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Hip Hop Pressing Question

cpeetzcpeetz 2,112 Posts
edited September 2008 in Strut Central
I always thought I had a good eye when identifying US first pressings when it came to 90's hip hop stuff.b,121Somebody just told me that if they have those little tears around the spindle hole on the inner label theyb,121are bootlegs.b,121Could the Soul Strut Massive confirm or deny this information?

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  • johmbolayajohmbolaya 4,472 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121I always thought I had a good eye when identifying US first pressings when it came to 90's hip hop stuff.b,121Somebody just told me that if they have those little tears around the spindle hole on the inner label theyb,121are bootlegs.b,121Could the Soul Strut Massive confirm or deny this information? b,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121Depends on the record and the label.
  • cpeetzcpeetz 2,112 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121I always thought I had a good eye when identifying US first pressings when it came to 90's hip hop stuff.b,121Somebody just told me that if they have those little tears around the spindle hole on the inner label theyb,121are bootlegs.b,121Could the Soul Strut Massive confirm or deny this information? b,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121Depends on the record and the label. b,121b,121h,121font class="post"1b,121b,121Ok for instance The Beatnuts-Hit Me With That b/w Get Funky 12".b,121The copy I have has the little tears but, everything is crisp ie. the silver text isb,121obviously been screened printed, not just some shitty looking scanned label job likeb,121you see on all those 90's boots.b,121Plus I don't really remember that many boots except for rarer stuff like the Life's A Bitch 12"b,121I remember lot's of those German pressings that seemed to stay in print forever, which have theb,121easily identifiable marks.b,121Feel free to expand on the topic from there. img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" 21
  • johmbolayajohmbolaya 4,472 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121/font1Quote:/font1h,121b,121I always thought I had a good eye when identifying US first pressings when it came to 90's hip hop stuff.b,121Somebody just told me that if they have those little tears around the spindle hole on the inner label theyb,121are bootlegs.b,121Could the Soul Strut Massive confirm or deny this information? b,121b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b,121Depends on the record and the label. b,121b,121h,121font class="post"1b,121b,121Ok for instance The Beatnuts-Hit Me With That b/w Get Funky 12".b,121The copy I have has the little tears but, everything is crisp ie. the silver text isb,121obviously been screened printed, not just some shitty looking scanned label job likeb,121you see on all those 90's boots.b,121Plus I don't really remember that many boots except for rarer stuff like the Life's A Bitch 12"b,121I remember lot's of those German pressings that seemed to stay in print forever, which have theb,121easily identifiable marks.b,121Feel free to expand on the topic from there. img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" 21 b,121b,121h,121font class="post"1b,121b,121b,121I'd have to check first, but I know Relativity was distributed by Sony when the Beatnuts were signed. Not sure if it applied to vinyl, but anything that Columbia/Sony pressed had a matrix number that was machine stamped. Bootleggers never had the luxury of going to a pressing plant where there is a machine stamp, UNLESS it was done at the same plant (i.e. some mid-70's bootleg albums). In other words, if the numbers are not handwritten, it *might* be legit. Or some labels had a certain identifiable mark. Columbia sometimes had the "eye" or something like that.b,121b,121Again, it's Relativity so it's one of those it might be or not.
  • cpeetzcpeetz 2,112 Posts
    I was looking through stuff and I didn't find any Sony related labels with machine stamped matrix #'s.
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