The Wedding Present - Kennedy EP Production Archive [Bundle 9]

A complete production archive relating to The Wedding Present’s celebrated ‘Kennedy’ EP, documenting the release across multiple recording and mastering formats. The collection includes an original Utopia Studios acetate featuring handwritten track information for ‘Kennedy’, alongside a DAT mastering tape and cassette production formats used during the EP’s development for release. The materials capture a transitional moment in recording history, when analogue reference discs, cassette formats and emerging digital mastering technologies were routinely used together throughout the production process. Handwritten labels identify key tracks including ‘Kennedy’, ‘Unfaithful’, ‘It’s Not Unusual’ and ‘One Day All This Will Be Yours’, providing a direct connection to the working materials created during the EP’s production. Taken together, these formats offer a rare insight into the technical workflow behind one of The Wedding Present’s defining releases and preserve multiple stages of the recording, mastering and manufacturing chain. Included in this Lot DAT master tape Handwritten DAT mix tape (Air Studios) Original studio acetate discs Production cassette Original 12” vinyl ‘Kennedy’ EP documentation Collectibility & Provenance Original Utopia Studios acetate Handwritten DAT mastering tape Production cassette format Handwritten track listings and mastering information Multiple original production formats from the same release Direct provenance from the Chris Allison archive