Trevor Jackson - F.O.R.M.A.T. Album Comes On 12 Different Formats

From Engadget via The Verge:

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We've reached the point where even the less than perfect ideas of years past are being mined for nostalgia. No, I'm not talking about acid washed denim resurgence (ugh, why?), but that of derided music mediums like the MiniDisc and 8-track.

 

Next month, British musician and producer Trevor Jackson's experimenting with Format, an album spanning 12 different err... formats, each with one song per physical object. Meaning, the release is going to be spread across three sizes of vinyl (12, 10 and 7-inch), CD and mini CD, reel-to-reel, USB, cassette, VHS, MiniDisc, DAT and 8-track.

 

It isn't exactly practical, but it represents another way that artists are expanding beyond a box-standard MP3 download to get their music out to fans. Format's not quite the most outlandish example we've seen, OK Go's DNA album still holds that title, but it's still pretty cool when you stop to think about it. How's that? Well, it chronicles the varying forms of physical media that music's graced over the years.

 

The album releases by way of The Vinyl Factory -- the label perhaps best known for housing Massive Attack and Pet Shop Boys, among others -- and is comprised of remastered and re-edited tracks from Jackson's deep archives. If you can't scrounge up all the necessary equipment to listen to it, don't worry: the album will release digitally and on vinyl in March.

More info at The Vinyl Factory

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jazzrex

no laserdisc, wax cylinder, videodisc, minicassette, SACD, DVD, Blueray? what a fucking pussy

  On 1/14/2015 at 8:02 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

no intaglio syrobonkus print? what a fucking pussy

zzzzzzzzzzzz

which do u think was the hardest to produce? im thinking the Betamax

no DCC Cassette? For shame!

No Nintendo cartridge?! Well thats not really surprising I guess

Pretty lame to put only one track on each format? I'll just stick with the Colundi Sequence, enough formats (+ enough tracks) to catch up on as it is.

  On 1/14/2015 at 7:18 PM, Rubin Farr said:

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/86059-trevor-jackson-format/

That's in New and Upcoming Releases - I felt it was worth of a Music Discussion thread of it's own

  On 1/14/2015 at 7:28 PM, oscillik said:

jazzrex

That's Smooth JazzRex to you!

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