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2026-04-12 19:13 UTC
Update: I'm now as certain as I can be that I have the right fellow. You can hear it below.
It's called "The Answering Machine Song", and he did it in 1988. Apparently a radio station in Calgary (where I believe he was living) played it and told folks they could hear it on Amin's answering machine - and broadcast his home phone number 😆
The full version is on his album "Requests from the Vault". That's on Bandcamp here:
https://aminbhatia.bandcamp.com/album/requests-from-the-vault-96k-24bit
I believe the demo I heard was a much shorter version that he did actually use as his outgoing message. I haven't found that version anywhere.
He talks about it in an interview here:
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2012/10/08/revisiting-the-future-amin-bhatia-the-interstellar-suite/
It's in the liner notes for the album here, as track #4:
https://aminbhatia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Requests-from-the-Vault-by-Amin-Bhatia.pdf
A 40-year-old mystery, solved. It was fun.
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