From the Mailbox 75

Baychimo – Magical Keygen Brilliant piece from Danish artist Baychimo (Frederik Meyer), from his latest full-length Personality Computer. The album is an ode to the optimism of nascent Y2K internet culture, its atmosphere of exploratory hopefulness, and lack of cynicism. Specifically, this song pays tribute to the often gorgeous — but anonymous and completely ephemeral — songs that accompanied software keygens, which were presumably made by the crackers themselves or their friends. While this doesn’t incorporate the 8-bit elements that regularly dominated keygen music, it nevertheless captures the swelling dream-like quality of many of those forgotten bits. The album covers a lot of territory, and doesn’t just focus on the small tertiary joys of piracy, but I am also including one more that manages to capture another side of that sort of keygen music (with a title that also implies as much). It evokes the more frenetic stuff that accompanied some keygens, the sort that had you quickly…