KISS - "Hotter Than Hell" (Sonic Reconstruction 2026)

 

©1974 KISS Catalog, Ltd./UMG 
℗2026 Hipper Than Hell Records 

Newly XDR* remastered album. 
*Xtended Dynamic Range 

01 - Got To Choose [00:00:00] 02 - Parasite [00:03:53] 03 - Goin' Blind [00:06:56] 04 - Hotter Than Hell [00:10:33] 05 - Let Me Go, Rock 'N Roll [00:14:03] 06 - All The Way [00:16:20] 07 - Watchin' You [00:19:37] 08 - Mainline [00:23:23] 09 - Comin' Home [00:27:13] 10 - Strange Ways [00:29:51] 

 

So, I've always loved "Hotter Than Hell". In fact it's in my top 5 KISS albums and it's not No. 5!

But, as I heard many, many of us complain, I too did have a slight problem with the way it has always sounded, in various degrees, and this is that it's horribly distorted. I've always connected the sound of the album with an image of over-heating amps and the rattling of metal, everything that was in the studio while it was recorded and everything of metal did ring and buzz, and was recorded with the instruments. Not good.

So, in an attempt to get rid of all that I deconstructed the best high resolution sound image I had and make it as wide and dynamic as possible with a reversed compression technique (sonic decompression). Then I filtered as delicately as possible quite some excessive noise and EQ'd it so that the good distortion is there, as raw as it should be, and most of the nasty distortion on guitars and snare mostly would be gone. And I added some low end, because it is a kind of thin, squashed production to begin with. And, as the final touch I mastered it to my optimum headroom benchmark, DR12.

I'm totally happy with the results, and wanted to share it with you, the KISS fan that is here for a reason, otherwise you would not have read this all, right?!

Enjoy!

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Turn Me Up!™ 

To preserve the excitement, emotion and dynamics of the original performances this album is intentionally quieter than some. For full enjoyment simply Turn Me Up! (www.TurnMeUp.org) 

 

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KISS - 2006 - ALIVE! The Millenium Concert (Sonic Restoration 2025) [ complete album stream ]

 

Alive! The Millennium Concert is a live album by the American hard rock band Kiss. It was released on November 21, 2006, as part of the Kiss Alive! 1975–2000 box set.

It was recorded on December 31, 1999, at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia and included songs that had never before been performed by the original lineup ("Heaven's on Fire", "I Love It Loud" and "Lick It Up").

Based on the excellent reimagined and expanded album image by Mick E. Gee. in 2010 now for the first time ever with extended dynamics and recreated transients which makes it for a more 3D natural sounding listening experience, which also causes less listening fatique, so you can turn it up louder if you want.

Mick's original liner notes: "This is the official release. HOWEVER, I changed the tempo of each track to varying degrees without changing the pitch. In most cases this can leave some noise artifacts. In this case they are non-existant, or at the very least almost completely unnoticable. As you all know the Millenium disc is a very slow and sluggish performance. I think I've adjusted each track to a tempo which makes this disc a ton more enjoyable. 2,000 mann and god of thunder are included and mixed in with the other tracks. I switched the left and right channels on shout it out loud because it had ace's guitar in the left side whereas he is on the right side on every other track. It is now more uniform."

 

Newly XDR* remastered album.

*Xtended Dynamic Range

 

01 - Psycho Circus

02 - Shout It Out Loud

03 - Deuce

04 - Heaven's On Fire

05 - Into The Void

06 - Firehouse

07 - Do You Love Me

08 - Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll

09 - I Love It Loud

10 - Lick It Up

11 - 2,000 Man

12 - God Of Thunder

13 - 100,000 Years 

14 - Love Gun

15 - Black Diamond

16 - Detroit Rock City

17 - Beth

18 - Rock And Roll All Nite

 

Turn Me Up!™

To preserve the excitement, emotion and dynamics of the original performances this music video is intentionally quieter than some. For full enjoyment simply Turn Me Up! (www.TurnMeUp.org)

 

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KISS - "Tokyo Went Crazy With KISS" (Tokyo Japan 1978)(Sonic Restoration 2026) Turn Me Up!™

 

For me personally the 1978 "ALIVE II" tour of Japan is the pinnacle of what we could enjoy from the original 4 before they split up. This show presented here is one of my all-time favorite audience recording of the band. Sadly the version out there is brick-walled and compressed to a pulp which causes listening fatique. I reintroduced peaks and valleys in the sound, recreate the transients and the soundstaging, re-EQ'ed the whole so it would sound as good as possible and it sounds like you were actually there in the audience. This recording became one of the best (Audience Recordings) out there IMO, if not only for the amazing performances and the wild participation of the audience.

Enjoy!

Recorded March 29th, 1978 at Budokan, Tokyo, Japan.
Promoter: Udo Artists
Other act(s): Bow Wow
Reported audience: 11,000 **SOLD-OUT
Recorded by Mr. Peach

01 - Announcement
02 - Monitor Check
03 - Introduction
04 - I Stole Your Love
05 - King Of The Night Time World
06 - Ladies Room
07 - Firehouse
08 - Love Gun
09 - Let Me Go, Rock And Roll
10 - Makin' Love
11 - Christine Sixteen
12 - Shock Me
13 - Guitar Solo
14 - I Want You
15 - Calling Dr. Love
16 - Shout It Out Loud
17 - Bass Solo
18 - God Of Thunder
19 - Drum Solo
20 - God Of Thunder (continued)
21 - Rock And Roll All Nite
encores:
22 - Detroit Rock City
23 - Beth
24 - Black Diamond
25 - Announcement


Turn Me Up!™

To preserve the excitement, emotion and dynamics of the original performances this music video is intentionally quieter than some. For full enjoyment simply Turn Me Up!


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Ace Frehley - 'Anomaly' (Deluxe Edition)(XDR Remaster 2025)

©2009/2017 Entertainment One U.S., LP 

℗2025 Hipper Than Hell Records 

 

01 Foxy & Free [00:00:00] 

02 Outer Space [00:03:40] 

03 Pain In The Neck [00:07:26] 

04 Fox On The Run [00:11:35] 

05 Genghis Khan [00:15:05] 

06 Too Many Faces [00:21:12] 

07 Change The World [00:25:32] 

08 Space Bear (Extended) [00:29:41] 

09 A Little Below The Angels [00:35:18] 

10 Sister [00:39:33] 

11 It's A Great Life [00:44:20] 

12 Fractured Quantum [00:48:18] 

 Deluxe Bonus Tracks 

13 Hard For Me [00:54:36] 

14 Pain In The Neck (Slower Version) [00:58:18] 

15 The Return Of Space Bear [01:03:05]

 

Download the remastered album

HERE

Midnight Moves Compilatieteep 1 (20th Anniversary Edition) 2CD coming early 2016

Coming Soon... 

DJ Eddy Lite & DJ Mi Jah @ Midnight Moves, The Birthday Battle, 

recorded @00:00est on October 20th 1995 @ Noorderligt Tilburg, The Netherlands.

2CD 2015 High Definition FULL resolution Remaster 
Digital Download FLAC /Apple AAC | 2CD | Musicassette C90 Teep (Limited Edition)

Includes performances by The Gathering / Natacha Atlas / The Young Gods / David Bowie / Therapy? / Red Hot Chili Peppers / Porcupine Tree / Voïvod / Laika / Ozric Tentacles / The Chemical Brothers / Moloko / Ultraviolence / Coroner / Tekton Motor Coöperation 

Midnight Moves Compilatieteep Vol. 2 coming early 2016

Part 2 of the Noorderligt Afterparty with DJ Eddy Lite & DJ Mi Jah @1:30est on October 20th 1995 @ Noorderligt Tilburg, The Netherlands.

2CD 2015 High Definition FULL resolution Remaster 
Digital Download FLAC /Apple AAC | 2CD | Musicassette C90 Teep (Limited Edition)

Including performances by Heather Nova / Red Hot Chili Peppers / Cardiacs / Beastie Boys / Whale / Monster Magnet / FRONT 242 / KONG / Primus / Boss Hog / Coptic Rain / Lucky People Center / The Osmonds vs. Utah Saints / NIN / Tom Wilson / POL / Einstürzende Neubauten / Fear Factory / The Del-Monas

How awesome would this all be if we could get this on [2 X 2] 12 inches of #Vinyl?

In order to make this possible we need funds. Yes, the shows WILL be available somewhere this December for FREE as a digital download but CD's, Musicassettes and vinyl releases ofcourse will cost you a small fee for production costs/ shipping etc. You pay for services here and NOT for products.

preordering physical products available from December 10th 2015 (planned official release date december 26th 2015), you may do so by sending 5 euro  to our PayPal account* stating clearly your personal contact info. (Not publicly ofcourse ~ send an email to hipperthanhellrecords*gmail.com first before you paypal us. THX)

Donations always welcomed!
To do this all it sometimes takes a lot of money to keep it all running. If you consider donating we would be much grateful and determined to make your stay even more comfortable in the future!

THX!
Eddy Lite
Hipper Than Hell Records & Filmworks

*Hipper than Hell PayPal page

paypal.me/hipperthanhellrecs

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(c)2015 Hipper Than Hell Records & Filmworks ~ Mi Jah Productions Inc., a Partnership.
(p)1995 Bat Cave, Noorderligt Tilburg, The Netherlands

Liner notes: "Alleen voor Promotionele Doeleinden, Niet te Koop, Vaak en Hard afspelen.
Thanks for technical support and bootcamping: Noorderligt Tilburg, Bat Cave Tilburg, MuziekKantenwinkel Tilburg (013) Kees Bril, Elpee Den Bosch,
& U!"

MY MISSION

In the past I have been distributing my work on various BitTorrent-portals. It can be a great community and for years it has been. But in the last year things have been changing and I have been looking for other ways to reach my audience and give them an opportunity to choose for themselves as to how loud they want their music to play.

After months of research and brainstorming I have made a decision, and opened this blogspot. In the coming months I'm going to try to make every past release available here and updates will be posted regularly too. This will mainly be commonly known music, classic albums that I feel deserve a better representation than those versions available in the store today. Next to that there will be out-of-print rarities as well as demo recordings from artists that faded from the scene years ago but made music too damn exciting to be lost in outer space.

Make no mistake about it, I do NOT support illegal downloading. But, if someone already has purchased a particular title and is not satisfied with the way the actual music is represented on the disc, I see no reason why downloading an alternative can't be or even shouldn't be an option. The key to 'supportive' and/or 'fair' downloading/sharing lies within the moral standards of the downloader. If you own a title I'm offering there's no reason to not download my remastered product. If you don't own it then no-one including me can force you to buy it afterwards. But the artists in particular will benefit if you do. See, it's them you hurt the most by downloading music for free without buying any of their products. And since all things circulate, you as the consumer will be hurt as well. Ending up with less and less choices.

In the last decade technology and in particular in this field has been evolving tremendously. Sadly, things have changed negatively too. The before mentioned 'Loudness Wars', and not less acknowledgable, (music)filesharing in an illegal unmoral fashion. Though rights representives have fought this trend, they have not been able to change this landscape. (Not all that is written is all there is, but that's another story). Again, copyright-infringement guardians are not able to get rid of illegal downloading. And the way I see it, they shouldn't have to. We, the audiences and the producing companies can. It's just a matter of giving and making the right choices. I honestly believe that if a (potential) customer has a choice and the product is truly worth it's pricetag, people will buy it. For too long we have been fed products that were too pricey with quality and choice dropping each passing year. Too much money ends up in the wrong pockets and the little competition to the giant multi-nationals is buthered by either them or the unaware and/or ignorent public.

Call me a dreamer but I want that all to change. And I'll devote all my free time to help and make that happen, and with all my pleasure! I have been reading, writing and discussing this subject for years and I know there's a crowd out there that feels just like me. Hundreds already know of my activities and standpoint. I'd like to see that number grow. Not because I'm in need of attention but the subject is! It's great to see that in the last few years more and more people and organisations are sharing my point of view and started similar activities. It only has fed me with more willpower and enthousiasm to take this 'crusade' to the next level.

So, use my services wisely but most of all enjoy! Enjoy life, music and all other things we can share and experience in this 21st century with all of it's technology and possibilities. It's your life and you make it!

Kind Regards,

The litE One



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