From Rodney Perkins Sent Wed, Jan 6th 1999, 15:39
Locked grooves and manipulation of records has well defined roots in experimental/avant garde music. Their use as "dj tools" seems to be a complete afterthought. I remember that one of Boyd Rice's first records (1978?) was a varispeed (33 or 45) seven inch with multiple holes and locked grooves. Back in 1986, Lee Renaldo came out with a varispeed twelve inch where each track ended in a locked groove. And of course, Christian Marclay has been cutting grooves into records for loops for at least two decades. > >And the POINT of lock grooves is .... ? I imagine it is useful for >mixing - is that the only purpose they serve? > >I >* > > >