Rare RSD / Record Store Day 2012 release - SEALED!

2012 Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs (MFSL) Records, 12 inch, 33 1/3 RPM Half Speed Mastered, Stereo Double LP, Pressed on Pink Vinyl, 180g / 180 Gram Audiophile Pressing, Record Store Day Exclusive (#001850.

Featuring: BECK. Titled: "Sea Changes"

Song Titles Include:

Side A: The Golden Age, Paper Tiger, Guess I'm Doing Fine.

Side B: Lonesome Tears, Lost Cause, End of the Day.

Side C: It's All in Your Mind, Round the Bend, Already Dead.

Side D: Sunday Sun, Little One, Side of the Road, Ship in the Bottle (bonus track).

If you're not familiar with this release, here's some additional information:

An exclusive release for Black Friday 2012, limited to 1,000 numbered copies Mobile Fidelity's first-ever Black Friday release, Beck's Sea Change on a 180-gram, pink vinyl double LP set Half-speed mastered double LP is the definitive analog version of Beck's masterpiece. Includes bonus track not on standard editions.

"Beck's Sea Change remains the career best record of the indie icon, who rose to stardom after 1993's smash hit, "Loser." Trumpeted in the press as a post-breakup album, Sea Change has been called Beck's Blood On The Tracks, and it's true that he's never been anywhere near this emotionally naked before.

This warm-sounding folk-pop album, originally released in 2002, was a sincere, honest and mature meditation on the end of a nine-year relationship with his girlfriend. As for the vocalist's trademark irony, sarcasm, and humor? Not here. In their place is an affecting emotionalism to which anyone who's ever been in (or out) of love will relate. The music is equally personal and meditative. Gorgeous string arrangements come courtesy of his father, David Campbell, and illustrate the heartbreak that informs the beautiful melodies and tranquil moods.

Best of all, this album is anything but a bummer. Intending to be heard to from start to finish, Beck begins the record with songs conveying emptiness and loss, and gradually moves on to narratives that detail what changes are necessary to regain a sense of identity, purpose, and feeling. By the time he reaches the concluding "Little One," the healing has begun. Consider this Beck's mellowest gold — a feat confirmed by its selection as the No. 2 record of 2002 on Village Voice's all-encompassing Pazz & Jop poll.

And now, thanks to truly painstaking remastering efforts, this embraceable and intimate gem sounds better than ever. No lie. Master tapes of every cut were delivered to Mobile Fidelity engineers on a separate reel, with the finished product taking months to perfect. Unlike previous digital versions, no compression or dynamic processing was used, making this half-speed mastered 180-gram double LP set the definitive version. Sea Change still seems like an inevitable and important step in Beck's artistic maturation.

And now, this celebrated release is available on pink vinyl. As Mobile Fidelity's first-ever Black Friday release, these copies are indeed special, and will not last. Only 1,000 copies were made and this will not be re-pressed. Celebrate Sea Change with the best-sounding, best-looking version ever produced!"

If you're not familiar with Mobile Fidelity LP's and the painstaking process of making these incredible records, here's some additional information:

"Commercial record companies are in the business of providing a vast amount of music to tremendous numbers of people. In order to do this economically they take as little as an hour to cut a master lacquer disc, which is the first step toward ultimately producing the record you buy in the store.

We require a minimum of three months to make an Original Master Recording available to you. The difference is that we take the time necessary to achieve the kind of sound that not only lets you hear four clarinets, but hear the space between them.

To accomplish this we employ our exclusive "half-speed mastering" method. Normally, master lacquer discs are cut at 33 1/3 rpm (real time), the same speed at which you play a record on your turntable. Our master lacquer discs, however, are cut at half speed, or 16 6/7 rpm, while the master tape also plays at half speed. This allows us twice as much time to get every detail, every nuance of sound out of the stereo master tape and into the groove. It also allows the cutting stylus twice as much time to cut the groove accurately. And we always work from the original stereo master tape, never a second or third generation copy. MFSL's exclusive "half-speed mastering" also allows us to use only one-fourth the power that real time cutting takes. So we never have to push our cutting head amplifiers to their limits. This gives us much more head room for far superior dynamic range, top-end and overall frequency response, along with better stereo separation. And we don't use transformers or employ limiting in our cutting process. Nothing is introduced that will cause distortion or squeeze the life out of an Original Master Recording.

After our master lacquer disc is cut, it is carefully refrigerated and sent abroad, where the metal masters and stampers are made to produce the final pressings. Another long and painstaking process. It takes more than a month before we can hear the results of the metal masters alone.

Then, the pressings are made. And not on just vinyl, but on a material known as Super Vinyl. This, too, must be done abroad, in Japan at JVC. It is the only place in the world where such high quality vinyl is made. Super Vinyl gives us an ultra quiet playing surface. It's a vinyl that is heavier and harder than ordinary vinyl. And it has no "memory"... you can play an Original Master Recording over and over again, without having to let it rest after each play. When an ordinary, soft vinyl record is played repeatedly, the groove walls tend to stretch and distort and the sound deteriorates.

MFSL's exclusive process forces us to restrict the number of pressings we make. Commercial pressings by a top name artist number anywhere from three to ten million. There are never more than 200,000 copies made of an Original Master Recording, so the last pressing is as clear and accurate as the first. With time consuming "half-speed mastering" and our preoccupation with an exact sonic replica of the original master stereo tape, we'll never make all the music in the world. So we just make the best of it. We cut no corners. We make no compromises. What we do make is a record that is as close to handmade as you'll ever find. With us, it's a labor of love. We design every Original Master Recording to challenge your equipment and your listening ability.".

The LP is FACTORY SEALED and in MINT Condition

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