Every record has one: it’s what stops the stylus dragging over the label once the music’s stopped.
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To celebrate the third anniversary of Third Man Records in 2012, Jack White, who as you can probably guess will feature heavily in this article, threw a party at which guests were treated to The First Three Years of Blue Series Singles On One LP at 3 RPM. Not strictly an artistic venture in itself, but interesting nonetheless.īut if you truly want to show two fingers to the art establishment, you’ll want to be tampering with rotation speed. This was of particular benefit to film companies for accompanying early talking pictures, and to radio for broadcasting pre-recorded programmes – both regularly used 16in discs, and perhaps even larger. You could hypothetically configure a setup to play a disc of any size – and, of course, the more grooves a record can house, the longer you can make it play. Theoretically the physical size of a vinyl record, unlike tape or CD, doesn’t matter.
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It all becomes decidedly less experimental as you enhance the scale. Its being curiosity rather than a product with hefty selling power, The Mars Volta naturally included one as a freebie for those who bought their album Bedlam In Goliath in selected US record stores in 2008 – it held a cover of Pink Floyd’s Candy And A Currant Bun on both sides, and the video for Wax Simulacra as a CD bonus. Back in 2007, German company Optimal Media Production developed the VinylDisc, an analogue/digital hybrid of CD and three-and-a-half-minute vinyl layer. There’s a marginally greater chance you’ll have a 5in record among your collection (or more specifically 4.7in).