I've got a notification on new release from Juno records:
PET SHOP BOYS
Suburbia (Arthur Baker 1986 Remixes)
Rhino/Parlophone
Cat: 5054197 645723
Released: 12 June 2023
Suburbia (club vocal mix)
Suburbia (dub version)
Genre: Euro Dance/Pop Dance
Formats:
Hi-Res 24-Bit 96.0 kHz (found on Qobuz)
WAV
FLAC
ALAC
AIFF
320KB/S MP3
Last edited by coufy on Mon 12 Jun 2023, 6:39 pm, edited 11 times in total.
It's nice you can stream it now and you don't have to dig out that rare 12". Having said that, the mixes have always been and remain a bit of a mess :-p
Disco. wrote: Mon 12 Jun 2023, 4:42 pm
Remastred both the club and dub mix.
This is what "remastered" means actually...here a comparison between the new digital release and the version on the Aurally CD. Once you match the volumes, they sond exactly the same to my ears...but you can see all the frequencies that were cropped on the new digital release, just to make it sound louder..and give the false sensation that it sound better, when it´s actually worst... :/
..plus, the Club Mix is missing an extra orchestra stab at the very end, compared with the viny counterpart...
Disco. wrote: Mon 12 Jun 2023, 7:31 pm
Aurally is an Illegal Russian bootleg
Russian???
I wonder how a Russian had access to the masters of vinyl only and unreleased PSB struff back in the day..more than an UK or US based person.
Altough nobody can deny that the Aurally series are unnofficial stuff, those were made by somebody with actual access to deep sources of official material...
Even today (as we can see on this example) there we can still find the best quality source for some of the (un)released stuff...
They were released in Russia, and as I used to work in the music business, I have a very strong objection to anything illegal, we’re the artists are robbed of their legitimate income, so don’t like bootlegs., like I suppose you wouldn’t want anyone to steal a portion of your income.
Disco. wrote: Mon 12 Jun 2023, 8:21 pm
They were released in Russia, and as I used to work in the music business, I have a very strong objection to anything illegal, we’re the artists are robbed of their legitimate income, so don’t like bootlegs., like I suppose you wouldn’t want anyone to steal a portion of your income.
What a load of bull... a bootleg of mixes from extremely rare promos and 12'' can hardly be regardes as "steal a portion of your income". If anything teh Aurally records are making a point towards PSB and the record company that they should've released something similar themselves. Aurally 2 has 12 really rare and great mixes.... how could any fan get a hold of all of them at the time without ruining him/herself?
Those poor russians. All the worst is recorded on their account. I'm surprised Disco 2 hasn't been considered russian fake release so far. 
