The sound of vinyl. There's nothing like the warm, deep and smooth sound of your favorite album or LP from a vinyl record. Vinyl is also the only place to find so many of the rarities, exclusives and limited editions unavailable in any other format.

The feel of vinyl. The personal, tactile experience of vinyl is another beauty of this format. Huge multicolor images, unique pressings and print techniques expand the artists' ability to communicate their album art in a resolution almost infinitely more engaging than pixels on a screen.

The love of vinyl. In a world of bits and bytes, the feeling of owning, touching and keeping your favorite recorded music is a unique and singular experience, and one artists haven't forsaken. Artists are putting more into the creation of their records than ever creating totems as much a part of the statement as the music.

A vinyl collection, whether one record or a million, is a must-have for any music fan.

“Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It’s not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There’s a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
 
Maybe that's why music fans across all genres are returning to this timeless format.
 
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Steve Hiett

<ul>
<li>First reissue since its original release in Japan in 1983 </li>
<li>Remastered from the original masters </li>
<li>140-gram vinyl </li>
<li>Gatefold jacket </li>
<li>16-page photography book with liner notes </li>
</ul>
Track Listing: 
A1 Blue Beach - Welcome To Your Beach  A2 Never Find A Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)  A3 By The Pool  A4 Roll Over, Beethoven - Out Of The Beach  A5 In The Shade  A6 Looking Across The Street  A7 Long Distance Look B1 Hot Afternoon  B2 Crying In The Sun  B3 The Next Time  B4 Miss B.B. Walks Away  B5 Sleep Walk  B6 Standing There 
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For the first time since its inception 36 years ago, Steve Hiett’s elusive "Down On The Road By The Beach" is finally made available outside of Japan. Most recognized in the fashion sphere as an English photographer and graphic designer, Hiett‘s transportive audio portraits amplify his serpentine guitar to the infinite blue, recorded across Paris, Tokyo and New York with no coastline in sight. Now widely celebrated as a desert island disc, very little is actually known of its unfathomable genesis. 
A career devotee of Brian Wilson’s ground breaking harmonies, Hiett shot The Beach Boys for Rolling Stone - as well as The Doors, Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix (in one of his final performances at the 1970 Isle Of Wight Festival) - while establishing himself as a fashion photographer. Decamping to Paris in 1972, he began what would become 20-year collaborations with Vogue Paris and Marie Claire, printing his signature warm, saturated and vibrantly hued snapshots. 
In 1982, representatives from Tokyo’s Galerie Watari visited him to propose a solo exhibition. Asking if he could insert a 7” of original music into the back of the exhibition catalogue, Hiett laid down "Blue Beach - Welcome To Your Beach" in a Parisian radio station, playing all of the instruments himself, and two more cuts in New York with Yoko Ono, The Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan hired-gun Elliot Randall. Once dispatched, the phone began ringing off the hook with requests for him to fly to Tokyo. Assuming these long-distance callers were wanting him to check proofs for the book, it wasn’t until he arrived that he discovered CBS/Sony had facilitated an entire album. Heitt hastily gripped some petty cash, bought a guitar and retreated to his hotel room to start writing. 
Entering the studio the following day, he was further surprised by a waiting room of session players known as Moonriders - one of Japan’s most acclaimed rock bands of the 1980s. Intimidated by their indecipherable sheet music, Hiett suggested Randall join them and with money being no object for major labels at the time, his wingman was on the next plane out of New York to finalise the high production indulgence. Near-ambient arrangements that float in a space between The Durutti Column, Steve Cropper and Ashra, "Down On The Road By The Beach" also crowns Hiett the master of recontextualization with his zero-gravity blues visions of Roll Over Beethoven, Santo &amp; Johnny’s Sleep Walk and the 1967 Eddie Floyd soul hit Never Found A Girl. 
Produced in coordination between Be With, Efficient Space and the artist, this definitive reissue is restored from original masters with vivid reproductions of the "Down On The Road By The Beach" exhibition catalogue, intended to accompany its original release, and extensive liner notes penned by fellow Steve Hiett obsessive Mikey IQ Jones.

Steve Hiett / Down on the Road by the Beach - LP Vinyl

Down on the Road by the Beach - LP Vinyl

A1 Are These My Memories? A2 Walking Across The Field A3 Summer Stroll A4 It's Raining Tomorrow A5 Dancing In July B1 Shadows Across The Path B2 Waiting By The Car B3 Kinda Knew Anna B4 Love That Bird B5 More Rain In The Woods

Steve Hiett ‎/ Girls In The Grass - LP (Vinyl)

‎/ Girls In The Grass - LP (Vinyl)

This is a new, unopened CD in its original packaging.

Steve Hiett DOWN ON THE ROAD BY THE BEACH CD

DOWN ON THE ROAD BY THE BEACH CD

Track List 
<ol class="track-list">
<li class="track">Are These My Memories?</li>
<li class="track">Walking Across The Field</li>
<li class="track">Summer Stroll</li>
<li class="track">It’s Raining Tomorrow</li>
<li class="track">Dancing In July</li>
<li class="track">Shadows Across The Path</li>
<li class="track">Waiting By The Car</li>
<li class="track">Kinda Knew Anna</li>
<li class="track">Love That Bird</li>
<li class="track">More Rain In The Woods</li>
</ol>
 
Protection 
 Each record is protected within its record sleeve by a white vellum anti-dust sleeve.
 

 
Packaging 
 All items are shipped brand-new and unopened in original packaging. Every record is shipped in original factory-applied shrink wrap and has never been touched by human hands.

Steve Hiett GIRLS IN THE GRASS Vinyl Record

Track List 
<ol class="track-list">
<li class="track">Are These My Memories?</li>
<li class="track">Walking Across The Field</li>
<li class="track">Summer Stroll</li>
<li class="track">It’s Raining Tomorrow</li>
<li class="track">Dancing In July</li>
<li class="track">Shadows Across The Path</li>
<li class="track">Waiting By The Car</li>
<li class="track">Kinda Knew Anna</li>
<li class="track">Love That Bird</li>
<li class="track">More Rain In The Woods</li>
</ol>
 This is a new, unopened CD in its original packaging.

Steve Hiett GIRLS IN THE GRASS CD

Track List 
<ol class="track-list">
<li class="track">Blue Beach - Welcome To Your Beach</li>
<li class="track">Never Find A Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)</li>
<li class="track">By The Pool</li>
<li class="track">Roll Over</li>
<li class="track">Beethoven - Out Of The Beach</li>
<li class="track">In The Shade</li>
<li class="track">Looking Across The Street</li>
<li class="track">Long Distance Look</li>
<li class="track">Hot Afternoon</li>
<li class="track">Crying In The Sun</li>
<li class="track">The Next Time</li>
<li class="track">Miss B.B. Walks Away</li>
<li class="track">Sleep Walk</li>
<li class="track">Standing There</li>
</ol>
 
Protection 
 Each record is protected within its record sleeve by a white vellum anti-dust sleeve.
 

 
Packaging 
 All items are shipped brand-new and unopened in original packaging. Every record is shipped in original factory-applied shrink wrap and has never been touched by human hands.

Steve Hiett

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