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Deep Purple Made In Japan Given A Make-Over

by Roger Wink, VVN Music on March 4, 2014

in New Music,News

Deep Purple’s iconic 1973 live album ‘Live In Japan’ has been given a complete make-over.

Universal will release a new deluxe edition of the classic Deep Purple live album, Made in Japan, on May 19.

The new release, in certain configurations, is the first complete set of all three of Deep Purples shows from Japan on their 1972 tour, Osaka on August 15 and 16 and Tokyo on August 17. The original album was released in December 1972 in the U.K. and April 1973 in the U.S., peaking at 16 and 6, respectively. It has gone gold in the U.K. (more than 100,000 copies sold) and platinum in the U.S. (more than one million copies).

The new release has what may be the most dizzying array of release formats that we’ve seen yet. The album will be available as:

1-CD – Remaster of the original album from the 1972 mix, 16-page booklet
2-CDs – Original album in new 2013 mix, encores from all three nights from 1972 mix, 16-page booklet
4-CDs / DVD – Full shows from all three nights, encores from all three nights on separate disc, DVD with documentary and videos, MP3 and HD download code, 60-page hardback book
7″ Single – Black Night / Woman From Tokyo
2-Vinyl LPs – Original album in new 2013 mix
9-Vinyl LPs – Full shows from all three nights, MP3 and HD download code, 60-page hardback book
Blu-Ray Audio – Both Remaster (1972 mix) and 2013 mix of the original album
Digitial – HD Remaster – Remaster of 1972 mix
Digital – HD Remix – New 2013 mix of original album
Digital – Blu-Ray – Same as Blu-Ray Audio disc
Digital – 1-CD – new 2013 mix of original album
Digital – 2-CDs – Same as 2-CDs without booklet

Track List:

4-CD / 1 DVD Box Set

Disc 1 (Osaka 15th August 1972)
Highway Star
Smoke on The Water
Child In Time
The Mule (Drum Solo)
Strange Kind Of Woman
Lazy
Space Truckin’

Disc 2 (Osaka 16th August 1972)
Highway Star
Smoke on The Water
Child In Time
The Mule (Drum Solo)
Strange Kind Of Woman
Lazy
Space Truckin’

Disc 3 (Tokyo 17th August 1972)
Highway Star
Smoke on The Water
Child In Time
The Mule (Drum Solo)
Strange Kind Of Woman
Lazy
Space Truckin’

Disc 4 (Encores)
Black Night – Osaka, August 15
Speed King – Osaka, August 15
Black Night – Osaka, August 16
Lucille – Osaka, August 16
Black Night – Tokyo, August 17
Speed King – Tokyo, August 17
Disc 5 (DVD)
Made in Japan – The Rise of Deep Purple documentary
Smoke On the Water (Official clip)
The Revolution Germany 1972 (Documentary piece from Boblingen Sporthalle Stuttgart February 10, 1972)
Smoke On the Water (Live clip from Hoftsra University May 29, 1973)

Read more at VVN Music

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