Supersense writes: “Today we are excited to announce the expansion of our MASTERCUT portfolio to a new genre which is very close to our heart.
Please welcome Marvin Gaye and his legendary album “What’s Going On” as the first MASTERCUT soul edition album. Recorded between 1970 and 1971 in sessions at Hitsville U.S.A., Golden World, and United Sound Studios in Detroit, and at The Sound Factory in West Hollywood, California.
It was Gaye’s first album to present him as a producer and to credit Motown’s in-house studio band, the iconic session musicians known as the Funk Brothers.
“What’s Going On” is a concept album with its narrative, established by the songs, being told from the point of view of a Vietnam veteran returning to his home country to witness hatred, suffering, and injustice.
The album was an immediate commercial and critical success making Gaye the first male solo artist to place three top ten singles on the Hot 100 from one album. In 2020, it was ranked number one on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
We are insanely proud that we can now cut a carefully produced, completely unaltered 1:1 copy of this simply iconic original MASTERTAPE (Thank you Mr. Kevin Reeves, once again) into our brand new MASTERCUT ARCHIVAL TAPE EDITION Nr. 11.
Starting with our classic Premiere Edition of exactly 99 pieces. Please order now if you want to be among the very first to hear this masterpiece in a never before encountered authenticity and to indulge in the famous warm MASTERCUT experience.
Archival Tape Edition No. 11
MARVIN GAYE / WHATS’S GOING ON
Premiere Edition
Limited to 99 Pieces
444 EUR
Additionally we are also very excited to add a new MASTERCUT title to our classic music collection selected from the legendary Deutsche Grammophon Archives: Brahms 3rd Symphony in a wonderful version with “our” Austrian conductor legend Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Archival Tape Edition No. 10
HERBERT VON KARAJAN / BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER
Premiere Edition
Limited to 99 Pieces
444 EUR
Allow us to end this (hopefully) exciting update with another title of Marvin’s album, thanking you again for FLYIN’ HIGH with us in the friendly MASTERCUT sky.
truly
your MASTERCUT team