I am sorting through yet another box of my test pressing collection, white label pre-production vinyl's so here is one more for you.
Why White Label?
White Label vinyl (both marked and unmarked) are fun, interesting music. Sometimes we have found mixes/remixes that never made commerical release, some didn't even get past the production stages and were never released as a commercial product.
It's also about the hunt for that great song, the one you have never heard before! White label product such as this one have the added excitment of the "hunt", finding out just who the artist/song are based on the matrix run out codes or sometimes just listening to the music and then going on an incredible audio hunt.
Our previous sound engineer used to love this White Label product, he would play the vinyl and then (without looking at the matrix codes) identify the artist song and the mix/remix etc - all part of building his musical knowledge.
Anyway, here are the details of this test pressing
Side AA I would describe as more like Drum N Bass than Trance
Hal Ft. Gillian Anderson - Extremis (Qattara Remix)
Virgin Records
Cat# VST 1636
Matrix run-out codes:
Side A (stamped) VST 1636 A-01-01-1
Side AA (stamped) VST 1636 B-01-01.
Play both sides at 45
1997
UK release
Generic white cover is new, no writing, no tears, no seam splits. White record label has A 20 hand written on Side A and the Other Side is unmarked.
New inner sleeve
Vinyl is in very good condition, visually inspected under a white halogen light source and I can see a few light scratches on each side. Just looking at the vinyl is not good enough so I then played the ENTIRE release, no significant surface noise issues or click/pops at all.
New outer protective plastic sleeve
Tracks: Extremis (Qattara Remix), Extremis (Download mix)
