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T. Rex Electric Warrior Numbered Limited Edition Hybrid SACD Scratch & Dent

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All covers have a minor corner bend and slight spine splits. Disc inside is undamaged.

T. Rex's Electric Warrior on Numbered Limited Edition Hybrid SACD - 2,500 Copies!
Unsurpassed Sound!
Mobile Fidelity Hybrid SACD Presents The Music's Reverb, Colors & Strings In Full-Tilt Glory!

TAS Rated 4.5/5 Music, 4/5 Sonics in the July/August 2020 Issue of The Absolute Sound!

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Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 188/500!

T. Rex's Exotic Landmark Signals the Birth of Glam Rock, Features "Bang a Gong (Get It On)": Electric Warrior Swaggers with Libido, Flamboyance, Fantasy, Fun, Hooks, and Theatricality

Bang a gong and get it on. At once sardonic, flamboyant, and trashy, T. Rex's uncommonly unique Electric Warrior catapulted leader Marc Bolan to stardom, triggered an ongoing fascination with glam rock, and launched a movement that soon involved David Bowie, Roxy Music, Mott the Hoople, and more. Yet none of those namesake artists ever released a record that out-glammed, out-innuendoed, out-thrusted, or out-camped Electric Warrior - named the 160th Greatest Album of All Time by Rolling Stone and included in the celebrated book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Mastered on Mobile Fidelity's state-of-the-art mastering system, strictly limited to 2,500 numbered copies, and housed in a gatefold mini-sleeve, the label's hybrid SACD gives the 1971 landmark the widescreen sound quality it has always deserved. Tony Visconti's warm, reverb-soaked production and Roy Thomas Baker's ace engineering remain two of the work's most famous and revered aspects. Here, the production and music can be experienced in all its full-tilt glory, from the subtle albeit elegant classical touches to the instantly identifiable Les Paul guitar licks to Bolan's sensual, wispy, are-they-or-aren't-they-serious vocals.

As Sean Egan wrote in the liner notes of a long-out-of-print reissue: "The sound is recognizably rock, yet a previously unheard exotic variant, almost as if concocted by inhabitants of one of the Tolkien-esque worlds common in Bolan's lyrics. The strings are overt but discreet in shape and tone, injecting just the right amount of class." All these aspects and more come to life with a realism, vibrancy, detail, and textural palpability that surpass the presentation on any prior analog edition. If you can hear colors, this audiophile version of Electric Warrior will stimulate your inner synesthesia.

At the time of the album's creation, such cosmic-related phenomenon were well within Bolan's orbit. But the differences between Electric Warrior and the singer/guitarist's earlier works are as vast as those that divide high art and low-brow culture. Chief among them: Bolan's decision to channel his acoustic hippie-inspired visions into hyper-sexualized, metaphor-rich statements that benefit from amplified foundations. And still, part of the songs' charm relates to how they tread a fine line between rock and pop.

Save for the lashing out of "Rip Off," Electric Warrior retains a mellow core underlined by a gauzy tint, gossamer temperament, and crushed-velvet feel. The perception that the record contains blustery heaviness is furthered - and initiated - by the now-iconic album cover, which depicts a giant-sized Bolan standing in front of an equally giant amplifier stack, striking a rock-star pose and giving the impression everything within is designed to go to the proverbial 11 on the volume knob. Akin to a majority of the songs themselves, the visual functions as clever illusion, absurd humor, ostentatious simplicity, and playful pretense.

Bursting with excessive fun and unchecked libido, T. Rex's catchy boogies, shuffles, and vamps scoot by on a seemingly impossible blend of concise hooks, non-sequitur fantasies, and theatrical swagger. From the chart-topping "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" to the beautiful "Life's a Gas," the R&B-stoked hit "Jeepster" to the pout of "Motivator" and galactic soul of "Planet Queen," Bolan, percussionist Mickey Finn, and boards manipulator Visconti craft a rewardingly strange, parallel universe of sound, style, and sex that still has no equal.

"MoFi's new SACD embraces the album's warm production and slinky sonics, a subtle mix of vocal vamps, vibrant electric guitar, Bo Diddley-inspired tribal stomps, acoustic guitars, horns, and strings. Lyrically, the songs decry youthful alienation and extol the communal power of rock. Stylistically, the album is remarkably consistent and strangely comforting, a series of mellow boogies and shuffles that break rank only with the raw closer, "Rip Off." At the time of the album's release, Bolan had been on the scene for years, flirting with Elvis-era rock and roll, folk, skiffle, mod rock, and psychedelia. With Electric Warrior, Bolan transformed Tyrannosaurus Rex from a hippie folk duo into a sexually-charged rock juggernaut that changed the face of pop music. " - Greg Cahill, The Absolute Sound, July/August 2020

Features

  • Strictly Limited to 2,500 Numbered Copies
  • Numbered Limited Edition Hybrid SACD
  • Super Audio CD
  • SACD Stereo SACD Layer
  • This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!
  • Mastered from the 1/4" / 15 IPS Analog Copy to DSD 256
  • Gatefold mini-sleeve

Selections

  1. Mambo Sun
  2. Cosmic Dancer
  3. Jeepster
  4. Monolith
  5. Lean Woman Blues
  6. Bang A Gong (Get It On)
  7. Planet Queen
  8. Girl
  9. The Motivator
  10. Life's A Gas
  11. Rip Off

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