Peeping Tom Demo Tape (Fixed Tracklist) (MP3 128kbps)

 

Every version of this demo tape that I could find online had the tracks mislabeled almost entirely, this upload fixes that. I also saw mentions of a 7th track called "The Peeping Tom" which I was only able to find on a Spanish blogspot post, but I doubt this track is from the tape, as it sounds vastly different to the rest of the tape, both in terms of sound quality and the song itself.

I sadly could not find any of these tracks in higher quality than 128kbps :(

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Frankie Jones: An Unknown Rapper (Rightfully Spoken FLAC/MP3 Download)

 

Frankie Jones

    So back in early 2020 (like, RIGHT when shit hit the fan), I was doing some research on Scatman John to see if any new live performances/ads/whatever has been discovered, and I came across a page that John's wife made which discussed songs about stuttering. One of them of course being the song "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)", but another song mentioned being "Man in the Mirror" by Frankie Jones. This page included low quality (by today's standards, anyways) versions of these songs. 

    Upon hearing "Man in the Mirror", I became very intrigued. The lyrics were very well written, and the beat was very catchy even if a bit odd sounding. The songs beat sounds to have been made using some form of MIDI? I cant tell, but I honestly love how it sounds. The website mentioned an album that Frankie released with this song on it, "Rightfully Spoken", which had absolutely 0 uploads anywhere online. Just "Man in the Mirror", only because of the low quality version uploaded to the website, but the rest of the album was completely lost. I wound up finding a very cheap copy of the album on eBay and bought it instantly and gave it a listen a few days after it was delivered.

    Upon first hearing it, my first thought was that this album is pretty lo-fi in its production, and pretty unique in its own way. The lyrics are VERY much from the heart throughout, I was impressed by that honestly. It isn't the greatest album ever made or anything, but I very much respect it. In terms of the beats, in a lot of the songs, they drag on a bit, but it isn't a bad listening experience or anything in my opinion. Very interesting listen overall.

So, here is "Rightfully Spoken" in its full glory, in lossless FLAC and MP3.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17AtBwwiz1x_Cs0YZFd8t8cpe6jMB6ajO?usp=sharing

Brother Ali - Rites of Passage (CDQ Cassette Mix, Cassette Rip, CD Rip WAV/CUE/LOG) (WAV)

Original Cassette art, scanned from the insert

Unused CD or Vinyl scaled version of the art from the Rhymesayers website

2004 CD remaster which did not come with any art

CDQ Cassette Mix:
This version of Rites of Passage is a custom made version I put together that reverts the slight mixing change on the CD remaster and makes them identical to the original Cassette version. This change is "So Dearly" fading into the track after it, "Voices In My Head". This was done by finding where the outro loops and repeating it, and fading it out accordingly using Audacity's "Adjustable Fade" feature and comparing it with the original Cassette rip. This also fixes the outro from "So Dearly" being listed as a separate track. The intro to "Voices In My Head" was fixed by taking the intro from the Cassette rip, removing the noise, and splicing it back in.

Cassette Rip (24bit 192khz):

This is a rip of the original 2000 released Cassette done using a Technics M65 tape deck and a Schiit JIL Analog-->Digital converter. It sounds VERY good for a tape (especially one that's 21 years old) due to it being on chrome tape thankfully. Though, the CD remaster does sound better. More so uploaded due to it being a crucial part of the artist's discography in my opinion.

CD Rip:

This is a rip of the 2004 released CD remaster done using Exact Audio Copy. This CD has a few changes (some I mentioned above) but will reiterate.

• So Dearly fades out into Voices In My Head
• So Dearly's outro is split off into another track, "Music In My Head", but is not different musically in any way
• 2 bonus tracks are added at the end, "The Phoenix (feat. Musab)", and "Eighty-8 (feat. BK-One)"

No other changes are present in this remaster thankfully, Rhymesayers did an AMAZING job on it, I'm very surprised that they didn't like how it came out. Id go as far to say this deserves a Vinyl release at the very least.

TRACKLIST:

Intro

Whatever

Think It Through

Nine Double Em

Eye Of The Storm

We Will Always B (feat. Desdamona)

So Dearly

Voices In My Head

They're Finished

Tofuti (feat. Queen Aminah)

Ali Boombaye

You Never Know feat. Madson

Three Day Journey

The Session

CD BONUS TRACKS:

The Phoenix (feat. Musab)

Eighty-8 (feat. BK-One)

DOWNLOAD:

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SUPPORT THE ARTIST!!! This upload is in no way intended to screw over anyone involved with this artist's recordings, nor the artist himself. The CD of this was limited to 300 and has been out of print since 2004 with a limited cassette re-release in 2014.

The Residents - Meet the Residents (Mono Fan Made "Definitive" Version) (FLAC)

FAN MADE "DEFINITIVE" VERSION

Source: 1988 TORSO CD FLAC/CUE/LOG, 1974 Vinyl FLAC

NEITHER OF THESE ARE FROM MY RIPS! TORSO CD sourced form rutracker, 1974 Vinyl sourced from soulseek. Special thanks to those who originally ripped these. Trust me, I wouldve loved to source from the 1974 vinyl, but theyre extremely rare.

EDITS:

1. "Smelly Tongues": This tracks intro (first 8 or so seconds) was a fold down of the stereo mix on the TORSO CD, this was fixed here by taking the rip of the original press vinyl, removing the noise using iZotope, and splicing its intro in. Unedited version included in a separate folder.

2. "Rest Aria": This track had some pops around 15 seconds in that last for a split second, these were also removed with iZotope. 

3. "N-ER-GEE": This track fades out with a repeating section, the original version has 1 more repeat than the TORSO one, so I copy-pasted it one more time and lined it up+deamplified that last line accordingly. This track has some clipping on the TORSO version, but there isnt anything I could do about that sadly.

ALL tracks have fadeouts that vary slightly from the original press, but like the clipping, there isn't anything I could figure out how to do for that. Though, it isn't very noticable on my end.

The 1988 TORSO CD is slightly at the wrong speed compared to the 1974 vinyl. This has been fixed using Audacity.

This version is an attempt to get the TORSO version sounding as close to the original press as possible, but without all of the noise the original press rip has. Not sure if the vinyl just, sounds like that? Or if the person who ripped it just has a noisy copy. Not like I'd know, fuck trying to find one of those nowadays.

DOWNLOAD: https://mega.nz/folder/hVQSRBhJ#SugwG-fpEsJk7MH1SHYpNA

SUPPORT THE ARTIST! Buy the newer releases of the album (or their other releases) here:

https://www.residents.com/merch/

https://mvdshop.com/products/residents-meet-the-residents-preserved-edition

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/meet-the-residents-2cd-preserved-edition/

EDIT (9/11/21 5:45pm EST): Reuploaded track "N-ER-GEE" due to an exporting error. Track should be fine now, sorry about that