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Swedish high energy rockers THE HELLACOPTERS have been celebrating their 30th anniversary recently and after releasing something new - the much-lauded "Overdriver" album on January 31, 2025, which reached No. 1 in the Swedish charts for the second time in the group's career - it is time to offer their dedicated fanbase something truly nostalgic. "Cream Of The Crap! Collected Non-Album Works o Volume 3" is the long-overdue follow-up in a series of rarities collections started in 2002 combining material from a myriad of singles, EPs, and compilations. The 24 tracks featured in this set have originally been released between 1995 and 2004, and include originals like 'Disappointment Blues', 'Freeway To Hell', 'Doggone Your Bad-Luck Soul' and 'Long Gone Losers' as well as many cover versions of songs by Motörhead, Wilson Pickett, MC5, Smokey Robsinson, Alice Cooper, the Ramones, the Nomads, and Adam West - whose singer Jake Starr penned liner notes for this release - and many, many more. Meticulously compiled by Robert Eriksson, transferred from master tapes and vinyl by Henke Jonsson, and remastered for maximum audio fidelity by Magnus Lindberg, THE HELLACOPTERS proudly present a stunning collection of incredible, high-octane rock'n'roll on this over 75 minutes long double vinyl.

On the exact day of its Golden Jubilee, STATION TO STATION will be issued as a limited edition 50th anniversary half-speed mastered picture disc LP with a reproduction of a poster used to advertise the album 50 years ago.<br/><br/>The album saw Bowie relocate to Cherokee Studio in Los Angeles and incorporate elements of his 'Plastic Soul' period, coupled with much more experimental elements, which would become more prevalent over his next couple of albums. The first single from the album GOLDEN YEARS, released in November 1975, would give Bowie a top ten single on both sides of the Atlantic. The second single, TVC 15, would, a decade later, be heard and seen by almost 2 billion people when Bowie chose it to open his set at Live Aid.<br/><br/>The sound of STATION TO STATION was partly influenced by Bowie's burgeoning interest in the electronic music and driving rhythms of bands coming out of Germany, such as NEU! and Kraftwerk, most notably on the ten-minute title track, while still embracing dancefloor-friendly grooves in songs such as STAY and GOLDEN YEARS.<br/><br/>Harry Maslin, who had worked with Bowie on some of the tracks on his previous album, YOUNG AMERICANS, was chosen as Bowie's co-producer. They entered the studio in September 1975 with a tight stripped-down band featuring Carlos Alomar & Earl Slick on guitars, George Murray on bass, Dennis Davis on drums, David's Childhood friend Geoffe MacCormack (under the nom de plume Warren Peace) on backing vocals and on loan from Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band, Roy Bittan on piano and organ. Maslin has since said that the vocals on the standout track WILD IS THE WIND and GOLDEN YEARS were both Bowie's first takes.<br/><br/>Ten days after the album's release, David started the ISOLAR TOUR, which visited over 65 dates in 11 countries and is cited as being hugely influential for its use of banks of fluorescent white light set against black backdrops. At the end of the tour, Bowie started work on Iggy Pop's debut solo album, The Idiot, when the pair and producer Tony Visconti moved to Berlin to mix the record. David settled there, ready to begin his next groundbreaking musical adventure.<br/><br/>This new pressing of STATION TO STATION was cut on a customised late Neumann VMS80 lathe with fully recapped electronics from 192kHz restored masters of the original Record Plant master tapes, with no additional processing on transfer. The half-speed was cut by John Webber at AIR Studios.

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Remastrat album på 180-gramsvinyl, förpackad i ett omslag som i varje detalj är en exakt kopia av originalupplagans första pressning. Led Zeppelin lll innehåller det berömda "hjulet" som går att snurra på.<br/><br/>John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page och Robert Plant bildade Led Zeppelin 1968. Under det följande decenniet kom de att bli ett av de mest inflytelserika, innovativa och framgångsrika banden i modern musik, med en global försäljning på över 300 miljoner album. Deras låtar är några av de mest hyllade i rockhistorien och skapar än i dag resonans bland både unga och gamla fans världen över. Men hur mycket du än har lyssnat på deras musik, har du aldrig hört den så här tidigare.<br/><br/>Utgivningen av deluxe-versioner av Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin ll och Led Zeppelin lll markerar starten för ett omfattande återutgivningsprojekt som inkluderar alla gruppens nio studioalbum i kronologisk ordning, samtliga remastrade av bandets gitarrist och producent, Jimmy Page. Led Zeppelin öppnar i samband med detta också sina egna arkiv för att dela med sig av dussintals tidigare ohörda studio- och liveinspelningar. Varje utgåva kommer att rymma en bonusskiva med tidigare outgivna inspelningar som har koppling till respektive originalalbum.<br/><br/>"Materialet på den medföljande skivan utgör en portal till tiden för Led Zeppelins inspelningar", säger Page. "Det är ett urval av pågående arbeten med råmixar, bakgrunder, alternativa versioner och nytt material som spelades in vid den aktuella tidpunkten".

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