Level 42 - World Machine - Super Hot Stamper

Level 42 - World Machine - Super Hot StamperThis British Polydor pressing of Level 42s best album makes a mockery of most of whats out there who knew the sound could be this good? Punchy bass, breathy vocals, snappy drums; its all here and it really comes jumpin' out of the speakers on this pressing. If you exclusively play modern repressings of vintage recordings, I can say without fear of contradiction that you have never heard this kind of sound on vinyl. Old records have it not often, and

the kind of crap you can read on any internet forum about any piece-of-junk record ever made

As engineered by Bruce Botnick

(The domestic copies are made from dubs and can’t begin to compete

Number Two: edgy vocals

good bass definition to keep the bottom end from blurring the midrange

On the better pressings such as this one there's just nothing between you and the music

What The Best Sides Of Trafalgar Have To Offer Is Not Hard To Hear

Stephen Barncard)

rich and tubey the sound was on the better copies

top-end-challenged pressings were regularly produced over the years

and we even enjoy the hell out of some of the later albums

Many tracks are well-recorded and have the potential for superb sound but