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Operation Echo

Welcome to Operation Echo. This is the blog component to where I'm posting found albums listed from here: Hidden Lost Pockets of Time. I will also be sometimes posting albums from a similar list I maintain called The Missing List. I'll give each release a little blurb and a link to where you can get the album. For ones that still remain offline I will try to keep the link alive as long as I can. However, I implore you download what you can because there is no telling how long these links will live. 

Since the start of recorded music there have been plenty of songs, albums, EPs, tracks, etc that have vanished. I don't mean just off streaming services but there are plenty of records that have just outright disappeared from the internet and all underground methods. Maybe the record was only relesaed physically in pre-internet days, maybe the artist deleted the album from bandcamp, maybe copyright abuse took it down, maybe the label decided to pull it, maybe entire websites decided to stop carrying music all-together (looking at you CDBaby), or maybe it just vanished. Either way, there is plenty of music that is lost. 

From the hidden list: "The old adage of "once it's on the internet it's there forever' is complete crap and should never have been allowed to propagate. If you hear something you like, obtain it asap. There's no telling how long it will be there. 3 Feet High and Rising has 8000 ratings and it was only until mid-2022 that it was not available on any streaming or for digital sale.

This is a list of lost and rare albums that you and I will probably never hear. This is different from My Missing List as I haven't put any effort in trying to find these. I just keep finding so many lost media albums and need to dump them somewhere in case I randomly come across them. I haven't done any investigations into these; they might still be readily available somewhere.

Also inspired by a bunch of lost media lists I've seen on the site. Will link those below.

If you wanna suggest albums please add some context as to what it is. I'd like to know why that particular record is so interesting. And if you release something just to delete it for this list I will block you. You know who you are. Don't pull that shit again with me.

Releases are sorted by year released. If the year is not known I make a guess when it was probably dropped." ~ From Hidden Lost Pockets of Time. 

This blog has no set schedule for posting. Releases will be posted as they are found. Download links will be encoded in Base64. You must decode them to access. 

Enjoy! 
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