The Soft Machine

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 1968-12

Labels: Command, ABC Records, Probe

First issue sleeve with a circular die-cut in sleeve, revealing rotating 'clockwork' card insert through which the band members be viewed on a full-color backing sheet. Uncensored images of a nude girl on the inside and back of the gatefold and under the clock insert. (An added "bikini bottom" was used to censor these images on the second US version of this album, cat suffix 'X').

Labels: Track timings on labels differ to those on inside sleeve. On the labels the side indications are 'Side 1' and 'Side 2'. First catalog number on spine and cover, second on label.

ABC owned two NYC-area pressing plants which used the same equipment and produced the same, characteristic pressing ring. Plates made for the newer plant, True Sound, added 'TƧM' to the runouts [this] but in all other respects this release is identical to The Soft Machine.

Plated at Longwear Plating.

"Mfg. by Grand Award Record Co., Inc., a subsidiary of ABC Records Inc. 1330 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10019".
'Command/Probe' appears on the spine while the labels and front cover show 'Command/ABC Records/Probe.'

"...Selections published by Amm Jay Music Inc. - BMI".