3 inch CDrs, Classic?

.. but nearly gone!

You can still get 3" DVD-R's (and +r's), but the old alternate format CD is such that they are getting difficult to find.

20 mins of music per disc (i.e. one side of an album), or a handy manageable quantity of mp3s.

Well, I like 'em.

First CD I ever saw was a 3". I haven't seen one since.

techno label rednetic recordings release eps on this format in cool little boxes.
i love'em.

Are they really getting difficult to find? I like them also, but you can't play 'em in Macs or cars.

only cd format that has any charm, you can buy some here www.cuthands.net

good label that...3" cd-r's are pretty common in underground/noise/drone circles..

they look great when packed in teh right cases, very charming little things

Anyway, 3"s are everything. business card size ftw

http://img.alibaba.com/photo/11436156/CD_R_Rectangle_Business_Card.jpg

i bought a whole box of these 3" business card things... thought it was a great idea until i found out they only hold 2:30 minutes of audio..

I bought a few releases from this seemingly defunct label http://www.discogs.com/label/Here%27s+My+Card+Records - one of them didn't play but compensated for this by flying about eight feet across the room when you opened the CD player to remove it

J.Lo Biafra?

*wins prize*

I had one of these--Bruce Springsteen "Chimes of Freedom" with some live songs tacked on. Didn't have an adapter tho, and sometimes the little disc would go bouncing wildly around.

I have an "Anarchy in the UK" one, it's like a badge!

I had a few Here's My Card business card cd-r releases too and proved to myself that I was lol old by infinitely preferring the one which was generic SAWI-esque IDM to their meat+potatoes drill'n'misogyny breakcore styles

they looked nice though

There I go with my "stock aitken waterman" default...

My girlfriend's band has just released one: http://rarebreeddiscs.bigcartel.com/product/the-bon-bon-club-sex-on-fire

I have a few Ghostbox and Broadcast releases like this. I really wish this had caught on as a format.

http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/

cloudberry has put out lots of great stuff but unfortunately you have to sift through a lot of schmindie dreck to find it

oh and 3" cds are the best

The Jewelled Antler 3" series of releases is pretty badass.

I've got a Black Dice 3" and an Ashtray Navigations one, as well.
Seemed like it was most popular in the noise set.

IIRC the Pinefox's band had something on that Cloudberry label?

weepop makes some - http://www.weepop.net/

put one of these in my macbook once and it wouldn't come out and then the internet was all "btw ur laptop is fucked" but i just turned it on its side and it fell out PRO TIP

Yeah I've got a couple of those Weepop ones.

love these but always manage to lose them

yeah most of mine are noise/experimental... Climax Golden Twins, United Bible Studies (two great ones), Ralf Wehowsky, all those Metamkine label musique concrete discs (the whole label was devoted to 3" CDs). Some stuff on Fire Records, Grouper, I forget what else. I have a little shelf just for them.

I have the Springsteen Chimes of Freedom EP too. Good version of "Be True" on that. Also have about 20 or so EPs in the IDM vein, two different series from two labels.

I have a couple from Broadcast, one that was a Squarepusher bonus disc, and a couple others, some even non-Warp related.

One of my favorite nonstandard formats was a promo mix that came with a Sixtoo album on Ninja Tune- a readable surface the size of a 3" CD, brought up to the size of a normal CD by surrounding it with clear plastic:

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-1429682-1219012691.jpeg

The picture just makes it look white, but it's neat-lookin'.

i have a couple of sleater-kinney (and gay dad lol) singles like that..

I have a couple from Broadcast, one that was a Squarepusher bonus disc, and a couple others, some even non-Warp related.

One of my favorite nonstandard formats was a promo mix that came with a Sixtoo album on Ninja Tune- a readable surface the size of a 3" CD, brought up to the size of a normal CD by surrounding it with clear plastic:

The picture just makes it look white, but it's neat-lookin'.

― More Butty In Your Pants (Telephone thing)

Yeah, these are neat, Boredoms Super Go! EP is this way.

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/4181f055dfef724655a4112e09d4ebae/311748.jpg

that harp factory ep by gastr del sol is like that, but has writing around the edge. it looks pretty cool. the noton 20 to 2000 series had the same thing.

yeah I was just gonna mention those 20 to 2000 discs! I have them but I never think of them as 3" CDs since they are in regular clamshell cases stuck together with those magnets.

see also Muslimgauze's Ayatollah Dollar CD which has Arabic designs on the clear part.

As are the two CDs of one of the Autechre/Hafler Trio releases. Wish you could get blanks of those.

these were very popular when they were new. that first sundays single was a 3" cd and i have others by the mary chain and sisters of mercy. but a lot of them came with adapters and in conventional 5" packaging.

more recently the tomcats / isan release from http://www.awkwardsilencerecordings.com/ which have about 29 split 3" releases. and a few of those 'here's my card' things.

most of the awkward silence releases are 45s.. only the last half dozen or so are 3" cds. most of everything they've done is great, shame they've gone so quiet

I have a couple of old ones - Groovy Train by the Farm and 2541 by Grant Hart.

> most of the awkward silence releases are 45s.. only the last half dozen or so are 3" cds

"Deleted 7" vinyl reissues:
All of the early split 7" releases on Awkward Silence have been reissued on the 3" CD format!"

i got one of these with the This Heat boxset. classic

> IIRC the Pinefox's band had something on that Cloudberry label?

073 The First Division
http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/mp3/f_downriver.mp3

i got one of these with the This Heat boxset. classic

― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:53 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Forgot about that one. Such a great track.

did not know that about the awkward silence stuff. seems a bit.. pointless for them to do that?