RE: (idm) some old records speeds?

From Frank Sci
Sent Tue, Feb 24th 1998, 22:01

At 18:55 23-02-98 -0500, Somebody wrote:
>    Ok. the eternal 33/45/neither? question on a few old rephlex things:
>
>kinesthesia - volume 1
>cylob - industrial folk songs
>
>thats it. thanks.

Later, Somebody else wrote:
>same question about:
>funkstoerung - breakart (musik aus strom 2.09)

>From my limited experience as a DJ I'd have to say (as a rule of thumb)
that since this is a dance market dependent on dj mixability, most
trax do not go below 100bpms... and if at 33 those trax sound like
grinding metal, then they are probably to damn slow. On the other hand,
another way to view this 'oh so great' medium of musical conveyance
(i.e. vinyl) is in regards to flexibility.  If it sounds good at 45 and was
ment to be played at 33, then who gives a shit? If those crazy kids that
produced the material were so casual about not labeling the play speed,
then I would surmise that they had this kind of flexibility in mind.

Just my $.23 

        o0o[qiB.]o0o