Real Gone Music US Vinyl & CDs

Review: Never Gonna Leave You is a rarity from the esteemed Brunswick label, credited to the sevensome US disco-soul-funk band active throughout the 1970s and beyond. With production by disco maestro Tony Valor, arrangements by Chi-Soul legend Eugene Record, and a new mix by the great Tom Moulton - not to mention an instrumental accompaniment from Valor's highly esteemed Tony Valor Sounds Orchestra - this 1976 classic is a cornerstone of stone-cold proto-disco, having already been reissued on CD in Japan multiple times since its creation. For its very first vinyl reissue, Never Gonna Leave You is lent the Real Gone treatment, delivering a newly r-rubbed version of the Chi-Lites' 'Stoned Out of My Mind' and delivering instant soul salvation.

Review: Industrial, metal and glam outfit Orgy was the first act signed by Korn's Jonathan Davis to his Elementree imprint, and the move paid off right away with their 1998 debut, which went Top 30 and scored a huge hit with it's cover of New Order's 'Blue Monday', and went on to dazzle with original numbers, most eminent among which is the song 'Stitches'. With crunching expositions, screeching, hyper-chorused vocal deliveries and multi-layered drums amounting to a huge, scorching sound, the band's debut record surely earned them the crown of their very own genre coinage, death pop. Somehow, though, this enduring late-90s favourite has eluded a vinyl release, until now! With the full cooperation of the band, Real Gone have really gone and gotten it remastered for vinyl (by Mike Milchner of Sonic Vision) and placed this platter inside a beautiful gatefold jacket.

Review: Originally released in 2003, Self-Destructive Pattern served as the third full-length from Los Angeles industrial-tinged nu-metal outfit Spineshank, and had the unenviable task of following up 2000's breakout sophomore effort The Height Of Callousness. Reuniting with legendary producer perfectionist GGGarth Richardson (Biffy Clyro, Rage Against The Machine) to help push their style into simultaneously more electronic aggression whilst elevating their melodic scope, the album offers a curious time in the nu-metal landscape where artists were searching for a sonic way out of their restrictive genre confines. Lead single 'Smothered' was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance 2004, yet ultimately lost to Metallica's St. Anger.