Feb 19, 2004
Old School
In 1992 my mother bought a brand new NEC Ready 425. It was a 486 with a 25Mhz processor, 16 megs of ram and a 180Mb hard drive. Smoking!
This computer was the most amazing thing I had ever seen and I did everything I could to really fuck it up, and in the process I think I learnt a few things. In 1994 mom bought a CD-Rom drive and a soundcard! These things introduced me to the wonderful world of home recording.
Tonight I have dug out the old beast from my closet and fired her up. Funnily enough, the boot time is faster than my Powerbook. Basking in the simplicity of Windows 3.1, I poked around and found a couple gems from my nascent recording history. For the most part the songs here were unlistenable but I did find two that I care to share with you. They are identified only by the filenames because the lacked any real titles. “Soundtrack” is in fact the soundtrack to an art school video that I would prefer to distance myself from, for reasons I am sure every one can infer. Both of these tracks are from 1996.
Enjoy.
Ambient
Soundtrack
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