BAUHAUS, 4AD UK 1st pressing 12 inch Picture Sleeve EP [Telegram Sam]

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  Bauhaus ?– 4AD Label: 4AD ?– BAD 312 Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Compilation, White B-Side Label  Country: UK Released: Oct 1983 Genre: Rock Style: Goth Rock, Post-Punk TracklistHide Credits A1 Dark Entries Written-By – Bauhaus 3:51 A2 Terror Couple Kill Colonel Written-By – Bauhaus 4:22 A3 Telegram Sam Written-By – Bolan* 2:08 B1 Terror Couple Kill Colonel (Version) Written-By – Bauhaus 4:33 B2 Rosegarden Funeral Of Sores Written-By – Cale* 5:31 B3 Crowds Written-By – Bauhaus 3:13 Companies, etc. Published By – Beggars Banquet Music Ltd. Published By – Wizard Artists Ltd. Published By – Copyright Control Phonographic Copyright (p) – 4AD Copyright (c) – 4AD Mastered At – Musitech Pressed By – Damont Credits Design – David J.* Performer – Daniel Ash, David J, Kevin Haskins, Peter Murphy Photography By [Front Cover] – Emmanuel Sougez Photography By [Group] – Stella Watts Producer – Bauhaus Notes Front cover photograph 'Masks'  Pressed at Damont Audio Limited.  Published by Beggars Banquet Music Ltd. except  A3 Wizard Artists Ltd.  B2 Copyright Control  ? 1980 4.A.D. © 1983 4.A.D.  This is a compilation 12" of the previously released singles:   

UK FIRST PRESSING 12 INCH EP WITH ORIGINAL WHITE INNER SLEEVE.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD, SOME SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.  EDGE SCUFFS.  INNER SLEEVE[S] VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC[S]: VERY GOOD+. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES AND SOME FINGERPRINTS. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.

On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

     
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