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I have a 128kbps download of this video, but I'll bet its somewhere out there. I looked on Yandex with no luck - anyone on a private tracker able to find this in good qualirt?
I used to be on one that had fucking everything (swear to god they were more up to date on hyper-local music from my area than I was) but my accounts always just get nuked for inactivity
I remember the days of what.cd
RIP
I know this album has to be out there, I'm just not on any private trackers anymore except for Kraytracker, and that's like just all punk and indie stuff.
yeah I was on redacted iirc. it was annoying but occasionally super useful. I guess I could try and resurrect my account lmao
redacted.ch doesn't appear to have it though maybe my search terms weren't the best (tried the anglicized and chinese versions of both the artist name and album)
They do have FLAC of this though, with his daughter: https://houzuxin.bandcamp.com/album/x
Description put through deepl:
It was the 1980s, when Chinese artists of all disciplines were jumping on the bandwagon and beginning to have a strong desire for expression and catharsis, and that's when Chinese rock was born. Hou Muren was one of the first Chinese musicians to do rock and roll. He is now over 60 years old, and a brain attack five years ago left him speechless for a while. No one would have thought that the bald old man who speaks slowly now was once a rocker with long hair and a long beard, but after the ups and downs of his life, rock and roll has not left this stubborn old man.
Hou Zuxin, the daughter of Hou Mu Ren, grew up in the rock scene and followed her father through her childhood in various recording studios in Beijing. When she went to the U.S. to study film as a graduate student, Hou Muren had a brain attack, and watching her father lose his ability to express himself made her, while heartbroken, decide to make a documentary about these old rockers of her father's generation, telling her father's story then and now from a daughter's perspective.
The documentary is called "Old Rock and Roll". For this film, Hou Mu Ren wrote a song for the first time after his brain attack, writing it to himself, to his brothers who did rock and roll together back then, and to this era. He named the song: Live like a fool.
Thanks for checking! If worst comes to worst, I have the video downloaded as a 128kbps mp3...I'm sure it sounds like ass, but its something. I'll have to cut up all the songs into individual files, but if I do that, I'll 100p share it here.
for whatever it's worth, the raw stream from youtube is ~128kbps AAC, which should sound a bit better than a re-encode to 128 MP3. It sounds okay to me. I downloaded it with yt-dlp. Anything that avoids re-encoding repeatedly is probably best. Although given the seeming prominence of this album in early chinese rock I would bet you can find a proper rip on chinese language sites.
I actually found something related on an old blog but the download link was dead. I wanted to know if the whole thing was actually ironic as the blogger claims or if it was some unofficial release mashup of pro and anti government songs from the era