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Does anyone know the story behind the Studio One catalog of digital files that is available on many p2p sites? It is an enormous collection that seems to have been compiled from hundreds of singles.

There are 48 volumes with 20-30 tracks per volume.

I think it comes as a result of this, but I'm not 100% sure.

Back in the late 90s a highly regarded Finnish collector ran an internet radio broadcast of Studio 1 material, when the music industry starting forcing these old sites to charge money the originator handed over the station to another person as he had no interest in paying to keep it going. He shipped all the files to the new person to run the station. Either that new person, or one of the listeners who recorded the stream, put all the tracks online after the station eventually shut down.

Interesting, thanks for the post! I have come across this download a number of times and always wondered about it.

Oh yes, our from Finland is a Studio One fanatic and his podcast was great. So many killer (and very rare) Studio One tracks; we did some trading and he sent me something like 1200 MP3s, which was incredible.

how can this guy give away such a catlogue like this ?

What blew me away is that they were obviously from vinyl singles from the sound quality is great. He must have recorded from some EX singles.

Ok, Ill be the mule, anyone willing to give a link to where this is?

Greggae wrote:Ok, Ill be the mule, anyone willing to give a link to where this is?

the latest sets are not public available anymore. Only for a select group of people (even though things will eventually leak anyhow ) coz people around the world started burning that stuff on cd and pirate releases and who knows what and made money out of it.

Not mentioning any names but I visited a store in London this year who had these sets for sale behind the counter.. 8 pound per burned cd. That's why..

skylarker40 wrote:Greggae wrote :Ok, Ill be the mule, anyone willing to give a link to where this is?

the latest sets are not public available anymore. Only for a select group of people (even though things will eventually leak anyhow ) coz people around the world started burning that stuff on cd and pirate releases and who knows what and made money out of it.

Not mentioning any names but I visited a store in London this year who had these sets for sale behind the counter.. 8 pound per burned cd. That's why..

what goes around comes around - he who posted it on the net in the 1st place is to be blamed (him shall be spank..; . people can't resist biggin' up themselves by giving away others' work. as if what they have is who they are. Owning some records DOES NOT give anyone the right to give them away like that. this is bulls..t

Jo.ong wrote: Owning some records DOES NOT give anyone the right to give them away like that. this is bulls..t

this statement of yours makes me believe that you never ever made a copy of a CD or an LP for nobody, not once, never ever put an LP on a casette and gave it to a friend, never copied a CD abd of course never received copies...am I correct in this assumption? boy, you are surely one in a million