Locked groove dub plate in london

any one know where i can get a locked groove dub plate cut in london

vinyl cutters dont seem to do it any more

national sound in detroit can do them on vinyl

am struggling to think of any British pressing plants that do them

a lock groove on a dubplate would wear out really quickly - dubplates wear down pretty fast i think they can be played 50 or so times. imagine one 4 beat loop playing 33 times a minute - play it for 2 minutes and its pretty much dead

I would suggest just play the loop and record to CD and use a CDJ - can either play it as a loop or just record it playing for a few minutes and use that

Lock groove hey, what for?

probably like the UR battle weapons, Mills, Hawtin etc

so few people can use them effectively

I always used to use a Tom Middleton/Cosmos lock groove thing on 'Summer In Space', sounded ace, kind of like the groove on 'I Feel Love', great for whacking an acapella or beat over the top

.....the bit at the start, check it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVqaYtlavpc

im not a dj its just for a sound art thing about how drawing and sound are kind of related

still no one has a dj or studio tech friend they can ask?

Ask 'paul74' on here, he may be able to help....?

thanks braux! will do

you can make a standard vinyl into a lock groove if you don't value it by bending grooves with a scalpel

yeah but want a single continuous loop cut in the surface of a disk with sound in it