Sure, everyone loves a good ultra time-stretched pop tune. All the kids are doing it. Now you can make your own! I’m fairly sure that it’ll come out sounding the same regardless of what you feed into it, but I had fun playing with the OSX version.
 

 
The one that started this week’s predominant musical meme, the surprisingly lovely result of stretching a song by he who shall not be named on this blog 800 times its original length.

 
How to create your own slowed down ambient epics (Lifehacker.com)
 
Thanks Scott McDonald !

Fuck.  This has been my secret weapon for quite some time.

  The other day I made a stretched sample a of me screaming that would have lasted all the way through middle age and long into retirement.

  A file too large to save, but it would have summed up how I felt better than any of my projected musical output for the next 40 years.

It’s weird to see a technique like those employed over twenty years ago by people like John Oswald being grasped and employed by mainstream folks.

It’s not weird at all. Typical, really. Most sound manipulation techniques start with the serious artists in their labs (or with the military and nasa) and then eventually become commonplace.

This program helped me realise two things:

1. I want to have my funeral by the sea.

2. I want to have an organist there playing the theme from “The Rockford Files” verrrrrrry slowly.

http://soundcloud.com/lepusrex/the-rockford-files

You can’t go wrong with the Rockford Files theme, regardless of playback speed