i noticed i made a mistake on Vol. 2 - i included Brick City Kid's self-titled A-side from their 12" on both volumes... i was supposed to include the B-side "What What" on Volume 2 (both produced by VIC & JuJu).. here it is tagged properly, so you can just change tracks in the folder and it will pla...

Damn, I just wrote a long post about it and just when i was done it got deleted.. FUCK!! But here's the short thing, you can read more about it on my blog, the much rumoured and often bootleged (none of them correct) "Death Of Escobar" was actually a real album that was even completed and was suppos...

thanks Verge, I would love to include some of that stuff but as you say unforutnately the quality is a little too weak.. it would be better to drop em as two separate releases, what i got for this compilation is every official record releases between 1997 and 2000 ("Game Of Life"; "Cop Shot"; "Selli...

I'm putting together a dead prez early years compilation, it will only be 10 tracks - the ones they released beteween 1997 and early 2000. since i've managed to lose all my files a while back i have still managed to find one of my favorites - "Cop Shot" in a higer bitrate than 128 kbps. i know i use...

well said Verge... i gotta say though having not heard this Young Zee album at all before, i thought the quality was passable for an unreleased album. definitely not like a new mastered vinyl rip, but it sounds way better than most old promo cassette rips i've heard. i found Part 2 on some blog but ...

glad you're enjoying this!! it's a real shame they never produed more under the Groove Merchantz name (as in together) - the Kurious joint, Bas Blasta shit and the "One Love" remix especially is just amazing. i wonder if any of the other songs on that Bas Blasta promo cassette was by them? something...

i'm pretty sure they are both FTD rips of the records.. i actually never heard that promo cassette, but that's real shady selling it THAT expensive when its a transfer of a cassette rip, smh. is this how this label ususally operates? still the Q-Tip remix is crazy imo, suprised no one has commented ...

that's great to hear, i'ma put it on The Lost Tapes then (check it in my sig if you're not aware), huge thanks... and of course you will give your proper credit, much thanks both for that and of course for putting this together. truly amazing

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i love Goodie Mob's first album, and much of the second.. can't wait to hear this.
for those of y'all who have heard it, how similiar is it to "Soul Food"?

was just about to post this Ultramagnetic release Brandon... always eager to hear more Paul C unreleased engineering and mixes. too bad we can't hear the actual track without copping the 7" despite it being so limited. i reckon at least a 1:30 snippet should be mandatory for such an expensive releas...

I always been a huge fan of Screwball and its four members ever since "Y2K" dropped.. and i have really done my reserach and managed to get a hold of a whole lot of both rare and a few not so rare but very dope records to make a 18 track compilation that will definitely have you say BOOOOO-HAAAAAAAA...

i made these two volumes recently, and thought i'd share with y'all who don't check The Lost Tapes, since they really came out banging.. i love the Groove Merchantz as a unit, and Godfather Don and V.I.C. as solo producers so check this out if you havent. GROOVE MERCHANTZ - "DOUBLE GROOVES VOL. 1" h...

around the time Young Zee appeared on Fugees' "The Score", the distinct voiced Newark spitter got a record deal with Perspective Records, a label owned by superstar producers Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis. Like so many hardcore hip-hop albums "Musical Meltdown" was unfortunately shelved after the release ...

i was real glad to get to hear "I'm A Villain" finally mastered and in good quality though... the Stink Mix and Laidback Mix (i think that's what they are called and to lazy to look it up) are by UK producers and was released in 1994 on a 12" called "The UK Remixes" or something by Columbia, but i t...

as a huge Wu fan i strongly disagree that this is a lot of throwaway material.... the 7 Gravediggaz tracks with Frukwan, Poetic and Shababazz The Diciple (including the fantasic "Savior Yourself") was recorded around '99/2000 and was recorded for the third Gravediggaz album.. very strange why they d...

William G. - yeah i hear you bro, Spinna's in my top 10 as well but i don't care too much for his house shit, i didn't like his "Intergalactic Soul" album too much for example. but on the other hand it's pretty ill that he can flip jazz tracks, booming underground hip-hop, real soulful singer stuff,...

true, this is more for the super fans of Wu/Paul/Gravediggaz, but of little interest to everyone else i would imagine... for me, "Niggamortis" is one of my all time favorite albums, and it hold a lot of nostalgic value too, so to find out that "Freak The Sorceress" was a last minute deletion from th...

^ true, i always loved that track... that EP also has a cool little skit called "Reincarnation of Freud", knowing Prince Paul's love for skits it's an interesting listen. check it out: http://www.sendspace.com/file/rbo76g another interesting thing about Prince Paul and The Gravediggaz is that on "Th...

Stiefkater: you really think so?
i thought it was quite decent for an obscure rip of some old cassette. had no problem listening it through

sorry blatmaster, i wish... but if the interest is high enough we got a few other projects we're working on that might get a limited release if there is interest. what did you think of the singles?

"The UpRising is an all new compilation album presented by The Lost Tapes and The Dice Academy, which brings that raw adrenaline rushing hardcore hip-hop sound you've been missing back to the forefront. Over a soundbed of knocking tracks "The UpRising" unites the hottest emcees of tomorrow with some...

^ agreed about "Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark", i love that song... and i was so mad bc apparantly some versions of Prnce Paul's "Hip Hop Gold Dust" included that song.. well mine don't :/

i wonder when that were recorded, '93?

something else about that UN album that i always found very interesting given how short it actually was (40+ minutes or something) was that "The Art" was faded out after only half the song while the "World Domination" mixtape featured the full song... unfortunately the reissue does not restore this,...

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0068/0042/products/Screen_Shot_2014-02-25_at_10.58.24_AM_1024x1024.png?v=1393344018 The UN's debut album "UN Or U Out" was by far one of the best, most classic sounding albums released in the 2000 decade imo.. unlike the best albums like "Illmatic" and "Cuban Linx" ...

some more notes: * i always wondered why "Freak The Sorceress" wasn't on the album despite it being mentioned on "Rest In Peace" amongst all the other tracks featured on the album that was being shouted out.. now we know why, it was a last minute exclusion from the retail for some reason * notice th...

http://www.beatfarm.net/ebay/-cass/dec15-20/gravediggaz2.jpg here's a lil' gem for all Prince Paul / Poetic / Wu heads. As I'm sure you are well aware of, Gravediggaz' debut album "6 Feet Deep" was originally called "Niggamortis", and the first EU pressings even bore that name. It turns out that th...

therealalex: Thank you so much for this!!! this is fantastic, because i actually had collected about everything M.O.P. ever released and my computer crashed and i lost all my files... of course i have all the retail albums and then some ("Marxmen Cinema", "Ghetto Warfare", and that "Handle Ur Biznes...

ian e - that's appreciated, i get back to you.. i try to push the prt sc button several times, nothing happens... also tried searching google for that, but it seems you need to do a lot of MS_DOS stuff which seems pretty hard to figure out but maybe i'm just slow in these matters. it's basically the...

writing a tracklist is to time consuming, but there's 163 DJ Spinna productions in there, not featured on any of his albums (again not the jigmastas stuff or Polyrhythm either). enjoy fellas!