the beginning, actually 1:19 favorites 1:51 and who gives a shit 2:20 speedmetal machine music 1:58 let me die in your footsteps 0:57 surf ace noise 1:44 thrillerphonics 0:57 magic 2:49 high fidelity 1:42 party 1:23 orgy 0:57 sex machine 2:11
side b (total time 20:33)
justified 1:13 moi non plus 2:22 fahr far fun 2:29 name that tune 1:03 howlinâ wolf 1:50 sardana 1:20 harmonica 0:52 violins: 1:42 fly me to the moon 1:44 hello dolly 1:40 rock around the click 1:38 la valse a mille echos 2:10
side c (total time 20:50)
again 1:18 typewriting 1:28 si los curas 1:06 horses 1:53 take me to the movies 1:20 look ma no hands 1:54 (not) only a beatle song 0:58 greyish 1:19 pink remedy 1:33 ego 1:23 bonus track 0:30 whip me, christy 5:39
recording the silent final grooves of records. not so silent after all. playing them loud enough to capture the hiss, the pops, the clicks. adding a couple of digital delays, some EQ and filtering, a little reverb here and there⦠not much, really. itâs all in the records if you know where to listen.
of course it is difficult to listen to these grooves with automatic return turntables (stupid consumer-oriented machines). maybe thatâs why you never paid attention.
you will probably have to raise the volume to play this album, which will add a little electronic hum, different with every equipment on which you play it. this is a (nice) feature, not a bug.
if you have the means, stamp these tracks on a three sided LP. you will have three free extra end grooves, and a blank side to needle-surf.
one last thing. probably some people will think this is not legal, i should not be allowed to do this, i am stealing somebody elseâs copyrights (john cageâs?), etc...
nevermind, most people will just think this is not music.
THE BEGINNING, ACTUALLY The Doors âThe Doorsâ (Elektra, 33 rpm, side B, 500-71SB1). This is the end, beautiful friend, of The Doors first album. And it is the beginning of mine, which is not the first, anyway (but is the last so far âat the time of writing this-, of course). What a coincidence.
FAVORITES John Coltrane âMy Favorite Thingsâ (Atlantic, 33 rpm, side A, ST A 60303 D). Well, yes, letâs admit it, these are some of my favorite records. Thatâs why I chose them.
AND WHO GIVES A SHIT Negativland âU2 â 1991 A Cappella Mixâ (SST, 45 rpm, side A, SST272A). As you all know, this record does not exist. All copies were destroyed after Island/Warner sued Negativland. Everyone who had received a copy of the record -reviewers, record stores, radio stations, etc.- was notified to return it. (If they failed to comply, they might be subject to penalties which might include imprisonment and fines). Once returned, the records were forwarded to Island for destruction. Nevertheless, this track has been recorded from one of the remaining copies of the original 1991 SST edition. Thanks, Vicenc and Esther!
SPEEDMETAL MACHINE MUSIC Lou Reed âMetal Machine Musicâ (RCA, played at 78 rpm, side A, CPL-2-1101-A-1). Not the non-silent locked groove at the end of side four, of course, but the supposedly silent locked groove at the end of side one.
LET ME DIE IN YOUR FOOTSTEPS Christian Marclay âFootstepsâ (Rec Rec Music, 45 rpm, 26A-LC7981). Christian is one of the guys who taught us how to listen to records. When I got this record, it was SO dirty I did not dare to play it for a while, afraid it might damage my precious equipment. It probably did, and probably that was what it needed.
SURF ACE NOISE The Beach Boys âSurfâs Upâ (CBS,33 rpm, side B, S CRB 32085 / CBS 31774B2). This is one of these records that is better every time you listen to it. The final groove is better every time too.
THRILLERPHONICS Michael Jackson âThrillerâ (EPIC /CBS, 33 rpm, side A, 85930A). Free samples, blank tape is derivative, nothing of itself, the commerce of noise, chimeras of sound, starting from scratch, the medium is magnetic, aural wilderness, the buzzing of a titanic bumblebee.
MAGIC The Magic Record Album (Atlantic Records, 78 rpm, parallel grooves, side A, 114-A) Double 10-inch record with parallel grooves. It plays a different story each time, in total 256 different stories! You donât need to wait for the final groove to get some randomness, but you can still do. It depends on what you are looking for.
HIGH FIDELITY Popular Science Monthly âTesting Vol. 2â (Urania, 33 rpm, side A, UPS-2B). This 1957 LP is subtitled âTrue Sound Of Musical Tonesâ and is supposed to âprove your systemâs true high-fidelityâ. By the way, the Urania label made some of the best cover art ever.
PARTY v.a. â16 Tours Super Party vol. 2â (Ducretet Thompson, 16 rpm, side A, 620V003A). I always wondered what was the use of the â16 rpmâ position in a record player until Anton Ignorant gave me this record. If I remember well I gave him a Spanish-Russian dictionnary in exchange.
ORGY Orquesta Salvador âOrgieâ (Odeonette, 6 inch shellac disc, played at 115 rpm, side A, 30003a). Older records are usually referred to as â78sâ, but they were recorded at any speed between 70 and 100 rpm. For this Orgie I chose 115rpm, which is as fast as I could spin.
SEX MACHINE James Brown â(Get Up I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machineâ (Polydor, 45 rpm, side A, 2001071A) We all know what the late great J.B. tought of people who sampled him: he sued them. And probably there is someone who still does. It is interesting to note that, since the complete Sex Machine track spans over the two sides of this single, what I recorded (end of side A) is actually in the middle of the song.
SIDE B
JUSTIFIED Abba âGreatest Hitsâ (EPIC, 33 rpm, side A, SEPC69218A). This one is absolutely justified, isnât it?
MOI NON PLUS Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg âJe tâaime⦠moi non plusâ (Golden 12, 45 rpm, side A, G12/88A). A masterpiece too frequently mistaken for a novelty record. Years ago we used the piano part in a song. Later I used part of the lyrics in another. Why shouldât I use the final silent groove now? By the way, this is the german edition of the single.
FAHR FAR FUN Kraftwerk âTour de Franceâ (EMI, 45rpm, side A, 1C006 1652047A). The end of side A of the 45 rpm french edition of the single. But this is the side with the german lyrics, as you probably guessed.
NAME THAT TUNE Name That Tune Game (Milton Bradley Co.,33 rpm, side A, TV26965-1A). This game is a music bingo. One player is the âdisk jockeyâ and plays the record randomly. The other players receive a card each with song names and have to guess the tunes. The first player to complete a row (five tunes) on his card wins the game. I guess they never guess this one.
HOWLINâ WOLF Serge Prokofiev âPedro y el loboâ (Philips, 33 rpm, side B, P13168 2L). This record belonged to my parents. I liked it when I was a kid, but I find the drawing of the wolf so scary I could not even look at it. Sometimes I am still scared if I hear the Peter And The Wolf tune unexpectedly.
SARDANA Cobla Catalana. El Sartiró de la Cardina (Fonoscope sound postcard, 45 rpm, c43-M287). Cardboard record postcard sent by my mother to her parents and sister on july 12, 1960. It promises â200 perfect auditionsâ. This is the 199th.
HARMONICA The Harmonica Rascals âThe Harmonica Rascalsâ (International Award Series, 33 rpm, side B, AKS-177B). Harmonica is the only instrument I can play, so I included a harmonica record. They also crackle.
VIOLINS Mendelsohn/Tchaikowsky âConcert(s) for Violin and Orchestraâ (Club Internacional del Disco, 16 rpm, side A, CID-301614-A-1) Another 16 rpm record. I was missing some classical music in this collection.
FLY ME TO THE MOON Conquest Of Space (BriTone, 45 rpm, side A, MK100EP/BM7453). This is a historical documentary record of the first manned space-orbit flight by Major Yuri Gagarin, a 1961 british edition of the USSR recording. The original sound recording has so many crackles, and the actual record is so used (by my parents on a merciless 60s portable player) that I could have recorded any part of the record with the same effect.
HELLO DOLLY Doll Record no-25 (Jesmar, 115 rpm, parallel grooves) This 2-inch doll record was a present from Ajo. It is so small that I had to buid a special adapter to be able to play it. And it should have played a little faster (maybe around 120) but I could not spin that fast.
ROCK AROUND THE CLICK Bill Haley and the Comets âRock Around The Clockâ (Warner Bros, 45 rpm, side A, WV5102/45.5102.A). I could simply not resist the pun. Sorry.
LA VALSE à MILLE ECHOS Jacques Brel âLa valse à mille tempsâ (Philips, 33 rpm, side B, AA 432371 2E). Brel is incredible. Letâs waltz to a thousand echoes.
SIDE C
AGAIN Criminal Element Orchestra âPut The Needle On The Record⦠Again!â (BCM Records, 45 rpm, side B, DM-C0397B). It would rather be âdonât take the needle out of the recordâ but itâs ok if you put it back.
SI LOS CURAS Marcos Redondo con banda y coro. âHimno de Riegoâ (Odeon, 80+ rpm, side A, 184238A). El Himno de Riego has been the national anthem of Spain during the Trienio Liberal and the First and Second Spanish Republics. It was banned during the Franco regime and we used to sing it clandestinely.
HORSES âTheyâre At The Postâ (Homestead Records, parallel grooves, 33rpm, 1011). This is a phonofinishâ game record. Eight parallel grooves play a horse race with the same start and eight different ends. You are supposed to bet on the outcome. But my bet is that the record has just one end (er⦠I mean one on each side; this is the end of side one)
TAKE ME TO THE MOVIES Red Raven Orchestra âThe Little Red Engineâ (Red Raven Movie Records, 78 rpm, side B, M-2). Red Raven Movie Records are special children's records with a 16-frame animation printed right onto the disc. When played using a phenakistoscope placed atop the phonograph spindle, they display a moving cartoon.
LOOK MA NO HANDS unknown artist (home recording on a self recordable Recordio Disc, 78 rpm). You never know what you can find in these old recordio discs, from a time when people recorded their own records at home (at least, some people did).
(NOT) ONLY A BEATLE SONG The Hollywood Star Orchestra âLove Is All You Needâ (Prestodisc, 33 rpm, cardboard record). Nice australian cardboard record, nice picture, nice song (not the Beatlesâ), nice final noisy groove.
GREYISH The Beatles âThe Beatles (White Album)â (EMI/Odeon, 33 rpm, side A, album 4.297.514, side 162-04173-A). Now itâs them! We are having white, black and a lot of shades of grey records these days. By the way, when did they stop numbering the white albums?
PINK REMEDY Trio Las Pulguitas âEl buen remedioâ (Discos Calesita, 78 rpm, side B, CA24B). Argentinian label Calesita released a series of colored kiddies records, and they are the most beatufil colored records I have ever seen. This one is fleshy pink.
EGO Macroelvis Supermassa âXVIII El Solâ (G3G, 45 rpm). I figured I should use one of my own records too. Maybe I can sue myself if I need to. By the way, this is a limited numbered edition. I used the end of side B of number 61/497. Which makes a great difference.
BONUS TRACK Ekül B. âMusique Plastiqueâ (Beta-Lactam Ring Records, lathe cut, copy 32/50) We are not playing a silent groove but the real thing on this one.
WHIP ME, CHRISTY (PARTS I, II & III) Evolution Control Committee âThe Whipped Cream Mixesâ (Pickled Egg, 45 rpm, side A, AH14331A). Grand finale: I allowed myself a little improvising with my fingers on the turntable on this one.
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