For background on band and listening to a couple of the tracks check post on the UK mono https://monolover.blogspot.com/2021/07/ashkanin-from-cold-dnr-1-69-uk-mono.html . I've always been very pleased with that. Even if with all certainty a fold it comes through both suitably raw and well balanced. Never heard an original UK stereo so can't make a proper comparison, but this French was an ear opener. Seemingly pressed without much muffling the audio comes wide, strong and very natural. Connecting the channels it sounds almost the same as the UK mono, just a tiny bit rougher and more open. So I guess the same stereo tapes were used and then maybe undergoing some different handling during pressing. But whatever format one may prefer it is a great album for all us who like hard rock to hit simple and dirty instead of the overproduced versions we've often been caressed by later years. Doesn't matter how ferocious your voice sound or how evil your guitars are if the recording machinery drape the whole thing in cotton candy. And there's no such sweetness here, just direct four-channel takes reeking of beer, sweat and unwashed laundry. And that is how hard rock should smell...isn't it? First French had label as shown here on thick unflexible vinyl in a stickered laminated cover. (MFÄX*)
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