For Record Nerds Only

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 You know you are a record nerd if you actually enjoy listening to this.
Brought to us courtesy of the good folks at Free Music Archive this is a wonderful collection of record crackles, pops, hiss and clicks. This is the very thing which non-record people would find annoying in their music, but here they are isolated so you can enjoy them in all their flawed glory.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/File_Under_Toner/This_Is_The_End_Beautiful_Friend/

From the Free Music Archive Description:

This release is a treasure trove for all artists wishing to add the authentic warm crackle of old recordings to their new works.

recording the silent final grooves of records. not so silent after all. playing them loud enough to capture the hiss, the pops, the clicks. adding a couple of digital delays, some EQ and filtering, a little reverb here and there… not much, really. it’s all in the records if you know where to listen.

 If you are enough of a nerd, you can play these simultaneously with your nice clean mp3 files and pretend that you are still listening to the glorious sound of a vinyl LP.

  Even more interesting, if you follow this link…
http://www.ankitoner.com/fut/theend_en.htm
You can find out what album and song each track is recorded from.

All tracks are downloadable.