Ryuichi Sakamoto – Async

I listened three times so far. There are two spots in B (B3, B4) with channel distortions lasting less than 1 sec. For headphone listening, they were somewhat obvious, but with speakers, they were not distracting at all for me. Overall, very good pressing in sound perspective.

This has the same mastering and cut as the Milan version, but has a much better pressing with pretty much no noise. This is the version to get

My pressing is fine, i must have been lucky. Music is obviously awesome

there's nothing in the scans that suggest that the disc is encoded for any region. is this a region a or region free disc?

My US pressing sounds ok, a little surface noise in the quieter moments, but not distracting at all. Overall happy to have this unique masterpiece on wax.

great music, but there seems to be a problem with the pressing. I have unwanted noise reocurring on different tracks. It's a new copy and doesn't have any visible damage. Doesn't sound like a scratch, but some noise I havn't heard in any vinyl before. And reading the other comments I seem not to be the only one.

This record reminds me of being stuck on a slow rail replacement bus, on a rainy night in the dead of winter after a horrible day working in Liverpool. While that might give the impression that I don't like this record, I actually find these thoughts very comforting. And listening to this LP puts me in the mind of being glad to be heading home after a hard day.

One of my favourite vinyls of all time. Great on a sunday evening. Love this!

absolutely stunning album. i listened to it in its entirety while walking thru a tbilisi fortress and it was...a life changing experience. mr. sakamoto said that he intended to make an album that sounds like the soundtrack to a tarkovsky movie that does not exist....i think he more than achieved that with this album.

I was looking at the other comments about the noise, and while my vinyl plays the 2 LPs entirely fine, the surface noise is a bit loud during the quiet bits. I would recommend getting the Japanese version if you can. As for the music itself, it's amazing and unlike anything I've heard before.