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Vinylphyle is an audiophile vinyl reissue series from UMe, dedicated to presenting essential albums across multiple genres with uncompromising sound quality and presentation. Each Vinylphyle release features all analog mastering from original sources by an elite group of vinyl cutting engineers. The LPs are pressed at the world-class Southern California-based audiophile vinyl record pressing plant RTI, on 180-gram black vinyl.

Brown Sugar (Vinylphyle) 2LP
D'Angelo

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo's landmark debut album that helped define the neo-soul movement. Featuring the hit title song, "Lady" and the Smokey Robinson cover, “Cruisin’.” Features new liner notes written by Jason King, longtime music scholar, journalist, and current dean of USC’s Thornton School of Music.

SOURCE: AAA. While each song on Brown Sugar has its own analog mix reel, the album was digitally assembled for final CD and vinyl mastering for its 1995 release. For this new Vinylphyle reissue, we made new all-analog, machine-to-machine 1/2” 30 IPS production masters for each side from the individual mix reels. Those new tapes were sent to Joe Nino-Hernes and were used to cut this LP.

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The Band

Music from Big Pink

The Band’s iconic 1969 debut album gets the deluxe Vinylphyle treatment. Music From Big Pink includes classic favorites "The Weight" and "I Shall Be Released" in a premium Vinylphyle package. Pressed at RTI on 180g black vinyl and cut from original analog tapes by Joe Nino-Hernes at Sterling Sound, this newly remastered, limited edition features a gatefold tip-on jacket and a 4-panel insert with all-new liner notes by Rick Florino and original tape box scans.

SOURCE: AAA. 1968 Original Album Master — Joe Nino-Hernes.

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“This series is built on uncompromising quality. All albums have been meticulously mastered by renowned mastering engineers from analog and packaged with the utmost care and attention to detail.”


- Bruce Resnikoff, UMe’s President & CEO.

  • “To sum it all up: a great start to the new UMe series and we can all look forward to many more from the seriously deep UMe catalog. It's great to see a major conglam honor its catalog and its customers.”

    Tracking Angle // Vinylphyle Series

  • “If the audiophile in you desires premium copies of these classic records that play back with the intent to impress, we encourage you to give this fantastic series a go.”

    Goldmine Magazine // Vinylphyle Series

  • “A revelation. Compared to another good reissue, this was like another record entirely — rounder and fuller, with a sound that seemed to come from an entire side of the room, rather than just two speakers.”

    Billboard Magazine // Bob Marley & The Wailers, Exodus (Vinylphyle) 1LP

  • "The new 25th Anniversary Vinylphyle restoration of Erykah Badu’s chart-toping 2000 album Mama’s Gun is an excellent reissue which should be of interest to fans of vocal jazz and modern soul sounds as well as analog loving audiophiles."

    eCoustics.com // Erykah Badu, Mama's Gun (25th Anniversary Vinylphyle)2LP

  • "We said this about him before: It was extraordinarily impressive to hear how close remastering engineer Joe Nino-Hernes rode the fence regarding the album's earliest sound versus a modern reimagining that will impress any die-hard audiophile. This Vinylphyle is a solid keeper. Merry Christmas in advance."

    Goldmine Magazine // Nat King Cole, The Christmas Song (Vinylphyle) 1LP