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Pressed on Splattered Coloured vinyl Limited Edition run of just 1000 Official Vinyl ReIssue, Fully Endorsed by the Band Remastered from original Master Tapes by Pete Sonic Boom Kember Spacemen 3 Housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Lyrics Full Colour Inner SleeveLook through any self respecting quality music publication or web site and peruse through a list of the most important and influential psychedelic albums of all time and you can be pretty sure to see KALEIDOSCOPES Tangerine Dream ranked high up there, along with your Sgt Peppers, your Forever Changes Satanic Majesties Request Axis Bold As Love Odyssey amp Oracle and The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators..This seminal album of quintessential English psychedelia is one of the most highly prized artifacts that define the psychedelic genre and like some of the most highly collected and prized albums from that time, mint copies can now go for as much as 2500Thankfully courtesy of those nice people at Kaleidoscope Sounds for just 1 of that cost, you can now pick up a reissue of this album. Thankfully though, after several years of painstaking detective work, chance encounters with Universal archivists, heavy negotiations with major label legal executives and some good fortune working alongside the band, Kaleidoscope Sounds were able to finally reissue this masterpiece on 24th November 2017. Fifty years to the day since the albums original release on 24th November 1967.Roll on 6 years and those 2000 copies that were pressed back then are long sold out and early editions of that reissue are also now selling for significant sums too and so much so, that we thought it was only fair and about time to press up some more copies.Like the 50th anniversary release, this release features the remastered work of Mr Pete Kember aka SONIC BOOM of SPACEMEN 3 fame. Who from his Lisbon studio, painstakingly remastered the album from the original tapes.The remastering of these tapes though is only part of the story, as along with the discovery of these, a significant number of tapes and other material was also discovered which is penned for a future release when the band96s entire works will be presented in a definitive boxset of all four of their studio albums including all their Fairfield Parlour recordings plus BBC Sessions, live recordings, alternative takes, new mixes, unreleased tracks and material from the band96s own archive including preKaleidoscope demos when they were known as both The Sidekicks and The Key. Kaleidoscope Vinyl is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £24.99 +P&P