as per Experimental Record's Bandcamp page:"2050: “Annual Reset of Sound”: Congress passes a law making all music of the previous years’ illegal, in efforts to promote creativity for everyone in the country. Vinyl, cassettes, and CDs are melted down for more material to use for next year’s albums. Crime rates increase with online black markets circulating illegal 128 kbps mp3s unbeknownst to the government. Popular musicians become more successful, releasing tenfold the amount of music per year. Quantity over quality. If no one will hear it next year, who will care what they put out? Independent musicians often have this same philosophy but more than often are greatly discouraged with the thought of never being able to fully “make it,” annually trashing their work. How ever will they make an impact on the music world? The first few days of January each year forward are a musical drought, with no music being released. The world is silent for these few days, except for the sound of iPhones, smartcars, and the sound of caffeinated drinks rushing through plastic straws. 2080: “Prelude to Omnimania”: The “Annual Reset of Sound” has completely backfired. Funding had been eventually cut for music production. All the famous musicians have died. Now that all the independent musicians have taken advantage of this, consumers are never able to keep up with the high supply of new music, allowing the profits of these same musicians to decrease each year. Radio stations are never able to recover from the onslaught of the musical drought at the start of the new year. Streaming is still present, but no musicians are getting paid because of adBlock being a new default for phones and computers. People overwhelmingly petition the government. 2087: “Omnimania”: A secret government project, Omnimania, conducted in [REDACTED] has created a program to easily satisfy the demands of the average music consumer. After all these years, a secret archive hidden in a bunker has been kept up with low quality copies of previous years’ music, dating all the way back to the 1970s. The public has not known about this nor have they heard the original recordings. The program had been designed to be fed the countless hours of media from TV, radio, and musical albums, and spit back out the most pleasurable sounding audio files. Two tests for the Omnimania project were conducted. The first tests came back low quality. For some reason, the system kept confusing weather channel reports and commercials for music, and, at times, even attempted to loop and chop these recordings into a “pleasurable” soundtrack. When people were subjected to these resulting audio files, the scientists saw an increase in brain stimuli, specifically ones relating to the desire to buy and consume, but not much more had happened than with regular music. The second tests were more successful. These were in significantly higher quality, and more music had seemed to be recognized by the computer. Note: It can be heard in one of the latter portions of the second test that many audio glitches occur. A scientist had accidentally turned the program onto the “Turbo” setting, though the scientist noticed this error and quickly turned this off, affecting only a few minutes of the final product. The effects of this setting were not known until playback occurred of the second test. However, in the last few minutes of the second tests, many of the test subjects began acting violently, trying to attack the scientists that were outside the room, behind the plexiglass, just grasping for a chance to get the audio files they were playing. They began to froth at the mouths and have convulsions. The stimuli in their brains were off the charts. Many of the subject were also heard saying various brand names and slogans in low, guttural voices. The subjects were soon rendered brain-dead as the final minute of music played and faded out. The Omnimania project was soon thereafter quickly abandoned. Do not be afraid to play these audio files. The audio files you hear in these recording have been reproduced from the master Omnimania project files, but they have also been rearranged for smoother, safer listening."