Talk:Environments (album series)
Latest comment: 6 years ago by Rcarlberg in topic Length
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editSeveral of the records are said to have a pair of thirty-minute tracks, one on each side. It would be interesting to know how this works - LPs usually ran for forty minutes in total. Were the grooves unusually close, or did the albums run at a slower speed, or were they in fact double albums and someone has made a mistake? -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 19:13, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
- Ashley, sorry for this delayed reply but I only now saw your question. Yes, the Environments LPs played 30:00, 34:00 even 37:00 a side. This was possible because there wasn't much low-frequency content on the recordings, and the low frequencies are what eats space on the record (the groove wobble required to reproduce it, if you follow me). I believe(?) the Environments albums were some of the longest LPs ever released! They were gatefold covers (cardboard opened up) but they were not 2-disc sets.Rcarlberg (talk) 23:43, 26 February 2018 (UTC)