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The blog era, that was so cool. The most rare stuff you could find, including some background. Now it's usually on YouTube mostly devoid of context and only sin
by dep_b 3y ago
The blog era, that was so cool. The most rare stuff you could find, including some background. Now it's usually on YouTube mostly devoid of context and only single tracks.
- NickC25 3y agoThere is some rare stuff on YouTube - check out this channel - https://www.youtube.com/@OGDonNinja https://www.youtube.com/@OGDonNinja Guy is a collector of old hip hop records and tapes from the 80s until early 2000s. They are all available on his channel in their dusty-sounding glory. Amazing.
- cing 3y agoHeck yes. Music pirates have done a whole lot to help preserve hip-hop history by ripping/archiving countless rare/underground 12" and cassettes that are definitely not available on streaming platforms; we're talking alternative versions of songs like clean edits, remixes, acapellas, instrumentals which supported hip-hop producers and DJs in the early days. For example, check the posts in the early 2010's of sites like this, https://hiphop-thegoldenera.blogspot.com/ https://hiphop-thegoldenera.blogspot.com/, of course all the links are broken now.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoDouble Dee and Steinski mixes - their existence is due to pirates