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SAD002 – Fuck Right Off 0:24 963Kb
Some of my earliest sound experiments involved grabbing bits of dialogue, music and sound effects from television using my trusty VHS recorder and creating collages of these sounds via pause button cassette edits on a ‘ghetto blaster’.
For the first few years of Wake Up and Listen, Adrian Bertram and I would each prepare a cassette full of such collages for every broadcast. We called these our ’samples’. Even after we bought actual samplers, we still kept making cassette collages for a few more years, as they had a unique sound.
SAD002 is the sort of ’sample’ that could well have been on one of those old collages. It’s a grab from the 1999 Trailer Park Boys film, in which the character of Patrick Lewis (played by Patrick Roach, who went on to play Randy in the TV series) makes a strong statement about his lifestyle. A good ’sample’ is texturally interesting and has an element of surprise. This has those.
Instead of a simple VHS to cassette dub, the process of making this file involved noting the timecode of the desired sample using Google Docs, importing the audio from the entire video file using Wave Editor, selecting the sample, then exporting it.
Btw, I’ve decided to change the format of these sounds to 320k MP3s as a compromise between quality and accessibility.