Pete Rock & InI - Instrumental ("Center of Attention" Instrumental Tracks) - Бесплатная аудиокнига

This upload contains the excellent instrumental accompaniment to the famous "lost & found" album "Center of Attention" by Pete Rock & InI. It should be noted this 12" record contains instrumentals for only 10 of the released album's 16 tracks (more than 16 tracks were recorded & sequenced when under the working title "The Life I Live," but Pete Rock consistently seems to have defaulted to the leaked tracklist & name after the album was very widely bootlegged in the late 90s).

This specific release has been moved back & forth by Discogs users between "partially unofficial," a term so vague & unexplained as to be functionally meaningless, & the site's "promotional" designation. As the album itself did not receive any official issue until years later, it seems unlikely that Elektra had anything to do with "promoting" this record (which conspicuously lacks copyright information on the label). While these instrumentals clearly originate from the source, how they came to be pressed to vinyl remains somewhat of a seemingly impenetrable mystery.

Despite Rock reclaiming ownership of the album & officially releasing it through German labels Rapster Records & then (much later) Vinyl Digital, these instrumentals have never been reissued, physically or digitally. Accordingly, these 16-bit/44.1khz files are uploaded from my personal collection at no material benefit to myself or the internet archive & for strictly historical purposes.