I am SO proud of Century. It happens to sample one of my all-time favorite themes, but does so by transforming the sample rather than simply building upon it. The sample has been slowed and chopped to create something completely different, and... in my humble opinion, completely awesome.

Century by Nik Furious [ 2:51 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Okay, now go buy my album Brilliant Shower. It's awesome, too.

Linkage: You can download the full Superior Tech mixtape here on the blog and check out my Superior Tech playlist on YouTube.

Armor has gone by many names over the years. But whatever it's been called, it's important to me because it's the first sampled beat I ever made.

Armor by Nik Furious [ 2:50 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

It's basically an instrumental remix of James Taylor's "If I Keep My Heart Out Of Sight", made from the acoustic intro and beginning of the guitar solo.

Here's the guy who played beard bass on the original song, Leland Sklar.

To create a totally different (and far less sentimental) banger out of Taylor's vulnerable ballad, I used an mp3 of the original, my Zoom MRT-3 drum machine, and ProTools in Carnegie Mellon University's computer lab.

I don't remember exactly when, but it had to be sometime during the 2003-2004 school year, my final year at CMU. Though I started sound recording classes late in my college career, the audio skills I gained have by far been the most useful part of my undergrad degree.

"Nik Furious" is one of the names I use to make music, focusing specifically on instrumental music. It could be a hip hop beat or a rock song or an electronic jam or something inbetween... but about 99% of the time, the music is instrumental.

Over at my blog, the AudioShocker, I used to run a feature called the Beatcast. This was mostly a spotlight for Nik Furious music. That tradition will continue here, as I plan to post a ton of unheard Nik Furious instrumental music, ranging from sampled beats to unique originals.

That'll start once I get my podcasting plugin all set up. In the meantime, you can buy the first Nik Furious album -- stuffed with 13 awesome original instrumental tracks -- on iTunes (watch out! the iTunes link will try to launch the program), Amazon, and just about every other online music store out there.

UPDATE: Nik Furious has left the above stores! All Nik Furious music can now be found for free here on this blog or at NikFurious.com.