Burning The Ground Exclusive 1988

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“Super-Mix Club” is a Japan-only Mini-LP released by American female singer, songwriter, producer and actress Debbie Gibson featuring remixes from her debut album “Out Of The Blue”.

A child prodigy, she started writing songs when she was 5 years old and learned record production at the age of 12. She studied classical piano at New York’s Juliard School of Music and has appeared in several Broadway stage productions, most notably, “Les Miserables” and in the London theatre production of “Grease”.

Gibson released her debut album Out of the Blue in 1987, which spawned several international hits, later being certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. One of those singles, “Foolish Beat”, made Gibson the youngest female artist to write, produce, and perform a Billboard Hot 100 number-one single.

Gibson is the sole songwriter on all of her singles to reach the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100. She was recognized by ASCAP as Songwriter of the Year, along with Bruce Springsteen, in 1989.

After years of writing and producing her own material, a demonstration tape of Gibson’s submitted to a radio personality was eventually shared with an executive at Atlantic Records. Based solely on Gibson’s original song, “Only in My Dreams”, she was signed to a development deal and began a promotional tour of club venues throughout the United States.

Gibson spent much of 1986 and the beginning of 1987 building her songwriting catalog, while continuing to play club dates. During her promotional tour, Gibson continued attending classes at Calhoun High School in Merrick, New York, where she later graduated as an honor student. Diane Gibson, Debbie’s mother and manager, accompanied her daughter on many of these track dates. “We played dance clubs, straight clubs, and gay clubs,” Diane has said.

The single “Only in My Dreams” was released in December 1986 and landed in the Billboard Hot 100 chart beginning in May 1987, peaking at number four that September. Atlantic Records and Gibson worked to complete her first album as a result of the good showing by the single.

Following the success of “Only In My Dreams”, “Shake Your Love” was released as the follow-up single and reached the Billboard top five. The “Shake Your Love” video was choreographed by Paula Abdul and was the first time MTV had visited Gibson on a video shoot.

In 1987, while performing at nightclubs throughout the United States, Gibson recorded her debut album, Out of the Blue. Along with producer Fred Zarr, Gibson wrote, recorded, and produced it in four weeks. Four singles from the album reached the top five of the Hot 100 chart: “Only in My Dreams”, “Shake Your Love”, “Out of the Blue”, and the number-one hit “Foolish Beat”, followed by “Staying Together”, which performed more modestly, reaching number 22. “Foolish Beat” set a record, making Gibson at 16 the youngest artist to write, produce, and perform a Billboard number-one single, as cited in the 1988 Guinness Book of World Records. She remains the youngest female artist to have done so. Out of the Blue became a hit album, and she had success in the UK and southeast Asia, filling stadiums with her Out of the Blue tour. By the end of 1988, Out of the Blue had gone triple platinum.

SIDE A:
Shake Your Love (Club Mix) 5:54
Out Of The Blue (Drumapaella) 4:05
Only In My Dreams (Club Mix) 6:32

SIDE B:
Foolish Beat (Extended Mix) 6:44
Out Of The Blue (Club Mix) 5:52
Shake Your Love (Bassa Pella) 3:33

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
OBI Strip: Near Mint
Insert: Near Mint

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Atlantic – P-6269
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Mini-Album
Country: Japan
Released: Jun 25, 1988
Genre: Electronic
Style: Freestyle, Synth-pop

CREDITS:

• Executive-Producer – Doug Broadhead*
• Producer – Gibson*, Zarr*
• Written-By – D. Gibson*

NOTES:
Includes insert with lyrics in English and Japanese.

Buy the Mini-LP at DISCOGS

VINYL TRANSFER & AUDIO RESTORATION:
-DjPaulT
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THE GEAR:
Turntable: Technics SL-1200MK7
Cartridge/Stylus:  Ortofon 2M Black PnP MkII
Turntable Isolation Platform: ISO-Tone™ Turntable Isolation Platform
Platter: Pro Spin Acrylic Mat
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck
Phono Pre-amp: Pro-Jec Tube Box DS2
Tubes: Genalex Gold Lion 12AX7 ECC83/B759 Gold Pins Vacuum Tube – Matched Pair
DAC: Alpha Design Labs GT40a USB DAC
Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans: Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner

SOFTWARE:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling/Dither: iZotope RX Advanced 2
Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Removal: Manual
FLAC/MP3 Conversion: dBpoweramp
M3U Playlist: Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

**24bit FLAC Only Available For Seven Days!

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