When
this cassette begins, I can hear audio clips and electro beats behind the words
being spoken. I can’t quite make out
what’s going on in the audio clips exactly, just “Hello wildcats” and something
about cooking nachos in a microwave.
The music accompanying whatever is being spliced up and altered to the
artist’s liking is like something off of the soundtrack to “Weird Science” only
sped up.
This
audio clip repeats itself on the first side with different music behind it,
though when we get to Side B it does resurface again at the end. It is only this time that the audio clip is
played in full, uninterrupted before it is mashed up once again, and I can find
out what exactly it is all about. I’m
not joking when I say I merely googled “hello wildcats” and found the proper
links for the cooking show that this was taken from, and one of the top links
was even for a YouTube video that was precisely from this audio clip. (See that video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKxhI4I5kq8)
If you think
of this as having two tracks per side, and thus tracks 1, 2 and 4 are about
cooking nachos in your microwave, then the third installment is actually about
being in the military and if not the only source of audio material I do know
that pieces of it are from the movie “Full Metal Jacket”. While
I am not entirely aware of the internet phenomenon known as “Weber Cooks”, I
can tell you that the idea of having these audio clips spliced with a more
modern take on music from their time is quite refreshing.
I find
myself going back to the “Weird Science” comparison and imagine this music
accompanying audio clips from that film.
Would it sound like the theme song to the television series that
followed the movie? On some levels,
yes, but at the same time it would almost sound like an updated version as
well, to bring it into a more modern sense that a retro feel. It is in that way that I like this most I
believe- making something old feel new.
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