Steve Levine has been recreating '60s soul music without getting hung up on digital v analogue. Instead, he used the best of both. While nostalgia can be found in all walks of life, the music industry is probably unique in having a substantial population that believes the technology from the past remains better than today's. No owner of a 1940s Ferrari Barchetta, however enthusiastic, will claim that it's technically superior to a 21st century Ferrari. But, as we all know, there remain many who claim that the analogue recording format, though admittedly clumsy and expensive, is still superior to the latest digital whiz-bangery. Stronger still, many happy users of digital are increasingly shaking their heads at the degradation of the sonic quality of 21st century music through lossy formats, the loudness wars, the decimation of the studio industry and the corresponding disappearance of the art and craft of studio engineering. Equally illustrative are the swathes of artists from the good old days, many of whom have reached pensionable ages, who are still outselling the younger generation.
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