J Dilla - "The 1998 Secret Tape"

[ImmortalIronFist]

Also known as "The Lauryn Hill Tape", because of the track which Lauryn Hill and D'angelo were to record for but Lauryn never showed up, or "The Questlove Tape", because Questlove played some snippets of it at a Red Bull lecture in 2013. This is a rare tape from Jay Dee which initially came to me in extremely poor shape. I've done some restoration work to it using my own noise reduction techniques and some restorative EQing to the tape as a whole. The track titles are fan-made as is the cover art and title. The title references the beat "Secrets Of The Sand" as well as the elusiveness of the tape. I've exported to lossless so as to avoid re-encoding to lossy which would've harmed the audio.

Download: https://pixeldrain.com/u/MEYi8qC4
(exported as flac to prevent losing quality through an mp3 to mp3 conversion)
Tracklist:
01. Sensation
02. Low Signal
03. You're My Lady
04. Mackinckulous
05. One For Lauryn
06. Ankh
07. Kahn
08. Super Avilyn
09. Breakaway Tabs
10. Secrets Of The Sand
11. On & On
12. Steppin' It Up
13. Clap Ya Hands to The Beat Huh!
14. Hold Tight, Man
15. Heroin Joint
16. BeAhBeDah BeAhBeDah
17. Sensation

 

[MrVaughn]

Just for the avoidance of doubt…this is different from the 1998 Batch (AKA Another Batch)?

 

[Norman Connors]

Steppin it Up was on The Love Movement but other than that I have not heard any of these.