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so when is everyone gonna dig out their old copies of Dance eJay and make that software cool again. because that was the shit

@hikari That brought up memories I'd completely forgotten about - there's not much of primary school and earlier I remember, but it all came back

Sometime in year...idk, year 5 or 6 probably, we used some version of eJay (I want to say it was "Dance eJay 2 Techno Edition") for IT class one day and all the songs the class made were burned onto CDs that I think the school then sold as part of a fundraiser or to cover the CD cost (plus a little extra) or something?

I think I just made some fairly generic incredibly bland track with the pre-existing samples and didn't do anything too creative - but also, I was like 10 and hadn't developed any of my music tastes yet or even knew what techno was besides thinking the word sounded cool

@hikari I remember vaguelly disapointed that we only got to use it that one time and never again

And that it was weird how in secondary school, despite us being a Performing Arts school with mandatory Music lessons for Years 7-9, and music rooms with dedicated computers with MIDI keyboards (in addition to seperate computer labs for ICT) that I never saw any audio software beyond audacity at any point

I can presume that they must have been used for people who actually took Music as an elective in either GCSE or A Levels