new cat
Joined: Jun '18
Posts: 5
Hey all,
New member here I've got an odd question for the PUTS hive mind. Yesterday, after hunting for quite some time, I purchased a nice copy of O.S.T. from a local record store only to find out when I got home that side 2 is pressed with a Jon Spencer Blues Explosion album. Very weird. Different matrix numbers and "MasterDisk" are etched into the runout.
Were pressing errors a common thing with this album or did I find the rarest and weirdest copy of the album? lol
Thanks
The Architect
Joined: Feb '05
Posts: 3,348
Wow that is weird! Never heard of that before. Do you mean one side is OST and the other side of the same disc is Jon Spencer?
I’ve seen record shops mix up record before if say there are two discs in one sleeve, but never heard of two sides of one disc being different?
new cat
Joined: Jun '18
Posts: 5
Yep, one side is OST and the other side of the same disc is Jon Spencer. I sent Thes a message on IG about it, just inquiring if he's ever heard of similar issues with that pressing. I guess it could be a bootleg version but, everything else about it seems legit and I have to assume more folks out there would have the same issues.
P fan #1
Joined: May '10
Posts: 529
I'd be surprised if this were anything other than a record store mixup with a completely different LP somehow ending up in the O.S.T. sleeve TBH?
O.S.T. was "Mastered by John Dent @ LOUD" according to both the sleeve credits and ruout carvings (JohnZ signature + LOUD* inscribed on sides A & C; LOUD* on sides B & D), so there's no overlap with MasterDisk that might have resulted in a weird, random mispressing.
Someone even nerdier steeped in P trivia than myself and/or in posession of OM era test pressings (+ Thes obviously) might be able to further debunk the idea by identifying what pressing plant was used at the time, but I'd wager it probably would've been Rainbo Records or some other Cali-based company rather than NY's MasterDisk..?
new cat
Joined: Jun '18
Posts: 5
Its an odd one, to be sure. I've never found a similar pressing error in my record collecting days. Just to confirm...yes this is the same disc with OST on side A (with the correct matrix number, JohnZ sig + LOUD) and Jon Spencer on side B (with a different matrix number and MasterDisk).
I'll try to post a youtube link of both sides playing back to back so you guys can see the weirdness for yourselves.
I did take the record back to the store where I found it and the owner was equally as stumped. He took pity on me and cut me a deal on a copy of Next Step that had just hit the floor 
P fan #1
Joined: May '10
Posts: 529
Yep, sounds like you've really got a raer/one of a kind mispressing on your hands there, PDX.
Having parts of 2 completely different artist's albums on the same piece of vinyl implies that both would've been manufactured by the same pressing plant (and probably more or less around the same time; 2002 in this instance) and they somehow mixed up the platework (stampers) in the machine. This isn't entirely unheard of, but I can't imagine random mistakes like this happen very often.
Would be great if you could upload some pictures/video of it somewhere.
Oh and YoYoPo - very few bootleggers go so far as trying to copy runout grooves, matrix numbers or mastering stamps. (Thankfully! 
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new cat
Joined: Jun '18
Posts: 5
Thanks for the replies all. Here are a couple shots of the matrix number and Masterdisk on side 2 and a YouTube link to a video of both sides of the record.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EyewVRbP3Q1g_IE8pP1wV4-5Z3OUE0zG
https://drive.google.com/open?id=13LZXXgFC-oEPCFZEKkaWEWzhtg6XjYQm
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