KING CRIMSON - Beat (40th Anniversary Steven Wilson & Robert Fripp Stereo Mix) - LP - 200g Vinyl

LP - Limited Edition 200g Super-Heavyweight Black Vinyl. Mastered by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering from the Original Studio Masters. Features The Extended Version Of Requiem.

Released on CD as part of King Crimson’s 40th anniversary series, the Steven Wilson and Robert Fripp remixes of the 1980s trilogy of albums Discipline, Beat and Three Of A Perfect Pair have long been over-due on vinyl. Seven years after King Crimson had ‘ceased to exist’, King Crimson’s reinvention as a new quartet consisting of Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford, Adrian Belew and Tony Levin brought about a surprising new era, which delighted fans old and new. Stylistically very different from the King Crimson of the 1970s, this new line-up incorporated rock with electronica, funk, pure pop, modern avant-garde, and a complex variety of musical textures and influences.

Beat (1982) was released just eight months after the quartet’s recording of Discipline and marked the first occasion where a KC line-up had remained intact for a two album stretch and the first album by the band to employ a separate producer – Rhett Davies. The album also charted upon release in the US and the UK with compositions such a ‘Waiting Man’, ‘Neal and Jack and Me’ and ‘Heartbeat’ becoming firm favourites with fans and concert goers.

Tracklist:

A1. Neal And Jack And Me
A2. Heartbeat
A3. Sartori In Tangier
A4. Waiting Man

B1. Neurotica
B2. Two Hands
B3. The Howler
B4. Requiem