The Music is Shining in the Grooves

This post was supposed to show how the grooves techno LPs look different than, say, jazz or classical LPs.

Not sure how well the photos illustrate this – but let’s just continue on as if they do a remarkable job, shall we? Please? Perhaps I’ll find and post a better example later.

While we were shopping a few weeks ago in the dollar record bin -there was a certain angle where the LPs looked ‘broken’, and Neli said as much – but my impression is that the drum machines create these rhythmical pasterns on the LPs that makes them look very … different.

Capturing that angle in photos is a little difficult – and again, I am not sure these two albums are extreme enough to point out the unique signature of this genre.

Do other genres have signatures? Most people know that the grooves are shallower, reflecting less light, during quiet parts – female vocals for instance.

Can people tell which genre an LP is just by looking at it?

Can people tell what song it is? Can they, like some can just by looking at sheet music, start humming the music by just ‘Lookin at da Grooves?’