Beat 40th anniversary vinyl

Vinyl


40th anniversary stereo mix by Steven Wilson and Robert Fripp of King Crimson’s sparkling 1982 release, Beat. On 200g super-heavyweight vinyl for the first time. Mastered by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering from original studio masters.

Beat LP cover   
 
Seven years after King Crimson had ‘ceased to exist’, King Crimson’s reinvention as a new quartet consisting of Robert FrippBill Bruford, Adrian Belew and Tony Levin brought about a surprising new era, which delighted fans old and new. 
 
Stylistically very different from the King Crimson of the 1970s, this new line-up incorporated rock with electronica, funk, pure pop, modern avant-garde, and a complex variety of musical textures and influences. The intricacies of the playing and details in the compositional style became a key influence on sub-genres such as math rock.  
 
Beat was released eight months after Discipline and marked the first occasion where a KC line-up had remained intact for a two album stretch and the first album by the band to employ a separate producer, Rhett Davies
 
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