Summer of 1992, 3am, my friend who was a couple years older than me and the first person to show me the internet using gopher on a mcgill university account, we were in his parents car driving back to the city from a random show in a regional town. On that semi-rural road we discovered green lights were timed to the speed limit (80km/h), and therefore, double the speed limit for at least a few iterations, or so we reasoned. We postured back and forth while we bombed down that road about whether it was related to shannon-nyquist sampling or the harmonic frequency, but the two songs on the mix tape playing in the dash I remembered were Aphex Twin's Polynomial-C and Joy Division's Atmosphere.
Thanks for this post. When I hear those songs now they always remind me of being a passenger at 100mph in the middle of the night, what a blessed life it has been to have had some legendary friends, and of the moment before so much happened that there was no way to imagine it at the time. This track captures the beauty and awe of the 90s where you knew urgently there was something huge coming, but there was no way of knowing what it could be. Surprise!