{"id":1339,"date":"2009-08-09T22:08:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T05:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2009-08-15T08:12:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T15:12:13","slug":"cookie-functioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"Cookie &#8211; Functioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this EP today because it sounded really weird and I had never heard of it before.  It&#8217;s actually pretty mediocre in my opinion, but the artist name \/ label name (&#8220;beast baseball&#8221;) \/ obscurity factor provided sufficient WTF-age to convince me to drop a buck or two on it.  To be honest, I was surprised enough just to find out that it actually was a hardcore record, based on the highly incongruous name\/artwork.  Maybe someone will actually like it&#8230;. for me though, this is definitely an obscure-for-the-sake-of-obscure post, which I&#8217;m mainly uploading for any veteran collectors who have run across this before and wondered what a hardcore record by an artist called &#8220;COOKIE&#8221; could possibly sound like.<\/p>\n<p>The track on the other side has some sort of marching band beat on top of a half speed breakbeat, with simple bass and a pitched down sample of a voice repeatedly saying &#8220;We are witnessing the demeez of music&#8221;&#8230;. yeah, makes perfect sense&#8230;  \ud83d\ude15<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Cookie-The-Demise-of-Music\/release\/246309\">[DISCOGS INFO]<\/a><br \/>\n<A href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Cookie - Functioning.mp3\">Cookie &#8211; Functioning<\/a><br \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1339-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/Cookie%20-%20Functioning.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Cookie%20-%20Functioning.mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/Cookie%20-%20Functioning.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this EP today because it sounded really weird and I had never heard of it before. It&#8217;s actually pretty mediocre in my opinion, but the artist name \/ label name (&#8220;beast baseball&#8221;) \/ obscurity factor provided sufficient WTF-age to convince me to drop a buck or two on it. To be honest, I&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1339\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cookie &#8211; Functioning<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,95],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-4","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}