Santana Abraxas Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab 1946 Ultradisc One Step 2 Lp Sealed

2 LPs, box set

Limited to 2,500 numbered copies

Original analog Master tape : YES

UD1S UltraDisc One-Step

Heavy Press : 180g

Record color : black

Speed : 45 RPM

Size : 12

Stereo

Studio

Record Press : RTI

Label : MOFI

Original Label : Columbia

Recorded April 17 May 2, 1970 at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco, California and Pacific Recording Studios, San Mateo, California

Engineered mixed by David Brown, John Fiore

Produced by Fred Catero, Santana

Remastered by Krieg Wunderlich

Originally released in 1970

Reissued in 2016

Tracks:

Side A :

Side B :

Side C :

Side D :

Awards:

Rolling Stone magazine s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time Ranked 207

1000 Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die - Ranked 203

Billboard s 50 Essential Latin Albums of the 50 Past Years

Stereophile Records to Die For - 2017

Reviews:

The San Francisco Bay Area rock scene of the late 60s was one that encouraged radical experimentation and discouraged the type of mindless conformity that s often plagued corporate rock. When one considers just how different Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, and the Grateful Dead sounded, it becomes obvious just how much it was encouraged. In the mid- 90s, an album as eclectic as Abraxas would be considered a marketing exec s worst nightmare. But at the dawn of the 1970s, this unorthodox mix of rock, jazz, salsa, and blues proved quite successful. Whether adding rock elements to salsa king Tito Puente s Oye Como Va, embracing instrumental jazz-rock on Incident at Neshabur and Samba Pa Ti, or tackling moody blues-rock on Fleetwood Mac s Black Magic Woman, the band keeps things unpredictable yet cohesive. Many of the Santana albums that came out in the 70s are worth acquiring, but for novices, Abraxas is an excellent place to start. AllMusic Review by Alex Henderson

UltraDisc One-Step : Instead of utilizing the industry-standard three-step lacquer process, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab s new UltraDisc One-Step UD1S uses only one step, bypassing two processes of generational loss. While three-step processing is designed for optimum yield and efficiency, UD1S is created for the ultimate in sound quality. Just as Mobile Fidelity pioneered the UHQR Ultra High-Quality Record with JVC in the 1980s, UD1S again represents another state-of-the-art advance in the record-manufacturing process. MFSL engineers begin with the original master tapes and meticulously cut a set of lacquers. These lacquers are used to create a very fragile, pristine UD1S stamper called a convert. Delicate converts are then formed into the actual record stampers, producing a final product that literally and figuratively brings you closer to the music. By skipping the additional steps of pulling another positive and an additional negative, as done in the three-step process used in standard pressings, UD1S produces a final LP with the lowest noise floor possible today. The removal of the additional two steps of generational loss in the plating process reveals tremendous amounts of extra musical detail and dynamics, which are otherwise lost due to the standard copying process. The exclusive nature of these very limited pressings guarantees that every UD1S pressing serves as an immaculate replica of the lacquer sourced directly from the original master tape. Every conceivable aspect of vinyl production is optimized to produce the most perfect record album available today.