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MIMS Forgotten Treasures

Hand picked gems by the MIMS team rescued from dusty record bins.

 
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Forgotten Treasure: The Gals & Pals “Blue on Blue” (1966)

It’s a really snowy day in Montreal, the kind that makes you want fake a strange illness to leave work early and go watch some classic movies… I’m thinking “Weekend At Bernies II” So, I decided to ...
by Lexis (MIMS Founder)
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Forgotten Treasure: Donald Byrd “Love Has Come Around” (1981)

In Memory of Donald Byrd  Donald Byrd was a legendary and striking Jazz musician and has the longest discography, releasing albums since 1955. Mr. Byrd has been sampled over and over again, specifically within Hip Hop, and the...
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Forgotten Treasure: Don Ray “Got To Have Loving” (1978) + The Revenge Rework

Don Ray’s Got To Have Loving features one of my favorite Disco breaks of all time. This song was among my earliest encounters with classic Disco music, and was the beginning of my obsession with Disco breaks. When I used to D...
by Devon Eve
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Dom Servini “Forgotten Treasures Mix #06″

We are really happy to present the sixth instalment of our MIMS forgotten treasure mix series. After great mixes from Zed Bias, Taku, Fred Everything, Tall Black Guy and Jesse Futureman our 6th mix comes from none other tha...
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Forgotten Treasure: Seven Grand Housing Authority “Jessica” (1994)

This records had many life and it’s still around 19 years after it was originally released. A new very limited re-issue is just about to drop on My Love Is Underground. But if you’re a die hard digger, you’ll ...
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Forgotten Treasure: Joe Townsend & Bill Barth “Take Your Burdens To The Lord” (1972)

Sometimes it is impossible not to judge an album by its cover. During one of my spontaneous record store adventures in December, I happened to pull out an LP entitled Wolf’s At The Door: Lost Recordings From The Spirits ...
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Forgotten Treasure: Mulatu Astatke Ethiopian Quintet “Afro-Latin Soul” (1966)

A few years ago, a friend of mine bought me this record for my birthday. My friend knew I had never heard of Mulatu Astatke and his Ethiopian Quintet, but because she used to live with me, knew all about my love for Jazz, Mexic...
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Tall Black Guy “Forgotten Treasures Mix #05″

We are really happy to present our fifth instalment of the MIMS forgotten treasure mix series. After great mixes from Zed Bias, Taku and Fred Everything and Jesse Futureman our fifth mix is by one of our favorite producers o...
by Lexis (MIMS Founder)
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Forgotten Treasure: Logic “Blues For You” (1994)

We’re working on a really cool but complicated project which consists of writing down in graph form the evolution of the UK Garage genre since it’s creation around 93-94 to all the sub-genres of the UKG family tree ...
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Forgotten Treasure: Aaliyah “If Your Girl Only Knew” (The New Remix) (1996)

We here at MIMS would love to send out a warm thought to Aaliyah who would have celebrated her 34th birthday today. She left much too soon (at age 22) and we can only imagine all amazing music she could have put out… Ther...
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Forgotten Treasure: The X-Ecutioners “The Turntablist Anthem” (1997)

That super familiar line, “Hey DJ won’t you play that song” has a source, and the other night I had a moment while watching a classic music video that took me back to an X-Ecutioners track. In my high school days, I remem...
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MIMS Forgotten Treasures Compilations
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MIMS “Forgotten Treasures Compilation #3″

Here is third second compilation of  ”forgotten treasures” which is – if you’re new here – one of the pillars of this website. We plan to put out one of these every month to go along with our mont...
by Lexis (MIMS Founder)
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