Joy Division ‎– Unknown Pleasures

I definitely have this version, the etchings in the runout matches, and it has a textured sleeve. So there seems to be variations in the sleeve for the same pressing.

I find the brightness of the pressing a bit distracting for some
Reason! Still amazing but... you know, something about that original sound

A great pressing on dead silent wax.

The sleeve was textured as described, and the internal contents included the reproduced album liner on cardstock as well as an additional poly lined archival sleeve that the album actually sits in.

Compared to the digital version of the 2007 remaster this pressing has a much wider and vacuous soundstage. Though the album is a cavernous wall of resonating reverb the music is brilliantly mixed in a way where each instrument is given it's own frequency to breath. This allows for you to easily discern each instrument from one another within the caucaphony, and to easily tell where their physical placement is among the soundstage. There are even low levels of echoes that I've never noticed on some of the tracks where you can hear the decay of the word or note far too long after the sound is heard.

In a head to head shoot out many people still insist on the quality of an original pressing compared to these remasters but this vinyl repressing is still head an shoulders above any digital or radio version of the songs I've heard before. That being said, the CD versions of these master tapes (2007 & 2015) are said to be still heavily compressed and not up to snuff with the CDs released in 89' and 91'.

Hey, has anyone come across matrix numbers S-13 on side A and S-11 on side B?
Inner sleeve has rounded corners.
Please reply if this means something to you, since I can't figure out which variation I've got. Many thanks

Oh the poor souls who paid for this! It is NOT pressed on red vinyl. It is simply a cheaper black vinyl that appears "red" when held up to a light source like a high wattage bulb etc... This is otherwise known as a scam as this record was NEVER pressed on any color vinyl other than traditional black. You can look at any Factory Records information from this time and see there is no mention whatsoever of any color vinyl pressings. If you buy this after reading the information I just posted you deserve to be ripped off and will be very disappointed when you get your "red" vinyl only to discover its black.

This album is way more than 5/5 stars. And I feel that this version is one of the best pressings around. Not the fancy red vinyl but certainly it has the essence of the sound - which really, in my opinion, is what actually matters. If there is one album that you should own on vinyl this is it...

Hi,
If you have this copy for sale please let me know

My runout Finnishes with 03/ per cent. It's not a different one is it ?as it's 1992 uk re release