This has been circulating for years in lossy mp3 as an unmastered version of Californication, but it's in fact a different, alternate mix of the album. This was never officially released and we don't know where it comes from. The lossless version includes 'Gong Li' which wasn't on the mp3 one.

What's the diference between the released mix and the alternate? A few differences on songs, different tracklist, but the most important thing is that it sounds much better because the official mix is highly compressed and clipped.

For anyone who doesn't understand why this is up, californication is one of the loudest and poorest sounding records of all time.Whether on vinyl or cd *I've downloaded and compared rips of both* it is said the vinyl is sourced from the cd master too.This is a pre master flac rip of the album, without the compression and terrible sound.Feel free to download for yourself and compare with whatever version of the album you may have, take note however, there are differences in certain songs as this was not the final version, but nothing extreme or drastically different, just slightly.

Tracks:

I Like Dirt
Parallel Universe
Savior
Fat Dance
Easily
Otherside
Californication
Get on Top
Purple Stain
Around the World
Emit Remmus
This Velvet Glove
Scar Tissue
Right on Time
Porcelain
How Strong
Road Trippin'
Gong Li
Road Trippin' (without strings)








This is not my rip, and as mentioned earlier, I don't know where it comes from.

I would like to thank mix3dmessagez for sharing :)

Let me know what y'all think...









AUDIOCHECKER v2.0 beta (build 457) - by Dester - [email protected]
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Started at: Friday, 11. 11. 2011. - 15:09.44
19 files found

01 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\01 I Like Dirt.flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%
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02 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\02 Parallel Universe.flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%
  Tempfile successfully deleted.

03 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\03 Savior.flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 87%
  Tempfile successfully deleted.

04 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\04 Fat Dance.flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%
  Tempfile successfully deleted.

05 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\05 Easily.flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%
  Tempfile successfully deleted.

06 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\06 Otherside.flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%
  Tempfile successfully deleted.

07 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\07 Californication.flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 99%
  Tempfile successfully deleted.

08 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\08 Get on Top.flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%
  Tempfile successfully deleted.

09 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\09 Purple Stain.flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%
  Tempfile successfully deleted.

10 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\10 Around the World.flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%
  Tempfile successfully deleted.

11 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\11 Emit Remmus.flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%
  Tempfile successfully deleted.

12 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\12 This Velvet Glove.flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%
  Tempfile successfully deleted.

13 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\13 Porcelain.flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 43%
  Tempfile successfully deleted.

14 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\14 Scar Tissue.flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 99%
  Tempfile successfully deleted.

15 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\15 Right on Time.flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%
  Tempfile successfully deleted.

16 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\16 How Strong.flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%
  Tempfile successfully deleted.

17 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\17 Road Trippin'.flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%
  Tempfile successfully deleted.

18 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\18 Gong Li.flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%
  Tempfile successfully deleted.

19 -===- C:\Users\insinuendo\Downloads\Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Californication (alternate mix) [FLAC]\19 Road Trippin' (without strings).flac
  Extracted successfully
  Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%
  Tempfile successfully deleted.


Finished at: Friday, 11. 11. 2011. - 15:21.32 (operation time: 0:11.48)