Elemental Music starts off 2025 with more Smokey, Supremes & Pips Motown Classics

[Motown Eddie]

From Goldmine.com:

Goldmine kicks off 2025 with continuing to highlight Elemental Music's highly regarded Motown Records reissue campaign. The series was conceived and launched by the renowned and iconic Elemental Musicrecord company in late spring of 2024, and we have dedicated our platform to revealing and presenting an overview of each new set of these reissued releases. We are providing our readers the best coverage of quite arguably some of the most well produced soul music reissues in the history of these Motown releases.

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Elemental Music starts off 2025 with more Smokey, Supremes and Pips Motown classics - Goldmine Magazine: Record Collector & Music Memorabilia

[daviddesper]

Some people still want to have the choice of vinyl vs. CD. Elementary, my dear Elemental, Elementary..........

So release all these treasures on CD and you might get my attention.

[Starguard4]

So release all these treasures on CD and you might get my attention.

...and mine too. Especially want Mary Wells' "Vintage Stock" on CD. Gotta have it, gotta have it !!

[Roger Polhill]

Why don`t you make up your own CD of "Vintage Stock" as I have, mono and stereo are all available.

[Starguard4]

Why don`t you make up your own CD of "Vintage Stock" as I have, mono and stereo are all available.

Yes, thank you for your suggestion, but... not interested in some "do it yourself" amateur version - and with your sort of approach it's no wonder the big music companies won't get up off their butts, and release some CDs. What next? An apology from you, on their behalf, for all their inactivity? Better to start shouting at them. Might help to wake some of them up LOL.

[Roger Polhill]

It was just a suggestion.I can assure you that there would be little difference in sound. But you can of course wait forever and they won`t give a rat`s arse. I`ll be listening to my "Vintage Stock" - I`ll put it on now - wow great sound!

[WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance]

Some people still want to have the choice of vinyl vs. CD. Elementary, my dear Elemental, Elementary..........

So release all these treasures on CD and you might get my attention.

The irony is that a pocket of the generation that bought vinyl when it was new now wants it on CD. I don't really think Elemental is looking to get the attention of the CD-purchasing crowd because they have no need to. They have their niche audience and they know that audience well. "How do you know this?" I'm sure is the question. It's on their website, the history is online. I also received a very nice and comprehensive response from Elemental when I asked about their Motown releases.

There is a whole new generation that has gotten fed up with digital this and digital that. It's a surprisingly young generation. It's a generation that views vinyl and analog with the same degree of coolness that an entire generation once viewed Jazz albums on vinyl. In fact, Elemental is primarily a Jazz-focused company.

The CD crowd will have to strip off their supplications to whatever companies are still around whose audience is looking for CD releases.

[daviddesper]

My preference for CDs over vinyl is based on some simple common sense. 1) CDs are much easier to store and carry. Try lugging around 20 or 30 LPs when you can hold that many CDs quite comfortably in a handy carrying case. Not only that but they take up much less space wherever you are storing them. 2) If you want to repeat a track on an LP, you have to physically pick up a tone arm and move it where you want it, whereas CDs have the capability to easily repeat tracks or play them randomly. 3) and by far the most important reason in my case..........you cannot play LPs in your car. If it has worked to have CD players in cars for almost 40 years, it makes no sense to take them away now, but the vast majority of manufacturers have done so.

I realize I am in the minority and that CDs will in fact be gone for good sooner than later. But that does not mean it makes any sense. For that reason, I am hoping that the car that I bought less than two years ago will outlast me and that the CD player will continue to work.

[thanxal]

Interesting since not too long ago we got the mono version of Reflections [[from somewhere else. Can’t remember and not near my record room)

[BayouMotownMan]

Why don`t you make up your own CD of "Vintage Stock" as I have, mono and stereo are all available.

The stereo mix of Honey Boy is not out. The one included on her Lost & Found set is an alternate.

I found Vintage Stock on ebay on reel to reel. As I have a reel unit I bought it and made this my stereo copy of the lp and I already had the mono print to add to that. The mono My Guy on VS is also a bit different, very subtle

[mysterysinger]

To a certain extent I can understand the excitement with the Elemental releases, but if I wanted to buy vinyl I'd collect the original releases [[as I did in the old days). Certainly the 3 2025 first releases have all been released on CD. So most will already have them one way or another?

[Starguard4]

...if I wanted to buy vinyl I'd collect the original releases [[as I did in the old days)

Exactly, my thoughts too. But I've still got a problem here, in that I have 98% of them already. The other 2% are a few of the Workshop Jazz vinyl albums, and some MONO versions of the original LPs, that stand no chance of getting reissued.