Found 1GB of deleted 2013-2015 trap on a old SD card. Should I archive it?
Found an old SD card in a laptop I factory reset back in 2016. Recovered about 1GB of MP3s I was downloading from ThisSongIsSick, UKF compilations, Ministry of Sound drops, and random SoundCloud between 2013-2015.
Going through it now and a lot of this stuff isn’t on Spotify or even SoundCloud anymore.
Some examples:
3 tracks from NJOMZA’s “GoldLion” album
Thomas White - St. James Infirmary trap remix (deleted from SoundCloud)
Gent & Jawns remixes and loosies
Flosstradamus - Lana’s Theme (was YouTube-only)
Spol, Butch Clancy, random extinct blog finds
Diplo edits/remixes, Duck Sauce, Bingo Players
HUCCI, Stooki Sound, Keys N Krates era stuff
Some tracks are still around, but a surprising amount just… vanished. Artists deleted accounts, labels scrubbed catalogs, blogs died.
Thinking about organizing it properly and either making a torrent or uploading to Internet Archive. Is there interest in preserving this kind of stuff? Any advice on best way to do it?
This was peak blog download era before streaming killed the free download culture. Figured some of you might want access to this.
Posted Feb 1, 2026, 12:19 AM UTC