Jimi Hendrix - Valleys Of Neptune mp3 album

Great pressing quality and packaging. Dead silent vinyl. Hell yes

One for the aficionados: there some nice playing, albeit fairly loose in places, an interesting and pleasant enough listen for Hendrix heads, but like the majority of his posthumous releases I expect that these are works in progress rather the final products.

My copy has IFPI 94W6 but matrix says A0101513873-0101 15 C03, otherwise same digipak/open disc version as this.

My copy does have the same barcode BUT...manufactured in EU.

Yes, The difference is, The much Better Quality of The Us-Pressings (Vinyl and Cover). I prefer The Us-Pressings (RTI and QRP)! The best Pressings of Hendrix were from RTI and I like The Sterling Mastering. ????

This version comes in a standard jewel case, rather than in a cardboard digipak.

Like most of the Hendrix archival reissues, this is a random shuffle of notes and sketches towards a potential album, rather than anything that really hangs together and has a flow, or otherwise makes sense. Variable sound and some rhythm section recorded in the 1980s doesn't help. Some have said this might have been mastered in digital; I can believe that. There are some good tracks here, but I can't help but feel that this is really for completists. ~*~

One should never expect an unfinished studio album--in which many tracks were recorded after Hendrix's death--to compare with a legendary artist's established classics. However, this album deserves a 5 out 5 regardless, as this is not simply an album but a document of time. The music is a rare glimpse into the future that Hendrix could have headed towards. Nostalgic, skillful, inspiring... These are words that only serve as a fraction of the "Experience".