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Classic ISKCON Vinyl – Vrindavana LP from France and/or Holland
Classic ISKCON Vinyl – Srila Prabhupada’s Krsna Meditation Double LP
Classic ISKCON Vinyl – Hare Krsna Festival 7″ (HKR-2003)
Classic ISKCON Vinyl – Hare Krsna Festival 7″ (HKR-2002)
Classic ISKCON Vinyl – Hare Krsna Festival 7″ (HKR-2001)
Classic ISKCON Vinyl – Srila Prabhupada’s Govinda LP
Classic ISKCON Vinyl – Acyutananda Swami’s India LPBring on the tapes! (Oh and some begging)
Sarah just returned from visiting Pennsylvania and while there, stopped at my parents’ house to retrieve the big box full of cassettes I left there thinking I wouldn’t want them.
This box contains a bunch of classes from 1994-96 that happened at Columbus and New Vrndavana (these were recorded by me), some Krishnacore demos (Prema, 108, Bala!), a few odds and ends here and there and, most importantly, the Classic ISKCON Tapes that I wanted to rerecord, much like I’m rerecording the Classic ISKCON Vinyl.
These will be recorded, cleaned up and made available in 320kbps MP3s and FLAC files. I did all of these before, but they were saved in such low quality that I can’t even listen to them.
Also, as it was recently brought to my attention, I used the Archive’s version of KT-14 (the *amazing* San Francisco Ratha Yatra 1975) which omits a song and is encoded in the amazingly crappy 64kbps.
Remember a few years ago, the BBT/Archives released a few MP3 CD-ROMS full of a bunch of older KC music and vintage Prabhupada? Well, as nice as it seemed, it was in such a low bitrate that it’s near worthless. Sadly, KT-14 was on that disc and even sadder, I used it instead of recording it myself. I don’t remember why, but it was a dumb mistake that I’ll make up for soon.
When? That brings me to the begging portion of this blog post. Not only do I have tapes KT-1 – 20, but I also have Songs of the Vaisnava Acaryas by Acyutananda Swami and Mrdanga Lessons by Srila Prabhupada. Since they are on cassettes and I have no cassette player, getting them digitized poses a bit of a problem.
If anyone out there has a pretty decent tape player that wouldn’t mind letting me borrow it for a spell, I could record these and send it back to you. It don’t think it would take me too long. Even doing one a day would be less than a month.
Any help would be … helpful.
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Someone is bound to bring this up, so I’ll address it. The KT series originally ran from 1-25. I have 1 – 20, which is what was rereleased in 1995 and 1996 by the BBT. For some reason, 21-25 were never rereleased (as far as I know). They are available for download somewhere online, but the MP3s are very low quality, they are not tagged and no song titles are given. Mostly, it seems like a waste of time. Sad, because it’s some good music.
All this said, if anyone has any other early ISKCON cassettes and would like me to convert them to digital, please let me know. Golden Avatar had a series that wasn’t so good, but would be fun to preserve. Also, I remember something called “The Hare Krishna Hootenanny” that I’ve always wanted to hear.
Please Help!
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08/25/2009 at 2:27 pm
i have LOADS of tapes that need transfering. not sure if they’re anything you’d be interested in. i have a lot of rare and random devotee stuff, but most of it i think is after prabhupada left the planet.
i don’t think we have a good tape player. we have one that runs on batteries that i was using, but got kind of fed up with it. lol! (the tape player, that is.)
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eric
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August 25th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
I’m looking for mostly ISKCON-released stuff, though not necessarily when Prabhupada was on the planet. But it *does* have to be BBT/ISKCON/Golden Avatar.
Do you have anything like that?
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Rati
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August 27th, 2009 at 7:48 am
possibly….. i don’t really know off hand. and i hate to admit that a lot of what i have are copies of copies of copies. some were given to me, some i bought.
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