Van Halen - II

Dance the Night Away with Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set of Van Halen II: Sourced from the Original Analog Tapes and Pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl for Superb SoundBottoms Up!: Van Halen's Five-Times-Platinum Sophomore Album Ups the Fun and Musicianship: Features ''Beautiful Girls'' and ''Somebody Get Me a Doctor''How do you follow up one of the most groundbreaking albums ever made? For Van Halen, the answer was obvious. Treading the same path the band took to stardom on its debut, and upping the fun factor and musicianship, Van Halen II extinguished any possibilities of a sophomore slump. Leveraging years of experience as a tight-knit live group, drawing on material initially recorded for its professional demos with Kiss leader Gene Simmons, and hitting the studio just days after completing a 10-month tour, the quartet completed the 1979 LP in under a month while inviting fans to ''dance the night away.'' Boy, did they ever.Sourced from the original analog tapes, pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl, and strictly limited to 7,500 copies, Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP set of Van Halen II lets it all hang out. Never before has the five-times-platinum record sounded as close to Van Halen's original intent - that of music recorded live in one big room, Marshall amplifiers turned up, and resonating with the purity, excitement, and interaction of three primary instruments and voices. Created with minimal overdubs and afforded massive dynamics, air-moving energy, and palpable solidity on this audiophile edition, Van Halen II is rock 'n' roll at its most direct, straightforward, taut, and electric. Every track pulses with what Eddie Van Halen once referred to as a ''vibe, feeling, and pocket'' that only these four individuals could establish and maintain.1/4'' / 15 IPS Dolby A Analog Master >> DSD 256 >> Analog Console >> LatheNumbered Limited Edition UD1S180g 45RPM 2LP SuperVinyl Box SetNUMBERED LIMITED EDITION OF 7,500Mobile Fidelity UltraDisc One-Step ProcessInstead of utilizing the industry-standard three-step lacquer process, UltraDisc One-Step (UD1S) uses only one step and bypasses two processes of generational loss. In addition to revealing extra musical detail and dynamics otherwise lost due to the standard copying process, the UD1S technique produces a final LP with the lowest noise floor possible today.