3" CDR, https://www.fusionaudio.net/
A 3" CD or CDR is like a 10" vinyl record. It holds about 20 minutes of music - split into two pieces on vinyl - and has all kinds of positive and negative quirks. If it's a nice piece of music, 20 minutes is just enough to get aroused, but all you can do is long for a 'part 2'. If it's not to your taste, it's long enough to get bored and think it's too long of a production. And then when it comes to vinyl, you have to turn it in after 10 minutes already! So, 3"s as well as 10"s are typical of the "love 'em or hate 'em" formats in the music industry... And with all their quirkiness, I am someone who loves them *big.smile*
So at this moment, I'm playing new material from Barry D. Scheffel a.k.a. R4. Who? R4! He was active between 1998 and 2002 and had Fusion Audio Research label. Beautiful acts like Cornucopia (= Jorge Castro), Stolen Light, Ovum and Suspicion Breeds Confidence on his label. When the internet became really big, all of us ambient-noise freaks read the tumour list, and this was just everyday listening material. That period in time is the reason why there are now labels like Oxidation - it's to keep that music alive because it DID make a difference back then.
It was Oxidation who rereleased R4's "The Logic Bomb" in 2019 and several other F.A.R. releases, for that matter. Then it took a little while and R4 sent a track to Zaftig Research's Christmas Compilation of 2021 and now Barry released a 3" CDR on F.A.R. after 20 years. There is a handpainted cover, an edition of 36 copies, and 20 minutes of a gorgeous crossover between minimal noise and some heavy drone ambient. It doesn't sound dated at all or whatever weird things people could think of someone getting back after 20 years of absence. It's just really nice to think layered sonic material... But only twenty minutes... Damn, now I'm aroused...
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