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                                              ~ 1994   
                                   Add: Jan 22, 2007   

The greatest 7" piece
of vinyl ever
manufactured: RRR-100.
                    
This is a collection of 100 locked
groove tracks, i.e. you put the
needle down and it just goes around
and around looping a 1.8 second
sample (60 * 1/33.3) of some random              Or at least it *seemed*
musical source.                                  random.  In retrospect 
                                                 I suspect a lot of thought
    A few cuts have a "classical" sound,         went into the selection 
    a few are random noise,                      of those sound samples. 
    a few have a punk sound,                                            
    but most of them have that                            The same label 
    distinctive Industrial feel                           (RRR) later 
    we all know and love.                                 released a 12"
                                                          vinyl version 
This record was over-played                               of the same idea. 
like crazy by the DJs at the                                           
Stanford radio station (KZSU                              That sounded so     
90.1FM), mostly being used as                             good I bought  
sound beds to talk over.                I wanted to       *three* copies 
                                        be able to        of this...        
It also works great as another          play three                          
element when you feel like              simultaneously       Weirdly enough, 
doing a weird mix of several            on the three         it kind-of sucks.
things at once...                       turntables                           
                                        in KZSU's            RRR-500 really 
   Gives new meaning to                 Studio A.            does seem like 
   the term "Long                                            random 1.8 sec 
   Playing Record"...                   In turns out         bits, choosen    
                                        this isn't very      without any 
   End your fears                       interesting:         application of 
   of accidental                        multiple locked      taste or 
   dead air, forever.                   grooves looping      sensibility.
                                        in sync sounds a     
                                        lot like just        RRR-100 is so 
                                        one.                 much better, 
                                                             it's really 
                                                             striking.


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