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But why buy a “new original”?
It seems that after so much remastering, revamping and repackaging of classic recordings, a new approach was required to sell the same albums all over again.
“Blue Note recordings have been reissued so many times before, so there’s no demand for a similar kind of product,” said Koki Hanawa of Disk Union, who supervised the project. With the first batch of installments released in October of last year, Mr. Hanawa said many titles have already sold out.
Instead, the team opted to faithfully re-create the original details of each title, employing an essentially defunct production process to make the discs from the original mono master tape.
To find the equipment necessary for such time travel, Mr. Hanawa tracked down
and visited a record pressing company in the U.S. that had well-maintained
machines actually used in the 1950s and 1960s.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/12/26/japans-vinyl-junkies-ecstatic-over-new-originals/