...ABBA THE VINYLS is a limited edition box set containing ABBAs eight studio albums, originally released 19731981: RING RING, WATERLOO, ABBA, ARRIVAL, ABBA THE ALBUM, VOULEZ-VOUS, SUPER TROUPER and THE VISITORS. The box set also contains a bonus album, entitled ABBA TRACKS, the A-side of which contains the five single A-sides not included on the original studio albums. The B-side of ABBA TRACKS features a further five non-album songs, personally selected by ABBAs Benny Andersson.
Going back to the analogue master tapes for each individual album, as originally prepared by ABBA and their associates, the albums in the ABBA THE VINYLS box set have been remastered for vinyl especially for this release. The track listings of the albums mirror the original Swedish releases, as originally planned and conceived by ABBA and their record company Polar Music. Similarly, the eight studio albums are presented in replica covers featuring Polar Musics original art work and inner sleeves exactly as they looked when they first hit record shops back in the Seventies and early Eighties.
ABBA The Vinyls also contains a 52-page full-colour timeline booklet featuring album content details, rare memorabilia, recording paraphernalia and photographs.
FURTHER DETAILS
The LPs in ABBA - The Vinyls have been remastered from the original Polar Music album master tapes by Janne Hansson, a long-time engineer at the Metronome Studio, where ABBA recorded many of their most well-known tracks. Working at Metronome since the Seventies, Janne is now the owner of the studio, which today operates under the name Atlantis (look it up in Sara Russell's book The ABBA Guide To Stockholm).
The LP sleeves replicate the original Swedish album designs, even down to the inner sleeves. The same goes for the labels on the actual records. To be able to get each and every one of these details right, we enlisted the help of collector and Polar Music label expert Frank Axelsson
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