What rare LPs has Soulseek etc. made available? Are there any good 'rare' albums?

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The title kind of says it all really. I am thinking along the lines of The KLF's original 'White Album', the Scissor Sister's demos LP etc? Anyone have Posh Spice's rap LP?

― Gimme Gimme, Monday, 26 January 2004 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

got quite a bit of that but from the avant garde end.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 26 January 2004 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

The KLF White Room demos album is worth hearing if you like the KLF.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"got quite a bit of that but from the avant garde end."

From the Posh Spice LP?

― Debord (Debord), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, her collab with sun city girls is something you must hear.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

i got the klf chill out of slsk,i gather its fairly rare...
anyway,i really like it
i'm sure theres other rare things ive got off it but i can't think of any off hand..

― robin (robin), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Can you anme some Avante Garde stuff that the 'seek has unearthed - I'm well curious now (with or without Spice Girl input)...

― Debord (Debord), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

sun ra albums!

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i trawl soulseek for out-of-print soundtracks!

― doomified, Monday, 26 January 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

On the KLF front the rarity which you can pick up easily is Space - still at scalpers' prices in the record shops but loads of people have it on the web.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure how good it is though - I just d/led it myself, I have fond memories but they may well be about to be crushed.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Space is great.
Are there any classic bootlegs or anything like that on there?

― Debord (Debord), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

The people who were bootlegged a lot on vinyl are bootlegged a lot online.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm going to be adding a lot of out of print vinyl, rave tapes, peel sessions etc in the next few months

― Stringent Stepper (Stringent), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Cool - what's your soulseek id? There's a thread for ID's of peeps on here isn't there?

― Debord (Debord), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

space ? i've seen it for 150 quid. what is it ?!!

― piscesboy, Monday, 26 January 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

some things I've got off slsk:

sun ra albs (abt 15-20 of those, some out of print most not).
John Cage recordings: things like 'fontana mix', 'ryoanji' (17 min version, couldn't get the 60 min one grr!), some sun City girls stuff (hard to come by round these parts), claude vivier alb that's out of print (think its called 'quatre chants...' a very brilliant compostion, spectralism from the likes of kaija saariaho ('six japanese gardens' is gorgeous) mauricio kagel 'ludwig van', 'phonophonie', 'acustica' (and a few others), stockhausen electronic works (all available but really expensive) and some of the out of print deustche gramophon vinyl like the 'gruppen/carre'.

Not as much free jazz as you'd think: noah howard's 'black ark', cecil taylor unit 'live in japan 1973' (a scorching two disc set with jimmy lyons and andrew cyrille), arthur doyle 'alabama feeling'. Only one derek bailey out of print rec 'aida's call' with moto yoshisawa, karou abe and toshimori kondo. borbetomagus 'zurich' and get 'snuff jazz' too (I already have that on LP). art ensemble of chicago 'numbers 1 and 2'.

things I am planning to get once I get back onto it: sun city girls albs and grateful dead bootlegs.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Space was an ambient record done by the Jimmy Cauty and Alex Patterson back in 89/90 ot so, they fell out and Alex wouldnt let Cauty use any of his samples so the record came out (Space by Space) without them on, so it's very bare and minimal - the tracks are planet names.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i guess la monte young & rallizes stuff isn't too easy to get away from slsk either (although maybe some rallizes stuff is these days).

there's a webpage somewhere with all the klf rarities as mp3s, or at least there was.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

The Rallizes and La Monte stuff I'm sharing is some of my most 'popular' so yeah I think you're probably right.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

What's the thread with people from here's Soulseek IDs on it? I am being retarded and can't find it with a search...

― Debord (Debord), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I dont know if there's a thread for that but there's an ILM Soulseek channel.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Really? IDM, indie and ILOVEITALODISCO I can find, 'ILM' I can't. Does it go by another name?

― stevo (stevo), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

it's near the bottom of the list

― Felcher (Felcher), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

20 users right now

― Felcher (Felcher), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Grr. I did "refresh room list" to try and see it and it's crashed the bastard app.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

do refresh room list, wait a long time (it'll look like it's crashed, just leave it), join the ilm room, the hit the autojoin toggle and you'll never have to do it again.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I was psyched to find BoC's Twoism back before it got a proper reissue. At that point, copies on eBay were going for $200 or so.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

ta toby.

― stevo (stevo), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Would someone please explain to me what this soulseek thing is all about. I tried checking it out and it was all in German and asking for money.

Is this a pay service?

― El Spinktor (El Spinktor), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

it's a free p2p program that beats the shit out of kazaa

― Felcher (Felcher), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Would someone please explain to me what this soulseek thing is all about. I tried checking it out and it was all in German and asking for money.
Is this a pay service?

You went to the wrong url. http://www.slsknet.org

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

go to slsknet.org, NOT slsk.org, that is malware

(xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

KLF's Chill Out is dead easy to get -- I orderd a copy from Tower 2 years ago.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought a copy of Chill Out from a used record store recently for $2.

― Chris F. (servoret), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i was very happy to finally get to hear nina nastasia's first album, dogs.

― andrew s (andrew s), Monday, 26 January 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

the another sunny day album (hi harvey! i did buy all the singles though) and for against's "december", among others.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Has helped me get hold of 10cc's entire 80s catalog, the first four Beatles albums in stereo, The Move's "Message From The Country" and Seventh Wave's "Psi-Fi". All of them really hard to get.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you like that Seventh Wave Psi-Fi LP, Geir? I remember liking their first one a lot and buying Psi-Fi "sound unheard" and hating it enough to sell it back after one listen.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

advice: if you just right click on the room list and hit Create Room and type ILM (case sensitive), you will be taken right there.

― ___ooo_oo_oo, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I quite like "Psi-Fi". Was already familiar with the last track from a prog box, and like the rest too. Then again, I am a fan both of symphonic space rock and synthpop so...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you have the first LP, and if so, is the music different? Maybe it was that horrible make-up they were wearing on Psi-Fi that made me hate it.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I am not familiar with the first album. Because I loved "Star Palace Of The Sombre Warrior", I started out searching for the second one.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, the first is a kind of twee-prog that you might like (it was a guilty pleasure of mine). I'd make you a copy but mine is vinyl and I haven't done any LP digitizing yet. I should have help on the the second LP, I see it's selling for $40+ on the web.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Lots of P-Funk hasn't been reissued - I found Eddie Hazel's Games, Dames, and Guitar Thangs first go, along with both of the Brides of Funkenstein albums.

― Jedmond, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beastie Boys - Country Mike's Greatest Hits
Spiritualized - Fucked Up Inside (my favorite live album of all time)
Bob Dylan - Newport Folk Festival 1965 (This was the legendary concert with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band where Dyl got booed off the stage for playing rock and roll. Why nobody's released it is beyond me.)

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 04:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Captain Beyond. My friends had it when we were kids but I never did. I remembered Pink Floydishness, but Gawd, it rocks.

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I got tons of postpunk 7"s that isn´t reissued

― Jens (brighter), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"I got tons of postpunk 7"s that isn´t reissued"

Yeah.

Also R.Rental & The Normal's 'Live at West Runton Pavilion'. Dunno if it's that rare, but I've never seen it and no one's heard of it to make ordering it a possibility.

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"I got tons of postpunk 7"s that isn´t reissued"

Hm...a homemade comp of that could be mighty cool.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

While I already have three of Thompson Twins' 80s albums ("Sidekicks", "Into The Gap" and "Trash" - guess I should at least try code and share the latter, which may be a rarity these days) I have gotten the rest. The two first ones I think were never released on CD, but I found the vinyl versions as mp3s.

And, yes, plus the two Traveling Wilburys CDs.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Why the hell are the Traveling Wilburys CDs out-of-print???

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe it has something to do with Roy Orbison's family not wanting them in print (doesn't explain why "Volume 3" is out of print though)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the Wilbury thing is cause it has something to do with Harrison, not Roy,( they were arranging to have it released a couple of years ago, they should sort it out sometime soon i imagine.

― Phil Dokes (sunny), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The Daughters of Albion album is there, though I only saw it once (which was enough). Also Kicking Giant's "Halo" (ripped from the CD). Both of these are great, in very different ways.

― dlp9001, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I got the unreleased Tommy Stinson (Perfect) album Seven Days A Week off slsk a while back.

― minolta, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

I just finally got to hear Henry Threadgill's first solo X-75, Volume One as of this past weekend thanks to slsk. Goddamn!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 4 January 2007 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

All the new ''12:s! Not rare, but often overpriced.

(someone was interested in sun ra. check out this torrent: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3561648/Sun_Ra_-_61_Albums.)

― jon person (jon person), Thursday, 4 January 2007 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

The Human Switchboard: Who's Landing In My Hangar

A classic early 80s indie rock record. Sounds like Yo La Tengo with more Farfisa organ. "Look for Say No To Saturday's Girl" or their Stairway to Heaven, "Refrigerator Door"

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

"are there any good rare albums" is da most hilarious question ever.

― be home by 11 (orion), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

"The Human Switchboard: Who's Landing In My Hangar"

Yes! There are also a couple versions of the Coffee Break ROIR cassette available.

― todd (todd), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

I got "The Quest" by Drexciya over the summer and it's so so good. And "Gesamtkunstwerk" by Dopplereffekt; but I can't remember if that was slsk or oink.

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

The Scars - Author! Author!

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

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