Singles of obscure Artists are hard to find. Missing available on Internet Marketplace below, Seller in the right column:
Missing US - updated 15.01.2026*
link to Missing UK in Content post
*marked in green = ordered, not received yet
Sound quality is essential = digital rips only*
Having a pleasure in listening obscure records in good sound quality is more important than collecting poor rips. Sound quality of majority of YouTube rips also many tracks from CD compilations is very poor and such copies are disregarded. Making a good rip is very simple, modern (produced in the XXI century) turntable and Audacity (freeware) is all that you need. I have prepared
Please follow the guidelines. You can purchase a 45, make a rip and send mp3 to me - I prefer raw rips and my own remastering.
* Every single track is remastered (2), iZotope RX7 licenced software and Audacity freeware are applied. All files are properly tagged.
Tags: 1. Title, 2. Artist, 3. Album, 4. Publisher, 5. Copyright, 6. Comment, 7. www, 8. Cover
(2) remastering = fixing any shortcomings of the ripped vinyl or the transferred CD track (de-click, de-noise, normalization, intro/outro silence of 0.75/2.00). The frequency spectrum is not "improved", it remains unchanged, as the norm.
Location of the file
with a given Obscure Artist can be found on Google sheet (link below)
Links to Obscure American ... files can be found in the main post of this series.
Posts with files (detailed track-lists) can be found below this post: Observations after five years
