Mike Oldfield – Ommadawn (1975) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2012] SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Mike Oldfield – Ommadawn (1975) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2012]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 36:35 minutes | Scans included | 1,08 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 962 MB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96kHz | Full Scans included | 823 MB

Ommadawn is the third record album by Mike Oldfield, originally released in 1975 on Virgin Records. As with Hergest Ridge and Tubular Bells, Ommadawn is another two-movement work. Oldfield makes economic use of a relatively small number of subjects throughout Ommadawn and develops them extensively, both with musical variation and varying the instruments used. Each of the two movements of Ommadawn utilise their own subjects without sharing them between the two movements. Oldfield sought out the ancient Celtic influence on English music and composed for traditional instruments such as uilleann pipes on the original LP version.

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Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells (50th Anniversary Edition) (1973/2023) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Genre: Progressive Rock
Year Of Release: 2023
Duration: 49:18

Label: SDE Surround Series
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Rip Type: folder
Bit Rate: 24/96; 24/48
Format:DTS-HD MA
Number of channels: 5.1
Other audio tracks: DTS Master Audio 5.1, 2.0; Quadro 4.0, LPCM 2.0, Dolby Atmos 7.0

Mike Oldfield’s seminal 1973 album Tubular Bells is being reissued for its 50th anniversary and amongst the formats is an SDE-exclusive blu-ray audio which features a brand new immersive Dolby Atmos Mix along with other rare spatial audio versions, a new stereo mix and an unreleased demo of a planned – but scrapped – Tubular Bells 4, which was made five years ago!

Back in 1973, the largely unknown 20-year-old Mike Oldfield released his debut album, the first release on brand-new label, Virgin Records. Tubular Bells became a phenomenon, topping the UK charts, winning a Grammy and it was famously featured in William’s Friedkin’s film The Exorcist, which itself became a global sensation in ’73.

This 50th Anniversary celebration of Tubular Bells, overseen by Mike Oldfield, is available on SDE-exclusive blu-ray, 2LP half-speed mastered vinyl and on CD.

The Tubular Bells SDE-exclusive blu-ray is packed with content and features the following audio streams:

Tubular Bells – 2023 David Kosten Dolby Atmos Mix*
Tubular Bells – 2009 Mike Oldfield 5.1 Surround Mix
Tubular Bells – 1975 Quad Mix
Tubular Bells Intro Edit – 2023 David Kosten Dolby Atmos Mix*
Tubular Bells – 2023 David Kosten Stereo Mix (48/24)*
Tubular Bells – 1973 Original Stereo Mix (96/24)
Tubular Bells Intro Edit – 2023 David Kosten Stereo Mix (48/24)*
Tubular Bells 4 Intro – Demo (48/24)
*ONLY AVAILABLE PHYSICALLY ON THIS PRODUCT

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Mike Oldfield – Man On The Rocks (Deluxe Edition) (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Mike Oldfield – Man On The Rocks (Deluxe Edition) (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:58:42 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Man on the Rocks was produced by Stephen Lipson together with Oldfield. The album features bassist Leland Sklar, drummer John Robinson, keyboardist Matt Rollings, guitarist Michael Thompson and singer Luke Spiller together with Oldfield himself on guitar. The backing tracks were recorded during June 2013 in Studio D of Village Studios, Los Angeles with producer Steve Lipson; Oldfield participated in these sessions via Skype. Oldfield has also recorded part of the album in his home studio in the Bahamas. Oldfield’s electric guitar sound on the album is primarily a Fender Telecaster combined with the Avid Eleven software plug-in.

The album marks a return of Oldfield to a Virgin branded label since leaving Virgin Records in the 1990s, through the merger of Mercury Records UK and Virgin Records after Universal Music’s purchase of EMI. Luke Spiller is the singer of The Struts, another of Virgin EMI’s British artists

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Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells (1973/2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells (1973/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:06 minutes | 587 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury Records

Mike Oldfield’s groundbreaking album Tubular Bells is arguably the finest conglomeration of off-centered instruments concerted together to form a single, unique piece. A variety of instruments are combined to create an excitable multitude of rhythms, tones, pitches, and harmonies that all fuse neatly into each other, resulting in an astounding plethora of music. Oldfield plays all the instruments himself, including such oddities as the Farfisa organ, the Lowrey organ, and the flageolet. The familiar eerie opening, made famous by its use in The Exorcist, starts the album off slowly, as each instrument acoustically wriggles its way into the current noise that is heard, until there is a grand unison of eccentric sounds that wildly excites the ears. Throughout the album, the tempos range from soft to intense to utterly surprising, making for some excellent musical culminations. Mandolins and Spanish guitars are joined by grinding organs and keyboards, while oddball bells and cranking noises resound in the distance. In the middle of the album, guest Vivian Stanshall announces each instrument seconds before it is heard, ending with the ominous-sounding tubular bells, a truly powerful and dominating instrument. The most interesting and overwhelming aspect of this album is the fact that so many sounds are conjured up, yet none go unnoticed, allowing the listener a gradual submergence into each unique portion of the music. Tubular Bells is a divine excursion into the realm of new age music.

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Mike Oldfield – The Killing Fields (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1984/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Mike Oldfield – The Killing Fields (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1984/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:52 minutes | 819 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Mike Oldfield was asked in 1984 to score Roland Joffe’s film about two journalists’ experiences in the ‘killing fields’ of Kampuchea. Although Oldfield’s music is synonymous with film, it is his first and only score to date, The film was highly acclaimed winning two Academy awards and Oldfield’s score was an integral part of it, earning him a BAFTA and Golden Globe nomination. Newly remastered for 2016, The Killing Fields is a well-regarded entry in Mike Oldfield’s illustrious discography. As with all of Oldfield’s critically acclaimed re-release programme, the notes include a new interview with Mike.

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Mike Oldfield – Return To Ommadawn (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Mike Oldfield – Return To Ommadawn (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:07 minutes | 759 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI

Mike Oldfield will release a new album on 20th January 2017. Return To Ommadawn marks a return to the music that made his name back in the early 70s. Written, played, recorded, mixed and produced by Mike Oldfield in his home studio in Nassau, Return To Ommadawn is a beautiful, mostly acoustic string instrument-based album which consists of two pieces of music, ‘Return To Ommadawn Parts I & II’. Mike describes it as ‘handmade’ – each instrument (22 in total including mandolin, guitars, acoustic bass, bodhran, African drums and tin whistle) is hand played by Mike and he keeps time with a vintage metronome – though he made full use of modern technology to faithfully recreate some of the 70s classic keyboard sounds. Return To Ommadawn also features Celtic chanting and prominently features Mike’s trademark searing electric guitar.

Mike Oldfield’s 1975 album Ommadawn was the third of an enduring trinity of classic albums – Tubular Bells (73), Hergest Ridge (74) and Ommadawn – that overlapped rock and classical and, before the terms were even coined, new age and world music. These albums remain the musical statements Mike feels are truest to him.

Says Mike: “Looking on social media, the first three albums 40 years later are still everybody’s favourite, and Ommadawn more than Tubular Bells even. I think it’s because it’s a genuine piece of music rather than production: hands, fingers, fingernails. It didn’t have a goal; it was not trying to achieve anything nor please anybody. It was spontaneous music making, full of life. Doing Return To Ommadawn is like a return to my true self.”

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Mike Oldfield – Man On The Rocks (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Mike Oldfield – Man On The Rocks (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:39 minutes | 716 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI

Featuring 11 brand new tracks, Man On The Rocks is a deeply personal song-based album that reflects many of Mike’s different influences. Recorded in the Bahamas, Mike’s 25th studio album has been produced by Mike with legendary British producer Stephen Lipson (Jeff Beck, Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox). Man On The Rocks features players such as legendary bassist Leland Sklar (Phil Collins, Crosby, Stills & Nash, James Taylor) and drummer John Robinson (Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, Daft Punk). Although Oldfield has worked with some of the world’s most famous vocalists in the past, here he has found an incredible young talent to interpret his words, Luke Spiller from the Struts.

Recorded 2013 in Nassau, Bahams; at The Village in Los Angeles, CA; and at Battery Studios in London, UK.

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Mike Oldfield – Crises (Super Deluxe Edition 2013) (1983/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Mike Oldfield – Crises (Super Deluxe Edition 2013) (1983/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:05:17 minutes | 3,55 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

In 1983, Mike Oldfield released one of his most commercially successful albums, “Crises”, which featured the huge hit single ‘Moonlight Shadow’ and featured guest vocal appearances from Maggie Reilly, Jon Anderson and Roger Chapman. Of all the albums he has recorded, “Crises” underlined Mike Oldfield’s skill as a writer of fine songs as well as a gifted creator of sublime instrumental music. Like the moon that shines out from the Terry Ilott painting gracing it’s cover, the music of Crises continues to shine magically thirty years on from it’s release.

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Mike Oldfield – Crises (2013 Remaster) (1983/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Mike Oldfield – Crises (2013 Remaster) (1983/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:06 minutes | 1,44 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury UK

Crises is Mike Oldfield’s eigth album and was released in 1983. Two of his hits, “Moonlight Shadow” and “Shadows on the Wall” are on this album. Like on his other albums, the opening track for Crises is a 20-minute long textural study; however, this album has a definite tendency towards pop.

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Mike Oldfield – Five Miles Out (Deluxe Edition) (1982/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Mike Oldfield – Five Miles Out (Deluxe Edition) (1982/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:17:38 minutes | 2,73 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Mike Oldfield was back into the extended composition game with Five Miles Out, continuing the “Taurus” series with the mammoth “Taurus II,” an entertaining enough romp with references to Irish music, brass bands and Oldfield’s beloved Morris. The true standout, though, was the title track, a paean to flying in bad weather that could easily double for Oldfield’s feelings about the sort of monumental critical drubbing he was accustomed to receiving. “Family Man” became a huge worldwide hit for Hall & Oates. – Steven McDonald

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Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells (1973) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2011] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells (1973) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2011]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 48:53 minutes | Scans included | 1,97 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 906 MB

Uses the 2011 DSD master based on UK original analog tape. Reissue features the high-fidelity SHM-SACD format (fully compatible with standard SACD player, but it does not play on standard CD players). DSD Transferred by Richard Whittaker.

Mike Oldfield’s groundbreaking album Tubular Bells is arguably the finest conglomeration of off-centered instruments concerted together to form a single unique piece. A variety of instruments are combined to create an excitable multitude of rhythms, tones, pitches, and harmonies that all fuse neatly into each other, resulting in an astounding plethora of music. Oldfield plays all the instruments himself, including such oddities as the Farfisa organ, the Lowrey organ, and the flageolet. The familiar eerie opening, made famous by its use in The Exorcist, starts the album off slowly, as each instrument acoustically wriggles its way into the current noise that is heard, until there is a grand unison of eccentric sounds that wildly excites the ears. Throughout the album, the tempos range from soft to intense to utterly surprising, making for some excellent musical culminations. Mandolins and Spanish guitars are joined by grinding organs and keyboards, while oddball bells and cranking noises resound in the distance. In the middle of the album, guest Vivian Stanshall announces each instrument seconds before it is heard, ending with the ominous sounding tubular bells, a truly powerful and dominating instrument. The most interesting and overwhelming aspect of this album is the fact that so many sounds are conjured up yet none go unnoticed, allowing the listener a gradual submergence into each unique portion of the music. Tubular Bells is a divine excursion into the realm of new age music.

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Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells (50th Anniversary Edition) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells (50th Anniversary Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:20:05 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cleopatra Records

Mike Oldfield’s iconic Tubular Bells is being reissued Mike Oldfield’s iconic Tubular Bells is being reissued in double vinyl featuring an unreleased demo made five years ago which, at the time, was intended to be the start of a new 50th anniversary version of the work. Then, Mike Oldfield retired, and the eight-minute introduction was shelved. Now seeing the light of day, Tubular Bells 4 Intro is the conclusion to this historic album’s incredible life and may well be the last thing to ever be recorded by Oldfield.

With the whole project overseen by Mike, the vinyl version of Tubular Bells – 50th Anniversary Edition contains a brand new half-speed Abbey Road master of the original 1973 mix of the album by Miles Showell and a second record that unites several beguiling versions of Oldfield’s masterwork for the first time.

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Mike Oldfield – The Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Tour: Live At The Royal Festival Hall (2022) Blu-ray 1080p AVC DD 5.1 + BDRip 720p/1080p

Title: Mike Oldfield – The Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Tour: Live At The Royal Festival Hall
Released: 2022
Genre: Progressive Rock

Released: Kaleidoscope Entertainment
Duration: 1:26:54
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio Codec: AC-3
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video 25827 kbps 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio # 1: Dolby Digital Audio English 448 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps / DN -31dB
Audio # 2: Dolby Digital Audio English 448 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps / DN -31dB
Size: 21.62 GB

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Tubular Bells, the best-selling instrumental album of all-time, with this packed, Live Tour Double Disc release. Experience the iconic music of Tubular Bells like never before, performed in a new cinematic style alongside live musicians and world-class performers, featuring BAFTA nominated, Samuel West, as MC. Also featured is a fascinating 90 minute behind-the-scenes documentary, narrated by BAFTA winner, Bill Nighy.

DISC 1 – FULL LIVE SHOW
Filmed over three nights at the world-famous Royal Festival Hall, this contemporary masterpiece incorporates the
beauty of the original music with dance and acrobatic feats by the Circa Contemporary Circus. Includes stunning
performances of Moonlight Shadow, Mike Oldfield’s biggest single hit, along with Summit Day, from his Guitars
album, and The Gem, a new work by Musical Director Robin Smith.

DISC 2 – TOUR DOCUMENTARY
The feature-length documentary explores the history and legacy of Tubular Bells, and closely follows the dramatic
story behind the spectacular new production.

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Mike Oldfield – Five Miles Out (2013) [DVD-Audio ISO]

Mike Oldfield – Five Miles Out
Artist: Mike Oldfield | Album: Five Miles Out | Style: Pop Rock, Progressive Rock | Year: 2013 | Quality: DTS 5.1 96kHz/24Bit, Dolby AC3 5.1 48kHz/16Bit | Bitrate: ~448-1510 kbps | Tracks: 5 + 3 videos | Size: ~3.33 Gb | Recovery: 3% | Covers: only front | Release: Mercury Records Ltd., Universal ‎(374 043-7), 2013

Mike Oldfield was back into the extended composition game with Five Miles Out, continuing the “Taurus” series with the mammoth “Taurus II,” an entertaining enough romp with references to Irish music, brass bands and Oldfield’s beloved Morris. The true standout, though, was the title track, a paean to flying in bad weather that could easily double for Oldfield’s feelings about the sort of monumental critical drubbing he was accustomed to receiving. “Family Man” became a huge worldwide hit for Hall & Oates. (more…)

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Mike Oldfield – Discovery (1984/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Mike Oldfield – Discovery (1984/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:29 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download  – Source: Q0buz | © Universal Music GmbH

Originally released in June 1984, the UK Top 20 album contains two songs which Oldfield would later include on Two Sides his career best of – ‘The Lake’, an expansive instrumental reflection on Lake Geneva and ‘To France’, a classic folk-pop ballad featuring Maggie Reilly. Featuring the newest remaster. (more…)

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