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Tags:
1990s,
horror,
movies.
I've become weirdly fascinated with Kiyoshi Kurosawa's movies over the last few months. I've seen bits and pieces of a bunch of his '90s movies recently, and have watched Cure a few times. I'm a big fan of Pulse (AKA Kairo, 2001) but haven't seen it in about a decade. I think I'll rewatch that one (Pulse) today.
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Tags:
radio.
Part 2 of my friend Hugh Manoid's Halloween radio program is airing on KBVR FM right now. Film soundtracks, library music, and weirdness. Listen at http://kbvr.com/ or 88.7 FM if you're in the Corvallis Oregon area.
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Tags:
dj mix,
electro,
industrial,
movement through thought.
New #djmix for this week available for download at djcev.com and streaming at mixcloud.
MTT 192 / One Would Think https://djcev.com/2020/10/29/mtt-192-one-would-think/
Posting this a bit early because I might sleep through my regular upload time this evening.
~90 BPM #electro beats and a couple #industrial pieces. A selection for the end of October. Features music by Automat, Noise Unit, Poison Arrow, Scorn, a few big pieces from the great Noxgenus label, and more.
~90 BPM ambient, electro, IDM, industrial. "Electronic Music", nonspecific. An end-of-October selection.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
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Tags:
software.
I posted a really labored explanation of Stanton QuickGrid over at my blog: https://djcev.com/2020/10/27/stanton-quickgrid-part-1/
This is a very niche very specific problem to try and describe but maybe it'll help somebody out there. Looking forward to writing up the script itself, will give me a chance to spruce up my syntax highlighting CSS.
Stanton QuickGrid is an audio file analysis program for Mac OS X and Windows distributed with the Stanton SCS.4DJ. It creates metadata files that contain things like the waveform graphic and beat grid indicators for use with the SCS.4DJ device. It's a program in two parts: djanalyze.exe which does the work of generating metadata for one audio file, and the graphical frontend (pictured above) which automates the process for many audio files. QuickGrid performs a similar function to, say, Rekordbox's analysis and export to USB.
It works in two stages. First you "analyze tracks" which creates and stores analysis metadata files for audio in a location you specify. Then you "prepare USB device" which crawls a USB drive looking for audio and copies over the relevant analysis metadata files, and also creates a file called hashes.dat on the USB drive which the SCS.4DJ reads to discover new data.
I have a problem with QuickGrid: I don't run either OS X or Windows. So I worked out what the graphical frontend is doing and how to drive djanalyze.exe using Wine. Then I wrote a shell script to automate the process. Some notes on what I found:
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Tags:
goth rock,
industrial,
video.
Death Guild is starting up now over at the DNA Lounge webcast for anyone who wants hours of #goth #industrial music played by skilled DJs:
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Tags:
2020s,
anime,
tv.
I'm tempted to watch (skip through) episodes of this so I can talk about it but the more I think about that idea the worse it is. The show is part of a whole multimedia package including character goods, music, a video game, probably more... none of which I like. So if I watched this it'd just be to hate on it. That's a bad use of time, IMO. Somebody out there likes this and I shouldn't be, you know, looking down on 'em.
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Tags:
2020s,
anime,
tv.
Spent a few minutes skipping through the first episode of D4DJ First Mix tonight and gosh does it make me feel incredibly old. An anime for a Bushiroad gacha (rhythm?) game about 24 DJs. I couldn't handle watching it straight through.
There's some accurately 3d rendered Pioneer gear, that was a nice surprise.
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Tags:
2010s,
collection,
digital release,
electro,
music,
synthpop.
I was thinking about Kill Memory Crash earlier today, wondering what happened to them. So I looked up the members on discogs and it turns out one of them, Adam Sieczka, has been busy with a project this last decade called "Circa Tapes".
Maybe this is a well known thing and I'm just out of the loop, but this 2017 album "Love And Venom" is terrific:
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Tags:
music,
radio.
My friend Josh Walund (Hugh Manoid) is airing part 1 of his Halloween radio program on KBVR FM right now. Listen at http://kbvr.com or 88.7 FM if you're in the Corvallis, OR area.
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Tags:
dj mix,
electro,
movement through thought.
This week's #djmix , available for download from djcev.com and streaming at mixcloud.
MTT 191 "It's By Will Alone": https://djcev.com/2020/10/22/mtt-191-it-s-by-will-alone/
#electro , some industrial, a little IDM. Took a chance and played some really crunchy, squelchy, distorted music. This mix features tracks by Cyberaktif, Gamma Intel, Ministry, Novamen, RS3, Scarletron, Umwelt, and more.
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Tags:
1990s,
collection,
digital release,
electro,
music.
Oh wow, Bitstream have put Monolith up on their bandcamp.
This is a legendary #electro tune and up until recently was pretty hard to get.
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My ears are unhappy with me. I think I heard too much noisy stuff tonight. Distorted drums, screechy synths. I should've taken more hearing breaks.
Electro and a little industrial rising from 110 to 120. A chance to get crunchy and noisy. This mix features one track with some profanity (thanks to Skinny Puppy) so consider your surroundings when listening.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
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Tags:
goth rock,
industrial,
video.
I'm tuning in a bit late to Death Guild live at the DNA Lounge tonight. Really glad that they're keeping up the practice of broadcasting these live from the club itself. #goth #industrial music played by expert DJs over at:
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Tags:
2010s,
drum & bass,
music,
video,
youtube.
Unknown track by an unknown artist layered with the acapella of Perfect Stranger by Katy B & Magnetic man, from the Autonomic Podcast Layer 12:
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Tags:
hardware.
Today I partially disassembled, cleaned, then reassembled an old Pioneer SX-650 receiver I have. It had developed an intermittent power problem; cleaning the power/speaker select switch seems to have fixed it.
Now I can use my old passive studio reference monitors again.
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Tags:
1990s,
horror,
scifi,
tv.
Still watching The X-Files, it's still keeping my mood up in this bad month. I'm in the middle of season 3 now. I had forgotten how good the episode "Pusher" is. I love Robert Wisden's performance as Modell/Pusher.
"Please explain to me the scientific nature of 'the whammy'".
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Tags:
dj mix,
electro,
movement through thought.
New #djmix available for download from djcev.com and streaming at mixcloud.
MTT 190 "They Don't Need A Reason": https://djcev.com/2020/10/15/mtt-190-they-don-t-need-a-reason/
Another mostly #electro set, this time at 120, a similar selection to last week's mix. This show features music by Annechoic, Sigma Algebra, Versalife, Zyntax, a big closer by Haujobb, and more.
Electro, sometimes smooth, sometimes noisy, leaning into IDM territory near the end. A similar selection to last week's program (I guess I wasn't done with that particular mood yet).
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
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Tags:
1970s,
horror,
movies,
music,
video,
youtube.
Absolutely rocking out to the Phantasm soundtrack this morning.
A couple of things have prompted me to re-evaluate how I distribute recorded mixes on this website.
First, I stopped broadcasting on aNONradio a few weeks ago. Since I'm no longer a contributing member there, I believe it's unfair for me to link to files in aNONradio's archives. (And those files could disappear at any time - whenever the admins decide they need the disk space, basically). I'm going to have to host my own files from now on.
Second, 189 mixes (200 soon) is too many to keep available all at once, in my opinion. Right now it's 15 gigs of mp3 data. That's not an amount of data I can afford to serve, given my current hosting and money situation.
So here's my plan: each new episode of Movement Through Thought will be available as a downloadable file hosted on this website for one year. I'll remove old files as I add new ones. The tracklist blog posts will remain up. Old mixes that I think are significant I'll keep available as downloads indefinitely, no more than a couple for each broadcast year. I'll tag posts with audio download to hopefully make them easier to find. Recordings uploaded to mixcloud will remain there for as long as mixcloud keeps them.
I do still have all these files, so if there's a specific mix you want that isn't available on this website send me an e-mail and I'll try to get it to you.
That's where I'm at. This seems like a reasonable system to me, a good middle ground. I hope it works out.
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Tags:
hardware,
video,
youtube.
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Tags:
1990s,
horror,
scifi,
tv.
I started rewatching The X-Files a few days ago, skipping the episodes I don't like. It's a nostalgic show for me. I can remember watching it week to week as it aired. It's been good for my mood, my mental health.
Just now starting season 2. Duane Barry loves season 2.
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Tags:
electro,
movement through thought.
New mix, available for download and streaming at mixcloud.
MTT 189 "We Bypass Time": https://djcev.com/2020/10/08/mtt-189-we-bypass-time/
#electro around 128 BPM for October. Features tracks by Audioelectronic, Rude 66, Solvent (by way of Ectomorph), Trichome, Versalife, and more.
Electro all at ~128 BPM, the October mood. Features a few classics (Isolation, Think Like Us) as well as new tracks (Trichome's Thoth Lowrider). And: I finally cleaned the potentiometers in my DJ mixer.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
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Up at 1:30 AM, tea at 4:00 AM... I don't like it.
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Tags:
hardware.
I spent the afternoon disassembling, cleaning, and reassembling my DJ mixer. Cleaned the potentiometers with what was probably the wrong kind of deoxit. That fixed the scratchiness, but introduced some other problems.
My mixer - an Ecler Nuo 4 - was really not meant to be taken apart.
Spooky electro for the beginning of October 2020. Fast, ~135, featuring old favorites by Ectomorph, I-F, Psylocity, and Transparent Sound plus some new(ish) tracks by Illektrolab, JGarrett, and Umwelt.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
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Tags:
hardware.
Oof. I really need to clean the EQ pots on my DJ mixer.
Will do that in the morning, once the household wakes up.
// / 104963674205811523
Tags:
electro,
mixcloud,
movement through thought.
MTT 188 "You've Got Nothing". Spooky #electro for the first week of October.
https://www.mixcloud.com/djcev/mtt-188-youve-got-nothing/
Tracklist & show notes coming in a few days.
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I wasn't paying attention and made black tea instead of green at 3:30 AM.
I guess that's OK, I have work to do anyway.
