A few months have passed since I last talked about games hidden in vinyl records because I’m starting to have quite a few of them (and it’s becoming difficult to find). And the record Heartware gave me a bit of trouble, both in finding it and retrieving the data.

This week, a ZX Spectrum game (again) in an album by the Yugoslav group ITD BBB, Skidam Te Pogledom.

Another ZX Spectrum program, this time on the vinyl of 1984, an album by the Spanish group La Mode.

Today, I won’t be talking about a program on a vinyl, but still something peculiar. And it allows me to show a bit how my research goes.

The case of the album 101 Damnations by Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine (Carter USM hereafter) is a bit peculiar: there are 25 seconds of code at the beginning of the track A Perfect Day to Drop the Bomb, but this code isn’t aimed at a computer. It targets an old Yamaha drum machine.

Today, yet another vinyl record with data, but this time it’s a program for Commodore 64 and not ZX Spectrum (that’s a change). And the vinyl also came with a 3.5-inch floppy disk (for PC, not for Commodore).

Papa Dance is a Polish band from the 1980s, and the record Poniżej Krytyki (1986) contains a program for the ZX Spectrum.

This record isn’t exactly a vinyl containing data, but close to it. Because it’s even weirder: it’s a CD containing a fax.

Rome By Night, by the Italians Dhuo, dates back to 1984. And this vinyl contains a program for the ZX Spectrum on its B side.

It’s less regular because records containing data that I haven’t encountered yet are rare (and expensive), but from time to time, I’ll add more. This week, another record from the duo of Mainframe, Radio (Will Bring Me Home).