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Series of promotional sampler records from A&M Records
The first seven having custom illustrated sleeves with two versions available of FPS#7 introducing the plain die-cut Foreplay sleeves of varying colors and later including a promotional booklet with order forms. Some later issues with plain sleeves also included the serial/cat# on the spine.
The Foreplay series was made up of pre-release samplers provided to record stores to highlight forthcoming album releases on A&M and I.R.S. The initial (FPS# 1-4) Foreplay albums had two songs crossfaded by each artist around 50-30 seconds per track with a voiced over introduction. By the time FPS#7 was released, the voice over had disappeared, and the track samples increased to around 90 seconds. This format changed again by FPS#14 where the release included full length versions of the included tracks. The discs were labeled "Promotion Not For Sale Or Airplay Purposes."
At this point, A&M shifted the Foreplay series to a new numbering sequence, which also included other promotional albums. Both release numbers and matrix numbers used the same numbering series.