Coloured Balls / Ball Power (Vinyl LP)

Description

Vinyl LP / Reissue – Repress

50th Anniversary Edition – Limited edition of 700 black vinyls

Includes Poster

Completely analog pressing, sourced directly from the 1973 quarter inch master tapes.

1973-AUS

Format: Vinyl LP

#Ref: JAW053

Release date: 2023

Release notes

This pressing has been painstakingly sourced directly from the 1973 quarter inch mix-down master tapes and sounds incredible. This has been an entirely analog production chain and hasn’t been touched by a computer at any stage of the process. Hear Coloured Balls as nature intended. Every copy includes bonus poster! 

“Turn it up for one of the most vital Australian rock albums ever put to tape. Ball Power is back in print after selling out fast on its last run, returning a record that still hits with raw force, swagger, and unfiltered attitude.

Originally released in 1973, Ball Power captures Coloured Balls at full throttle, blending hard rock, psychedelic boogie, and early punk spirit into a sound that feels fearless and alive. The songwriting is direct, the grooves are heavy, and the energy never dips, making this album a cornerstone of Australian rock history.

Formed in Melbourne and led by guitar icon Lobby Loyde, Coloured Balls helped shape the blueprint for loud, uncompromising Aussie music.”

BACK IN PRINT! It sold out very quickly the first time we pressed it. This album is much too important and earth-shatteringly great to remain out of print. This 1973 LP should need no introduction. Just in case it does, it’s simply one of the finest albums to ever come out of Australia. Period. COLOURED BALLS are the godfathers of Aussie punk, hard rock, psychedelic boogie, etc. They played too many different styles to be just any one thing. Lobby, Bobsie, Trevor, and Janis created something very special with this album and it sounds as fresh and vital as the day it was originally released.

All-analog pressing using the original 1973 master tapes from start to finish for superior sound quality. Mastered by Lobby’s close friend and former band mate, Gil Matthews (Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs).

Includes an 11″ x 22″ poster! This revised poster is a slightly different design than our previous pressing from 2023 and is also larger. Graphic restoration by Doran Shelley.

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