GOLDEN HEART
 
Artist Mark Knopfler
Release date 25th March 1996
Recording Emerald Sound Studios, Nashville, USA / Javelina Recording Studios, Nashville, USA / Sixteenth Avenue Sound, Nashville, USA / Air Studios, London, UK / Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland
Format 1DCC
Label Vertigo
Cat.no. 514 732-5
Tracks
  1. Darling pretty
  2. Imelda
  3. Golden heart
  4. No can do
  5. Vic and Ray
  6. Don't you get it
  7. A night in summer long ago
  8. Cannibals
  9. I'm the fool
  10. Je suis désolé
  11. Rüdiger
  12. Nobody's got the gun
  13. Done with Bonaparte
  14. Are we in trouble now
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Additional comments DCC release of Golden heart. 

Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) is an obsolete magnetic tape sound recording format introduced by Philips and Matsushita in late 1992. Pitched as a successor to the standard analog cassette, and competitor to MiniDisc (MD) and Digital Audio Tape (DAT), it never became popular with the general public. It shared the same form factor as analog cassettes, and DCC recorders could play back either type of cassette. In February 1996, Jan Timmer who was President of Philips at the time, admitted that sales of DCC were below expectations. According to him, it had become a "niche product for audiophiles". Timmer made clear that it would not be kept in production at any price: "We have to make the balance sometime: how much did it cost, what does it bring in and what are we doing with it now". The DCC was discontinued in October 1996 after Philips admitted it had achieved poor sales and MiniDisc was winning.