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Columbia house audio book club9/25/2023 ![]() Metaxas Tourbillon T-RX tape deck wins a Product of the Year Award 2022 from The Absolute Sound March 28, 2023Įnter your email address to to receive notifications of new rambles by email.5 tape decks in The Absolute Sound’s Editors’ Choice Awards 2023 April 11, 2023.From ‘meh’ to ‘masterpiece’: Charles Mingus’ Mingus Ah Um from Hemiolia Records on 15ips 2-track tape May 2, 2023.49 from UltraAnalogue Recordings May 8, 2023 You then have to buy 3 more DVDs from Columbia House over a 1year period to satisfy your commitment. The introductory offer of 3 DVDs for 1 each + shipping will give you the 3 DVDs for a total of 5.97. If you like to collect DVDs then this is the club for you. New on tape: Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio no. BMG/Columbia House DVD Club Cost Breakdown.Metaxas R2R decks now available in USA & Canada thanks to new Florida-based US distribution May 16, 2023.Hemiolia Records at Munich High End Show – and with another brand new tape! May 18, 2023.Where to source blank tapes, tape reels and the full gamut of R2R accessories May 30, 2023.New EDGE reel design from RX Reels June 19, 2023.“The macro and the micro in complete detail”: Chasing The Dragon’s new tape recording of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade July 14, 2023.Michael Fremer on tape, UHQR vinyl, master generations, and all things analogue July 28, 2023.Getz / Gilberto reviewed – and three more jazz classics announced from Hemiolia August 4, 2023.Analogue Productions announces 10 new bluesy albums on Ultra Tape August 10, 2023.Michael Fremer visits Universal Music Group’s Iron Mountain tape vault – and takes us with him! August 21, 2023.Analog Audio Design TP-1000 tape deck now available in USA – with free RX Reels carbon fibre reel August 23, 2023.Analogue Productions & Acoustic Sounds announce The White Stripes’ ‘Elephant’ UHQR vinyl and on Ultra Tape September 4, 2023.Looking back he can still remember his father’s neatly-organised rack of tapes and vinyl – as well as recalling accidentally stepping on and breaking a Herb Alpert tape! Fast forward a couple of decades and Kabir had obviously inherited the audiophile gene… so I’ll let him tell you the rest of the story.įind out more and peruse the listing over on Kabir’s blog: Capitol/EMI/Angel followed in the summer of 1975, and then London shortly thereafter….”Ĭompiling the listing has been something of a labour of love, and Kabir shares a nice story of why he went to all that trouble: in short, as a young lad he was totally fascinated by his father’s audio system, which included an Akai 4000DS tape deck. In 1973, A&M started leasing a few of their best sellers for reel release. Although the club was affiliated with Columbia Records – and the majority of releases were from top-selling Columbia artists – most of the other major labels eventually contracted with Columbia House. So what are we talking about here? Kabir writes, “In 1973, the Columbia House Record Club began releasing Columbia’s reels (as well as those from associated labels such as Epic, Jet, and Masterworks). Time Warner bought half the shares in Columbia House with the intention of breaking the domination of the “mixed tape” industry by Time-Life.īy 1996, Columbia House had 16 million members and finally launched its own website.If you’re a collector of vintage commercially-released tapes, here’s something that might interest you.Ī short while ago I received an email from US-based music lover Kabir Bhatia, who had just discovered the reel-to-reel rambler and who kindly offered to share with readers a listing he’d compiled of the tapes that were released by the Columbia House Record Club, a division of Columbia Records, between 19. ![]() It too did very well and by 1988 had over 6 million members!Īnd in 1991, Time Warner in its quest to become one of the biggest companies in media arrived. The CBS Video Club broke away from the Columbia House brand during the 1980s and introduced a similar business model for videos. So Columbia House made reel-to-reel tapes, for example, even though the market for such tapes was officially dead.Ĭolombia House, in fact, continued to support 8 track releases until 1988, long after the rest of the market had given up on the format. ![]() However, it not only produced vinyl but was capable of delivering old discontinued formats. The Columbia House brand was started in the 1960s to differentiate the mail order records from mail order cassettes (and, indeed 8-track cartridges). ![]()
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