Nujabes & Hydeout Productions Vinyl Collection (FLAC) (2muchrubik) torrent

Nujabes & Hydeout Productions Vinyl Collection

All credit goes to Reddit user 2muchrubik, who runs the Nujabes & Hydeout Productions Restoration Project on his **blog**. I've only compiled all of his rips (as of 6.6.2023) here for ease of download.

2muchrubik has ripped and scanned nearly every vinyl release by Nujabes/Hydeout Productions/Hydeout Recordings and graciously uploaded them to his blog over the past four years. Some of these songs have never been released digitally, and the ones that have still often (not always) sound better on vinyl thanks to the vinyl version's better mastering and much less egregious compression. To clarify, I'm not saying that vinyl is inherently superior to CD, but that the mastering itself was done with more care and less compression than on the CDs.

2muchrubik's project is still ongoing, so be sure to check out his blog for any future releases.

Notes
• HOR-059 also includes a CD rip of the 2006 album Melodica by Nica (Haruka Nakamura, Ryodo Yamamoto, Toshiaki Hamada).
• HPD13TR is a CD + 7-inch vinyl combo.
• Nas - One Love (Dimention Ball Remix) is a remix Nujabes did in 1998 when he used the Dimention Ball name. This is also the first track he ever released.
• HOR-033 has some distortion that is unfortunately present in every copy of this release AFAIK.

A few highlights among the vinyl
• The full 6-minute version of "Child's Attraction" (digital version is 3min25s).
• A slightly different mix of "Flowers" from before the Modal Soul album. (Since the uploading of this torrent, 2muchrubik has put up HOR-062 on his blog, which has the Modal Soul album version of "Flowers")
• A different mix of "It's About Time" than what's on Pase Rock's 2003 Bullshit as Usual album.
• Just to name a few, "Imaginary Folklore" and "F.I.L.O" sound vastly superior to their CD versions.
• Save for two tracks, it's now possible to build a better-sounding vinyl-only version of Hydeout Productions (First Collection) (I haven't heard the 2019 vinyl release of this album, but I'm guessing it sounds similar to the 2003 CD).

Other Nujabes-related projects you might be interested in
• PADYBU's reconstruction of Nujabes' 1998 *Sweet Sticky Thing* mixtape (related Reddit thread)
• 2muchrubik's reconstruction of Nujabes' 2003 *Tribe Sampler Vol. 1* compilation album (related Reddit thread)
• 2muchrubik's reconstruction of Segawa Tatsuya's 2012 *Tribe Sampler Vol. 2* compilation album (related Reddit thread)

Other Nujabes-related uploads
• Sweet Sticky Thing (2muchrubik's rip of the original cassette release)
• HydeOut Sound Lab (2002) (Includes maybe the best-sounding version of Nujabes' 2002 Ristorante mixtape.)
• Saudade# (2007)
• Nujabes Singles Collection (HOR-027,029,031,035,041,042) (iTunes master)
• Listening Is Believing (2003)
• Nujabes / Joe Claussell CD "From Earth To Heaven (Tribute To A Music Lover) (2016) (Some tracks on this CD show how good Nujabes' stuff can sound when mastered well. For example, the versions of "Horizon", "Modal Soul", and "Beat Laments the World" here blow all other versions out of the water. Credit to Reddit user Worldinacup for the rip.)

Fun fact
The unreleased WIP version of "Luv(sic) Part 3" which one of Shing02's friends leaked back in 2005 can still be found on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Br-73l-LuE

Information:
http://nujabesproject.blogspot.com/