Here we go. The first draft. The popping of my cherry. The future was writing itself and I had no idea whatsoever. I really just wanted to be able to listen to these songs on my headphones and tune my parents out.

The buffer period of the discovery of a CD burner and actually receiving one was about six months. When Sam showed up at my house with Chunkorama in July of 2000, from then until the holidays I spoke of nothing else besides having a CD burner. I had seen how Sam would just throw songs from his Napster collection in a semi-calculated order, designed some bad Nintendo based artwork, and how it would lead to hours of entertainment from us sitting around listening to it and learning the songs. Because of Chunkorama, and my newfound ability to download ANY FUCKING SONG I WANTED, I was a little overwhelmed in the beginning. Some of my choices were leftover from my days of dredging the internet for songs I could never hear in full. Back then, I relied on CDnow.com and their 30 second samples they offered of every song known to mankind. Other choices were in direct response to my cousin, and Chunkorama. A few tracks were from the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater soundtrack, which took up every weekend of my life during the last months of 6th grade. The radio still played an integral part in how we got music, and I was still grasping the fact I never had to tape another song again.

This first mix shows that. I couldn’t believe this newfound technology existed. Everyone at school was talking about it, and now we could share all these songs with one another. It was the beginning of the rest of my life and I had no idea it was happening.