Yaz Upstairs At Eric's

Numbered, Limited Edition! Pressed at RTI!
A 1980s Landmark: Ex-Depeche Mode Member Vince Clarke and Vocalist Alison Moyet Create Synthpop Classic!
Smoky Blues Purring, Cool Jazz Vibes, Disco-Tinged Beats, and Dancefloor Minimalism Add Up to Electropop Genius!
All the Grooves Hit the Low-Frequency Targets: LP Mastered on Mobile Fidelity's World-Renowned Mastering System and Pressed at RTI!
Includes Hits "Don't Go", "Situation" and "Only You"!
The 1980's will forever be remembered for electropop sensations, yet few, if any, are quite as sensational as Yazoo's Upstairs at Eric's. A standard-setting mélange of smoky blues singing, jazzy arrangements, disco-tinged beats, and dancefloor vibes, the smash debut fits equally as well at a late-night club as it does in a living room, where the record's complexity and exoticism takes listeners hostage. No wonder the 1982 landmark remains one of the decade's most essential albums.
Mastered on Mobile Fidelity's world-renowned mastering system and pressed at RTI, this numbered limited edition Silver Label LP breathes with a decongested openness, textural richness, and tonal palette never before experienced on previous analog or digital editions. Alison Moyet's inimitable vocals, such a huge part of the record's appeal, are dramatically enhanced, her sensual timbre, bittersweet crooning, and knockout range now encompassing the full frequency spectrum and projecting outward in a way that traverses the flatness of the original pressings.
Indeed, her bluesy deliveries are at once elegant and exuberant, and give collaborative partner Vince Clarke free range to construct beat architectures that encompass freewheeling disco, house music, uptempo dance, and chilled-out pop. The former Depeche Mode member also layers on elegant keyboard melodies, establishing contagious hooks and electronic-laced landscapes that preceded the techno explosion and do so with a cooler elegance. Tape loops, random field-noise dialogues, and synth-stroked bass notes add to what's nothing less than a perfect collusion of moody paranoia and soulful warmth.
Not many musicians can claim to have been instrumental in two of the most astonishing debut albums in just two years. Vince Clarke can. After "Speak & Spell" with Depeche Mode, he released the LP "Upstairs at Eric's" in 1982 with his newly formed band Yazoo. As a founding member of Depeche Mode, he may have produced the more coherent album. But "Upstairs at Eric's" convinces with substance and ambition - and is light years ahead in terms of feeling.
Clarke's partner Alison Moyet adds a powerful blues voice to his sparkling synth sound and the combination results in dancefloor classics like "Don't Go" and "Situation". "Only You", actually written for Depeche Mode and rejected by their band leader Dave Gahan, would probably have sounded silly and robotic on "Speak & Spell". Moyet's voice gives the song a bittersweet, engaging note and was an instant success. MFSL is now releasing this trend-setting synth-pop manifesto of the 80s in its Silver Label series as a 140 g LP. The varnish cut for this LP was done by Paul Stubblebine on the Gain 2 Ultra Analog System in Sebastopol. The LP will be released as a limited edition with a sequential serial number.
While a cousin to synth-pop LPs by the likes of the Eurythmics, Soft Cell, OMD, and Depeche Mode, Yazoo's Upstairs at Eric's is singular for its chemistry between Moyet and Clarke and a carefree batch of songs high on emotion, style, and substance.
Get your collector's copy of this quintessential 1980's masterpiece today!
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Silver Label
Since the beginning of 2011, MFSL has been releasing a new series of LPs under the product name Silver Label. These will be remastered and cut at Mobile Fidelity on the mastering chain designed by Tim de Paravicini and pressed on 140g vinyl at RTI in Los Angeles. With a lined rice paper inner sleeve, a protective intermediate sleeve and a sequential serial number on the outer cover, the packaging meets the same high standards as the well-known Original Master Recording series. Mobile Fidelity is planning a series of experimental releases, and is willing to make do with a copy of the master tape if the original tape cannot be made available. All LPs will be released as limited editions and are likely to become sought-after collector's items.

Features:

• Numbered, Limited EditionMo
• Fi Silver Label Vinyl Series
• 1/4"/15 IPS Analog Copy to Analog Console to Lathe
• Mastered and Cut on the famous MoFi Sound Lab state-of-the-art Tim de Paravacini-designed mastering system
• Pressed at RTI on Audiophile-Grade Standard Vinyl

Selections:

Side A
1. Don't Go
2. Too Pieces
3. Bad Connection
4. I Before E Except After C
5. Midnight
6. In My Room
Side B
1. Only You
2. Goodbye Seventies
3. Situation
4. Winter Kills
5. Bring Your Love Down (Didn't I)