Dookie Demastered

[The way it was never meant to be heard]
In 1994, Green Day released their seminal album “Dookie”. It brought both the band and punk music in general into the mainstream, selling tens of millions of copies along the way. Now, 30 years later, they’ve demastered the album. Each of the 15 tracks (14 + 1 hidden) have been placed onto a ridiculous format, like a Game Boy cartridge:

Other formats include 8-track, doorbell, Teddy Ruxpin, and even a bone-conduction audio toothbrush.

From the site, where you can listen to all of the tracks, and enter a lottery to purchase any of the very limited number of real objects created for this:

Instead of smoothing out its edges and tweaking its dynamic ranges, this version of Dookie has been meticulously mangled to fit on formats with uncompromisingly low fidelity, from wax cylinders to answering machines to toothbrushes. The listening experience is unparalleled, sacrificing not only sonic quality, but also convenience, and occasionally entire verses.

The result is Dookie Demastered: the album that exploded the format of punk rock, re-exploded onto 15 obscure, obsolete, and otherwise inconvenient formats, the way it was never meant to be heard.

This is incredible work, and it’s incredibly fun. Kudos to Green Day and their collaborators, very serious art studio Brain.

Link: https://www.dookiedemastered.com