#2015 reissue

[an-album-cover-a-day]

Orchestra Baobab, Pirates Choice

[rockeame]

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced 2xLP, Album, RE, RM, RP, 180 Experience Hendrix, Legacy, Sony Music 88875134501 2015 Europe

[oblivionrecords]

A blues booklet.

Booklet: Mississippi Fred McDowell: Live in New York by Fred Seibert

In anticipation of what hopefully will be the early 2015 digital reissues of the entire Oblivion catalog, I've tried to alleviate one of the more frustrating parts of digital music listening, the lack of information. 

Introducing CD-like booklets in PDF form, starting with Live in New York, our first LP release from 1972 (you can scroll through the whole thing up above, or download it here). 

Oblivion was started by baby boomers who came of age during the rise of music culture, which almost completely ate pop culture for lunch during the 60s and 70s. For us, a happy result was an explosion of information related to our favorite artists and their recordings. LPs did their best with liner information, CDs improved with (sometimes) info rich booklets, and the internet put us in overdrive. But, the internet required a lot of searching, kind of like trawling through bargain bins at a Bleeker Bob's or Rhino Records.  Our solution, clunky as it is, has been to create a faux "CD booklet", but with higher resolution, and a lot more data. 34 pages of data. Intact graphics, track listings, and liner notes from all four official releases. And that's not all! You also get five bonus pages of paper ephemera from our earliest issues of the LPs.

Let us know what you think in comments. How can we improve the information experience in this big data era?  [email protected]