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Pink Floyd is the premier space rock band. Since the mid-'60s, their music relentlessly tinkered with electronics and all manner of special effects to push pop formats to their outer limits. At the same time they wrestled with lyrical themes and concepts of such massive scale that their music has taken on almost classical, operatic quality, in both sound and words. Despite their astral image, the group was brought down to earth in the 1980s by decidedly mundane power struggles over leadership and, ultimately, ownership of the band's very name. After that time, they were little more than a dinosaur act, capable of filling stadiums and topping the charts, but offering little more than a spectacular recreation of their most successful formulas. Their latter-day staleness cannot disguise the fact that, for the first decade or so of their existence, they were one of the most innovative groups around, in concert and (especially) in the studio.
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In a little bit of Pink Floyd news, Amazon.com opened an DRM-free all mp3 download store today which includes the entire PF catalog. No more of that pesky copy-protection that keeps you from sharing these gems with your friends. Some of the classic albums are on sale for $7.99 as downloads. Check it all out here.
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Over the next four years, Pink Floyd would continue to polish their brand of experimental rock, which married psychedelia with ever-grander arrangements on a Wagnerian operatic scale. Hidden underneath the pulsing, reverberant organs and guitars and insistently restated themes were subtle blues and pop influences that kept the material accessible to a wide audience. Abandoning the singles market, they concentrated on album-length works, and built a huge following in the progressive rock underground with constant touring in both Europe and North America. (a film soundtrack) were erratic, each contained some extremely effective music.
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Pink Floyd's debut album in 1967 captured their raw live sound in the studio masterfully. Out this month is a 2CD 40th Anniversary Edition, featuring two different mixes, one on each disc, in mono and stereo. It was originally mixed in mono, which is the perfect and intended way to hear this album. One little known fact is that the man behind the album, Norman Smith, was an uncredited sound engineer in an already coveted position, and he left that position by talking his way into producing this new band, only if he were promoted to their producer. In his experience he knew if they were signed, he was the only one who could capture their sound in the studio. You need to hear this album in mono.
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The Vault channel will ... broadcast an exclusive interview with David Gilmour, a Pink Floyd member since 1968. On Tuesday, March 7, Gilmour's 60th birthday, Columbia Records will release Gilmour's third solo album, On An Island, his first studio recording since Pink Floyd's 1994 multi-platinum album, The Divison Bell. Gilmour will discuss his new album track-by-track in the interview, which will be broadcast at 12 pm ET and 6 pm ET on March 7.
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The catalog includes the remastered re-release of Pink Floyd’s debut album, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", currently celebrating its 40th anniversary. 7Digital is selling Pink Floyd’s entire album catalog as DRM-free downloads in high quality 320kbps MP3 format. and while the store is in the UK anyone in the world can download them.
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