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The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records Volume 2 Details Revealed

10/15/2014
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(The Blues) The second box set tracing the history of iconic blues record label Paramount has been designed to evoke the cultural era of the recordings, says one of its creators.

The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records Volume 2 follow's last year's first collection, which was presented in a wooden "wonder box." The new package contains over 800 tracks laid down between 1928 and 1932, encased in an aluminium container that looks like a portable gramophone player of the age.

It's a collaboration between Jack White's Third Man Records and Revenant Records. Revenant boss Dean Blackwood tells Wired: "Our guiding question was what would Paramount have done if they gave a sh*t - which they didn't - and had the money that their rivals had? What would things have looked like?

"The 30s was the beginning of industrial design with its own brand of modernist design. Rather than embracing exotica, our version was around this streamlined modern version of Art Deco."

More including details about the contents of the box set here.

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