Various - RRR 500

While much of the content on this locked groove album is excellent, I am on my second copy and it suffers from the problem as the first: the grooves significantly degrade after only a few minutes of play. None last longer than 1/2 hour before the track is completely destroyed. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Perhaps I was unlucky and have two poorly pressed samples. The Yokomono series of locked grooves and those by Boyd Rice (NON) hold up much better.

I own 2 copies of this and have created audio collages for hours without repeating myself. I've heard loops from this record used in hundreds of artists work. This is like turning your turntable into a $10 sampler. Easily one of the best records I own.

First of all respect to the guy who added this record. Must be a hard piece of typing ;-) This 12" is the 2nd locked groove release from RRR, after the first one (RRR100) was very successful. After RRR100 brought together 100 artists on one 7", this was seconded by the successor. This might be the release with the most bands on one medium, even if you find a few projects which just are aliases or collaborations of other ones. Helpful on this release are the different spaces between every 50th and every 5th loop, so you can roughly find the loop of a special band. RRR 100 has always the same spaces between all loops which mades finding a special loop some complicated. All in all both releases aren't listenable like other records, you have to stay at the turntable and play around for yourself with all the loops. Great item for mixing, especialy if you like experimental sounds.