Memoirs of a music junkie

It was the year 1997 or perhaps 1998. All I remember is that I was fresh out of college and had started working as an Engineer. Single life has its own merits and one of them was the availability of ample amount of extra time.

One of my dearest friends had just offered me to buy his complete entertainment center that included a top-notch Sanyo VCR, a Philip Magnavox television, and the state of the art AIWA stereo system with 5 speakers, 3-CD player, and a double cassette player unit. The CD player came with the Karaoke option to suppress the singers' voices while playing the CD. The mic input also came with the echo level adjustment option. But the best of all options was to be able to play a karaoke CD and record on the audio tape while singing through the microphone. Little I knew that this beautiful technology of ancient times (for technology more than 10 years is considered ancient nowadays) would change so many things in my life.

Anirudh of Anirudh Karaokes had also been to the same university that I went to. I met him when he was working on releasing his first karaoke CD. I actually bought a single karaoke song of a famous Pakistani singer Alamgir, for a show at school. By that time, he had come out with several of his CDs and unlike now, those CDs used to contain much greater number of songs than just 4 or 5.

I would look forward to get back to my little apartment on College street, often to find out that my dear friend and roommate Anshuman was already in the middle of a recording :D It was a lot of fun to record something and listen to your own voice. We used to buy high quality Maxell audio tapes which had a better retention capacity of the audio signal.

Well, to cut the story short for now. I am presenting one of those recordings today. This song is actually part of my first audio cassette release that I indeed distributed freely to all of my friends :D

A better quality version is also posted on my Facebook page. Thanks for your time in advance!