Suggestions for Dutton Vocalion Multichannel SACD Releases

[panamac]

I would pre-order Steely Dan, Milton Nascimiento, Seals and Crofts, ELP, and Caravan.....
Just sayin'

 

[kenm]

Dutton Vocalion only has access to the RCA/BMG catalog, they won't release material they can't license. The Joni Mitchell titles someone above suggested are already available in Quad ("Quadio") and Dolby Atmos on the Rhino Asylum Albums box set in Blu-ray format. "Summer Breeze" is also already available in Quadio from Rhino on Blu-ray.

I was late to the game on Dutton/Vacalion scene, are Vocalion still releasing new product or just what they have remaining in stock ? You mention they have access to RCA/BMG masters, was there any chance Jefferson Airplane releases, would have loved Volunteers or Worst Quad mixes on SCAD or BD (I have the reel to reel quad mixes, Volunteers some different mixes than stereo release). One of the releases I pick up of theirs is the RCA original Broadway cast recording of HAIR in Quad, it sounds AMAZING, so glad I took a chance on it.

 

[Cassetto]

But Lou must have either pulled one on RCA in '75, and still gets a kick out of the "put on" or else he really thinks it's a modern electronic masterpiece.
He did claim way back that he thought it would have done better had it been a the RCA Red Seal label, like a classical designation for it.

But it's way up there on many folks lists of worst albums of all time.

There are many, me included, who find Metal Machine Music to be a beautiful album. Have any of you here who have an appreciation for avant garde and experimental music listened to it since it came out? It is kinda serene to my ears. I don’t think it’s generally regarded as one of the worst records ever except by people referencing the lore around it, people who never gave it time or have no ear for electronic experimentation. Sonic Youth mined similar territory at times, Suicide were influenced by it (and Springsteen has covered one of Suicide’s drone based songs) and even Neil Young included an entire disc with one of his live albums that seemed heavily influenced by the album.

 

[esimms86]

not sure he's getting a kick out of much these days?! not even the bucket that he kicked a while back

Maybe his widow, Laurie Anderson, can still have a laugh about it.

 

[steelydave]

What would be the odds of gathering the multitracks and making *New* Quad mixes of Paradise, Bannatyne, Flavours, Power and.... dare I say the Full Paramount show?

I mean.... it doesn't seem too out of line. We had two newly mixed tracks for the Raiders Hard & Heavy with Marshmallow and hasn't Mr. Dutton remixed a slew of classical titles? Sure, it may seem like a long shot but.... you never know until you ask! The Paramount show has NEVER been released in it's entirety so, that could be a Vocalion exclusive not only in stereo but also first time in surround. The other albums would also make for fantastic two-fer sets.

I asked Mike about this some years back (when the subject of the fake quad Artificial Paradise came up) and and I'm paraphrasing here but he said it would be no problem for him - not only does he have the experience, having earned his stripes at Morgan studios in the late '70s and early '80s, he also has all the analog outboard gear in his mixing studio necessary to do a faithful job. He even has the little quad 'joystick' panpots you see on old quad consoles.

Unfortunately, Sony Classical and Sony Legacy (the label's pop catalog divisions) are two entirely separate entities, and the level of favour he enjoys with the classical side is different from the relationship with the other side. Legacy insist on using in-house engineers for remix work (hence why Mark Wilder did the two quad remixes for the missing tracks on the Paul Revere album) and as a subsequent poster said, the costs for doing full album remixes this way make them prohibitively expensive. It's a shame, because Mike is perfectly positioned to do this kind of thing (and there are loads of obvious candidates: the missing Guess Who quads, Herbie Hancock Man-Child and Secrets, more Return to Forever, more Weather Report, the fake Santanas, more O'Jays and PIR in general, and dozens of others) and everyone would make money off it, but Sony don't seem to be interested, or weren't the last time I heard, which was admittedly a few years ago. This isn't just particular to D-V's situation as Karma Auger mentioned Sony being lukewarm on him doing Atmos remixes of his dad's (Brian Auger) catalog at the end of the excellent IAA interview that @sjcorne posted recently.