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ULSI stands for Ultra Linear Stereo Image. ULSI is a new stereo technique invented and developed by Erik Sikkema and propriety to Erik Sikkema Studio. The technique was mainly invented to overcome the general problems of most common stereo techniques in organ recordings, but the effect is successful on a wider spectrum of other instruments and combinations.

Advantages of ULSI in comparison to standard stereo techniques are:

1. More natural sound balance in the lower octaves and a more precise stereo image.
2. Less low frequency disturbance from harpsichord-, piano- and organ keyboard and pedal actions.
3. A more natural dynamic behaviour.
4. Singers and instrumentalists blend better together without any spot microphones at all, which improves the stereo depth enormously.
5. No hearing fatique, no pressure on the ears.
6. Listening with headphones, gives a very pleasant sound, very similar to Dummy Head stereo recordings.
7. Enjoyable also on very low listening levels of your amplifier at home.
8. Sounds also very convincing on simple and cheap equipment.
 
Listed below are the recordings that employ ULSI technology.
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Mathias Weckman Complete organ works - Hans Davidssohn
Complete Works of Weckman/Hans Davidssohn (3 CDs!)
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All components make this the ultimate organ CD, with two booklets comprising 56-pages of detailed information on registrations, the organ, Weckman, and his music. Organist of the Jacobi Church in Hamburg, Matthias Weckman (sometimes spelled Weckmann) was a student of Heinrich Schütz and Jacob Praetorius II. He combined elements from a wide variety of musical languages to create a clear and complex style all his own. Hans Davidsson is the world's leading Weckman scholar and this recording is the first to use Weckman's original registrations.
Messiaen - Cosmos Consciousness - Jonathan Dimmock
Messiaen: Cosmos Consciousness/Dimmock
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In this survey of music by the French Roman Catholic mystic, Olivier Messiaen, Jonathan Dimmock plays some of his popular works, and also includes two rarely performed compositions, published only afer his death in 1992.  The organ used for this recording is very similar in size and disposition to Messiaen's own instrument at Trinité in Paris. The performance, the organ and Erik Sikkema's ULSI recording technology combine to produce an unusual and exceptional CD.
Buxtehude and the Mean Tone Organ - Hans Davidsson
Buxtehude organ works, v.1: Buxtehude and the Mean-Tone Organ/Davidsson (2 CDs!)
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Celebrating the 300th anniversary of Buxtehude’s death in 2007!

Recent research shows that Buxtehude had only mean-tone organs at his disposal during his life. Although there are many good recordings on well-tempered organs (including some antiques), performing these works on mean-tone instruments requires both a radical re-assessment of traditional performance ideas and a large and extraordinary organ. Hans Davidsson is the ideal performer for this task, and he plays the huge “North German Baroque Organ” of Gothenburg, Sweden.  The first of three double-CDs of the complete organ works of Buxtehude; Volume One focusses on Buxtehude's best known works. 
Buxtehude organ works: The Bach Perspective - Hans Davidsson
Buxtehude organ works, v.2: The Bach Perspective/Davidsson (2 CDs!)
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Drawn by reports of the acclaimed organist of the Mariankirche in Lübeck, Dieterich Buxtehude, the 20-year old J. S. Bach traveled almost 300 miles to hear Buxtehude’s music first hand. On the second in our three-volume set of the complete organ works of Buxtehude, Hans Davidsson plays the ground-breaking repertoire that was known to Bach and his circle, and which may have influenced his musical compositions and performance.
   
 
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