Composer crafts sick groove using the sounds of the PlayStation 2, inside and out

It’s been 21 years since Sony’s PlayStation 2 was released—long enough that a lot of adults today might feel a strong sense of nostalgia just from hearing the sounds of the console’s operating system. While we’ve seen this kind of effect used to musicians’ advantage before—most notably with the PlayStation boot up heard during the opening of Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange—nobody has taken the concept as far as composer Carter Harrell.

In a recent video, Harrell uses PlayStation 2 noises as samples for a funk track. He starts off with the console’s introductory tune but doesn’t confine himself just to menu sounds. Harrell uses the PS2 itself—the whir of its disc drive opening, controller wires being wrapped up, a memory card being slotted into a port, and a hand running across its surface—to complement the bass, guitar, and keyboard that fills out the rest of the composition.