Keith Hirsch’s CD Resource

Shown here are Non-Target CDs pressed in other countries, such as the U.S., the U.K., and France.

 

 

Miles Davis Sketches of Spain (CBS, catalog number CK 08271).  The disc was pressed by CBS/Sony’s U.S. DADC plant, as evidenced by the text “Made in USA-Digital Audio Disc Corp.” stamped on the plastic ring.  The “triangle-in-circle” symbol beneath the CD format logo at 3 o’clock also denotes this as a U.S. DADC pressing.  The matrix code is “DIDP 50063 11A2″.  This disc was preceded by a Japanese CBS/Sony pressing under the same catalog number.  In my experience, the U.S. pressing is much rarer than the Japanese pressing.  This is likely due to this issue being replaced by the Columbia Jazz Masterpieces release (Columbia, catalog number CK 40578) shortly after CD production shifted from Japan to the U.S.

 

 

Joe Satriani “Surfing With The Alien” (Relativity, catalog number 88561-6193-2). Issued in 1987 and pressed in the U.S., this is a CD single for the title track from Satriani’s breakthrough album.  This single bears the same catalog number as the album CD.  The matrix code is “8193 111341 SA10629″.  This picture disc is very rare.