As appear to be the trend in music lately, Original Recordings Group (ORG) will be re-releasing and re-mastering albums from Nirvana on "180-gram, audiophile quality vinyl for the first time ever," reports Billboard.com.
The three albums being re-released, "Nevermind," "In Utero," and "MTV Unplugged," will be released this year with the band’s massively successful debut, "Nevermind," being released first. Monti Olson, the founder of ORG, says that "Bernie Grubman remastered the recordings specifically for us. To our knowledge this is the first time ‘Unplugged’ has ever come out on vinyl. They might have done a limited promotional thing but I doubt it."
The band’s first album, "
Bleach," is already being distributed in vinyl format by Sup Pop Records.
Speaking about the rising interest in the once dead vinyl format, Olson says, "We have some new accounts that are experimenting with vinyl, like Best Buy. I don't know how strong their initiative is, but they've allotted a little bit of floor space for vinyl." He adds, "But the bulk of the vinyl in the retail space goes through independent stores - the Amoebas and the Waterloos of the world that have always been in the vinyl business. But what's happening is more and more people are coming in with a curiosity about buying record albums."
But the re-release of the Nirvana albums is just the beginning for ORG. "We're going to be releasing a lot of classic alternative music from the 80s and 90s on 180 gram vinyl. Stuff that's more obscure and more popular. We're in negotiation with quite a few of those artists," Olson says. "They're the best sounding records on the market. We spend $15 per LP on manufacturing. That's an enormous expense, but it shows in the final product, it shows by our sales, it shows by our growing customer base."
Release dates have not been announced.
Report by David Lowe-Bianco.
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