I’m dropping this here mostly to preserve it. There are some things that shouldn’t only exist in someone’s hard drive.
The video I’m posting here is a screen recording from my copy of the March 2000 edition of Launch, a late-90s/early-00s enhanced CD-ROM magazine that experimented with what media and storytelling could look like in the new millennium.
This edition dropped while D’Angelo was on his Voodoo promo run. What you’ll find here is a walkthrough of D’Angelo’s sections: album review, song snippets, photo gallery, including an interview conducted by Billy Johnson Jr. Everything, except a performance.
So much of what lived in boxes and discs never made the jump to streaming. I’m treating this like a small piece of preservation. A nod that this particular moment in history deserves to be remembered.
