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  Nujabes' main discography on digital has been cursed for the longest time, as there hasn't been a good sounding release of any of his major projects. The CD releases of First Collection, Metaphorical Music, Modal Soul, and Second Collection all range from mediocre to downright bad with way too much compression, muddled vocals/treble, and boomy bass. That is until recently when I guess Hydeout themselves decided to release some of Nujabes' old singles on iTunes. These new iTunes releases sound very close to the original vinyl releases, which is to say much, much better than the CDs. They might be sourced from files used for the vinyl releases, but don't take my word for it, as I have no way of confirming that. Because some of the singles include songs from the albums, one can start to piece together better sounding versions of the albums from them. Not an ideal situation in the slightest, but at least it's something after all these years.
  
  I remember Shing02 saying in an interview that the CD releases were an afterthought by Nujabes. He was at first hesitant to release anything on CD because of his old-school mentality, but when he saw the potential of the sales numbers, he caved in. If the vinyls were supposed to be the "real deal" and the CDs were meant only to make money, it's no wonder if they didn't give them the same amount of care in the mastering process. The CDs are all very loud and compressed (save for a few tracks), most likely so that they'd "have impact" when played back in cars, on the radio, in public places and what have you. Sadly a common practice during this seemingly never-ending loudness war.
  
  Now we just have to hope that they someday release everything by Hydeout in this higher quality.
  
  I've also included additional vinyl artwork for It's About Time, Asteroid Love, and F.I.L.O, courtesy of u/2muchrubik on r/nujabes.
  
  Note that these aren't all of the new digital releases, only the ones I personally liked the best. I left out 3 or 4 other singles.
  
  Enjoy!
  
  *- hydes*

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