I'm sticking to the Ramp Theory, myself. You'd have to put tonearm weight
instructions on the record sleeve in order to get the right trajectory;
maybe a cone on the center label to block and guide the needle down to the
outward-playing groove or something. ;-)
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Christopher Fahey wrote:
quoted 29 lines I have some Red Planet 12"s ( Detroit techno ) that go from start to
> > I have some Red Planet 12"s ( Detroit techno ) that go from start to
> finish
> > and then play back, an infinite record.
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> You are full of shit Peter! I'm sitting here drawing spirals and circles
> and I can't figure it out. I'll have you know I can do that house-picture
> thing without picking my pencil off the paper, so that means I'm a pretty
> smart guy, MENSA caliber. ;) The groove has to cross itself at some point to
> acheive this. Actually it has to cross itself many times.
>
> > Also, did'nt at least one of those "Environments"
> > records from the 70's play in the same manner?
>
> I have all of those records and I haven't found that. I'll look later.
> I heard that there's a Rush Record with SIX parallel grooves. And a
> Monty Python album with "three sides", one side being paralell grooved.
>
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