Pristine Audio was founded in 2002 as an audio restoration and remastering company in the UK. Following a relocation to France in 2004, we began serious research into the field of 78rpm restoration techniques, leading later that year to an agreement to supply recordings for Divine Art's new Historic Sound label.

In February 2005 Pristine Audio Direct was launched as an Internet outlet for Pristine Audio's historic recordings, initially offered as downloads only, but soon with custom-made CDs added. We soon added to our catalogue a number of recordings transferred and remastered by Peter Harrison at disk2disc, at which point the Pristine Audio catalogue started to grow rapidly.

From our initial offering of 12 downloads in February 2005, by October 2006 the catalogue of recordings ran to 165 separate recordings, each remastered to the very highest standards.

October 2006 also saw our first in-house recording take place - planned to be the first of many - with Peter Katin playing Chopin for online release in November 2006. Meanwhile the superb reception of Pristine Audio Direct in the music press, on the Internet and on radio has led to wide interest from other music companies, musicians and composers in adding their recordings to our download repertoire.

Pristine Audio, whilst scaling down its overall output, continues to provide excellent historic recordings both for the Pristine Audio label and for Divine Art.

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