The lost multitrack tapes of Isaac Hayes and Brooklyn Funk Essentials.

Believed to have been forever lost, the original 2" multitrack tapes from the 1996 collaboration between Brooklyn Funk Essentials and Isaac Hayes, were amazingly recovered from a dusty Bed-Stuy basement yesterday.

The soul music legend worked together with BFE and producer Danny Madden on music for a movie, where he was to star alongside blacksploitation diva Pam Grier. But the film was eventually re-written, and neither the music or the two megastars were in the final version of it. What will happen to the tapes now is anybody's guess.