Grab your glow sticks, strap on your JNCO jeans, and heavily frost those tips… we are heading directly into the future! Or, at least, what sound designers in the late 90s thought the future would sound like. Proudly boasting “cutting edge sounds for cutting edge music,” this sample CD is a pristine, unadulterated time capsule of Y2K rave culture.

“Cutting Edge” Synths: The aggressive, detuned trance plucks, leads, and razor-sharp pads that powered a million underground raves (and eventually, several early-2000s energy drink commercials).

Deep Basses: Unapologetically thick low-end frequencies, scientifically engineered to rattle the license plate off a heavily modified 1998 Honda Civic.

Pre-Packaged Loops: Because painstakingly chopping and sequencing your own drum breaks is so 1995. Just hold down a single key, trigger a massive rhythmic loop, and pretend you’re headlining a superclub in Ibiza.

The Y2K Aesthetic: Expect plenty of sweeping filters and futuristic textures that sound exactly like the soundtrack to a 90s movie where a teenager hacks into a government mainframe using a skateboard.

Slide this highly “futuristic” disc into the grinding SCSI CD-ROM drive of your E4 Ultra, EOS, or ESI sampler. There is nothing quite like the irony of generating the “music of tomorrow” on a beige, rack-mounted sampler that is currently old enough to rent a car.