Hipgnosis worked with some of the most influential musicians of their time, including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Yes. The group was known for their innovative and creative album covers, which became iconic in the music industry. Hipgnosis was an English art group founded in 1968 by Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey Powell, and Peter Christopherson. Also the font-face/type has been printed with different variations.ĭifferences exist on the back cover of 'Atom Heart Mother' where are that either one or three cows are on the album's back cover.Īlbum cover artwork was by Hipgnosis ( uncredited ) The surround sound information on this quadraphonic LP cannot properly be extracted by today's audio-video receivers using the Dolby Pro Logic setting.Ĭollecting the releases from different countries can be interesting, because the album front cover of 'Atom Heart Mother' has been printed in different versions, some with the band-name and album-title on the cover, some without the band-name and album-title and some with only the band-name. There was also a release of the quadraphonic version in the UK in fully discrete 4-channel form on the 'Quad-8' format, a 4-channel variant of the stereo 8-track tape cartridge. The quadraphonic mix was released on LP in a matrix format compatible with standard stereo record players.

'Atom Heart Mother' was the first Pink Floyd album to be specially mixed for 4-channel quadraphonic sound as well as conventional 2-channel stereo.

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