Noted incidence of disc-rot

[re:evolution]

I thought to start this topic as a resource of noted incidence of dreaded disc-rot.

To start off, I had not listened to Propergol - United States... CD in many, many years, but discovered last night the disc is unplayable due to disc-rot. On my copy it appears to be be a speckled surface haze covering 90% of the play surface rendering it unplayable. It is different to the 'between layers' disc-rot I have seen in the past.

Does anyone else's copy have the same issue?

What other albums are noted to have succumbed to disc-rot? I suspect this may start to be a growing issue with older collections of CD's amassed over the last 30 years.

[Minus1]

This keeps me awake at night. I am a dinosaur who refuses to stream. I have a vast CD / DVD / Bluray collection. I'm 64. Most of them will see me out, right? 😂

[Kayandah]

I lost my copy of United States to disc rot years ago. I can't remember the exact issue though.

An observation that with proper CDs disc rot is rare, outside of Propergol the only other issue was with skull flower and that has been well documented elsewhere. The problem is far more prolific with CDrs.

[re:evolution]

I lost my copy of United States to disc rot years ago. I can't remember the exact issue though.

An observation that with proper CDs disc rot is rare, outside of Propergol the only other issue was with skull flower and that has been well documented elsewhere. The problem is far more prolific with CDrs.

Well that is interesting to hear of disc-rot with the same CD.
I was curious as to what the haze was, and could it be removed, so with alcohol cleaner and heavy scrubbing got rid of the speckled textured haze. Definitely some sort of chemical reaction and not mould or dampness related. At least the CD is back to playable, but no idea if the haze will return either with time.

[BatteredStatesofEuphoria]

I thought to start this topic as a resource of noted incidence of dreaded disc-rot.

To start off, I had not listened to Propergol - United States... CD in many, many years, but discovered last night the disc is unplayable due to disc-rot. On my copy it appears to be be a speckled surface haze covering 90% of the play surface rendering it unplayable. It is different to the 'between layers' disc-rot I have seen in the past.

Does anyone else's copy have the same issue?

What other albums are noted to have succumbed to disc-rot? I suspect this may start to be a growing issue with older collections of CD's amassed over the last 30 years.

Propergol-United States... had problems from the very start, as Kayandah attested. Everyone complained about it. I actually was sent a second copy from Malignant because the first was entirely fucked out of the package. The replacement has had some of those hazing issues over the years, but with cleaning, it will play. Yes, it will come back most likely. It must have been a pressing issue. Grunt-Europe After Storm, which was another Nuit Et Brouillard release which came out at the same time, I believe had similar issues, although not as severe, which indicates it was a bad batch at the pressing plant.

Other than that, yeah, I really can't think of actual CDs I have that have had discrot. There's the well known issues with discs pressed by PDO, but I luckily never bought any of those. CDs have held up fairly well. Its the CDRs that have been the issue. There's another thread about that here somewhere too....found it: https://special-interests.net/forum/index.php?topic=13138.0

[Kayandah]

Glad you were able to fix it, mine was completely ruined amd the second hand prices are ridiculous...

[BlackCavendish]

To start off, I had not listened to Propergol - United States... CD in many, many years, but discovered last night the disc is unplayable due to disc-rot. On my copy it appears to be be a speckled surface haze covering 90% of the play surface rendering it unplayable. It is different to the 'between layers' disc-rot I have seen in the past.

Does anyone else's copy have the same issue?

Same here. It happened many years ago but I've never managed to get a decent copy so it's still missing from my collection.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I think this problem was discovered pretty early, as some copies are growing like odd white fungus type of thing, instead of typical disc rot.
I recall Nuit & Bruillard repressed the discs and replaced copies for free for a while but at least my personal copy is the rotten one.

Same happened with GRUNT "Europe After Storm" 1st CD edition that some copies later discovered to rot. So long ago that I am not 100% sure, but I THINK it was also repressed and copies replaced, but of course talking about something that happened back in 2001, it was not possible to pull back entire pressing.  I got still couple copies that are original poster cover and discs totally rotten.

"Europe After Storm" been repressed since.. once or twice. Not sure. But there are 3-4 different editions and only if one happens to have very first one, with original discs, it may be effected. It was related to particular factory they used back then and not very common thing.

Anyways, if someone now finds out they need replacement disc for their Europe After Storm, I still got bunch of them...

[impulse manslaughter]

I have about 3000 cds. Never seen any disc rot. Recently threw away my copy of Eline Radigue 2CD on Important though as it had weird circles on the playable side and the cds were a bit sticky. Production fault I guess.

[FiEND]

seem to remember a list of early disc that showed tendency to disc rot. many if not all came from the same plant. iirc the bands were whitehouse, coil, di6 & c93.

[BatteredStatesofEuphoria]

seem to remember a list of early disc that showed tendency to disc rot. many if not all came from the same plant. iirc the bands were whitehouse, coil, di6 & c93.

That's the PDO pressings.
https://www.discogs.com/label/342146-PDO-UK