Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Frank Zappa - The Old Masters, Box I





















Frank Zappa - The Old Masters, Box I

  1. Freak Out! [2-LP]
  2. Absolutely Free
  3. We're Only In It For The Money [remix]
  4. Lumpy Gravy
  5. Cruising With Reuben And The Jets [remix]
  6. Mystery Disc
Barking Pumpkin BPR 7777, April 1985

Two years ago I posted my 1966 mono Freak Out! so I thought it would be a good time to delve a little deeper into the highly ambient domain of FZ mixes and masters. Here we have Frank's 1985 7-LP box of "Old Masters" including the first five Mothers albums and a Mystery Disc of, at the time, previously unreleased early material. While some albums contain their original mixes, Money and Reuben infamously have new 80's bass and drums overdubs and other chicanery. It is all quite fascinating.


You should certainly check out the current crop of 2012 Zappa remasters on CD and 180g vinyl. Then you should compare them to these. I'll post Boxes 2 and 3 eventually.


24/96 LP transfer, V0 mp3 download
FZ-OldMastersBox1[RPM2016].zip 471.0 MB

24/96 LP transfer, 24/96 FLAC download
FZ-OldMastersBox1[RPM2016][FLAC].zip 4.30 GB

13 comments:

sa said...

wow.. thanks a bunch...

Bill said...

Hi, tried to unzip and all I got were errors.....

mike said...

I got the mp3's using 7-zip, so that might work for you. I noted that some of these are remixes and I am not certain that I like some of the redo's, should actually be REDON'Ts!!
But, thanks awfully, enjoying this!

Vojac said...

Hello!

Thank you for all You posted on Your blog. Any chance of posting The Old Masters box II and III?


Julio said...

Please, The Old Masters box II and III... thanks for sharing...

Julio said...

Also, the promo discs for The Old Masters could be cool... thanks!

porter_esq said...

http://rpmoop.blogspot.com/2018/05/frank-zappa-old-masters-box-ii.html

porter_esq said...

http://rpmoop.blogspot.com/2018/05/frank-zappa-old-masters-box-ii.html

Xi Drinx said...

hey thank you! do you have the box 3? I'm missing it

tobayo said...

Thanks you very much ... Great!!!

Patowalk said...

Gracias muchas gracias a ustedes amigos (Thanks thank u my friends!!)

Misinafan said...

Hi there,
I have downloaded the file many times with various softwares, it still says that it is corrupted.
Would you mind to upload it again, please?
Thank you very much

Misinafan said...

Problem exists in 24/96 FLAC files