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Your 3 favorite serious low end recordings

I have recently been truly enjoying the magnificent tastes in this vast group of enthusiasts. The 'AGON RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR LIST, or favorite... whatever.... listings. I thought I would add yet another. I own a setup which includes Reimer Tetons for the fronts which go as far down as 14 Hz! I am always looking to push their abilities and have trouble finding many recordings that can get down to the 'basement' frequencies and blow my mind. I would love to build a little reference list of your favorites for all of us to check out. Of course, take into account musicianship as that appears to be important to most of us. It can be in any format you wish - Vinyl (even though I am not set up for it...), DVD-A, SACD, redbook, etc. and any style you like as well. So - for my 3 choices to get this going (hopefully....) I submit for your listening pleasure:

Mino Cinelu - self titled (redbook) I have never heard a redbook disc with such incredible low end - world music - really a terrific disc!!

Jean Guillou, organist; Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition, Stravinsky, 3 Dances from Petrouchka; Dorian CD DOR-90117 (redbook) - The 32 foot pipe on this recording is really something to behold - I am not usually the biggest fan of this type of music. However, I find this disc to really be excellent and not the total typical 'organ' type disc.

Grateful Dead - 6-85 - Hershey Park, Pa. - uncompressed soundboard recording - 'drums' section. This is the kind of recording that you would have to get through a trading circle (or from me for that matter...) Rarely do I hear a recording that 'feels' like it felt to be at the show during the drum break. Anyone who has heard this has been pretty blown away by it.

Even though I did not mention any DVD-A or SACD recordings I sure have a few. Hey - I DID say only 3 - got to stick to my own rules, right?!...

So.... what do you think?......
llippman
llippman OP
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That Mino Cinelu disc I mentioned at the beginning of the post is SO worth seeking out if you guys don't have it. The recording is astounding in spots. Besides the fact that it throws low end like no other disc I've heard, it also appears to throw surround or holographic type imaging in spots like in the first 3 minutes on the disc - similiar to a 'Q-sound' type mix like Amused To Death. This is a disc everyone in the group should at least hear.
atrahern9725
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Digital Fox Vol. 1 & 2. Direct to disc recoreded both in analog (on Crystal Clear records in 1977) and on DAT (subsequently released on vinyl on the Ultragroove label and offered in 1983, I believe). I have both on vinyl and (suprise, suprise) prefer the Ultragroove. It is the greatest pipe organ recording extant and the overall finest one I have ever heard, period. A genuine slab buster.
Soundtrack "The Lost Highway". With artists ranging from Angelo Badalamenti to Rammstein, eclectic is the operative word but there are several tracks with lows that will rearrange the pix on your walls for you.
Bella Sonus "Enamoured". Saved the best for last but recommending it may not help because it went out of print about 2 years ago. From the boutique Neurodisc label, it is the finest example of redbook I have ever heard. Musically it's hard to pigeonhole as there are elements of trance/electronica, chant, some flamenco even. Recording quality is pure and crystalline and the majority of cuts are punctuated with way down low enduring synth lines that'll leave your Reimers gasping, I promise you. This is the one disc I chose to send to George Louis to be my test mule for his Reality Check process. Buy it without a second thought if you can dredge it up.
acresverde
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As a post script to my previous post, the fox in the "Digital Fox" is, of course, Virgil Fox and that is available on both vinyl and redbook. After rereading my post of yesterday, I would like to clarify that I consider the vinyl Ultragroove to be the finest recfording I have heard period, not just in the pipe organ genre. Hope you get to experience it sometime.
rcprince
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I have both the CD and the original Crystal Clear vinyl of the Fox recordings. While I love old Virgil's style and exciting interpretations, it should be noted that there are those who do not appreciate the, uh, innovative and colorful registrations he used (for the same reasons they probably don't like Jean Guillou). And I disagree about the recording quality only in that I find it way too close-up a recording, with virtually no hall ambience at all. I can see where atrahern, as an organist, might have a different perspective than those sitting in the audience(I've noted this from singing in our choir loft vs. sitting in the church for an organ recital), but the fact is a recording of an organ recital is also supposed to be a recording of the space in which that organ is located, and The Digital Fox has none of that. In this regard, I would put a number of other organ recordings, especially the Priory recordings of European organs, the Mercury recording of Dupre at St. Thomas and the RR Felix Hell disc (which also has limited hall sound, though more a function of the recording venue), above this album sonically. Still, Fox was always my favorite organist, and the Fox recording is a lot of fun to listen to, far more exciting than anything Michael Murray has ever recorded IMHO, and has plenty of bass. An interesting side note on The Digital Fox--it was recorded Direct to Disc on the vinyl, so there are a few clinkers in there; however, the CD was made from digital tapes and was able to include some edits to fix up the few mistakes. Personally I prefer the vinyl version, the mistakes give more of a feeling like you're listening to a live performance.
llippman OP
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I have been able to go to CDUniverse and sample many of the recommended recordings. They are so varied in style and there are so many fabulous recordings!! I need a bank loan!! I encourage all of you to check them out and if anybody has any more to recommend.....?
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