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Artist: The Roots
Title: Things Fall Apart
Format: CD
Label: MCA Records
Cat No: MCD 11948
Released: 22 Feb 1999
Country:
Genres: ConsciousJazzy Hip-Hop
Status Have
Added To List 28th March 2023
Disc 1 | CD
No Notes 
A Matrix:
MCD11948 111 948-2 01 /  
B Matrix:
MADE IN GERMANY A  

Additional Information

Comments The tracks are numbered from 54 to 71 on release.

Track 70.3 isn't listed on the back cover or booklet but it appears on the tray card as track 71: "(Act Fore (...) 71 There Is No Hidden Track... We Think)". It starts after a period of silence between 5:36 and 7:09; total duration for track 70 is 11:55.
Track 71 has no audio.

Track 54 contains excerpts of dialogue from "Mo Better Blues".
Track 60 contains elements from "Saturday Night" performed by Schooly D.

54: recorded at Ivory Productions, Philadelphia, PA; and at Sterling Sound, New York, NY. Mixed at Sterling Sound, New York, NY. Protooled at Sterling Sound, New York, NY.
55: Part 1 recorded at Battery Studios, New York, NY and at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA; Part 2 recorded at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA and at The Studio, Philadelphia, PA. Both versions mixed at Sony Studios, New York, NY.
56: recorded at Battery Studios, New York, NY; Sony Studios, New York, NY; and Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at Battery Studios, New York, NY.
57: recorded at ?uestlove's Soup Kitchen, Illadelph, PA; at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, PA; and at The Studio, Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at Sony Studios, New York, NY.
58: recorded at The (Old) Hit Factory, New York, NY; at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA; and at The Studio, Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at Battery Studios, New York, NY.
59: recorded at Jay Dee's Village Of Promiscuous Homosapiens In Search Of Thickness, East Detroit, MI; at Studio A, Celarborn Heights, MI; and at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at Battery Studios, New York, NY.
60: recorded at The House Of Chaos, Illadelph, PA; at Ivory Way Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA; and at Ivory Productions, Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at The Hit Factory, New York, NY.
61: recorded at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA; and at The Studio, Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at Battery Studios, New York, NY.
62: recorded at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA; and at The Cutting Room, New York, NY. Mixed at Battery Studios, New York, NY.
63: recorded at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA; at The Cutting Room, New York, NY; and at The Studio, Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at Battery Studios, New York, NY.
64: recorded at Battery Studios, New York, NY; and at Big Zone Recording Studio, Coshaken, PA. Mixed at Sony Studios, New York, NY.
65: recorded at Sigma Sound Service, Philadelphia, PA; and at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at Ivory Productions, Philadelphia, PA.
66: recorded at The Studio, Philadelphia, PA; and at Battery Studios, New York, NY. Mixed at Battery Studios, New York, NY.
67, 70: recorded at Ivory Productions, Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at Ivory Productions, Philadelphia, PA
68: recorded at Scott's House O' Broken Hearts, Philadelphia, PA; at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA; at The Studio, Philadelphia, PA; at Sony Studios, New York, NY; and at Battery Studios, New York, NY. Mixed at Battery Studios, New York, NY. Protools at Sony Studios, New York, NY and at Axis Studios, New York, NY.
69: recorded at Ivory Productions (Sigma Studios), Philadelphia, PA; and at The Studio, Philadelphia, PA. Mixed at Sony Studios, New York, NY.

℗ 1999, 1998 © 1999 MCA Records, Inc.

Made in the EU.

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