So I just checked on my files and saw that some pathetic tosser’s actually taken the time to have quite a few of them deleted. Must’ve taken him the better part of his lonely and empty evening up in his room. But I understand… this is a cat-and-mouse game. I upload music and try to show my readers (that’s you) what kind of stuff I like, while hoping a few of you guys actually share my taste and might even go out and cop the odd album, because that’s how I really think it should work. And then somebody occasionally kills a file or two, cos they feel it’s not right what I’m doing. But it takes a right badass to do it this way.

The albums that have disappeared within the last 12h are not even related. Okay, there’s a grip of Gunshot and all of Brother Ali, but a lot more still and all that can’t possibly be owned by one and the same person or company, no matter how big the conglomerate. So I realized two things:
a) People don’t take my disclaimer (see bottom right) seriously. All you need to do is ask and I’ll take shit down. Always have done, always will do.
b) As much pride as I’ve taken in keeping my links alive, I figure if you haven’t got your mouse arrows on the material up on here by now, you’ll never.
So this post marks a change in policy: Whatever links prior to this posting are still working, I’ll leave them as they are. But I won’t necessarily re-upload them, should they fall victim to pathetic tosserism. I’ll leave the posts up there, and if a link’s not working, you’d have to ask really nicely to get me to do anything about it. (i.e. positively no bitching.)
But fret not, this is not the end. I ain’t givin in that easily. For all the posts that will follow, I’ll only keep the files up for one month. One month and then they’re down again (well, give or take). For you that means come here often, peep what’s new and don’t complain if you’ve missed out.
By the way, I’m not doing this cos I’ve gone soft or because I’m yielding to some coward bitch, but because I have a real life to live besides my blog, and this little hobby of mine is supposed to be fun, inspiring and productive, and not about playing hide-and-seek with some anally retentive toss-pot who’s desperate for any attention he might get.
I’ll still be posting about less-easy-to-find stuff that I think deserves your appreciation, maybe with a proper album review here or there, but if shit’s gone, you missed out.
See y’all in a few days, when I’m back with the freshness.
Peace y’all,
9@home
13 September 2007 at 10:38 am
Keep bringing the freshness 9, rules or no rules. You know it’s appreciated.
13 September 2007 at 8:08 pm
same thing happened to my blog http://belexgelignite.blogspot.com/
I found out it was stonethrows records… when i asked them why they appolgised as I hadn’t uploaded anything without permission on my blog…. they said they sometime accidentally get rid of peoples uploads by mistake when they are trying to protect their intrests !!!! please check my site 9 – I would appriciate any feedback of how it could improve…
thanks..
16 September 2007 at 6:49 pm
How sad…personally, I don’t share your mantra, but to go to the time and effort of sharing stuff, only to have it taken down (in a cowardly way) is pretty shit.
Keep up the good work.
18 September 2007 at 10:12 pm
Have not been to your site for a while, but some interesting things are up at the moment. It is a shame somebody feels the need to delete random files with no explanation. I love blogs like yours that shine the light on the less obvious acts.
I love to check out hip hop from Europe and your site put me in touch with some pretty good Spanish Rap. It also lead to me ordering a copy of the Euprates CD from their myspace.
Please don’t lose heart!
22 September 2007 at 5:02 am
I’ve had the same problem. If I use Zshare, shit is gone pretty quick. I had the same feelings, if some pathetic fuck wants to take that much time to delete links, then they have problems. I just re upload the shit in a different site.
24 September 2007 at 12:54 pm
Hey! Love this site, just keep doing what you’ve been doing, we’ll come back often regardless
Love,
Lady Chavez and FLuffgirl
xoxoxoxo
25 September 2007 at 12:02 am
good to hear you keep up the fine work, deleted files suck, but the quality of your blog doesn´t shrink because of this.
feel free to visit my blog: http://urbanology.wordpress.com/
25 September 2007 at 3:14 pm
na da freue ich mich schon drauf, will auch immer noch ein paar der klassiker der menscheit präsentieren, denke da vor allem auch an torch und stieber twins, was du ankündigst klingt aber auch sehr vielversprechend! werde dich jetzt auch verlinken!
1 October 2007 at 3:05 am
i hear you 100% on the whole deal man.
thats one of the reasons i hardly ever up stuff anymore, people friggin delete it within hours…shit’s gettin ridiculous.
keep up the good work though, be sure to stop by my place too.
23 October 2007 at 4:19 am
I’ve been looking all over for Mr. Complex’s first two albums Complex Catalogue and Hold This Down. I’ve been through forums, albumbase, and various hip hop blogs. I was wondering if you would have any luck finding those two albums. I’ve asked around, but a lot of heads act like they didn’t know who I was talking about. I appreciate it and thanks ahead of time.
23 October 2007 at 7:04 am
I think I do have some Mr Complex ish. Definitely one of those albums, if not both. Give me some time to check. I have to dig a bit deeper in my collection. When I’ve found it, I’ll let ya know.
31 October 2007 at 12:48 am
I’ve dug up two Mr Complex 12″es that used to be on djespionage.blogspot.com. I’ll up these two for you while I keep sorting through my various music stashes…