Cool Locked Groove or Hidden LP Tracks

Just finished listening to Stereolab's Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements LP, which closes with "Lock-Groove Lullaby". I recall hearing of locked/hidden tracks on Mr. Bungle and Swans LPs as well, but not certain of them.

Anyway, couldn't find a specific thread for this (there's some Hidden Tracks threads, but they're CD specific), so here it is...

Anyone?

final track, we're going to live for a very long time on penthouse and pavement by heaven 17.
brilliantly looped the 'for a very long time' phrase.
first time i had come across such a trick .. was very impressed.

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isn't there a captain sensible record where the locked groove is him laughing maniacally or something?

there is the locked groove at the end of sgt pepper of course. was this the first one?

and there is one at the end of some death in june album. can't remember which one.

on hidden tracks, maybe the beatles did it first again with "her majesty" off of abbey road. on cd's they're not really hidden at all, b/c you know the track time is still ticking over.

saying that, i rather like the hidden track at the end of dido's life for rent album. yes, dido. sue me.

and there is a hidden nick cave track at the beginning of some x-files soundtrack album. you have to set the first track playing and then press rewind.

my favs:

eno - the great pretender (end side 1 taking tiger mountain)
carla bley - escalator over the hill (end of last lp and, nicely, replicated at the end of the 2cd set)
liars - this dust makes that mud (i think) (end of they threw us in a trench...) which is very reminiscent of
this heat - health & efficiency (not a locked groove but it might as well be one)

the experimental music radio show "background noise" uses locked grooves for all it's intros, etc. see anonradio.net for some shows online.

My fave is the "Expressway to Yr. Skull" locked groove on the original EVOL vinyl. I think there was a good one on Ranaldo's From Here To Infinity too, but I can't remember it.

I believe the first Air Miami LP features every track as a lock groove.

eno - the great pretender (end side 1 taking tiger mountain)

you gotta be kidding me, neither of my copies did this!

I think there was a good one on Ranaldo's From Here To Infinity too, but I can't remember it.

One? Ouch!
(probably you were kidding, but it's all lock grooves, pretty much! I mean it's a bunch of instrumental tracks, mostly pretty short, which all end in lock grooves. Took me a good while to think "hey now, isn't this just a little repetitive?" on first listen, after like half an hour of the last 1.8 seconds (?) of track one...)

for reference:

Locked Grooves: Classic or Dud

Oops, my main memory of FHTI is of the CD version.

So this early '80s "International Discography of the New Wave" book I once owned listed XTC's first record, the "3-D EP," as having 3 tracks I already owned plus a 4th track I'd never heard of called "Goodnight Sucker." Being an obsessed XTC fan (or is that redundant), I had to have it. Finally scored a copy for $25 at the late lamented Venus Records in NYC.

"Goodnight Sucker" consists of a short harp glissando and someone whispering the title. It's about 4 seconds long, or $6.25 per second.

I remember something about a Renaldo locked groove. Also, maybe something off of, uh, No Age? That guitar comp? There's some Lee Renaldo locked groove that I listened to for about twenty minutes before realizing it wasn't a regular song.

That Disc album, the clear one, has about fifty locked grooves. Or 100? 25 or 50 on each side. You can't really listen to each one. I guess you could.

There was that one Tree Records band from the nineties, uh . . . A-Set, put out a seven inch with separate grooves for each track. I guess that's a fairly common thing.

eno - the great pretender (end side 1 taking tiger mountain)

you gotta be kidding me, neither of my copies did this!

well, the only LP of this I've owned was the 1st UK release (on import to Aus) and it did do this.

recently picked up a orig copy of slade alive! in a charity shop.

2 surprises :

- i clearly need a LOT more slade

- locked groove at end of side 2 looping the audience cheers

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7" with 100 locked grooves, 50 per side

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/RRR100b.jpg

and just how many have you listened to ?

There is a 12 inch version with 500 grooves, too.

xp less than 100

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this record (released for RSD 2012 by one oneohtrix point never dude daniel lopatin) has a bunch of sample-based locked grooves on the a-side, and a disorienting suite consisting samples used elsewhere by lopatin on the b-side

mine is #92

I picked up a 7"* that has "a series of three randomized speedruns unique to three b-side versions of the 7"," according to the description. The front of the record just calls it a locked groove record. When I play the thing, it just loops about 3 seconds of sound (it's sort of got a Buddha Machine vibe to it), which is different wherever I put the needle down. I thought a locked groove was just where the record loops at the *end* of playing. What the hell is this thing?

* (I bought the record blind because it was in a Record Store Day leftovers bin, and it turns out it's actually a really limited Oneohtrix Point Never offshoot thing. It's called "Chuck Persons - A.D.D.")

Weird - I went to post this on I Love Vinyl and then accidentally posted it in one of the 'suggested' threads that popped up (this one), where it's already been discussed. Anyway, yeah, mine looks like that but it has a yellow cover and says "Locked Groove Edition IV."

and there is a hidden nick cave track at the beginning of some x-files soundtrack album. you have to set the first track playing and then press rewind.

― anagram, Friday, 12 June 2009 21:48 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I believe that's Skip Spence, "Land of the Sun"

A few that I really like:

U2: Zooropa, side two of the LP -- that clanging "BEEP BEEP BEEP" noise turns into a locked exit groove
Lindsey Buckingham: Go Insane, side one of the LP -- insanity-provoking dervishy locked exit groove
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures, side two of the LP (US) -- breaking glass in the locked exit groove