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The second David Bowie box set covers but two years—1974-1976—but for David Bowie that timespan leaped across a few musical universes.

Bowie had shed Ziggy and for an album became a lad insane. This box starts with Diamond Dogs, works its way through Bowie's Philly fascination, with Young Americans and two live records from The Tower Theater, (2005 mixes on three LPs plus on another LP an entire show as recorded with no correcting overdubs), adds a never before released album called The Gouster and well as a double LP set from the Nassue County Coliseum in 1976 and concludes with the original Station to Station mix and the 2010 mix. There's also a compilation Re:Call 2 that consists of singles, mostly just edited, not re-mixed.

The box is nicely produced, with a duplicate of the original Young Americans textured paper and a few other touches that will be covered in the review.

How does it sound? I'll soon find out. If you have the box, please post a comment.