The Discussion of MJ's Unreleased Tracks

No sane engineer would make such mix. There're many things that sound not right.
Let's be honest, none of the in-production mixes done for BAD, be it pre-production or during production, really hold up to snuff when compared to the released mixes of the final album. This could very well be a situation where the final mix (for the whole album, not Streetwalker) wasn't completed until after the 8-12-87 tape. Failing that, it's possible this could be from an earlier mixdown tape.
 
No sane engineer would make such mix. There're many things that sound not right.
Ooooh but when I say "this mix sounds like ass and there's no way anyone in MJ's team made this" everyone jumps and says "nah bruv this is 100% real, in fact it is currently my favorite version of streetwalker, btw the grandmother of a friend of my cousin's owns the tape containing it + tomboy"
 
I can tell you 100% that Streetwalker 87 mix is real and i was shocked when i heard the song not just because of the quality but because of the sound of the DAT tape it sounds like it was mixed in someone ass
 
And i decided to leak the track because first it deserve to be heard and second it have unheard Vocals too and AI fucked up everything because of this everyone was thinking it was fake just like MIB but they are both real
 
Ooooh but when I say "this mix sounds like ass and there's no way anyone in MJ's team made this" everyone jumps and says "nah bruv this is 100% real, in fact it is currently my favorite version of streetwalker, btw the grandmother of a friend of my cousin's owns the tape containing it + tomboy"
Tomboy is instrumental from "Zapp - Stop That" or not?
 
Could be a quick DAT to bring home they made after a session without really polishing the mix, I highly doubt this is a final mix or anything like it.
Sounds nothing like a DAT to me. I’m certain this is a cassette mix where the hiss was filtered out and that ruined the track.
Probably a copy of another cassette copy and so on (multiple generations).

I don’t think it is so much the mixing of it but the sound quality. You can hear tape hiss at the start but that is filtered out during the main track. Not to mention that it probably went through multiple copies…
Tape hiss is more significant on cassette than DAT. And the ‘86 version is much better quality because that’s a DAT copy of a (likely) first-gen cassette.

If I were them, I would have left the tape hiss in and kept the track intact.
 
And i decided to leak the track because first it deserve to be heard and second it have unheard Vocals too and AI fucked up everything because of this everyone was thinking it was fake just like MIB but they are both real
That’s also because doctored snippets of MIB were shared first (by the catfish producer) and both of you were passing it off as the real thing. Which none of us bought because it obviously was doctored or fake.

It is ironic of you to say that since AI was obviously used for those first snippets. Even to generate vocals that were never there in the first place, and grainy sounding instruments…

If you (and Kai) had been HONEST with us from the start that those early snippets were doctored or fake, then this wouldn’t have got so heated like it did. Alongside all this AI stuff coming in.

Now I’ve heard both tracks, they sound like the real deal. Would have been best not to mess with those tracks in the first place!
 
Sounds nothing like a DAT to me. I’m certain this is a cassette mix where the hiss was filtered out and that ruined the track.
Probably a copy of another cassette copy and so on (multiple generations).

I don’t think it is so much the mixing of it but the sound quality. You can hear tape hiss at the start but that is filtered out during the main track. Not to mention that it probably went through multiple copies…
Tape hiss is more significant on cassette than DAT. And the ‘86 version is much better quality because that’s a DAT copy of a (likely) first-gen cassette.

If I were them, I would have left the tape hiss in and kept the track intact.
The '86 demo comes from a cassette "owned" by Brad. There were pics of the inlets of various cassettes within the leak files and you could see the SW one there.
 
That’s also because doctored snippets of MIB were shared first (by the catfish producer) and both of you were passing it off as the real thing. Which none of us bought because it obviously was doctored or fake.

It is ironic of you to say that since AI was obviously used for those first snippets. Even to generate vocals that were never there in the first place, and grainy sounding instruments…

If you (and Kai) had been HONEST with us from the start that those early snippets were doctored or fake, then this wouldn’t have got so heated like it did. Alongside all this AI stuff coming in.

Now I’ve heard both tracks, they sound like the real deal. Would have been best not to mess with those tracks in the first place!
Once again sorry to tell you i never even have contact with Kai when i did got the file for MIB actually Kai did have the song before me and decided to put IA on it and 3 weeks after 2 days after i got the song i decided to leak it so to be honnest with you i never have contact with Kai before the leaks i do have contact with Kai just aftet the leaks
 
What the…?

They didn’t move to Ocean Way until late 1989, so this definitely was recorded during the meat of Dangerous. Crazy new info.
I think it was mentioned that they briefly recorded at the main Ocean Way (i.e.: not Record One) during late 1988, but it was at the Wikipedia page so I didn't believe it all that much. Now that it's been confirmed, that makes me wonder what other songs were done there.
 
I thought the information we had was TYLA was recorded during the September 1988 break on the Baad Tour? In between Liverpool on the 11th and Pittsburgh on the 26th?

Same sessions as the Earth Song was recorded after it was written in Vienna in June
 
The multitrack of TYLA wasnt available for Neff-U back in 2010. Do we know if the Estate owns the Multitrack now?

Like does Brad Sundberg had them?
 
The first snippet is an unaltered, uncompressed WAV file.
The second is an upconverted MP3 with the bass filtered out via a Logic stem split.

The multitracks are lost.

So the second snippet is real? There is no A.I restoring on the voice or anything similar ?
 
I thought the information we had was TYLA was recorded during the September 1988 break on the Baad Tour? In between Liverpool on the 11th and Pittsburgh on the 26th?

Same sessions as the Earth Song was recorded after it was written in Vienna in June
DAT tape reads September 8th, 1988 so vocals were likely recorded before (or on) that day.
 
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