DOWNLOAD: TURNING POINT DEMOS & LIVE ON WNYU 1988-1991

Once again, Blogged and Quartered is on it, releasing another great selection of unreleased tracks and rarities from another one of my favorite hardcore bands. This time Turning Point gets the treatment, with their 1988 Demo and a live recording from 1991 on WNYU. Turning Point were possibly the best Straight Edge band to ever come from New Jersey... Although short lived, Turning Point made their mark with their original song structures and musicianship. Do your best to find their album, It's Always Darkest Before The Dawn... It's one of my favorite hardcore albums ever released!
There is a link to download the recordings and more information here.

The demo was recorded July-August of 1988 at Bill Cribbin Studios in NJ. This is by far my favorite Turning Point recordings. Many of these songs were later re-recorded for the band's first s/t 7" on Hi-Impact Records released December of '88. Great record, but i'll take the demos any day. Eight of these ten tracks were released on the Turning Point discography released on Jade Tree Records in 2000, which i highly recommend purchasing.

The live set was recorded on WNYU's Crucial Chaos show on February 7, 1991. Fourteen tracks, spanning the band's output from '88-'91, including a few unreleased tracks. I cleaned up this set as best as possible, fixing any sound problems, removing tape hiss, boosting the sound, and editing the tracks to make it sound as "professional" as i could. I think it came out excellent. The band played an incredible set which deserves to be heard this way. I prefer many of these versions to the official releases, especially the LP tracks, as the raw production and added energy put these recordings over the top. Classic stuff, check it out.

- Drew