Leo ran to the turntable. He flipped to Side B.
Here’s a short story inspired by the Vengaboys – CDM Vinyl Remixes — imagining the vinyl as a mystical object that warps time, memory, and reality on a summer night in 1999. Side B, Locked Groove Vengaboys -Cdm Vinyl Remixes-
By A2 – “Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!! (CDM Breakbeat Nightmare)” , Leo noticed the posters on his wall had changed. A *NSYNC poster now featured five skeletons in denim. His calendar read . Outside his window, the canal was gone—replaced by a neon-drenched desert highway. Leo ran to the turntable
Leo laughed and paid eight guilders.
Leo found it buried in a milk crate under a torn poster of Cher. No barcode, no label art—just a plain white sleeve with handwritten in silver marker. The vinyl inside was heavy, translucent orange, with a locked groove on Side B that the previous owner had marked with a skull-and-crossbones sticker. Side B, Locked Groove By A2 – “Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom
The locked groove was a single second of “The Vengabus Is Coming” stretched into eternity. But as the stylus hit the skull-and-crossbones sticker, the music inverted . The happy horns became a dirge. The bassline turned inside out. And a voice—not sung, but spoken—whispered from the run-out groove: