Michael Fremer posted a fascinating video the other day (cued up here). Extremely long and almost pedantic in execution, the real fun starts at around 34 minutes in, where he leads us on a journey of the UMG Tape Vault at Iron Mountain, located outside Boyers PA. It just might be the best video he's done in the entire history of The Tracking Angle, a loose association of vinyl lunatics and reviewers, some who escaped the shackles of places like Analog Planet. Hailed by some as one of the foremost experts of the format, his guide to buying a copy of the White Album (Beatles) eventually made me purchase the mythical German 1985 direct metal mastered edition of that work, on white vinyl itself. Granted the word ‘expert’ has lost all meaning since 2020, but the hunt paid off, since I can't imagine hearing that album any other way. The drumkit for instance comes stomping out of the headphones in a way that never ceases to amaze. Guitars sparkle, while the brass and string arrangements have depth which reveals inner voices and character. George Harrison would be proud, and George