Dizzcography
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Dizzcography is a box set released in 2010, containing all previously released material by the Danish rock band Dizzy Mizz Lizzy
. The CD version is collected in a black printed cardboard box
as four Digipak
CDs and a 40-page booklet. The box set was also released in a limited press on 8 double-sided vinyl
records. The box set contains the following albums:
Live in Concert 2010
was released after Dizzcography. It is the only Dizzy Mizz Lizzy album not included in the box set.
Production
Post-production
Dizzy Mizz Lizzy
Dizzy Mizz Lizzy was an alternative rock band from Denmark that started in 1988. Between 1994 and 1997, they were highly successful in Denmark and Japan, heading the early 1990s rock revival in Denmark. The trio consisted of Tim Christensen , Martin Nielsen and Søren Friis...
. The CD version is collected in a black printed cardboard box
Cardboard box
Cardboard boxes are industrially prefabricated boxes, primarily used for packaging goods and materials. Specialists in industry seldom use the term cardboard because it does not denote a specific material....
as four Digipak
Digipak
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CDs and a 40-page booklet. The box set was also released in a limited press on 8 double-sided vinyl
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
records. The box set contains the following albums:
- Dizzy Mizz LizzyDizzy Mizz Lizzy (album)Dizzy Mizz Lizzy is the eponymous debut album of the Danish rock band Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, released in on 4 March 1994.- Reception :Before the album was even recorded, the songs "Waterline" and "Silverflame" from the band's 1993 demo received heavy rotation on radio stations, including DR P3 and DR P4...
(1994), digitally remasterRemasterRemaster is a word marketed mostly in the digital audio age, although the remastering process has existed since recording began...
ed. The cover artCover artCover art is the illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product such as a book , magazine, comic book, video game , DVD, CD, videotape, or music album. The art has a primarily commercial function, i.e...
was completely redrawn because the original designs had not been saved. - RotatorRotator (album)Rotator is the second and final studio album released by the Danish rock band Dizzy Mizz Lizzy.- Overview :EMI-Medley head of A&R and producer Nick Foss had made an agreement with lead singer and guitarist Tim Christensen that if their debut album Dizzy Mizz Lizzy won gold , the next would be...
(1996), digitally remastered and with redrawn cover art. - Live in AarhusAarhusAarhus or Århus is the second-largest city in Denmark. The principal port of Denmark, Aarhus is on the east side of the peninsula of Jutland in the geographical center of Denmark...
'96, a live albumLive albumA live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...
which was released earlier as disc two of The Best of Dizzy Mizz LizzyThe Best of Dizzy Mizz LizzyThe Best of Dizzy Mizz Lizzy is a greatest hits album released by the Danish rock band Dizzy Mizz Lizzy in 2002. The first disc contains tracks from the band's two studio albums Dizzy Mizz Lizzy and Rotator, the second disc holds a live registration of a concert held in Aarhus on 11 May 1996...
. - The Rest of Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, a compilation albumCompilation albumA compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
containing songs that have been released otherwise. The first four tracks are from the demo the band recorded, which was part of the grand prize for winning the 1993 DM i Rock contest. It is followed by two B-sideA-side and B-sideA-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...
tracks, and the performance One guitar, one bass and a drummer, that's really all it takes - Live in Japan, recorded on 16 July 1995 in OsakaOsakais a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...
and only released on CD in Japan. The 1993 demo was produced, recorded and mixed by Flemming Hansson and Dizzy Mizz Lizzy at Sweet Silence StudiosSweet Silence StudiosSweet Silence Studios, at 85 Strandlodsvej, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, or DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, in Copenhagen, Denmark is a recording studio originally built by Danish engineers Freddy Hansson, Stig Kreutzfeldt, and Flemming Rasmussen in February 1976. A variety of artists have recorded there,...
, CopenhagenCopenhagenCopenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
in June 1993. The B-side Hurry Hurry was recorded during the sessions for Dizzy Mizz LizzyDizzy Mizz Lizzy (album)Dizzy Mizz Lizzy is the eponymous debut album of the Danish rock band Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, released in on 4 March 1994.- Reception :Before the album was even recorded, the songs "Waterline" and "Silverflame" from the band's 1993 demo received heavy rotation on radio stations, including DR P3 and DR P4...
and appeared as a bonus track on the Japanese release, and as B-side on the Love is a Loser's Game single. Pain Before My Eyes was only released as a bonus track on the Japanese release of RotatorRotator (album)Rotator is the second and final studio album released by the Danish rock band Dizzy Mizz Lizzy.- Overview :EMI-Medley head of A&R and producer Nick Foss had made an agreement with lead singer and guitarist Tim Christensen that if their debut album Dizzy Mizz Lizzy won gold , the next would be...
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Live in Concert 2010
Live in Concert 2010
Live in Concert 2010 is a 19-song live recording of two concerts at the K.B. Hallen on 16–17 April 2010, by the Danish power rock band Dizzy Mizz Lizzy. It was released on 8 November 2010 as 2CD/DVD and 2CD/Blu-ray. In Japan, it was released on 27 April on King Records...
was released after Dizzcography. It is the only Dizzy Mizz Lizzy album not included in the box set.
Track listing
Personnel
Dizzy Mizz Lizzy- Tim ChristensenTim ChristensenTim Christensen is a Danish singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar, bass guitar, drums, Mellotron, harmonium, keyboard, piano and organ...
– guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, songwriterSongwriterA songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
, executive producerRecord producerA record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
, co-producer (disc 2 and 4), compiler (disc 4), original cover art (disc 3) - Martin Nielsen – bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, compiler (disc 4) - Søren Friis – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, compiler (disc 4)
Production
- Dizzy Mizz LizzyDizzy Mizz LizzyDizzy Mizz Lizzy was an alternative rock band from Denmark that started in 1988. Between 1994 and 1997, they were highly successful in Denmark and Japan, heading the early 1990s rock revival in Denmark. The trio consisted of Tim Christensen , Martin Nielsen and Søren Friis...
– arrangerArrangementThe American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
, compilerCompilation albumA compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
, mixerMix engineerA mix engineer, also referred to as "mixing engineer", is a person who, once all instruments, voices, and sounds, etc., have been recorded, creates what is called the final version of a song, hence the term "mix engineer"...
, producerRecord producerA record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
(disc 1, 1993 demo, B-sides) - Nick Foss – producer (disc 1, 2, B-sides, Live in Japan), mixer (disc 1–3, B-sides, Live in Japan)
- Lars Overgaard – co-producer (disc 2 and 4), engineer (disc 1 and 2), mixer (disc 1–3, B-sides, Live in Japan)
- Rune Nissen-Petersen – engineer (disc 3)
- Flemming Hansson – producer (1993 demo), mixer (1993 demo)
- Nikolaj Vinten – masteringAudio masteringMastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
, remasterRemasterRemaster is a word marketed mostly in the digital audio age, although the remastering process has existed since recording began...
ing - Mads Nilson – recorded by (Live in Japan)
- Peter Brander – recorded by (Live In Aarhus '96)
Post-production
- Jan-Erik Stig – project managerProject managementProject management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...
- Thomas Hemdorff – project manager
- Malene Garp – production
- Jan Poulsen – liner notes
- Paul Wilson – artwork, 2010 cover art
- MandOverBord – original cover art (disc 1 and 2)
- Dan Christensen – original cover art (disc 3)
- Einar vid Neyst – photography (disc 1)
- Martin Dam Kristensen – centerfold photo (disc 3)