Peppermint Lounge - Perfect High flac album

agree - the recent dark entries reissues like tony moore and this one are terrible. mastering from vinyl would not be a problem if done properly - but this overpronounced bass and the other issues .. no way

This pressing is really a mess. Sounds terrible. It has obviously been mastered from Vinyl. The sound is compressed, distorted and uneven, the fade outs are heavily filtered as you can hear the highs are dropping rapidly at the end.Both tracks are faded earlier than the original, where the Instrumental misses a couple of seconds and also the first beat is cropped at the beginning.What a great opportunity has been missed to bring a worthy reissue of this great track.

Here is a short, edited A/B test of the Dark Entries reissue vs the original 12":(links expired)I think they're pretty similar. If anything, the original pressing kinda edges the DE reiessue on the high frequencies.But it's minimal. A great reissue by Dark Entries in my opinion, well worth buying.

The original WOM file has expired... In my opinion it is obvious that the Dark Entries was mastered from vinyl.I returned my copy of the reissue because it is so bad.After getting my hands on an original 1983 copy I cannot agree with you that it's only the high frequencies which the Dark Entries pressing lacks. The whole stereo image is different, where the Dark Entries sounds very centered and over compressed. The first beat on the Instrumental Version is cropped at the beginning and both tracks are faded earlier than the original. The Instrumental misses a couple of seconds.

dark entries reissue coming november 6. unlike the flexx split w/ twilight ritual from a while back it properly replicates the original 12" artwork & tracklist so i'd hold out for this one http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/peppermint-lounge-perfect-high-12/

Haha, nice to read their review of the song on the DE page.I kinda feel special :P

Bought my 12" copy 15 years ago - 2 euro, sold it in 2007 - 80 euro. A cashcow if you find it.

Does anyone know when these blue labels were introduced? The WOM 12" label lasted 2 years as far as I can tell, and there are blue label variants of tracks from both those years.Perhaps the blue labels are a later reissue series, maybe '85 or '86? Who knows.It just seems strange for a company to issue two very different center labels simultaneously (over a two year life span).

An outstanding piece of music, which is quite hard to classify.For a start, the female vocals are very New Wave / Alternative Rock (think Siouxsie Sioux).Next, there is a fantastic throbbing bassline. Almost prototype EBM.Then there is an irresistible synth riff, which screams Italo Disco (the very highest quality kind, not the trashy sort).This riff transforms throughout the song, until finally it is released into a free-flowing workout that Klaus Schulze or Jean-Michel Jarre would be proud of.So yeah, it's pretty hard to classify this song. On the one hand you could say it's Italo Disco.But it's far too cool to be Italo Disco (and yeah yeah, I know there are cool Italo tracks).No. To me this falls more into the New Wave category. People will probably claim this for the Minimal scene, but to me it's a rather impressive rock song in an electronic suit.Whatever you want to call it, it is a sublime track.-----For reference, there is no "Full / Extended" version. The Radio Version is simply the original version. The Instrumental version replaces the vocal with a cheesy Italo organ riff (plus it ends a damn sight shorter than the listed duration, actually at around 4:25).Also, it is worth noting that the lyrics are inspired by the poem "That Perfect High" by Shel Silverstein.