If you've ever purchased a deluxe edition of an album and wondered to yourself, "what's the point if everything isn't included?", this one's for you. Not that everything is included, because it definitely isn't, although this is a nicely done deluxe edition of an album that it can't be easy to do one for. The quick and dirty of it is that this edition of this album was prepared in 2017 but only saw release this year. The vinyl may have been sitting in a warehouse for several years, as evidenced by the copyright info on the packaging, the use of old logos, a different name for the edition (it's listed simply as Deluxe, mentioning nothing of anniversaries) and the fact that the art and track listing leaked several years ago when photos and details about the vinyl were posted online by someone who had managed to acquire a copy. That's not even mentioning the typos in the track list. They didn't leak the music, but the damage was done for the l...

I don't think it's been too long since my last post, but it's been a little longer than I initially planned. In my defense, I spent about 12 hours in the ER with my wife last night, and that will derail just about anything you're trying to do. So, please forgive me that I don't have the next download ready to go. That said, I whipped up a little something to hopefully tide everyone over until I get more secret vinyl downloads ready.  A little backstory; my wife underwent a fairly significant surgery about a month ago, and in the days leading up to it, I dealt with the stress by playing records and recording them to listen to while she was in surgery and recovery. It was all a little OCD, but my rules were that I wouldn't do any clean-up to the tracks after recording them. I haven't followed that rule to the letter, but I've kept the tracks mostly untouched. Originally, I wanted about two hours worth of tracks to listen to, but I kept playing and recordin...

I absolutely cannot say what this album is. I'll give you some hints and I can acknowledge if you ask me and you are correct, but I can't say what this is because it would get knocked offline rather quickly. With that said, this is the start of some not terribly rare vinyl rips I'll be sharing. Well, that's not entirely true, because some of them are a little more rare than others, but the material is well known and readily accessible via modern means. These rips though, they're not what I think anyone would consider modern means. This is a Homemade Deluxe Edition, much like the Prince albums I used to post on my original Unheard Music blog. That said, this album has had several official deluxe reissues, though I'm not particularly happy with them. The packaging and liner notes are all wonderful on those reissues, and a lot of the most important content is present, but there are significant details missing. I'm hoping to take care of those details while supp...

This one gets filed right next to the DJ Mink record(s). It's a little more in your face, but it's the same kind of vibe I want to hear in a good hip-hop mix. No surprise then that I first heard this in Liam Howlett's masterful Dirtchamber mix. So much incredible stuff in that mix, it's really amazing they managed to clear probably 95% of the original mix for release, including the then-unavailable (at least in a legal sense) original "trance" version of The KLF's What Time Is Love . Mink did do some other production work that's known of outside Hey! Hey! , but not much. That Blue Eyes track is nice if you can ignore Blue Eyes himself. Ugh, he was wack even in 91. Uptown though is a similar but different enough story. He showed up on a DJ Premier remix of Omar's Keep Steppin' (I don't know who he is either, but here's a YouTube link for the track ) and worked with Buckshot LeFonque , Branford Marsalis'  now defunct jazz ...