#foundaudio

**This contains spoilers, so if you are currently listening to the show and wish to remain in the dark, maybe avert your gaze and attention entirely.** I’m currently casting a voice actor for an upcoming episode of my indie horror audio drama, Jack, It’s Me.

The episode is titled “Tape Found In Room 6” — a standalone found tape installment connected to the larger story of Cedar Bend.

ROLE: Frederick Frederick is the morning chef at Junco Diner. Dry, practical, sarcastic, tired, and deeply unimpressed by the town's nonsense… until Room 6 starts making that difficult.

Looking for an adult masculine voice, ideally 30s–50s sounding. Any North American accent welcome.

Another interesting find. Looks like studio notes. "Blinding lites" and "Ophelia's Fate". Also some audio file with people (Crimson Clovers?) talking.

Also also, found a higher res of the "album cover" with both front and back sides. I've updated the mega-link.

Jackpot!

Damn, I found something alright. A folder loaded with tracks!! Most of them are in rough shape like the other stuff but this is more of the same as before; soul covers.

I recognize almost all of them. I'm no pop aficionado but I recognize me some Weeknd, Taylor Swift, maybe Ariana Grande and even that damn Demon Hunters track. But I guess this must be the legendary "The Crimson Clovers" then. A lost soul band from the 90's?? lol. Anyway, I zipped the whole thing and uploaded it so you can listen for yourselves:

I kept going through the archive today, expecting more of those corrupted, pitch-shifted fragments. Most of it was still noise… but I found one file that was almost intact.

It sounds like a full 70s soul arrangement of Man I Need. Like as if someone tracked an entire cover session decades ago and then stuffed it into this abandoned mirror drive.

TL;DR: New cleanup pass, clearly hearing Man I Need in there, but that track is from 2025, so… wtf? Ok so… Update-time because this just got weirder.

Ran another cleanup pass on that file tonight. More of the voice-y stuff came through this time (check around 0:26, a bit clearer).

Played it to my girlfriend again and she IMMEDIATELY went: “isn’t that Man I Need?”

And yeah, that’s exactly what it sounds like actually. So I figured ok, maybe it’s some older version, since the directory this file was sitting in hasn’t been touched since the 90s.

BUT THEN

I googled the song just to check… and uhhh… it’s from 2025

Like, brand new. As in: just released.

So now I’m sitting here confused as hell because this file absolutely should NOT contain anything even remotely current. Either someone put a modern track inside a bunch of old archive junk for… reasons?? or someone wrote Man i Need waaay back.

I’m way too tired to be doing this lol