For this year’s Aul Graeve gift exchange, I decided to give my exchangee a cassette with an assortment of songs that I’d been amassing over the past few months.

These little distorted renditions are extremely easy to crank out once you get the right combination of effects locked in, but it’s not as trivial to pick a song that will be fun when it’s so sped up or slowed down. There’s a lot of trial and error involved, and while it’s disappointing when a song you were hoping would work out doesn’t, the satisfaction of finding the ones that do exceeds the disappointment.

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