MP3 of the Day
9/28/98
(Metallica) One (StarCraft Mix)
Let’s just face it – Metallica kicks ass. Last night I found a .WAV ripper for StarCraft. I also happened to listen to “One”. I decided to make a nifty mix of the two. What do you think?
Wow, has it really been so long? Nearly ten years ago, *I* created the mix above one night using CoolEdit while attending A&M.
I figured I should post this to set the record straight once and for all when I discovered this (a music video made using it!) and this (folks claiming they created it) and even this (NIN War Remix? Nope, sorry). Props to darkangelx66 on the video; very nicely sync’ed — and talk about a genre crosser!
(EDIT: Sadly the video for the first link was removed, but I found some links to the track in lots of other places (this one seems be pretty true to the original quality and includes my original id3 tag) plus 2 youtube posts with bland videos.)
Back then I hosted “Tarod’s Grove” on the campus resnet. Just a stupid share drive with text files and my share of interesting binary data. MP3s were just starting to reveal themselves, and I tried to jump into the music critiquing business. I would post an “MP3 of the Day” along with a text file explaining my choice and the reason I liked it. It was silly, but it was fun I suppose. Looking back, it was far easier to work with that than fancy websites. Although directing visitors was a lost cause of ‘!’ characters trying to sort files so they’d see it first and (maybe) read it.
The text at the start of this post is direct from my “MP3 of the Day” back then.
If you are looking for proof that I really did what I’m claiming credit for, I don’t have much to offer. I don’t have the original WAV anymore (too bad; though I think I used a 128kbps version of “One” anyway) and I’m not sure how else to prove it. The original had an id3 tag stating my nick (Tarod) and my ICQ #, so… there’s that. Oh, and maybe a few folks out there have the “original” version. The original was a bit empty towards the end, so the next day I added the “zerg symphony” (as I called it) to give it a bit more life and removed the original. Heck, I don’t even have the original msyelf, anymore. If anyone does let me know; I would love to get it again.
Funny thing is, all I did was share the song on the LAN. I never put it on Napster, but it ended up there pretty quickly. I guess it was just good enough to get around; that makes me happy. Thanks to my fans, even though I just mixed stuff together that other people really created so what talent do I really have?
Props to Metallica for kicking ass and Starcraft for ruining my GPA.
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