Red 50th Anniversary 2LP

Vinyl


A 50th anniversary double LP edition of King Crimson’s explosive 1974 album. Pressed on 200g vinyl, LP1 features 2024 stereo mixes by Steven Wilson, while LP 2 includes 2024 elemental mixes by David Singleton.

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Whilst mixing the album for Dolby Atmos, Steven also prepared new stereo & 5.1 mixes. Those new stereo mixes are what appears as LP1 of this 2LP set. 
 
LP2 consists of a complete album’s worth of Elemental Mixes by long-time King Crimson producer (& band manager) David Singleton – using the original multi-track recordings to present a very different audio picture of the album, with greater separation of instruments & utilising many recorded elements recorded for, but not included in, the original mixes. 
 
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As King Crimson biographer Sid Smith puts it in his new notes for the album: “David Singleton’s elemental mixes pull the veil aside on the original sessions and act as a kind of alternative account, a Red that could have been, revealing the different passes and takes that the band undertook as well as those Collins, Charig and McDonald as they engaged with the material”. 
 
In the decades since its release, Red has gone from being an album that was, upon release, under-promoted – as the band had already split up, to being one of the most lauded albums of its era & (after In The Court of the Crimson King), King Crimson’s biggest selling album. Writing in The Mojo Collection in 2000, John Bungey assessed Red as “that rarest of records, the sound of a line-up quitting while ahead”.
 
 
2024 Mixes by Steven Wilson   
 
Side A:
Red
Fallen Angel
One More Red Nightmare
 
Side B:
Providence
Starless
 
Elemental Mixes by David Singleton
 
Side C:    
Red
Fallen Angel
One More Red Nightmare
 
Side D:
Starless - Percussion  
Starless  
 
 
 
 
 
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