Essential Media Group

I do digital transfer as a specialized service and 10 years ago the owner of this label reached out to me buying several rare and expensive records and asking to also digitize them . I had no idea he had this label. I searched his name a year later and saw those records I transferred available as these s. In those cases they are excellent transfers but him not mentioning the project I was to be transferring for, was not legit. So I some releases are from vinyl, undoubtably. Someone did fool with the digital files in one of the releases I transferred, they reversed the phase and did some bad destructive EQ'ing.

very ... BUT ... VERY VERY BAD ”label” , but like sort of VERYYYYYY BAD you know what i mean .....

pixelated pictures
smell bad
poor quality, no booklet
maybe cheap bootlegs?
high prices for what?
but there is some rare stuff here

Avoid this label. Unless they have the master tapes/copies or the release you are looking for was originally released on cd, and even then the chances are that it was taken from a vinyl source. "Blast Off With Bigshot - History Of House VOl 1,2 and 3" all have pops and clicks in some of the tracks. Also "Mr & Mrs Dale - It's You E.P" has some minor pops and clicks. In all instances they were not severe or obvious but this is not the point when aiming to acquire a pure digital copy and not digital only once it has been copied from an analog source which is not even the master.

I'm wary of this label, cd-r's galore and one of their CDs I bought I could hear the pops and crackles of a record on it. I stay away from their stuff. Is this label legit?