Warming up with Genesis

Brr it's very cold and has even snowed here so we're going to be in and rather wrapped up so it's time to spin some discs, keeping occupied.

Nearly all of my albums by progressive rock group Genesis are on cd as the few I had on tape got converted over the decades but the sounds a bit hit and miss on some of those early titles so I have a few on vinyl.

This is a epic story of Raul a Porto Rican boy finding himself spread across four sides of vinyl which was remixed in 2007 by Nick Davis as the original was rather flat sounding.

This to my ears does work bringing tracks like The Carpet Crawlers to life.

Duke was a bit of an event in early 1980 coming out around the same time as Rush's Permanent Waves which was the first call on my pocket money.

I had a friend who was heavily into the group and played it to me for most of that year before I got around to getting my own copy.

It found a way of mixing long tracks that segue into each other on a concept album with hit singles such as Misunderstanding and Turn It On Again which I did like.

What went wrong recording and mixing this remains a mystery but the production just doesn't expand having a cardboardy feel to it and next to no bass.

While nothing can rectify all of that the 2007 remix does bring some bass, better projection of Phi Collin's vocals and inner clarity.

This will do very nicely until someone does any better at fixing this album.