Deep Purple – Machine Head (1972) [Japanese SACD 2011]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 41:49 minutes | Scans included | 3,12 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 41:19 mins | Scans included | 963 MB
Released in 1972, Deep Purple’s best-selling album remains a landmark hard rock recording. The album hit #1 in the UK and #7 in the US and was eventually certified Double Platinum. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, Deep Purple-—particularly Machine Head-—paved the way for countless progressive rock bands who followed in their wake.
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Deep Purple – Live On The BBC (1972) [Audio Fidelity 2004]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 89:54 minutes | Scans included | 3,62 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 3,57 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,78 GB
Audio Fidelity SACD #AFZ-017 | Mastered for SACD by Steve Hoffman
Recorded by the BBC on March 9, 1972, this previously difficult to find live show captures the classic Mark ll version of Deep Purple in all their incendiary power. This performance — basically the entirety of the then just released Machine Head minus “Pictures of Home” — is easily as good, and at times better than, Made in Japan, recorded five months later. The band apparently felt the Japan tapes were of inferior quality, and initially did not want them released, which makes this arguably the most potent document of the group’s live show from that year. Although this SACD hybrid adds studio versions of “Hush” and “River Deep Mountain High” from the Mark l edition to flesh out the playing time, one of the live tracks, their version of Little Richard’s “Lucille,” is only available on the SACD layer. That means that anyone without an SACD player won’t be able to hear it, but will be able to play the two studio tracks, a perplexing decision that is unexplained in the liner notes. In any event, the live BBC tapes find Purple slamming through these songs like they had something to prove. Although “Child in Time” is MIA, it is replaced by “Maybe I’m a Leo” and “Never Before,” two tracks that didn’t make the Japan set list. Even without those additions, this is a find for all Deep Purple fans, and a great place for all classic rock fans to jump in. Since this release is from an audiophile label, great care was spent making sure the sound is as crisp as possible from tapes this old, and the work has paid off. Those with SACD equipment get to hear “Lucille” and also experience the band in a wider soundscape, making the performance even more lifelike.
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Deep Purple – Whoosh! (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:35 minutes | 633 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC
“Whoosh!” sees Deep Purple for the third time joining forces with producer Bob Ezrin, who invited the band to Nashville to write and record new songs. Together they created the most versatile album in their collaboration. Deep Purple “stretched out in all directions” without any limitation, letting their creativity go. “Deep Purple is putting the Deep back into Purple” was the half-joking motto in the studio after the first songs made it clear that Ezrin and Purple were on their path to creating an album pushing the boundaries of time, while voicing their resentment about the current situation of the world and addressing all generations.
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Deep Purple – Turning to Crime (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:00 minutes | 652 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC
Turning to Crime is the first album from Deep Purple to be comprised only of cover versions. Recorded remotely, with each member adding their own parts, the album sees the group working through a selection of tracks originally recorded by Fleetwood Mac, Love, Cream, Bob Dylan, and more.
– Rich Wilson
Deep Purple – The Infinite Live Recordings, Vol. 1 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:30:01 minutes | 912 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC
Live album from the British hard rock icons. This set was recorded at Hellfest 2017, the biggest metal festival in France. Thousands of fans assembled to witness this very special performance. This Deep Purple live album contains a brand new previously unreleased 80min live performance.
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Deep Purple – The Book of Taliesyn (1968/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:59 minutes | 985 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone UK
Several months after the innovative remake of “You Keep Me Hanging On,” England’s answer to Vanilla Fudge, was this early version of Deep Purple, which featured vocalist Rod Evans, and bassist Nick Simper, along with mainstays Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice. This, their second album, followed on the heels of “Hush,” a dynamic arrangement of a Joe South tune, far removed from the flavor of one of his own hits, “Walk a Mile in My Shoes.” Four months later, this album’s cover of Neil Diamond’s Top 25, 1967 gem “Kentucky Woman,” went Top 40 for Deep Purple. Also like Vanilla Fudge, the group’s own originals were creative, thought-provoking, but not nearly as interesting as their take on cover tunes. Vanilla Fudge did “Eleanor Rigby,” and Deep Purple respond by going inside “We Can Work It Out” — it falls out of nowhere after the progressive rock jam “Exposition,” Ritchie Blackmore’s leads zipping in between Rod Evans smooth and precise vocals. As Vanilla Fudge was progressively leaning more towards psychedelia, here Deep Purple are the opposite. The boys claim to be inspired by the Bard of King Arthur’s court in Camelot, Taliesyn. John Vernon Lord, under the art direction of Les Weisbrich, paints a superb wonderland on the album jacket, equal to the madness of Hieronymous Bosch’s cover painting used for the third album. Originals “The Shield” and “Anthem” make early Syd Barrett Pink Floyd appear punk in comparison. Novel sounds are aided by Lord’s dominating keyboards, a signature of this group.
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Deep Purple – Stormbringer (1974/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:45 minutes | 751 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino/Warner Bros.
Stormbringer is the ninth studio album by Deep Purple, released in November 1974. On this album, the soul and funk elements that were only hinted at on Burn are much more prominent.
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Deep Purple – Shades of Deep Purple (1968/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:49 minutes | 996 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone UK
The usual perception of early Deep Purple is that it was a band with a lot of potential in search of a direction. And that might be true of their debut LP, put together in three days of sessions in May of 1968, but it’s still a hell of an album. From the opening bars of “And the Address,” it’s clear that they’d gotten down the fundamentals of heavy metal from day one, and at various points the electricity and the beat just surge forth in ways that were startlingly new in the summer of 1968. Ritchie Blackmore never sounded less at ease as a guitarist than he does on this album, and the sound mix doesn’t exactly favor the heavier side of his playing, but the rhythm section of Nick Simper and Ian Paice rumble forward, and Jon Lord’s organ flourishes, weaving classical riffs, and unexpected arabesques into “I’m So Glad,” which sounds rather majestic here. “Hush” was the number that most people knew at the time (it was a hit single in America), and it is a smooth, crunchy interpretation of the Joe South song. But nobody could have been disappointed with the rest of this record — one can even hear the very distant origins of “Smoke on the Water” in “Mandrake Root,” once one gets past the similarities to Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady”; by the song’s extended finale, they sound more like the Nice. Their version of “Help” is one of the more interesting reinterpretations of a Beatles song, as a slow, rough-textured dirge. “Hey Joe” is a bit overblown, and the group clearly had to work a bit at both songwriting and their presentation, but one key attribute that runs through most of this record — even more so than the very pronounced heaviness of the playing — is a spirit of fun; these guys are obviously having the time of their lives rushing through their limited repertoire, and it’s infectious to the listener; it gives this record much more of a ’60s feel than we’re accustomed to hearing from this band. –Bruce Eder
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Deep Purple – Nothing at All (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 13:57 minutes | 170 MB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC
The third single from their upcoming studio album ‘Whoosh!’
With the release of their 21st studio album “Whoosh!” approaching, Deep Purple embark on the next part of their journey by releasing their new single “Nothing At All” on July 10th.
The lyrics of “Nothing At All” sound like an observation of what we humans have done to Mother Earth in our short time of existence.
After exploring the subject of time and space with “Throw My Bones” and following the concerned look into the future of the second single “Man Alive”, “Nothing At All” brings a big philosophical question: is it really “nothing at all”?
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Deep Purple – Made In Japan: The Complete Japanese Tour ’72 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 04:42:12 minutes | 3,45 GB | Genre: Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino
The band arrived in Japan on 9 August, a week before the tour started, to a strong reception, and were greeted with gifts and flowers. Birch was not confident that the recording quality would be satisfactory, since the equipment supplied by Warner Bros. did not have any balance control and that the recorder’s size did not appear big enough on sight to capture a commercial quality recording. The band were uninterested in the end result, concentrating on simply being able to deliver a good show. Lord later noticed however that he felt this attitude meant the spontaneity of the performances and interplay between the band members was captured well.
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Deep Purple – Machine Head (1972/2001)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:43 minutes | 870 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino
Released in 1972, Deep Purple’s best-selling album remains a landmark hard rock recording. The album hit #1 in the UK and #7 in the US and was eventually certified Double Platinum. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, Deep Purple-—particularly Machine Head-—paved the way for countless progressive rock bands who followed in their wake.
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Deep Purple – Live in Rome 2013 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:48:29 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC
The Soundboard Series finally enters its second round! This time it takes the audience back to the Now What?! Tour of 2013, when Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Steve Morse and Don Airey celebrated their first album after the passing of former bandmate and good friend Jon Lord. ‘Live in Rome 2013’ captures an energetic and emotional performance by the masters of Classic Rock featuring musical highlights from their now 5 decades-spanning career.
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Deep Purple – Live in London 2002 (Remastered) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:49:17 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC
The Soundboard Series focuses on the last three decades of concerts around the world. While some of the shows were previously available as rare and limited fan club editions, others are concerts from the artist archive, mixed and mastered for the occasion. In both cases, great care is spent to achieve the best audio quality.
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Deep Purple – Johnny’s Band EP (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 24:03 minutes | 300 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC
CD pressing of the third single from the album infinite. ‘Johnny’s Band’ follows the singles “Time For Bedlam” and “All I Got Is You”. The song is an affectionate portrait of a fictional band that quickly gain success and enjoy every side that comes with it. As often happens, Johnny’s Band can´t help but lose it, and break up, only to find out later that the pleasure still to be performing live is all that matters, even when the hype, the success and the glory have long vanished. As special bonus treats, the single includes four previously unreleased songs. Starting with the rehearsal recording by no other than Roger Glover, the “In & Out Jam” gives fans a glimpse behind the scenes of the album recordings. On top, the EP is peppered with three amazing and previously unreleased live versions. “Strange Kind Of Woman”, “The Mule” and “Hell To Pay” were recorded on the successful NOW What?! world tour in Gaevle, Sweden on August 10th, 2013 and are, just like the rehearsal recording, only available on this EP.
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Deep Purple – Infinite (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:43 minutes | 589 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC
Infinite is the 20th studio album by English rock band Deep Purple, released on 7 April 2017. The track “Time for Bedlam” was released via YouTube and Spotify on 14 December 2016 and “All I Got Is You” followed on 10 March 2017.
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