Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell SuperVinyl

Numbered, Limited Edition 180g SuperVinyl LP from Mobile Fidelity!
Mastered from the 1/2" / 30 IPS Analog Master to DSD 256 to Analog Console to Lathe!
Among the Most Influential, Inventive, Invigorating Records Ever Released: Run- D.M.C.'s Raising Hell Brought Hip-Hop to the Mainstream, Includes "Walk This Way"!
Sourced from the Original Master Tapes and Pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl: Mobile Fidelity Numbered-Edition 180g 33RPM SuperVinyl LP Heightens Rick Rubin's Production!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 209/500!
With Run-DMC's "Raising Hell", the band tore down the walls of the mainstream for hip hop and anchored it there forever. The crossover hit "Walk This Way", recorded with the rockers of Aerosmith, still sounds like a revolution today. He's got it all: hard rock riffs, scratches, gripping rhythms and of course the raps and energy of Run, Jam Master Jay and DMC. The New Yorker's third album was the first of the genre to go platinum three times. They were the right narratives in the right style and rhythm at the right time.
The remastering for Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab reveals a much more stormy dynamic than previous editions, which underlines Rick Rubin's crisp production in great detail. The LP with 33 1/3 rpm on SuperVinyl will be released with a sequential serial number.
Run-D.M.C.'s Raising Hell remains the turning point at which hip-hop crashed through mainstream barriers and never left. Anchored by the crossover smash "Walk This Way," the 1986 blockbuster still sounds like a revolution unfolding in real time. It has everything – hard-rock riffs, turntable scratching, itchy rhythms, hit singles – not the least of which are the trio's invigorating raps and inseparable chemistry. And now it's the first rap record afforded audiophile treatment, courtesy of Mobile Fidelity's simply illin' edition.
Sourced from the original master tapes and pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl, the reissue label's numbered-edition 180g 33RPM SuperVinyl LP elevates Raising Hell to sonic heights on par with its musical and cultural significance. Ranked the 209th Greatest Album of All Time by Rolling Stone, 43rd on Pitchfork's Greatest Albums of the 1980s, one of the Top 100 Albums of All Time by TIME – and included on "Best of" lists by Spin, Paste, XXL, Entertainment Weekly, and basically every other significant media outlet – the triple-platinum effort rocks the house.
Benefitting from the ultra-low noise floor and groove definition of SuperVinyl, Raising Hell unleashes a torrent of massive dynamics and tsunami of frequency-plumbing details underlined by Rick Rubin's taut, crisp, albeit raw and streetwise production. Just as the Queens-based group both defined what hip-hop could represent – and displayed just how big it could get – Rubin's work melded ear-worm hooks, savvy drum loops, metal-leaning guitars, and, of course, Run and D.M.C.'s cross-fire lyrical interplay into watertight frameworks bursting with ideas, tones, samples, and beats. Heard anew on Mobile Fidelity vinyl, Raising Hell is in every regard the aural equivalent of a direct-to-console 1970s classic. And it sounds as fresh as hell.
As for the music, it ranks among the most influential, inventive, and invigorating ever released – rap or otherwise. Vanguard artists such as Ice-T, Eminem, Jay-Z, and Public Enemy's Chuck D – who declared it his all-time favorite and "the first record that made me realize this was an album-oriented genre" – have testified on behalf of its brilliance. And never mind the presence of the Top 5 single "Walk This Way," whose power helped make Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry relevant for the first time in nearly a decade – and literally put Run-D.M.C. in bedrooms ranging from the Bronx to Bartlett to Bad Axe.
Look instead to the rest of the entirely filler-free set, be it the corkscrew turns, slippery wordplay, and "My Sharona"-meets-"Mickey" mixology of the boisterous "It's Tricky," the fat-but-minimized bass grooves and warped turntable wobble of the hysterical "You Be Illin'," chimes-accented inertia and boombox-on- shoulder thunder of the now-iconic "Peter Piper," or voice-as-percussion attack of the funky "Is It Live." With Raising Hell, the answer to the question is always affirmative – a sensation bolstered by the fact the group always had something to say.
The definition of Golden Age Hip-Hop in every way, Run-D.M.C. avoids the negativity and misogyny that later plagued the style, spinning assertive tales about identity (the biographical and culture-changing "My Adidas"), work ethics ("Perfection"), and, most notably, pride (the Harriet Tubman- and Malcom X.-referencing "Proud to Be Black"). Pavement-packed inner cities, tree-lined suburbs, and cornfield-rimmed rural areas would never again be the same. And rocking a rhyme that's right on time would become trickier than ever.

Features:

• Numbered, Limited Edition
• 180g Vinyl LP
• 33rpm
• Mastered from the 1/2" / 30 IPS Analog Master to DSD 256 to Analog Console to Lathe
• Mastered by Krieg Wunderlich at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Sebastopol, CA on GAIN 2
• Pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl
• Gatefold Jacket

Selections:

Side A
1. Peter Piper
2. It's Tricky
3. My Adidas
4. Walk This Way
5. Is It Live
6. Perfection
Side B
1. Hit It Run
2. Raising Hell
3. You Be Illin'
4. Dumb Girl
5. Son of Byford
6. Proud to Be Black