimal sympathetic equalisation was applied to the transfers to keep everything as pure as possible. Also, as these are vinyl-only releases, Miles did not apply any digital limiting. This is added to almost all digital releases to make them appear to be loud and is responsible for the so-called “loudness war” and in almost every case is anything but natural and pure sounding.

What is ‘Half-Speed Mastering’?

This is an elaborate process whereby the source is played back at half it’s normal speed and the turntable on the disc cutting lathe is running at 16 2/3 R.P.M. Because both the source and the cut were running at half their “normal” speeds everything plays back at the right speed when the record is played at home.

What are the advantages of Half-Speed Mastering?

The vinyl L.P. is an analogue sound carrier. Therefore the size and shape of the groove carrying the music is directly related to whatever the music is doing at any particular point. By reducing the speed by a factor of two the recording stylus has twice as long to carve the intricate groove into the master lacquer. Also, any difficult to cut high-frequency information becomes fairly easy to cut mid-range. The result is a record that is capable of extremely clean and un-forced high-frequency response as well as a detailed and solid stereo image.

TRACK LISTING -

LP1 - Original Release

Side 1 -

1. What's Going On

2. What's Happening Brother

3. Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky)

4. Save The Children

5. God Is Love

6. Mercy Mercy Me

Side 2 -

1. Right On

2. Wholy Holy

3. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

LP2 - Original Detroit Mix

Side 3 -

1. What's Going On

2. What's Happening Brother

3. Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky)

4. Save The Children

5. God Is Love

6. Mercy Mercy Me

Side 4 -

1. Right On

2. Wholy Holy

3. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

LP3 - Live At The Kennedy Center (May 1 1972)

Side 5 -

1. Sixties Medley - That's The Way Love Is / You / I Heard It Through The Grapevine / Little Darling (I Need You) / You're All I Need To Get By / Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing / Your Precious Love / Pride and Joy / Stubborn Kind Of Fellow

2. Right On

Side 6 -

1. Wholy Holy

2. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

3. What's Going On

4. What's Happening Brother

LP4

Side 7 - Live At The Kennedy Center (May 1 1972)

1. Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky)

2. Save The Children

3. God Is Love

4. Stage Dialogue

5. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) (Reprise)

6. What's Going On (Reprise)

Side 8 - Additional Tracks

1. What's Going On (Single Version)

2. God Is Love (Single Version)

3. Sad Tomorrows

4. Head Title (aka 'Distant Love')

5. What's Going On (Rhythm and Strings mix)

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