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I recently finished reading the novel "Infomocracy" by Malka Older.

It's full of pretty neat near-future ideas, big and small. The big one being world spanning micro-democracy.

There's a lot of plot and dialog, not a lot of description of the setting or development of the characters. Especially for the first half of the novel.

I liked it, particularly the second half, but I didn't love it. I've learned that I prefer highly descriptive (flowery, maybe even purple) prose.


MTT No. 061 / Crystal City

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Mellow(ish) stuff to bring the month to a close. IDM, ambient, etc.
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This show (like most of MTT Year 2) is no longer available for download here. Get in touch with me at the email address listed at the top of this page if you want a copy of it.



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Megaphysics and I are playing music at Ground Kontrol again tonight.

Grab bag night, I think. I'll play bits of what I've been doing on aNONradio. Megaphysics has said he'll play a bunch of electro he's been listening to.

CEV & Megaphysics @ Ground Kontrol Arcade in Portland, Oregon 2018/04/25 9:00 PM PST until close. Free play party (no quarters required), $5 cover.


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Tracklist for Movement Through Thought on 2018-04-20: djcev.com/2018/04/20/mtt-no-

and at : anonradio.net/2018/04/20/mtt-0

Direct link to the recording: anonradio.net/archive/20180420

Spacey . A whole bunch of motorlab.su/ . Levels are a bit uneven, and the sequence doesn't make sense, but that's OK. It was fun to mix.


MTT No. 060 / Hotel Saturn

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Techno by way of Motorlab.su and a few old detroit (and detroit-y) pieces.
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This show (like most of MTT Year 2) is no longer available for download here. Get in touch with me at the email address listed at the top of this page if you want a copy of it.


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I'll be playing music on in 30 minutes. Movement Through Thought, 6:30 to 7:30 UTC every Friday.

I'm playing techno tonight. A whole bunch of Motorlab, a few old detroit tracks. I'm not a good techno dj, so I doubt the selection will make sense. But I've been listening to a lot of techno lately, so it's fresh in my mind.

Listen at anonradio.net/listen .


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I just finished reading "The Song Is You" by Megan Abbott.

Tough, nasty, cruel; proper hardboiled crime fiction. Very, very well written. Not much redemption to be found (especially in the protagonist...). I feel dirtier for having read it.

This is the second book by Abbott that I've read. The first was "Queenpin", which is just as good, if not better.

Will definitely be picking up more of her work.


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Hah, and I just now realize that "Every Grain Of Sand" is the name of a Bob Dylan song. I don't know my Dylan at all.

That's what I get for not searching for names before applying them to things.


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Tracklist for Movement Through Thought on 2018-04-13: djcev.com/2018/04/13/mtt-no-

and at : anonradio.net/2018/04/13/mtt-0

Direct link to the recording: anonradio.net/archive/20180413

A few tracks from the Sbles3plex album, a couple of old favorites, and some high drama courtesy of E.R.P. and Drexciya. Tracks are good, mixing OK, levels OK. I'm happy.

S. is so good with the hashtags. I'll try my hand at one, a lone piece of bait:




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462,600 in Strikers 1945 tonight. Made it about 1/3rd of the way into stage 6. Not my best, but fair.

My goal is to complete the first loop on one credit. The farthest I've made it is stage 7, out of I think 8 stages.



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I've been re-reading Gibson's "Pattern Recognition". I like it much more the second time through.

I'm an obsessive consumer of niche media (music). My first time reading the book, I somehow missed that a large chunk of it is about exactly that. Cayce's consumption of, obsession with, the "footage".

I've got about 100 pages left. I don't remember how it ends.



MTT No. 058 / Andreaen

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An hour of techno & electro, messily mixed.
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This show (like most of MTT Year 2) is no longer available for download here. Get in touch with me at the email address listed at the top of this page if you want a copy of it.



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I mistyped "Cadigan". :(

One of my favorite authors. I've destroyed my copy of Synners.


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Good book haul today.

"Mindplayers" by Pat Caidgan,
"The Song Is You" by Megan Abbott,
"Infomocracy" by Malka Older,
and "Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson

I spent way too much money.