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Now this one, the third & final from the compilation, is downright strange. It was specifically written for that compilation and the broken glass sample I created no earlier than 1989. That sample itself has a very interesting history. I was working for a company that had a large engineering lab and on a Sunday afternoon when the place was closed, I showed up with a Beyer dynamic mic, a DBX-equipped cassette recorder, a ball-peen hammer & a 1'x2' pane of glass. The breaking sounds you hear are of that pane of glass hanging from the ceiling being struck by me with that hammer. There was some interesting room ambiance in the recording plus my first couple of whacks didn't break the glass but instead produced a most unusual percussion sample which may appear later on. I cannot explain the voice samples except to say I was watching (too) many Warner cartoons from the 1930s & 1940s at the time. The sampler was an Ensoniq Mirage.

I couldn't find the actual master so this one and the previous one are from the compilation cassette itself hence the drop in audio quality.

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