Sony Music is finally getting recordings back from bankrutpcy investigators on the 2007 fraud case of disgraced boy band mogul Lou Pearlman.

After eight years, Sony has just obtained an agreement in Orlando that should allow the return of hundreds of studio master tapes and CDs from bands like Nsync, 95 South, LFO, C-Note, and Innosence.

There’s very little value in the tapes anymore– around $1,000, according to documents filed in the bankruptcy court. But the list of items was a reminder of Orlando’s heyday as a center of the pop music world, and Pearlman’s fall from grace. Pearlman is now in a federal prison in Miami, serving a 25-year sentence for running a giant Ponzi scheme.

Former Nsync lead singer Justin Timberlake is still popular, but many of the other acts have disappeared. In one tragic example, tapes of the late Leslie Carter’s music are released years after her death. Carter was the sister of Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter.

The list of recordings reads like a music tabloid from the early 2000s.

There’s Mandy Moore, Orlando home girl who went on to become a actress and fashion designer, and backup tapes for Lennon Murphy.

There are dozens of Nsync master tapes and reels, including a studio master tape of “God must have spent a little more time on you”, and reel tape for “All I Need.”

Many tapes are from rapper C-Note, who was achieving some success just as the Pearlman fraud was exposed. Titles include Let’s Have Some Fun, Calle Ochoa., etc.

Attempts to reach Sony Music about the return of tapes were not immediately successful.

In October, the Backstreet Boys got some of their tapes and CD’s returned, along with a payment of $99,000 on a claim of $3.45 million.

The release of the tapes comes just as Vanity Fair Confidential ran a new exposé Monday night about Pearlman on the Investigation Discovery channel. [Orlando Sentinel]