Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL or MoFi) is a company that produces reissues of albums. All releases are made from the first generation master tape and mastered at half-speed, which MFSL claims allows for an improved sound quality. In the past, MFSL has produced cassette tapes, LPs, CDs, and VHS releases of a few titles. In addition, each title is licensed to be mastered, manufactured, and sold within a specific time frame with limited quantities produced.

Although Mobile Fidelity existed prior to 1978, MFSL's popularity began at that time with the Original Master Recording^TM LP. The first titles in the series were classical releases by the Mystic Moods Orchestra. The label hit mainstream appeal with their release of Supertramp's Crime of the Century. Other popular titles followed, such as Steely Dan's Katy Lied, George Benson's Breezin', Fleetwood Mac's S/T, and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

MFSL's releases became highly publicized in 1981 when they released a box set of Beatles recordings. This comprised all thirteen original British versions of their albums, mastered from the original Abbey Road Studio master tapes. The releases used high-density "virgin" vinyl and half-speed mastering. Each album cover had a picture of the actual studio tape in its box along with the engineer's log sheet. An album-sized booklet displaying the original album covers was also included. The box set was followed up with box sets of Frank Sinatra and The Rolling Stones.

Releases

MFSL UltraDisc & UltraDisc II 24 kt. Gold CD Releases

Cat. No. Artist(s)/Title(s)/Date/Notes

UDCD JS-1 Various Artists Jazz Sampler 2/1987 Later designated as UDCD 501

UDCD JS-1A Various Artists Jazz Sampler (tracks differ somewhat from JS-1) 12/1987 Also later designated as UDCD 501

UDCD CS-1 Various Artists Classical Sampler 4/1987 Later designated as UDCD 502

UDCD 503 Joe Jackson Will Power 8/1987 First Non-Sampler Gold CD

UDCD 504 Brad Miller The Power and the Majesty [Vol. 1] 1/1988 Sound Effects

UDCD 505 Supertramp Crime of the Century 11/1987

UDCD 506 Dave Grisman Hot Dawg 1/1988

UDCD 507 Blind Faith Blind Faith 9/1987

UDCD 508 Various Artists A Very Special Christmas 10/1988 Proceeds donated to Special Olympics

UDCD 509 Huey Lewis and the News Sports 3/1988

UDCD 510 Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick 8/1988

UDCD 511 Police, The Synchronicity 1/1989

UDCD 512 Moody Blues Days of Future Passed 2/1989

UDCD 513 Allman Brothers Band Eat a Peach 6/1988 2:1 Series

UDCD 514 Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington Together for the First Time/The Great Reunion 12/1988 2:1 Series

UDCD 515 Steely Dan Aja 10/1988

UDCD 516 Elton John Madman Across the Water 3/1989

UDCD 517 Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon 4/1988

UDCD 518 Pink Floyd Meddle 4/1989

UDCD 519 Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman 11/1988

UDCD 520 Def Leppard Pyromania 6/1989

UDCD 521 Beach Boys, The Surfin' U.S.A./ Surfer Girl 5/1989 2:1 Series

UDCD 522 John Klemmer Touch 7/1989

UDCD 523 Jefferson Airplane Crown of Creation 8/1989

UDCD 524 Jethro Tull Stand Up 9/1989

UDCD 525 Carpenters, The A Song for You 12/1989

UDCD 526 Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 10/1989 2:1 Series

UDCD 527 Band, The Music from Big Pink 11/1989

UDCD 528 Sting The Dream of the Blue Turtles 1/1990

UDCD 529 Various Artists After the Hurricane: Songs for Montserrat 2/1990 1). Profits to Montserrat Relief Fund. 2). Original Master "Recordings" misprint

UDCD 530 Hall and Oates Voices 2/1990 Original Master "Recordings" misprint

UDCD 531 Jeff Beck Wired 3/1990 Original Master "Recordings" misprint

UDCD 532 Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells a Story 4/1990 Original Master "Recordings" misprint on UltraDisc II

UDCD 533 Who, The Tommy 5/1990 2:1 Series

UDCD 534 Supertramp Breakfast in America 6/1990

UDCD 535 Boz Scaggs Silk Degrees 7/1990

UDCD 536 Elton John Honky Chateau 8/1990

UDCD 537 Pink Floyd The Wall 9/1990 2 CD Set. Limited 1 Year license period.

UDCD 538 Frank Sinatra Songs for Swingin' Lovers 8/1990

UDCD 539 Joe Jackson Night and Day 10/1990

UDCD 540 Jefferson Airplane Volunteers 11/1990

UDCD 541 Harry Nilsson Nilsson Schmilsson 11/1990

UDCD 542 Various Artists Red Hot and Blue 12/1990 Profits to AIDS research and relief

UDCD 543 Elton John Tumbleweed Connection 1/1991

UDCD 544 Brian Adams Reckless 2/1991

UDCD 545 Steely Dan Gaucho 3/1991

UDCD 546 Sting Nothing Like the Sun 4/1991 First use of italicized UltraDisc logo

UDCD 547 John Coltrane Blue Train 5/1991

UDCD 548 B.B. King Live at the Regal 5/1991

UDCD 549 Earl Klugh Finger Paintings 7/1991

UDCD 550 Who, The Quadrophenia 6/1991 2 CD Set

UDCD 551 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Damn the Torpedoes 8/1991

UDCD 552 Santana Abraxas 9/1991

UDCD 553 Eric Clapton Slowhand 10/1991

UDCD 554 Stevie Wonder Innervisions 11/1991

UDCD 555 Roy Orbison Mystery Girl 12/1991

UDCD 556 Lynyrd Skynyrd Second Helping 1/1992

UDCD 557 Keith Richards Talk is Cheap 2/1992

UDCD 558 Allman Brothers Band Live at Fillmore East 3/1992 2 CD Set

UDCD 559 Blood, Sweat & Tears Blood, Sweat & Tears 4/1992

UDCD 560 Elvis Presley That's the Way it Is 5/1992

UDCD 561 Who, The Who are You 6/1992

UDCD 562 Cream Disraeli Gears 7/1992 Mono & Stereo versions on 1 CD

UDCD 563 Cannonball Adderley Somethin' Else 8/1992

UDCD 564 Robert Cray Strong Persuader 1/1993 UltraDisc II only release, though UDCD 568 preceded it by 3 months.

UDCD 565 Tom Petty Hard Promises 9/1992

UDCD 566 Jimmy Reed Jimmy Reed At Carnegie Hall / The Best of Jimmy Reed 8/1992 2:1 Serie

UDCD 567 John Lee Hooker The Healer 9/1992

UDCD 568 Queen A Night at the Opera 10/1992 1st UltraDisc II only release. Profits to AIDS Research.

UDCD 569 Rush Moving Pictures 11/1992

UDCD 570 Joni Mitchell Wild Things Run Fast 12/1992

UDCD 571 U2 War 1/1993

UDCD 572 Traffic Mr. Fantasy 2/1993

UDCD 573 Dave Mason Alone Together 2/1993

UDCD 574 Aretha Franklin I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You 3/1993

UDCD 575 Otis Redding Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul 3/1993

UDCD 576 Moody Blues In Search of the Lost Chord 4/1993

UDCD 577 Albert King Born Under a Bad Sign 4/1993 MFSL Exclusive

UDCD 578 Manhattan Transfer Extensions 5/1993

UDCD 579 Steve Winwood Arc of a Diver 6/1993

UDCD 580 Def Leppard Hysteria 5/1993

UDCD 581 Willie Nelson Shotgun Willie / Phases and Stages 6/1993 2:1 Series. Final MFSL long-box release.

UDCD 582 Boston Third Stage 7/1993

UDCD 583 James Brown Live at the Apollo, 1962 8/1993

UDCD 584 Neil Diamond Hot August Night 8/1993 2 CD Set

UDCD 585 Derek & The Dominos Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs 9/1993 2:1 Series

UDCD 586 Ella Fitzgerald Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas 9/1993

UDCD 587 The Three Tenors - Carreras / Domingo / Pavarotti In Concert with Mehta 9/1993

UDCD 588 Queen News of the World 10/1993

UDCD 589 Bobby Short Live at the Cafe Carlyle 10/1993 2:1 Series

UDCD 590 Rush 11/1993

UDCD 591 Todd Rundgren Something / Anything? 2/1994 2 CD Set

UDCD 592 Mel Torme & Buddy Rich Together Again - For the First Time 12/1993

UDCD 593 Muddy Waters Folk Singer 12/1993 MFSL Exclusive

UDCD 594 Eric Clapton 461 Ocean Boulevard 11/1993

UDCD 595 Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother 1/1994

UDCD 596 Modern Jazz Quartet, The Blues at Carnegie Hall 1/1994 MFSL Exclusive

UDCD 597 Heart Heart 2/1994

UDCD 598 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Tarkus 3/1994

UDCD 599 Charles Mingus Mingus at Carnegie Hall 3/1994

UDCD 600 John Lennon & Yoko Ono Double Fantasy 4/1994

UDCD 601 Art Blakley & the Jazz Messengers A Night in Tunisia 4/1994

UDCD 602 Neville Brothers Fiyo on the Bayou 5/1994

UDCD 603 John Hiatt Bring the Family 5/1994

UDCD 604 John Mellencamp Scarecrow 6/1994

UDCD 605 John Coltrane Giant Steps 7/1994

UDCD 606 Alan Parsons Project Tales of Mystery and Imagination 6/1994

UDCD 607 Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto Getz / Gilberto 7/1994

UDCD 608 Eric Clapton Just One Night 8/1994 2 CD Set

UDCD 609 Traffic The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys 8/1994

UDCD 610 Queen The Game 9/1994

UDCD 611 Steve Winwood Back in the High Life 9/1994

UDCD 612 Moody Blues On the Threshold of a Dream 10/1994

UDCD 613 Jean Michel Jarre Oxygene 10/1994

UDCD 614 Rush Signals 10/1994

UDCD 615 XTC Skylarking 11/1994

UDCD 616 John Mayall Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton 11/1994

UDCD 617 Allman Brothers Band Brothers and Sisters 11/1994

UDCD 618 Robbie Robertson Robbie Robertson 12/1994

UDCD 619 Dr. John In the Right Place / Gumbo 12/1994 2:1 Series

UDCD 620 Albert Collins, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland Showdown! 2/1995

UDCD 621 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Trilogy 1/1995

UDCD 622 Vangelis Chariots of Fire 4/1995

UDCD 623 Aretha Franklin Lady Soul / Aretha Now 2/1995 2:1 Series

UDCD 624 U2 The Unforgettable Fire 3/1995

UDCD 625 Cream Live Cream / Live Cream Volume II 1/1995 2 CD Set

UDCD 626 Neville Brothers Brother's Keeper 3/1995

UDCD 627 Dave Brubeck We're All Together Again for the First Time 1/1995

UDCD 628 Bob Marley & the Wailers Exodus 3/1995

UDCD 629 Traffic Traffic 4/1995

UDCD 630 Woody Herman The Fourth Herd / The New World of Woody Herman 4/1995 2:1 Series

UDCD 631 Joe Cocker Sheffield Steel 5/1995

UDCD 632 Modern Jazz Quartet At the Music Inn, Vol.2 w/ Sonny Rollins 5/1995

UDCD 633 Rick Wakeman Journey to the Centre of the Earth

UDCD 634 John Mellencamp The Lonesome Jubilee 6/1995

UDCD 635 Albert Collins Cold Snap 6/1995

UDCD 636 Elliot Lawrence The Music of Elliot Lawrence 6/1995 2:1 Series

UDCD 637 Utopia Oops! Wrong Planet 7/1995

UDCD 638 Sy Oliver and His Orchestra Oliver's Twist / Easy Walker 7/1995 2:1 Series

UDCD 639 Eric Clapton Eric Clapton 8/1995

UDCD 640 Marianne Faithful Broken English / Strange Weather 8/1995 2:1 Series

UDCD 641 Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee Sonny & Brownie 8/1995

UDCD 642 R.E.M. Murmur 9/1995

UDCD 643 Moody Blues Every Good Boy Deserves Favour 9/1995

UDCD 644 Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster 7/1995

UDCD 645 Howlin' Wolf The Real Folk Blues 9/1995

UDCD 646 Joan Baez Diamonds and Rust 11/1995

UDCD 647 Jean Michel Jarre Equinoxe 10/1995

UDCD 648 Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond Quartet Blues in Time 10/1995

UDCD 649 Cat Stevens Teaser and the Firecat 10/1995

UDCD 650 U2 The Joshua Tree 11/1996

UDCD 651 Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Ella & Louis Again 12/1995 2 CD Set

UDCD 652 Count Basie & His Orchestra April in Paris 11/1995

UDCD 653 Eric Clapton Backless 5/1996

UDCD 654 Bob Marley & the Wailers Catch a Fire 11/1995

UDCD 655 Oscar Peterson Trio w/ Milt Jackson Very Tall 12/1995

UDCD 656 Bernard Herrmann, National Philharmonic Orchestra The Fantasy Film World of Bernard Herrmann 12/1995 MFSL Exclusive

UDCD 657 Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated R&B From the Marquee 2/1996 MFSL Exclusive

UDCD 658 Billie Holiday Body and Soul 1/1996 MFSL Exclusive

UDCD 659 B.B. King Lucille 2/1996

UDCD 660 Derek & The Dominos In Concert 3/1996 2 CD Set

UDCD 661 Cat Stevens Three: Numbers, IZITSO & Back to Earth 1/1996 3 CD Set Deluxe Packaging

UDCD 662 John Mayall The Blues Alone 2/1996

UDCD 663 Neil Young Old Ways 1/1996 MFSL Exclusive

UDCD 664 Counting Crows August and Everything After 3/1996

UDCD 665 Sonic Youth Goo 4/1996

UDCD 666 Nirvana Nevermind 3/1996 Bonus tracks

UDCD 667 Searchers, The It's The Searchers / Take Me for What I'm Worth 4/1996 2:1 Series MFSL Exclusive

UDCD 668 Queen A Day at the Races 4/1996

UDCD 669 Traffic Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory 5/1996

UDCD 670 Bing Crosby & Buddy Bregman Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings 5/1996 MFSL Exclusive

UDCD 671 Moody Blues To Our Children's Children's Children 6/1996

UDCD 672 Bernard Herrmann, London Festival Rec Ensemble The Four Faces of Jazz 8/1996 MFSL Exclusive

UDCD 673 Jam, The All Mod Cons / Sound Effects 6/1996 2:1 Series

UDCD 674 Steve Winwood Talking Back to the Night 6/1996

UDCD 675 Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida 7/1996

UDCD 676 Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker Hooker 'N' Heat 7/1996 2 CD Set

UDCD 677 R.E.M. Reckoning 8/1996

UDCD 678 Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive! 9/1996 2 CD Set

UDCD 679 Kinks, The The Kinks (You Really Got Me) & Kinda Kinks 8/1996 2:1 Series

UDCD 680 Bee Gees Trafalgar 9/1996

UDCD 681 Cream Goodbye 9/1996

UDCD 682 XTC Oranges & Lemons 3/1997

UDCD 683 Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk 10/1996

UDCD 684 Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs 10/1996 Bonus Track

UDCD 685 Thelonious Monk Quartet Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival, 1963 Vol. 1 12/1996

UDCD 686 Thelonious Monk Quartet Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival, 1963 Vol. 2 1/1997

UDCD 687 Ten Years After Ssssh / Cricklewood Green 2/1997 2:1 Series

UDCD 688 Ben Sidran Mr. P's Shuffle 12/1/1996

UDCD 689 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Whipped Cream & Other Delights / The Lonely Bull Withdrawn Never Released

UDCD 690 Nirvana In Utero 1/1997

UDCD 691 Steve Winwood Steve Winwood 2/1997

UDCD 692 Bernard Herrmann, National Philharmonic Orchestra The Mysterious Film World of Bernard Herrmann 11/1996

UDCD 693 Searchers, The Meet The Searchers / Sounds Like Searchers 3/1997 2:1 Series

UDCD 694 Zoot Sims w/ The Kenny Drew Trio Zoot Sims in Copenhagen 3/1997

UDCD 695 Velvet Underground, The The Velvet Underground & Nico 4/1997 Bonus Tracks

UDCD 696 Harry "Sweets" Edison & Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis In Copenhagen with Kenny Drew & John Darville's Quartet 5/1997

UDCD 697 Blue Oyster Cult Agents of Fortune 1/1998

UDCD 698 Dinah Washington What a Diff'rence a Day Makes 4/1997

UDCD 699 Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction 5/1997

UDCD 700 Moody Blues Long Distance Voyager 6/1997

UDCD 701 Bernard Herrmann, London Philharmonic Orchestra Music from Great Film Classics 6/1997

UDCD 702 Ted Hawkins The Next Hundred Years 6/1997 Bonus Tracks

UDCD 703 Bud Powell Trio Bouncing with Bud 7/1997

UDCD 704 John Hiatt Riding with the King 7/1997

UDCD 705 Don Henley Building the Perfect Beast 9/1997

UDCD 706 Herbie Hancock Man-Child 8/1997

UDCD 707 Wayne Marsh & The Lee Konitz Quartet Live at the Montmartre Club / Jazz Exchange Vol. 2 8/1997

UDCD 708 Jethro Tull Living in the Past 9/1997 2 CD Set Bonus Tracks

UDCD 709 Cheap Trick Live at Budokan 8/1997

UDCD 710 Louis Armstrong Masters of Jazz - Live in Chicago, 1962 12/1997 Includes bonus tracks

UDCD 711 Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I 10/1997

UDCD 712 Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II 10/1997

UDCD 713 Jimmy Buffet Son of a Son of a Sailor 11/1997

UDCD 714 Steppenwolf Steppenwolf 11/1997

UDCD 715 Edgar Winter Edgar Winter's White Trash 12/1997

UDCD 716 Bee Gees plus Various Artists Saturday Night Fever - Original Movie Soundtrack 1/1998 2:1 Series (2 LPs on 1 CD)

UDCD 717 Oliver Nelson The Blues and the Abstract Truth Withdrawn Never Released

UDCD 718 Moody Blues Seventh Sojourn 2/1998

UDCD 719 Duke Ellington Jazz Party 2/1998

UDCD 720 Jethro Tull Passion Play 3/1998

UDCD 721 Don Henley End of the Innocence 3/1998

UDCD 722 Byrds, The (Untitled) 4/1998 2:1 Series

UDCD 723 Stevie Ray Vaughan The Sky is Crying 4/1998

UDCD 724 Velvet Underground, The White Light / White Heat 5/1998

UDCD 725 Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos Chant 5/1998

UDCD 726 James Taylor Dad Loves His Work 6/1998

UDCD 727 Jeff Beck Blow By Blow 6/1998

UDCD 728 Don McLean American Pie 7/1998

UDCD 729 10CC The Original Soundtrack 7/1998

UDCD 730 Tears For Fears Songs from the Big Chair 8/1998 Bonus Tracks

UDCD 731 John Coltrane Quartet Ballads 8/1998

UDCD 732 Simon & Garfunkel Bookends 9/1998

UDCD 733 Loggins & Messina Full Sail 9/1998

UDCD 734 Jethro Tull Songs From The Wood 10/1998

UDCD 735 Tom Petty Full Moon Fever 10/1998 Gain II System

UDCD 736 Joe Cocker Mad Dogs and Englishmen 11/1998 2:1 Series (2 LPs on 1 CD)

UDCD 737 Moody Blues A Question of Balance 11/1998

UDCD 738 Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny and Mutation / Blue Oyster Cult 5/1999 2:1 Series

UDCD 739 The Squeeze East Side Story 12/1999 Gain II System

UDCD 740 John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman 1/1999 Gain II System

UDCD 741 John Hiatt Slow Turning 1/1999 Gain II System

UDCD 742 Blood, Sweat & Tears Child is Father to the Man 3/1999 Gain II System

UDCD 743 Tony Bennett In Person! With the Count Basie Orchestra 2/1999 Gain II System

UDCD 744 John McLaughlin with the Mahavishnu Orchestra Inner Mounting Flame 2/1999 Gain II System

UDCD 745 Jethro Tull War Child 3/1999

UDCD 746 Jimmy Buffet A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean 4/1999 Gain II System

UDCD 747 Toto Toto IV 4/1999

UDCD 748 Guns 'N' Roses G'N'R Lies 5/1999 Gain II System

UDCD 749 The Pointer Sisters The Pointer Sisters 7/1999 Gain II System

UDCD 750 Counting Crows Recovering the Satellites 6/1999 Gain II System

UDCD 751 Joe Satriani Surfing With The Alien 6/1999 Gain II System

UDCD 752 Rob Wasserman (with Guests) Rob Wasserman Trios 8/1999 Gain II System

UDCD 753 Johnny Winter Second Winter 8/1999 Gain II System

UDCD 754 The Who Who's Next 9/1999 Gain II System

UDCD 755 The Who Live at Leeds 9/1999 Gain II System Bonus tracks

UDCD 758 Roy Orbison Lonely and Blue 10/1999 Gain II System Limited, 2,500 copies.

Special UltraDisc / UltraDisc II Releases

SPCD 007 Various Artists IASCA/MFSL Certified Test Compact Disc 1989 UltraDisc

SPCD 007 Various Artists NACA/MFSL Certified Test Compact Disc 1989 (Alternate) UltraDisc

SPCD 015 Alan Parsons & Steven Court Sound Check: Professional Audio Test Disc 1994 UltraDisc II

SPCD 016 Various Artists UltraDisc II Polygram Labels Sampler Disc 1994 UltraDisc II

SPCD 017 Various Artists UltraDisc II Anniversary Sampler Disc 1995 UltraDisc II

SPCD 018 Alan Parsons & Steven Court Sound Check 2 1996 UltraDisc II

SPCD 019 Alan Parsons & Steven Court Sound Check 2 with Response Analyzer Hardware Withdrawn Never Released View Ad

Cat. No. Artist(s)/Title(s)

Original Master Recording Series - Aluminum CD's

MFCD 2-747 The Firesign Theatre Back From The Shadows (2 CDs) 6/94
MFCD 1-748 The Firesign Theatre Fighting Clowns 10/93

MFCD 1-749 Eddie Hinton Letters From Mississippi 3/93

MFCD 1-750 Webb Pierce Sweet Memories / Sands of Gold 2/93

MFCD 1-751 The Dixie Hummingbirds Every Day and Every Hour / We Love You Like a Rock 12/92

MFCD 1-752 Chris Spedding Café Days 11/92

MFCD 1-753 Toots & The Maytalls, et al. Sunsplash Reggae Festival 10/92

MFCD 1-754 The Nighthawks Open All Nite 9/92

MFCD 1-755 The Phil Woods Quartet More Live 7/92

MFCD 1-756 The Pilgrim Jubilee Singers Walk On / The Old Ship of Zion 6/92

MFCD 1-757 The Amos Garrett, Doug Sahm, Gene Taylor Band Live In Japan 5/92

MFCD 1-758 The Firesign Theatre Dear Friends 4/92

MFCD 1-759 Levon Helm Levon Helm 3/92

MFCD 1-760 Swan Silvertones, Rev. June Cheeks, The Sunset Travelers Raisin' The Roof 2/92

MFCD 1-761 Levon Helm Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars 3/92

MFCD 1-762 The Firesign Theatre Waiting For The Electrician Or Someone Like Him 12/91

MFCD 1-763 The Gospelaires Can I Get A Witness / Bones In The Valley 11/91

MFCD 1-764 Taj Mahal Recycling The Blues and Other Related Stuff 10/91

MFCD 1-765 Taj Mahal Happy Just To Be Like I Am 9/91

MFCD 1-766 Little Milton Age Ain't Nothin' But A Number 8/91

MFCD 1-767 Sensational Nightingales Heart and Soul / You Know Not The Hour 7/91

MFCD 1-768 Amos Garrett I Make My Home In My Shoes

MFCD 1-769 Five Blind Boys of Mississippi My Desire / There's A God Somewhere

MFCD 1-770 Bobby Bland Touch of the Blues / Spotlighting The Man

MFCD 1-771 The Dixie Hummingbirds Live (Hard Gospel Quartet)

MFCD 1-772 The Flying Burrito Brothers The Flying Burrito Brothers

MFCD 1-773 Maxine Sullivan Singing the Music of Burton Lane

MFCD 1-774 Joshua Breakstone 4/4 = 1

MFCD 1-775 Charles Musslewhite Memphis, Tennessee

MFCD 1-776 Quincy Jones Smackwater Jack

MFCD 1-777 Joe Walsh Barnstorm

MFCD 1-778 Zero Here Goes Nothin'

MFCD 1-779 Waylon Jennings The Taker / Tulsa and Honky Tonk Heroes

MFCD 1-780 Big Joe Turner Singing The Blues

MFCD 1-781 Arturo Delmoni Sonatas of Franck and Faure

MFCD 1-782 Harry Belafonte Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall

MFCD 1-783 Charles Mingus Mingus Plays Piano

MFCD 1-784 Zero Nothin' Goes Here

MFCD 1-785 The Firesign Theatre I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus

MFCD 1-786 Claus Ogermann, London Symphony Orchestra Symphonic Dances

MFCD 2-787 Chet Atkins Pickin' My Way (2 CDs)

MFCD 1-788 Procol Harum Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

MFCD 1-789 The James Gang Live In Concert

MFCD 1-790 Original Soundtrack Brideshead Revisited

MFCD 1-791 Dillard & Clark The Fantastic Expedition; Through the Morning, Night

MFCD 1-792 The Youngbloods Elephant Mountain

MFCD 1-793 Procol Harum Home

MFCD 1-794 Phil Ochs Gunfight at Carnegie Hall

MFCD 1-795 Bert Kaempfert The Best of Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra

MFCD 1-796 The Starlight Orchestra In a Christmas Mood

MFCD 1-797 Original Soundtrack Porky's Revenge

MFCD 1-798 Various Artists The Steeple On The Common

MFCD 1-799 New England Christmastide Players New England Christmastide II

MFCD 1-800 Spirit Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus

MFCD 1-801 Sonny Rollins Way Out West

MFCD 1-802 Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Minnesota Orchestra Ravel: Balero, Rhapsodie Espagnole, Pavine

MFCD 1-803 Al Stewart Year of the Cat

MFCD 1-804 The Alan Parsons Project I, Robot

MFCD 1-805 Art Pepper and Eleven Modern Jazz Classics

MFCD 1-806 Andrew Powell & Philharmonic Orchestra Best of The Alan Parsons Project

MFCD 2-807 Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington The First Time / The Great Reunion (2 CDs)

MFCD 1-808 Leonard Slatkin, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Opus 78

MFCD 1-809 Shelly Manne & Friends My Fair Lady

MFCD 1-810 David Foster The Best of Me

MFCD 1-811 Thomas Schippers, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Strauss: Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel

MFCD 1-812 Brad Miller The Power and the Majesty, Vol.2

MFCD 1-813 Various Artists The Blues: A Real Summit Meeting

MFCD 1-814 Susskind, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Dvorak: Piano Concerto in G Minor

MFCD 1-815 The Kazu Matsui Project (featuring Robben Ford) Standing on the Outside

MFCD 4-816 Various Artists Woodstock (4 CD Set)

MFCD 1-817 Thomas Schippers, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Schubert: Symphony No. 9

MFCD 1-818 Michael McNabb Computer Music

MFCD 1-819 Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Minnesota Orchestra Bartok: Music for String, Percussion and Celesta

MFCD 1-820 Aretha Franklin Live at the Fillmore West

MFCD 1-821 The Mystic Moods Orchestra Another Stormy Night

MFCD 1-822 The Tubes The Tubes

MFCD 1-823 Procol Harum A Salty Dog

MFCD 2-824 Joe Cocker Mad Dogs and Englishmen (2 CDs)

MFCD 1-825 Johnny Mathis Heavenly

MFCD 1-826 Max Roach & Clifford Brown Daahound

MFCD 1-827 Modern Jazz Quartet Live at the Lighthouse

MFCD 1-828 Miles Davis Someday My Prince Will Come

MFCD 1-829 Loggins and Messina Sittin' In

MFCD 1-830 The Grateful Dead From The Mars Hotel

MFCD 2-831 Roy Budd, London Symphony Orchestra The Final Frontier (2 CDs)

MFCD 1-832 The Staple Singers Be Altitude: Respect Yourself

MFCD 1-833 Jimmy Raney Two Jims and a Zoot

MFCD 1-834 The Firesign Theatre How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All

MFCD 1-835 Booker T. & The M.G.'s McLemore Avenue

MFCD 1-836 Maxine Sullivan Songs from the Cotton Club

MFCD 1-837 Steve Cropper With a Little Help from My Friends

MFCD 1-838 Albert King Live Wire / Blues Power

MFCD 1-839 Harry Betts and Orchestra Jazz Soul of Dr. Kildare

MFCD 1-840 Billie Holiday In Rehearsal

MFCD 1-841 Charlie Barnet Big Band 1967

MFCD 1-842 Zoot Sims Zoot At Ease

MFCD 1-843 Maynard Ferguson The Blues Roar

MFCD 2-844 Sarah Vaughan The Complete Live In Japan Set (2 CDs)

MFCD 1-845 The Wind in the Rigging Seafaring Songs

MFCD 1-846 Procol Harum Broken Barricades

MFCD 1-847 Humble Pie Rock On

MFCD 1-848 Rick Wakeman Journey To The Centre Of The Earth

MFCD 1-849 Ike and Tina Turner River Deep, Mountain High

MFCD 1-850 Rosemary Clooney and Duke Ellington Blue Rose

MFCD 1-851 Elmer Bernstein Movie and T.V. Themes

MFCD 1-852 V. Fedoseyev, USSR TV & Radio Large Symphony Orch. Glazunov: Symphony No. 2

MFCD 1-853 Shelly Manne Mannekind

MFCD 2-854 Various Artists A Tribute to Steve Goodman (2 CDs)

MFCD 1-855 Sarah Vaughan A Time In My Life

MFCD 1-856 John Prine Aimless Love

MFCD 1-857 Muggsy Spanier & His Dixieland Band The Gem of the Ocean

MFCD 1-858 V. Fedoseyev, USSR TV & Radio Large Symphony Orch. Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

MFCD 1-859 Nekrasov, USSR TV & Radio Large Symphony Orch. The Evening Bells

MFCD 1-860 V. Fedoseyev, USSR TV & Radio Large Symphony Orch. Borodin: Polovetsian March / Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain

MFCD 1-861 Igor Bril Quartet Live at the Village Gate

MFCD 1-862 Ermler & Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra Popular Symphonic Pieces by Soviet Composers

MFCD 1-863 Evgeny Svetlanov, USSR Symphony Orchestra Medelssohn: Italian Symphony No. 4 / Rossini: William Tell Overture

MFCD 1-864 Ovchinnikov, USSR TV & Radio Large Symphony Orch. Tchaikovsky: Francesca Da Rimini, Romeo & Juliet

MFCD 1-865 S. Sondetskys, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra Haydn: Concerto for Cello with Orchestra

MFCD 1-866 Dimitriev, USSR Ministry of Culture Orchestra Rhapsody On a Theme by Paganini / Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

MFCD 1-867 V. Fedoseyev, USSR TV & Radio Large Symphony Orch. Glazunov: Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Opus 5

MFCD 1-868 Roger Williams The Roger Williams Collection

MFCD 1-869 Lazarev, Soloists Ensemble of the Bolshoi Theatre Works by Denisov, Schnittke, Gubaidulina, Mansurian

MFCD 1-870 Various, USSR TV & Radio Large Symp. Orch., Soloists Tchaikovsky: Incidental Music From Hamlet, et al.

MFCD 1-871 Emil Gilels Schumann: Nachtstucke, Opus 23 / Schubert: Moments Musicaux, Opus 24

MFCD 1-872 Willie Dixon I Am the Blues

MFCD 1-873 Pete Seeger The Bitter and the Sweet

MFCD 1-874 Various Artists: Ray Charles, Lightning Hopkins, et al. Riot In Blues

MFCD 1-875 Kovalev & the Shostakovich Quartet Glazunov: Quintet for Two Violins and Two Cellos in A Major, Quartet No. 7 for Two Violins

MFCD 1-876 USSR TV & Radio Large Symphony Orchestra Choral Music by Soviet Composers

MFCD 1-877 Arturo Delmoni Songs My Mother Taught Me

MFCD 1-878 Evgeny Svetlanov, USSR Symphony Orchestra Arensky: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2

MFCD 1-879 Daryl Hall & John Oates Past Times Behind

MFCD 1-880 The Firesign Theatre Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers

MFCD 1-881 Oleg Lundstrem & His Orchestra In Swing Time

MFCD 1-882 Evgeny Svetlanov, USSR Symphony Orchestra Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Opus 64

MFCD 1-883 New England Christmastide Players New England Christmastide

MFCD 1-884 Herb Steward One Brother

MFCD 1-885 Evgeny Svetlanov, USSR Symphony Orchestra Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Opus 27

MFCD 1-886 Art Farmer Here's That Rainy Day

MFCD 1-887 Leonid Chizhik Mobius Strip

MFCD 1-888 Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Moscow Radio Symphony Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3, Concerto for Violin & Orchestra

MFCD 1-889 Caterina Valente & the Count Basie Orchestra Caterina '88

MFCD 1-890 Various Soviet Artists Jazz From the USSR

MFCD 1-891 Lazarev, Soloists Ensemble of the Bolshoi Theatre Stravinsky: L'Histoire Du Soldat, Septet, Pribaoutki, Ragtime

MFCD 1-892 Evgeny Svetlanov, USSR Symphony Orchestra Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Selection from Undine

MFCD 1-893 Lazarev, Soloists Ensemble of the Bolshoi Theatre Rodion Shchedrin: The Lady with a Lapdog

MFCD 1-894 Various Artists Moscow Jazz Festival Vol. 1 / Jazz '84

MFCD 1-895 Grigori Ginzburg The Works of Rubenstein & Liszt

MFCD 1-896 Kakhidze, State Symphony of Georgia Giya Kancheli: Symphony No. 5, Bright Sorrow

MFCD 1-897 Glazunov Concerto for Violin & Orchestra; Symphony No. 4, Stenke Razin

MFCD 1-898 Allegro Jazz Ensemble Sphinx

MFCD 1-899 David Oistrakh Khachaturian: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra in D Minor; Sibelius: Concerto for Violin

MFCD 1-900 Evgeny Svetlanov, USSR Symphony Orchestra Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead, The Bells

MFCD 2-901 Kakhidze, USSR TV & Radio Large Symphony Orchestra A. Khachaturian: Gayane, A Ballet in Three Acts (2 CDs)

MFCD 1-902 David Azarian Trio Stairway to Seventh Heaven

MFCD 1-903 USSR Symphony Orchestra Artiomov: The Wat to Olympus

MFCD 1-905 Vladimir Malinin Prokofiev, Kobekin, Bobylev, Schnittke

MFCD 1-906 Various Artists The Works of Modern Composers of Moscow

MFCD 1-907 Evgeny Svetlanov, USSR State Academy Orchestra Tikhon Khrennikov: Symphony No. 2, Concerto No. 1 for Violin & Orchestra in D Major, Opus 14

MFCD 1-908 Soviet Jazz Ensemble Boomerang

MFCD 1-909 David Oistrakh, S. Richter Shostalovich: Sonata for Violin & Piano, Opus 134; Cesar Franck: Sonata for Violin & Piano in A Minor

MFCD 1-910 Various Artists The Tragedy, The Music: A Collection Of Armenian Folk Songs

MFCD 1-911 Various Artists Highlights from "Alternatives": Soviet Avant Garde

MFCD 1-912 Sergei Stadler Bach Partitas

MFCD 1-914 Gosteleradio Quartet Glinka: Quartet No. 2; Miaskovsky: Quartet No. 13; Tanaev: String Trio

MFCD 1-915 Alfred Schnittke Chamber Pieces

MFCD 1-916 Moscow Chamber Jazz Ensemble Kadans

MFCD 1-917 Edison Denisov Works for Small Ensembles

MFCD 1-918 Vyacheslav Artiomov Songs, Hymns and Dreams

MFCD 1-919 Emil Gilels Prokofiev: Sonata for Klavier No. 8; Visions Fugitives Opus 134

MFCD 1-920 V. Postnikova & G. Rozhdestvensky Brahms: Souvenir De La Russie, 16 Waltzes & Variations on a Theme by Schumann

MFCD 1-921 Gidon Kremer Ysaye: Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Opus 27

MFCD 1-922 Grigori Sokolov Beethoven: Sonata, Opus 106 (Hammerklavier)

Special Product Promotional / Sampler MFSL Releases

SPCD 1-008 Various Artists Delco Chevrolet / Pontiac Sampler

SPCD 1-009 Various Artists Delco Cadillac Sampler

SPCD 1-010 New England Christmastide Musicians Delco Christmas Sampler

SPCD 1-014 Various Artists MFSL Gospel Sampler CD

The BBC Great Original Performances Series - (BBC Records)

Mobile Fidelity was the sole distributor of these CDs in North America. Not technically on MFSL, but nonetheless packaged as MFSL Original Master Recordings.

BBC CD 588 New Orleans Jazz Artists BBC Great Original Performances Series

BBC CD 589 Chicago Jazz Artists BBC Great Original Performances Series

BBC CD 590 New York Jazz Artists BBC Great Original Performances Series

BBC CD 597 Louis Armstrong BBC Great Original Performances 1923-1931

BBC CD 598 Fats Waller BBC Great Original Performances 1927-1934

BBC CD 601 Bix Beiderbecke BBC Great Original Performances

BBC CD 602 Bessie Smith BBC Great Original Performances 1925-1933

BBC CD 603 Johnny Dodds BBC Great Original Performances 1923-1929

BBC CD 604 Jelly Roll Morton BBC Great Original Performances

BBC CD 643 Duke Ellington BBC Great Original Performances 1927-1934

BBC CD 644 Joe Venuti/ Eddie Lang BBC Great Original Performances 1926 -1933

BBC CD 647 Hot Town BBC Great Original Performances Series

BBC CD 648 Bing Crosby BBC Great Original Performances 1927-1934

BBC CD 649 Al Bowly w/ Ray Noble BBC Great Original Performances 1931 - 1934

BBC CD 650 Various Artists Dance Bands USA(1925 - 1935)

BBC CD 651 Various Artists Love Songs (1929 - 1935)

BBC CD 654 Various Artists Movie Musicals (1927 - 1936)

BBC CD 655 Various Artists Swing! Big Bands (1929 - 1936)

BBC CD 662 Various Artists Best of Jazz Classics

BBC CD 664 Miff Nichols, Red/Mole Jazz Classics (1925 - 1930)

BBC CD 665 Fred Astaire Shall We Dance?

BBC CD 666 Various Artists Swing! Small Groups (1931-1936)

BBC CD 667 Various Artists Best of the Calssic Year

BBC CD 681 Various Artists Dance Bands UK

BBC CD 682 Fletcher Henderson Swing (1929 - 1937)

BBC CD 683 Various Artists Blues (1923 -1933)

BBC CD 688 Bob Crosby Bob Crosby (1937-1938)

High Quality Releases

In addition to the regular weight LP releases and box sets, MFSL also released seven UHQR titles. These included:

• Supertramp - Crime of the Century (MFQR 1-005)
• Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (MFQR 1-017)
• Earl Klugh - Finger Paintings (MFQR 1-025)
• Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman (MFQR 1-035)
• The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot (MFQR 1-084)
• The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (MFQR 1-100)
• Maazel & The Cleveland Symphany - Feste Romane (MFQR 1-507)
• Sir George Solti & The London Philharmonic - Holst: The Planets (MFQR 1-510)

Each was a single-record box set limited to 5000 copies, each individually numbered. UHQRs were pressed on heavy-weight (200 gram) virgin vinyl.

CD

MFSL entered the CD market with its line of aluminum CDs. The CD line continued into 1987, when the Ultradisc was first released. The Ultradisc was a gold plated disc. MFSL claims that the surface is more reflective and that Ultradisc titles sound superior to their standard release counterparts. MFSL located the master tape for each title, and the tape was transferred directly to the CD master.

Comparison and additional information

Each Ultradisc was made in Japan, until the release of Queen's A Night at the Opera. At this point, discs were made exclusively in the US and given the Ultradisc II designation. Many of the early Ultradisc titles were re-pressed in the US, and given the Ultradisc II designation.

Current MFSL releases include SACDs and LPs, as well as the traditional Ultradisc II gold discs. The original company folded in November, 1999 when their main distributor went bankrupt, taking a large chunk of deliverable money with them. In 2002, the label was resurrected by Music Direct and has been producing well received Super Audio CDs, GAIN 2 Ultra Analog Limited Edition vinyl, Ultradisc II Gold CDs and Ultradisc CD-Rs since then.

MFSL has had a small number (four) of mastering engineers over the years. Currently, Shawn R. Britton is mastering all MFSL titles (as he has been since 1996), and at the time of this writing is coming up to speed with LP cutting. Engineers Stan Ricker (denoted by "SR/2" in the deadwax) and Jack Hunt ("JH") mastered all of MoFi's half-speed vinyl releases in the 1970s and 1980s.

See also

• List of record labels
• Loudness war
• Dynamic range

External links

• Official site