- Anti-record
An anti-record is a musical
vinyl record which has been treated (melted, drilled, painted, etc.) so that it becomes anoise record. While this term was first used by LAYLAH Records on conventional vinyl releases by Current 93, Nurse With Wound and others,Ron Lessard ofRRRecords applied the term to a series of physically altered records released by RRR in 1988. Anti-records can also be records featuring strange configurations or pressing, such as extra or unusually sized holes, locked grooves, andparallel grooves . One notable noise anti-record was created by noise artistBoyd Rice and contained locked grooves as well as multiple center holes. RRRecords also published a record containing 500 locked grooves by various artists.External links
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxrI561jqbw A video of an Anti-Record.]
* [http://www.freewebs.com/asarchive/history.htm A Brief history of Anti-Records and Conceptual Records by Clemente Padín.]
* [http://www.kempa.com/blog/archives/000046.html An article featuring some history on lockgroove records.]
* [http://www.kempa.com/blog/archives/000044.html An article featuring history on parallel groove records.]
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