Lacuna Coil releases double live DVD "Visual Karma" with 5.1 mix of their previous album "Karmacode" as bonus part of "Limited Edition" 4 Disc Package.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have teamed up with the Mute label to reissue their entire back catalogue as digitally remastered expanded packages - remixed in 5.1 Surround Sound.

The first four albums - 'From Her To Eternity', 'The First Born Is Dead', 'Kicking Against The Pricks and Your Funeral', 'My Trial' - are already being worked on and will be released before the end of 2008.

Each reissue will be a two-disc set, containing both the remastered stereo mix and new surround sound mix, as well as a specially commissioned short film created by UK artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.

The b-sides for the related singles will also be included, as are exclusive sleeve notes.

AIX Records has finished recording of "The Afro Cuban Latin Jazz Project".

Back in December of 2006, we recorded another project brought to us by Peggy Jo Oliva of Lucumi Productions. I'm still working on the first one, AC Timba...but the new one demanded a pass to the front of the line. Featuring Grammy-nominated drummer Raúl Pineda, percussionist Jйsus Díaz and pianist Gustavo Ramírez, this septet plays a flavor of Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz that is rhythmically complex, melodically memorable and high energy. I used the title track at one of the EHX demonstration room last year and received lots of positive feedback.

Tacet releases two discs of the "Real Surround Sound" series: TACET's Four Seasons SACD & The Koroliov Series - Claude Debussy DVD-Audio.

Although they offer many improvements, new digital music formats often face an uphill battle replacing tried and true legacy formats such as MP3.

This month the Motion Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) will meet in Germany to deliberate whether to make MT9, a new digital audio format commercially known as Music 2.0, an international standard.

MT9 was developed by South Korea-based Audizen, and works by splitting an audio file into six separate channels, such as vocals, bass, guitar and others. Music players can then raise or lower the volume on specific channels similar to the way a producer uses a mixing board. MT9’s inventors say the new format will replace MP3 as the standard for all digital music, according to reports in the Korea Times.

New acoustic music label, Blue Coast Records, challenges the current trend and declares value is in the ears of the Discerning Listener.

Blue Coast Records and Burnside Distribution announced the debut of the critically acclaimed music disc, Blue Coast Collection, making it now available via brick and mortar and online music outlets for the price of $40 USD. While some have balked at the cost of the disc, the audiophile community has embraced it as some of the most realistic acoustic music recorded to date. Using a proprietary recording technique, Extended Sound Environment (E.S.E.), the newly founded San Francisco label creates audio that is holographic. The release is an SACD hybrid disc that has the stereo CD layer, a surround sound SACD layer and an SACD two-track layer on one disc.

Yesterday the Norwegian record label 2L released its first ever Blu-Ray record.

“Divertimenti” is a milestone in many ways. It is the label’s 50th record release and it marks the twentieth anniversary of the Trondheim soloist whose concert in Selbu Church is captured on “Divertimenti.” A label always at the forefront technologically, 2L (Linberg Lyd) found the occasion right to make “Divertimenti” a milestone also in format.

The Blu-ray technology makes use of five separate sound tracks, which entails a complex recording and mixing process conditioned by very sophisticated equipment. 2L has cooperated with equipment manufacturers and the record now available is the fruit of a combined effort opening up new vistas of sound rendition. The sound is, as with Blu-ray images, like nothing you’ve heard before. Each instrument is clearly positioned, creating a multidimensional listening experience of utmost clarity. But since very few so far have the proper home equipment to actually play Blu-ray discs, the release also includes a SACD disc, playable on all standard CD players and computers.

A musical space, in which outer and inner order merge into an artistic whole

Recorded live at David's reSource studio in Heidelberg Dave and Pete this time explore travelling the silk route in a journey through sound.

Jazz, oriental sounds, enviromental ambient and innovative percussions relate to the silk route as a synonym for a trade and cultural transmission route winding through different civilizations as well as various landscapes connecting East and West Asia.

XI album in Pete Namlook & Klaus Schulze "The Dark Side of the Moog" series now coming out with multichannel sound in DTS-CD 5.1!

This CD is a further step in the collaboration of Klaus and Pete. The “old” collaboration parameters are expanded with very intense and emotional moments that take the listener on a journey of a new quality. Monumental, spacy, environmental and beat-oriented. The “new” way removes limitations.
The Dark Side of the Moog up to “X” was a nice journey through the history of “Space-Music” in combination with the innovative music of today. “XI” is clearly a step further. Using a lot of analog, digital and futuristic virtual equipment combined with vast computer power to generate a sound that goes beyond its predecessors. For the first time “The Dark Side of the Moog” comes in DTS 5.1 Surround. The monumental power of “The Heart of Our Nearest Star” and it’s imaginary scenery is clearly made for big sound systems.

CD tracks: The Heart of Our Nearest Star Part I - IV 56.10 min
DTS 5.1 Music Disc/Stereo 2CD. For compatibility reasons (to listen to the music in the car or at your friend’s or if you don’t own a DTS capable 5.1 Surround System) we included a stereo CD version in the double CD-pack.