Best ORIGINAL DVD-A/SACD Surround Releases

[fredblue]

Almost 4 pages of Concord Music original 5.1 Jazz/Popular surround titles https://www.hraudio.net/search.php?format=0&keywords=concord+records&page=1

great suggestions! i'm going to plough through these over the holidays and try and work out exactly which Concord's were new day & date 5.1 releases and which were reissues of old albums redone in MultiCh.

 

[LuvMyQuad]

Yes the CD/DVD-A release was 2004. The CD launched in 00.

Great album, I agree, but that would make it a re-issue. They are looking for releases where the CD and Surround release dates are the same, or are at least within a week or two.

 

[edisonbaggins]

Rob Reed - Sanctuary (II)

 

[JediJoker]

Rob Reed - Sanctuary (II)

Absolutely! What a stunner.

 

[Philip Spinner]

How about the 2 Goldfrapp surrounds, Supernature and Tales of Us. I listened to Tales the other night. Wonderful.

 

[Neil Palfreyman]

When I started working with Rob Aubrey and Greg Spawton on the surround mix of Big Big Train's "Stone & Steel" I told them both that my intention was to use my substantial experience of listening to surround to advise Rob how to make the best surround mix possible. I think we succeeded. ...so that's my pick!

I would easily have chosen the surround mix of "Reflectors of Light" (their latest live BluRay) or any of Rob Reed's mixes (I have a particular soft spot for "The Twenty Seven Club") or Bruce's new solo album "All This Will Be Yours."

SW's "The Raven That Refused to Sing" was pretty damned ground-breaking too!

 

[The56Kid]

Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream. An amazing achievement in every regard.

 

[sjcorne]

Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream. An amazing achievement in every regard.

Hell yes, but it's actually a reissue - the original CD was released in 1999, while the CD/DVD-A package contained remixed stereo and 5.1 didn't come out until 2005. I think only Fear Of A Blank Planet and The Incident were available in surround on or sometime close to release day (and maybe Deadwing as well?).

 

[The56Kid]

Hell yes, but it's actually a reissue - the original CD was released in 1999, while the CD/DVD-A package contained remixed stereo and 5.1 didn't come out until 2005. I think only Fear Of A Blank Planet and The Incident were available in surround on or sometime close to release day (and maybe Deadwing as well?).

Spot on as usual, Jonathan!

 

[Beefalo]

Gong - Rejoice DVD audio

 

[fredblue]

Gong - Rejoice DVD audio

another one on the shopping list! thanks for the recommendation

 

[fizzywiggs41]

Well Jon......

There are many I like, but the one I have to consider at this time is...

..Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots...

, if only for its incredible surround sound demonstration.

 

[IanProudfoot]

Gong - Rejoice DVD audio

Thanks for the recommendation Beefalo! I didn't know this DVD-A existed it's a must-have for me. I found it still available at progrock.co.uk at a reasonable price. I saw them live back in the summer - what an experience that was!

 

[Beefalo]

Thanks for the recommendation Beefalo! I didn't know this DVD-A existed it's a must-have for me. I found it still available at progrock.co.uk at a reasonable price. I saw them live back in the summer - what an experience that was!

Glad you were able to get hold of a copy. I found out about this while I was scouring the QQ surround polls. I had never heard Gong before. I like this more every time I listen to it.

 

[IanProudfoot]

In no particular order:

Grace for drowning The Raven that refused to sing Hand.Cannot.Erase	Steven Wilson
Thick as a brick 2	Ian Anderson
Storm Corrosion	Storm Corrosion
The Resistance	Muse	The surround mix is quite poor, but the music is worth a listen.
Songs for Silverman	Ben Folds
Stone and steel Reflectors of light	Big Big Train
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots	The Flaming lips

 

[Sprk]

How about the 2 Goldfrapp surrounds, Supernature and Tales of Us. I listened to Tales the other night. Wonderful.

Fun fact: I interviewed Will during the Supernature Tour, and he told me two things I thought were interesting:
- he thought mixing audio for 5.1 was like 'stretching Swiss cheese' (as in: not enough sounds to fill the full sound scape, though to be fair this was pre-Tales of Us)
- he was adamant that Black Cherry was also mixed in 5.1, even though it was never released

 

[Patrick Cleasby]

Fun fact: I interviewed Will during the Supernature Tour, and he told me two things I thought were interesting:
- he thought mixing audio for 5.1 was like 'stretching Swiss cheese' (as in: not enough sounds to fill the full sound scape, though to be fair this was pre-Tales of Us)
- he was adamant that Black Cherry was also mixed in 5.1, even though it was never released

I believe him. I think Simon Heyworth even mastered FM (stereo only I believe) and BC for SACD. Never came out...