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Flipping To FLAC, Turning To Torrents

I've been mulling over this for a while now, but I've decided to take the plunge and start encoding my rips as FLACs rather than MP3s. It's the best way of ensuring as flawless a copy as possible of the original vinyl (within the restrictions of the kit I use). With a FLAC file you're [...]

Arse, Gear, Engage

I promised quite a while back to fulfil a request for the lyrics from the Karma Sutra LP posted way back at the birth of this blog. I finally got round to taking some pics of the booklet today, so anyone else who wants to grab it can now do so.

Free Noise #40

Artist: Antisect
Title: Live In The Darkness
Source: Vinyl 12" LP
Bitrate: V0 VBR
Running time (h:m:s): 00:33:23
Size (mb): 68.7
Label: Clown Discs (defunct)
Year: 1991

01. Intro (War)
02. They (The Eternal Myth And Paradox)
03. Tortured And Abused
04. Yet They Still Ignore
05. Education Or Indoctrination
06. The World's Biggest Runt
07. In Darkness
08. Heresy
09. The Buck Stops Here

I could've written a blinding piece about [...]

Corrupted Ambitions

Ernest Embryo pointed out that three of the tracks in the 'You've Heard It All Before' compilation couldn't be opened because they were corrupted. So I've re-zipped these three tracks and uploaded them again for everyone that's had the same problem:

Download the missing three tracks

I also received a lovely email from Chris Willshire (the force [...]

Free Noise #39

Artist: Squandered Message
Title: Life
Source: Vinyl 12" LP
Bitrate: V0 VBR
Running time (h:m:s): 00:39:01
Size (mb): 81.3
Label: Destiny Records
Year: 1988

01. Beware-Teddybear
02. Social Worker
03. It's a Scream
04. Big City Soldier
05. Parallel
06. Caught Up
07. Hidden Powers
08. Chainsaw Massacre

Hailing from Berlin, SM were part of the ferocious yet melodic Euro hardcore scene that was at its peak right then. Although maybe [...]

Free Noise #38

Artist: VA
Title: You've Heard It All Before
Source: Vinyl 12" DLP
Bitrate: V0 VBR
Running time (h:m:s): 01:26:22
Size (mb): 167
Label: Ruptured Ambitions
Year: 1993

Disc 1
1. Blyth Power – Reality Asylum
2. Decadence Within – Mother Earth
3. The Apostles – Walls
4. Corpus Vile – Berketex Bribe
5. Urin-8 – Darling (Versus Andy T.)
6. The Obscene Females – Securicor
7. Backbone O'Reilly – What [...]

Superstar DJ!

I was asked to put together a playlist for Sunday night's shenanigans at the pub but, for various reasons, it wasn't needed in the end.

Rather than put all that hard work to waste, I've uploaded the set for you to all check out. It's in the order I would've probably played it on the night, [...]

Free Noise #37

Artist: Dub War
Title: Dub Warning
Source: Vinyl 12" mini-LP
Bitrate: V0 VBR
Running time (h:m:s): 00:30:36
Size (mb): 64.5
Label: Words Of Warning (defunct)
Year: 1994

1. Original Murder
2. Crack
3. Psycho System
4. Words of Warning
5. Crack D Dub
6. Dub War

Proving that the M4 isn't the only good thing to come out of Wales, these Newport boys took all of the punk attitude [...]

Open House

If anyone's interested, Punk Torrents is currently open for registration (although probably not for long). So hurry up and sign up if you want the chance to grab and share some fine rare punk and punk-related audio, video and literature. There's also general info, discussions, intelligent debate and occasional stupidity to entertain you while you're [...]

Free Noise #36

Artist: Scatha
Title: Respect, Protect, Reconnect
Source: Vinyl 12" LP
Bitrate: V0 VBR
Running time (h:m:s): 00:30:36
Size (mb): 64.5
Label: Flat Earth Records (defunct)
Year: 1996

1. From The Heart
2. Manannan Weeps
3. Uni-Verse
4. I Am One!
5. Cry! Wolf
6. Respect, Protect, Reconnect
7. Pagan Idolatry
8. Blinded By Sight
9. Prognostication
10. Why Fur?

Following up on my promise to subject you all to some more Jockish hardcore, [...]