And dusty grooves add so much feeling to these Garage / Urban tunes…

Yep, but that is going to be a trend.
A good heuristic is the high cut-off frequency. Spec analysing software show that, and when I'm running live sound for local rap artists and their own prerec instrumentals I'll take a look at the mixing console's RTA, it's often worth a good laugh when nothing's above 8kHz…

Within MP3, there's a HUGE difference between compression settings. I couldn't A/B 320k MP3s vs FLACs for shit, but 128k MP3s sound like absolute garbage like those older tunes uploaded to YouTube before 2011.

The era of 96k mp3s in disguise as FLACs is coming

Street Fighter Theme (Bass Boosted).midi ;)

Fuck AAC, go lossless. My preference is FLAC, AIFF then WAV depending on what devices support and I've decided to settle with AIFF. Don't want to advertise here but you can PM me for a hi-qual streaming-slash-music store that has a wider collection than Beatport and the likes!