{"title":"End of Financial Year Sale - 30% Off","description":"\u003cp\u003e2023 releases all 30% off for a limited time!\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ammonia-mint-400-vinyl-reissue-black-vinyl","title":"Ammonia - Mint 400 Vinyl Reissue - Black Vinyl - 30th Anniversary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlack Vinyl Pressing - 30th Anniversary - Limited Edition - Last pressing ever!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIncludes printed liner notes by Dave Johnstone from Ammonia and 30th Anniversary Hype sticker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHailing from Perth, Western Australia, Ammonia (Dave Johnstone, Allan Balmont and Simon Hensworth) burst onto the Australian and International music scene with their breakout debut album Mint 400 on the Murmur (Sony) label in 1995. Singles \"Drugs\", \"Ken Carter\" and \"Suzi Q\" were released and the album in the formats of CD, Cassette and a limited edition vinyl, which is highly sought after by collectors. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLove As Fiction Records is proud to license and re-issue the Mint 400 album on vinyl for the first time since original release, with the follow updates:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e - Remastered Audio (by Chris Hanszek of Hanszek Audio in 2023)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e - Restored original artwork\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e - 180gm black vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e - Printed liner notes by Dave Johnstone from Ammonia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e - 30th Anniversary hype sticker (on outer clear sleeve)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe records were pressed in Australia by Suitcase Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMint 400 was recorded by Kevin \"Caveman\" Shirley and the band over an intense recording period at Festival studios in Sydney, directly to analogue tape. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"From humble beginnings in our home town of Perth, we managed to record an album that took us around the world and gave us experiences we could have only dreamt of\" - Dave Johnstone, Ammonia, January 2023. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLove As Fiction Records is a one-person record label, founded in Perth Western Australia by Matt during the pandemic. Matt’s love of music and all indie 90’s, particularly Australian bands has driven the release of records by Bluebottle Kiss and Ammonia to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmmonia Mint 400 - All Recordings ℗ 1995 Sony Music Entertainment Australia. 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With legendary producer Wayne Connolly at the helm, the band produced their most commercially successful album to date. “Size” saw the band refine their sound with “subtlety and restraint’ but still paired with their trademark guitar riffs, Greg Atkinson (Vocals, Guitar) took his melodies and lyrics to another level, at times the songs are paired back to enable them to come to the fore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album was recorded and mixed to tape on one of the last Neve analogue consoles (as mythologised in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2306745\/\"\u003eSound City\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edocumentary) to operate in Australia’s golden era of sound engineering. Whilst these tapes are now lost to time, fortunately prior to the album release in 2001 (via Jebediah’s label Redline Records), a flat transfer of the analogue tapes was made to digital audio tape, preserving them for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFast forward to 2023 and Big Heavy Stuff has made this available to produce a remastered version of Size of the Ocean. Chris Hanszek (Hanszek Audio) has taken the original transfer and remastered the album to suit the analogue formats of vinyl and cassette (for the first time) as well as a digital download. As a reflection of the quality of the original recording and mix, the album only required minimal intervention to update it for the 2023 release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo maximise the fidelity of the new vinyl release, the album is now split over a limited-edition double vinyl (one disc in translucent blue and the other in translucent yellow), which allowed space to include some additional tracks on side D. 3 tracks, originally seen on the “Mutiny” EP (2003), now close out the last side of the double album. A very limited-edition cassette version of the album will also be released, featuring the original album tracks only.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe new artwork graphic design by Matt Bayes, with new mountain \"Size of the Ocean\" logo just for the cassette release and pictured on the t-shirt design.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe vinyl album release will be pressed in Australia by Suitcase Records. 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