A man and a musician

86 Songs. 8 Discs. 7 and a half hours of music. Download it now.

Back in the day when I played in a band called Hydrolicide (formerly Subdivisions, recently known as Stella Maris, now known as Quiet Aggression), myself and my band mates were just only beginning to learn and understand our respective instruments. I was an obsessive recorder – every band practice I had a shotty little mic laying around and I’d run it into Audacity on my family PC that was in our garage. Over time the microphones upgraded, I got better at mic placement, we got better at our instruments, etc. These days we are actually doing multi track recordings with multiple expensive gadgets… but enough about that.

My point is, I recorded everything back in the day, and luckily we were smart enough to put it on a DVD. The files were (mostly) all lost from my family PC after a reformat. We didn’t think much of it until lately when Brad brought over our first “CD” – we actually burned like 10 copies and handed them out to friends, and luckily he still had one. So we were listening to it and Huffy happened to remember he had one just like that, so we got him to bring it to the next practice… and lo and behold, it was the backup DVD we had created. I quickly ripped the entire thing to my macbook and it’s been sitting here for a month or two now.

Fast forward to July 09. I’m bored and I decided to go through the old recordings, renumber + rename some of them, and organize them into some kind of playlist. That is what you will see here very shortly. Eight Discs (not including about 10 tracks which I excluded because there was really not much musical value to them), 86 songs, and 7.5 hours of music. And being I knew nothing about audio quality back in the day (and was probably concerned with HDD space), this all fits into a snug 400MB (that’s when uncompressed, mind you).

Note that when I say “Disc” I really don’t mean it in a physical sense. The way I organized this stuff, not all of the “Discs” will fit on their respective CDs, so if anyone is actually considering putting this on a CD you may need to shuffle it around a bit. I figure since we live in the digital age it isn’t such a problem. The discs are organized by their creation date or by who played with us at the time.