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VA - JD Twitch's 60 Minutes Of Fear CD

Artist: Various mixed by JD Twitch
Title: 60 Minutes Of Fear
Source: CD
Format: FLAC
Running time (h:m:s): 01:04:53
Size (mb): 429
Label: RVNG INTL
Cat. No: RVNGMX6
Year: 2008

1. (00:00:31) Bombastic Intro – Big Black
2. (00:02:37) Zounds – Can't Cheat Karma
3. (00:03:12) Crass – Bata Motel
4. (00:02:26) Savage Republic – Viva Le Rock N' Roll
5. (00:02:41) Butthole Surfers – Mexican Caravan
6. (00:02:46) [...]

D.I.Y. Irish Hardcore Punk Archive

This is a blog dedicated to Irish Punk and Hardcore, mainly from the early 90's up until present but there are a few earlier pieces as well. Everything has been ripped to mp3 format from old vinyl, demos, live recordings, unreleased songs and so on. It is only music that is out of print so [...]

Wat Tyler - I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles (The Seedy Side Of...) CD

Artist: Wat Tyler
Title: I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles (The Seedy Side Of…)
Source: CD
Format: FLAC
Running time (h:m:s): 01:14:55
Size (mb): 449
Label: Rugger Bugger Discs (defunct) / Gap Recordings
Cat. No: SEEP007 / GAP004
Year: 1992

01 No I.D.
02 Hops And Barley
03 Heavy Metal Vivisector
04 We Pledge Our Allegiance To Satan
05 Coming Home (Parts One And Two)
06 Regina Coult
07 Johnny's Puppy
08 Bring [...]

Radical Dance Faction - Borderline Cases LP

Artist: Radical Dance Faction
Title: Borderline Cases
Source: Vinyl 12" LP
Format: FLAC
Running time (h:m:s): 00:46:40
Size (mb): 296
Label: Earth Zone Records (defunct)
Year: 1990

RDF could regularly be found in a field during the free festival heydays of the 80's and 90's, dishing out their pared-back bass-heavy ambient dub sounds that were the perfect foil to vocalist Chris Bowsher's poetical [...]

VA - Who? What? Why? When? Where?

Artist : Various Artists
Album : Who? What? Why? When? Where?
Label : Mortarhate Records
Catalog# : MORT 4
Source : Vinyl
Year : March 1984
Genre : Anarcho Punk
Codec : FLAC
ID3-Tag : ID3v2.3

Track Listing
1. Cruise… [Conflict] (1:55)
2. It'll [...]

Free Noise #42

Artist: Credit To The Nation
Title: Pay The Price
Source: Vinyl 12" EP
Format: FLAC
Running time (h:m:s): 00:16:35
Size (mb): 109
Label: Agit-Prop (defunct)
Year: 1991

Veering slightly off the beaten track, here's a bit of early 90's radical hiphop in a UK stylee. CTTN were made up of three youngish kids from the Midlands, an MC and two dancers, who could [...]

World & US Punk Compilations

Seeing as this is my first post on the Old Punks site I thought I'd try and make it a good one. This is a '2 disc' compilation of world and US punk bands and most of the tracks are from the early 80s. The bands on the 'world' disc are from various [...]

Free Noise #41

Artist: Bolt Thrower
Title: In Battle There Is No Law
Source: Vinyl 12" LP
Format: FLAC
Running time (h:m:s): 00:26:32
Size (mb): 193
Label: Vinyl Solution (defunct)
Year: 1988

01. In Battle There Is No Law
02. Challenge for Power
03. Forgotten Existence
04. Denial of Destiny
05. Concession of Pain
06. Attack in the Aftermath
07. Psychological Warfare
08. Nuclear Annihilation

It had been a long time since I last [...]

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.