Bands putting records out on floppy disc
 

What do you think of this?

I got one
3.5" didnt have the opportunity to listen to it yet.
I just like the idea of abandon media and I pretty much liked the print on it.
I will check which artist

Same here. I like the format 'cause it looks like 70's furniture design. It's only recently I came across some bands doing that.

I remember a band called the Lotus doing this about 6 years ago. I saw a local "IDM dude" who gave me a copy of his album on floppy too, about 5 years ago. Pretty neat.

here is it:

Back when I was a music maker, there was a label called Computer Disk Records, that only released singles on 3.5" disks, and they put out one of mine.

Wow! Exhausts put records out on floppy disc now? I have one of their CDs, if it's the same band we're talking about. And I like them a lot too.

http://www.punkhost.com/ the label's gone I guess.

cheers

damn. and I havent found an old enough PC/Mac yet to check it

btw the included chart says that it requires shickwave flash player. maybe its some interactive do it yourself program made by them, rather then an album

My pc is considered ancient by today's standards and still survives (fingers crossed). Old-fashioned desktop bought from Mr Riley in Islington in 2003. I record all my music on it, so if I it gets destroyed , I am wiped off too.

you are relying on an old PC?
its time for some backup!

My computer is 8 1/2 years old. Never had a problem with it. It's got ME on it and 18.6gb of space.

I don't download animal porn on it. I just like being the peeping tom.

yes, ok I got a still running C64 with no HD space at all, hahaha. but thats another story. I dont trust PCs anymore

@sarram:
is your disk a 3.5" too or an 5.25" C64 style disk?
I wonder because all Ive seen so far are 3.5" disks

I heart C64.

You need to get one of those old school tape backup machines man

haha, that's almost the same configuration for me. My computer is 8 years old I believe, I never upgraded it in any way (I don't even own an external hard drive). The hard drive is 18.5gb of space and it never got full - though it's sometimes close. At the moment I have something like 600Mb free
And it has a floppy disc reader

what's that? the size of my floppy drive? i don't know. standard?

yes there are two standards. the 3.5" are the one like mine. they were first in old amigas I think and early PCs and were the standard till the end. before that there were this huge 5.25" floppy disks which are known in germany just as floppies (the 3.5" are just known as diskettes)
the bigger ones are thinner and way more bendable
edit:

5.25"

That's interesting, thanks. I'm retarded when it comes to computer technology specifications.

I uased to love fucking with the floppies back in the day, tearing them apart to see how they were made.

In fact I always imagined floppy disc drives were all the same.

there were also zip drives, which stored around 120 mb or something. I think if you relase music on them it will be heard not by too many people.
some IT friend also told me that these type of disks were the most unstable ones. dataloss par excellence
on the opposite almost all 20+ year old disks from my C64 are still working and are readable. lets see how much of my Cds/Dvds will work at that age...

i still have some casette tapes filled with games for my ancient Atari 800 XL, which I still have hidden behind the couch. I'm wondering if they'd be still readable.

cassettes are sturdy as hell.
I think all those old formats are pretty tolerant to corrupt data because they arent written that dense like Dvds or bluerays.
its like:
01010110
compared to:
010101101001101010010101010101010010101

if you got a scratch or a corrupt something with the size of:
-----

Some major record labels used to give promo cartridges of their albums to journalists in the 70's. That's another format I like, as well as minidisc. I'm kind of sad the minidisc disappeared.

Yes, minidiscs were very interesting. Portable, small and had this cool artwork on them.

Slavo, start the usb pen scene.

exactly!If I had to choose my favourite media format, it would be minidisc. it got a pretty good sound quality plus a kickass design. I really like the size of it and that it looks like the most dansome disk ever made.
My MD player is still my allday mobile music source.
also the editing, renaming, etc. features are great.
it hasnt disappear completely, sony introduced the Hi_MD format one or two years ago. they are looking almost the same, got a storage capacity of 1GB and are playing all old MDs too. (and they get rid of that stupid only one way data transfer limitation (Sony))

I think there was a time where musicalbums were sold on MDs parallel to Cds, only in japan I guess.




in germany the Hip Hop Artist "Kool Savas" released an album on SD Flash Cards

How about the demoscene? That's the impression I got when I read this title.

A lot of the drum & bass scene in the 90s was totally built around DATs. I remember spending a fortune on a DAT recorder, about a week before the format became almost totally obsolete with the introduction of CD-Rs. I still have loads of tracks on DAT tapes, but nothing to play or retrieve the data stored on them.

do the demoscene got any distinct kind of media?
I thought they just realease it digital or like an intro to the cracked software they cracked ?!

One thing i also always liked about these formats is the fact that the artwork and packaging is more open to the imagination. I never liked how the artwork is packaged in virtually all CDs. Vinyl is a different story.

If you've got a recorder, you've probably got an out - if you've got an out, you can probably get an out>USB. Innit?

that's interesting. again.

adapters adapters adapters

stereo cables stereo cables and yes adapters.

Weirdness for the sake of weirdness. At its core: dumb.
Novel and amusing, but dumb.

let us develop the cardcore scene
where artists only release their music via punched cards