Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music
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Sister Ray Recordings – none |
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UK |
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Genre: |
Electronic |
Style: |
Noise |
Tracklist
| A | Metal Machine Music Part - 1 | 16:04 | |
| B | Metal Machine Music Part - 2 | 16:04 | |
| C | Metal Machine Music Part - 3 | 16:04 | |
| D | Metal Machine Music Part - 4 | 16:04 |
Companies, etc.
- Published By – Public Performance Clearance
- Mastered At – Masterdisk
- Lacquer Cut At – Masterdisk
Notes
Subtitle:
"The Amine ß Ring - An Electronic Instrumental Composition"
Originally released 1975.
Text from the sleeve:
"SPECIFICATIONS
Sony 1/2 track
Uher 1/4 track
Pioneer 1/4 track
5 piggyback Marshall Tube Amps in series
Arbiter distortion (Jimi's)
Marantz Preamps
Marantz Amps
Altec Voice of America Monitor Speakers
Sennheiser Headphones
Drone cognizance and harmonic possibilities vis a vis Lamont Young's Dream Music
Rock orientation, melodically disguised, i.e. drag
Avoidance of any type of atonality.
Electro-Voice high filter microphones
Fender Tremolo Unit
Sunn Tremolo Unit
Ring Modulator/Octave Relay Jump
Fender Dual Showman Bass Amp with Reverb Unit (Pre-Columbia) white
No Synthesizers
No Arp
No Instruments?
--10 db + 57db
--20 hz--+30,000 hz
--12 kz--+28,000 kz
Distortion 0.02 bass and treble ceilings
Combinations and Permutations built upon constant harmonic Density Increase and Melodic Distractions.
STRICT STEREO SEPARATION
No panning
No phasing
No"
Mastered at Masterdisk
Special Thanks To Scott Hull
"The Amine ß Ring - An Electronic Instrumental Composition"
Originally released 1975.
Text from the sleeve:
"SPECIFICATIONS
Sony 1/2 track
Uher 1/4 track
Pioneer 1/4 track
5 piggyback Marshall Tube Amps in series
Arbiter distortion (Jimi's)
Marantz Preamps
Marantz Amps
Altec Voice of America Monitor Speakers
Sennheiser Headphones
Drone cognizance and harmonic possibilities vis a vis Lamont Young's Dream Music
Rock orientation, melodically disguised, i.e. drag
Avoidance of any type of atonality.
Electro-Voice high filter microphones
Fender Tremolo Unit
Sunn Tremolo Unit
Ring Modulator/Octave Relay Jump
Fender Dual Showman Bass Amp with Reverb Unit (Pre-Columbia) white
No Synthesizers
No Arp
No Instruments?
--10 db + 57db
--20 hz--+30,000 hz
--12 kz--+28,000 kz
Distortion 0.02 bass and treble ceilings
Combinations and Permutations built upon constant harmonic Density Increase and Melodic Distractions.
STRICT STEREO SEPARATION
No panning
No phasing
No"
Mastered at Masterdisk
Special Thanks To Scott Hull
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode: 6 16892 06776 4
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout etched, [MASTERDISK] stamped): ATOZ SR002 A MASTERDISK
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout etched, [MASTERDISK] stamped): ATOZ SR002 B MASTERDISK
- Matrix / Runout (Side C runout etched, [MASTERDISK] stamped): ATOZ SR002 C MASTERDISK
- Matrix / Runout (Side D runout etched, [MASTERDISK] stamped): ATOZ SR002 D MASTERDISK
- Rights Society: BMI
Other Versions (5 of 38)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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| Metal Machine Music (The Amine β Ring) (2×LP, Album, Stereo, Indianapolis Pressing, Gatefold) | RCA Victor | L2-1101 | US | 1975 | |||
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Metal Machine Music *The Amine β Ring (2×LP, Album, Quadraphonic, Stereo) | RCA | D2-1101 | US | 1975 | ||
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Metal Machine Music (2×LP, Album) | RCA | L-21101, L2-1101 | Netherlands | 1975 | ||
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Metal Machine Music (2×LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold) | RCA Victor | L2-1101, L2 1101 | 1975 | |||
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Metal Machine Music (8-Track Cartridge, Album) | RCA | S2-1101 | US | 1975 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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Hipsters wet dream ? Or a finger up to the record company?
Somewhere in between perhaps?
The juries still out at this end.
Gets bonus points for winding up the fossils on Hoffman. -
One of the best rip-offs in music world EVER ! Great looking cover , by the way...and that's it !
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5 points for the piece, 3 for the rather poor pressing. If the surface noise manages to play on top of this, something went wrong. Also Lou, there are other people around to remaster such beauty than your R'n'R friends at Masterdisk. “No one I know has listened to it all the way through including myself”? At least the mastering engineer should live up to the challenge and give it a couple of plays. Noise ≠ bad sound.
That said, MMM is a gorgeous beast.
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