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Numbah Crunch Mix, First Edition
Mar. 8th, 1996 02:21 pmA couple years after I graduated High School I got a summer internship, at a tech company in Mountain View. This was pre-iPhone, pre-MP3-player days, but I really wanted to hear my music at the office.
At home I had a giant Windows box that could play samples, two CD players, and a tape deck. I wired them all up into a mixing console, made a pile of rough notes, jammed a blank 90-minute tape into the recorder, and off I went.
The result is basically a time capsule of all the music I liked in 1996 that was just distracting enough to keep my brain content, but not distracting enough to keep it from working. My "good thinking" place was full of beeping devices, cement blocks, lightning, dark echoey caverns, chanting, engine noises, chunky grinding beats, et cetera. And to a casual listener, I expect it sounds rather ... violent.
For example, around the ten minute mark, you can hear a long loop of terribly distorted explosions and shouting drifting around over the music. That's the "Doom 2" application loaded into CoolEdit as if it was a raw sound file. If I'd opened it as "unsigned 8-bit" instead of "signed 8-bit", all the samples would have been clear... But why would I want that? Heh heh heh.
About 30 years later my nephew Nick got ahold of this mix, and he reports that it's still good for hackery!
Numbah Crunch Mix-Part 1.m4a
Numbah Crunch Mix-Part 2.m4a
Numbah Crunch Mix-Part 3.m4a
Numbah Crunch Mix-Part 4.m4a
Numbah Crunch Mix-Part 5.m4a
At home I had a giant Windows box that could play samples, two CD players, and a tape deck. I wired them all up into a mixing console, made a pile of rough notes, jammed a blank 90-minute tape into the recorder, and off I went.
The result is basically a time capsule of all the music I liked in 1996 that was just distracting enough to keep my brain content, but not distracting enough to keep it from working. My "good thinking" place was full of beeping devices, cement blocks, lightning, dark echoey caverns, chanting, engine noises, chunky grinding beats, et cetera. And to a casual listener, I expect it sounds rather ... violent.
For example, around the ten minute mark, you can hear a long loop of terribly distorted explosions and shouting drifting around over the music. That's the "Doom 2" application loaded into CoolEdit as if it was a raw sound file. If I'd opened it as "unsigned 8-bit" instead of "signed 8-bit", all the samples would have been clear... But why would I want that? Heh heh heh.
About 30 years later my nephew Nick got ahold of this mix, and he reports that it's still good for hackery!
Numbah Crunch Mix-Part 1.m4a
Numbah Crunch Mix-Part 2.m4a
Numbah Crunch Mix-Part 3.m4a
Numbah Crunch Mix-Part 4.m4a
Numbah Crunch Mix-Part 5.m4a
