Nirvana IN UTERO 1st Steve Albini Mix LP UK EU 2003 VINYL

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Nirvana IN UTERO 1st Steve Albini Mix LP VINYL UK EU  2003

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NIRVANA

"In Utero"

Steve Albini Mix

LP

424 536-1

Geffen Records

THE STORY BEHIND THE RECORDING PROCESS OF "IN UTERO":

In February 1993 Nirvana recorded their third album with producer Steve Albini. Kurt Cobain choosed Albini, because of his previous production works on Pixies "Surfer Rosa" and the Breeders "Pod" album. Many biographys make clear that Cobain wasn't really happy with the sound of the "Nevermind" album - he disliked the polished production. Working on the next album "In Utero" meant for him the realization of a sound that he always had in mind for his band. Albini as a producer was the perfect choice for his vision, because of Albinis remarkable studio techniques that captured a pure, raw and live-like sound. After only five days of recording, plus a couple of days for overdubbing and a final few days for mixing, the recording process for "In Utero" was finished ahead of its deadline. Soon afterwards these unmastered tapes were send to Geffen and their management Gold Mountain. And now imagine the faces of those people listening to this album, expecting a poppy follow up to "Nevermind" with a lot of radio friendly singles!!! The companies representatives immediately refused the further process of mastering the tapes. Cobain was upset, but still willing to enforce the release of the recorded material. He told biographer Michael Azerrad, "I should just rerecord this record and do the same thing we did last year, because we sold out last year - there's no reason to try and redeem ourselves as artists at this point. I can't help myself - I'm just putting out a record I would like to listen to at home.Of course, they want another "Nevermind", but I'd rather die than do that. This is exactly the kind of record I would buy as a fan, that I would enjoy owning." However, the group concluded that the problem was that the bass and lyrics were inaudible, and approached Albini to remix the album, but Albini declined.The band attempted to fix its concerns with the record during the mastering process with Bob Ludwig at his studio in Portland, Maine. This could have been the end of the story, but again the company people at Geffen Records and Gold Mountain were unhappy with the results and Nirvana finally accepted or were forced to do further work on the recorded tracks and additional mixing by Scott Litt was done. The result was the "In Utero" version you probably know.

A MISTAKE AT THE PRESSING PLANT & THE EMERGENCE OF THE ORIGINAL STEVE ALBINI MIXES:

In 2003 Universal Music UK made a vinyl-only rerelease of "In Utero" and authorized a german pressing plant for the completion. The pressing plant in Germany ordered the original master tapes from Geffen in the United States and here's were the story of "In Utero" begins renewed: On account of a coincidental mistake they send out the pre-Scott Litt mixes and the ones without the additional recordings, so by error Universal Music made the original Steve Albini mixes finally available. How many of these were pressed is unknown, it's also possible that Universal Music took those records off the market - the recent (normal) "In Utero" Back to Black pressing Edition could be an indication for this. However this one is gone and out of print for several years now!

THE DIFFERENCES IN SOUND:

What you could be able to hear, will be different from the record or cd you know. In general the sound is more unpolished, guitar tracks sound rawer and the drums have an incredible heavy bass tone. In particular the tracks without the additional Scott Litt mixing like "Heart shaped box", "Pennyroyal tea" and "All apologies" show obvious differences:

a guitar solo which was later replaced, different volumetric sound density and a lot of layered background tracks that were put to the back, but are foreground on this pressing.

FURTHER INFORMATION TO THIS MISPRINTED PRESSING:

To make it clear again: This is not one of these (colored) Bootlegs, this was an official release by Universal Music for the EU. This very rare pressing with the original Steve Albini mixes can be identified by the stamped matrix on the record: A33 9124 536 S1 320 and this also the only way to get it, because it was a vinyl-only release. Just think about pressings like the Beatles "Revolver" with different mixes of "Tomorrow never knows" and how much these are worth now! By all known odds this "In Utero" pressing mistake was first and final and I don't want to imagine how sought after this one will be in a couple of years!!!