Eraserheads’ Ultraelectromagneticpop out
on vinyl in early 2019
by rick olivares
After long being out of print,
the Eraserheads’ debut album, Ultraelectromagneticpop, will be re-released and
re-mastered on vinyl and is due for an early 2019 release.
The re-release of one of the
biggest selling OPM albums ever is a collaboration between Sony Music
Philippines and Offshore Music.
The original analogue masters
were discovered in Sony’s vault and brought to the United States for
re-mastering by Bernie Grundman who has worked on popular albums such as Steely
Dan’s Aja, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and Prince’s Dirty Mind to name but a
very few. He recently worked on Filipino soul-funk band Apartel’s second album,
Full Flood.
Sony bought out German company
Bertelsmann out Sony-BMG in 2008, four years after their joint-venture. Thus,
the Japanese company, the local office in particular, acquired the local BMG’s
assets and properties.
Ultraelectromagneticpop was
recently released online as part of the album’s ongoing 25th
anniversary release (by BMG Pilipinas back in 1993). According to sources, the
Eraserheads planned on re-recording the entire album but the band eventually decided
not to pursue it. Instead, the album is now once more available online and will
be on vinyl.
Word is the album will fetch for
at least Php 2,000 as it will be released as a single LP.
According to our sources, the
re-release of the Eraserheads’ catalogue on vinyl is confined to their debut
album for now.
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