Tracks that play for eternity

While rummaging through all my records a few weeks ago, I found 2 tracks that have a play time of "eternity". What does this mean? these tracks are ones found at the end of one side of a record where the last groove wraps around and connects with it self again. Provided that you leave the record player, it just keeps repeating whatever sound information is recorded there producing a track that never ends.



As you can see here, the third track of the A side of Josh Wink's "Don't Laugh" is called the eternity mix and the track time is infinity.



Another endless loop I found was while playing Rabbit in the Moon's "Phases of an Out of Body Experience". After phase 3, which is the second track on the A side of the disc, there is a locked groove that plays a nice refrain over and over. It bizarred me out because I hadn't realised it was an endless loop and it probably played for about 5 minutes until I worked it out!

For the vinyl collectors, Josh Wink's record was made in the thousands so it shouldn't be hard to get a hold of one. Phases of an Out of Body Experience on the other hand, due to it's popularity will make it a much harder record to find. Good luck digging in those bins! I found both of these records trawling through endless stacks of records in Tokyo.

Listen to some of Josh Wink's more recent tracks at his Myspace page.

Listen to OBE Out of Body Experience at Rabbit in the Moon's Myspace page.