Author: Floor van der Holst

All votes have been counted, and we reveal the 2022 Albums of the Year, as well as the 2022 Audience Award Winner at the very top of the page! Thank you to all 1,371 NativeDSD Music listeners who casted their votes in the various categories!!! ❤️ The NativeDSD Music Team Category Winner: Orchestral & Audience […]

It is once again time for NativeDSD to celebrate the year in Direct Stream Digital (DSD) music. With over 85 music labels contributing to our listeners’ music enjoyment, there is much to celebrate and enjoy. Each category has two or more nominated albums. View Nominations (Part 1/3) View Nominations (Part 2/3) Within each of the 11 Categories, […]

It is once again time for NativeDSD to celebrate the year in Direct Stream Digital (DSD) music. With over 85 music labels contributing to our listeners’ music enjoyment, there is much to celebrate and enjoy. Each category has two or more albums nominated. Soon you get to vote on your favorite in each category. View Nominations (Part […]

It is once again time for NativeDSD to celebrate the year in Direct Stream Digital (DSD) music. With over 85 music labels contributing to our listeners’ music enjoyment, there is much to celebrate and enjoy. Each category has two or more albums nominated. View Nominations (Part 2 of 3) View Nominations (Part 3 of 3) Within each […]

All votes have been counted, and we reveal the 2021 Albums of the Year, as well as the 2021 Audience Award Winner at the very bottom of the page! Thank you to all 1,238 NativeDSD Music listeners who casted their votes in the various categories!!! ❤️ The NativeDSD Music Team Category Winner: Vocals AND THE […]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Santa Claus is coming to town. So have yourself a merry DSD Christmas.

15 Candles for 15 Years: OUR Recordings is celebrating their 15th anniversary! The label’s founder and director, Lars Hannibal, has written a letter that we have published here below. It’s a great way to get to know the Danish label better. Dear readers, dear music lovers, When Michala Petri and I decided to launch our […]

We wanted to know more about the recent album ‘Russian Paintings‘ by the Russian Terem Quartet on the Russian ReachSound Art label. So we went ahead and asked the two founding members – Andrey Konstantinov and Andrey Smirnov – some questions. 🙂 Why is the album called Russian Painting? Andrey Konstantinov The album is called […]

In VOX, Duo Rozemond & Bekkers combines new music for violin, voice and accordion with compositions by the great masters from a century ago: Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Ravel, and Satie. The new works are by the Dutch composers Willem Jeths, Gerard Beljon and the Jewish composers René Samson (Netherlands), Iván Fischer (Hungary) and Efrem Podgaits (Russia). […]

More than half of today’s new DSD releases are Pure DSD albums.  The 4 new Pure DSD Albums are from Cobra Records, Channel Classics, Eudora Records, and Hunnia Records. These albums were recorded, mixed, and balanced in DSD. No post-production has been done. These albums stayed within the DSD domain throughout. All of them are […]

This week we have 4 new DSD albums available of which two are Pure DSD. 2 new reviews and a new bundle. Let’s get started! New albums at NativeDSD If you love jazz, and if you can appreciate stunning female vocalist backed by an incredible jazz quartet. This one’s for you!!  Recorded Live to Stereo […]

Big News!! NativeDSD Music has just released the first-ever commercially available Sampler in DSD 1024. The 5 DSD Albums from which the Tracks derive are now also available in Stereo DSD 1024. Read more below. Patricia Barber’s Clique Today marks the long anticipated international release of “Clique!”, Patricia Barber’s brand new album. It features an inspired anthology of jazz and […]