Return to The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Electric Ladyland with 50th Anniversary Box Set
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To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix’s most hands-on album, Electric Ladyland, the Jimi Hendrix Experience are reissuing the album as a deluxe box set, scheduled for release on Nov. 9.
“I had always dreamed of mixing Electric Ladyland in 5.1 surround sound,” says Eddie Kramer, long-time engineer of Hendrix’s albums, in a statement. “It always felt to me as the perfect vehicle for the kind of adventuresome stuff that Jimi and I were trying to do in 1968. The visceral thrill when we completed the first surround mix of ‘Voodoo Child (Slight Return)’ was palpable. It was an overwhelming experience—pun intended.”
The release includes a newly remastered mix of the original analog tapes of the double album, done by Bernie Grundman, as well as a 5.1 surround sound mix of the album done by Kramer. It will be available in as three CDs or six LPs. In addition to this, the deluxe edition is packed full of extra content for the Hendrix-obsessed.
