Play the Record Backwards, Part 1

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Play the Record Backwards, Part 1

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Nov 29, 2022

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In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert is joined by Rusty Needle’s Record Club host Seth Nicholas Johnson for a discussion of various means of secreting information into audio, from backmasking and locked grooves to examples from the digital age of music.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Nov 29, 2022

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