CW: Critical Role C2 E31 spoilers
I'm rewatching Critical Role's second campaign right now and I've been waiting for this episode.
I like the storytelling and worldbuilding of these tabletop RPG shows but the most memorable moments are when things go completely sideways.
E31 has a fantastic and hilarious scene where a player during some downtime goes to deface a temple in a large city and then spends 30 minutes escaping guards. It's tense and unexpected and chaotic and very very funny.
Renewed my one domain name out to 2030 this morning. Now I feel like I really have to do something worthwhile with it.
Taking photos is frustrating. I don't have a tripod (my hands aren't steady) and the only camera I have to work with is a digital Fujifilm from 2004. Most come out blurry. I'll have to pick up another camera someday.
I just found the two Particle Music 12"s from 2001/2002 on bandcamp. I've been looking for those for like 15 years. I'm so excited I might vibrate into another dimension.
This is why:
Huge techno-breaks track famously played by Electrokid in his mix Robot Within.
70 BPM ambient, dub, IDM, and steppy tunes to end another bass month.
Features a couple new tracks by Distance, Pugilist, and
Substance. But most of this is old, as usual.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is
however available at mixcloud.
I managed to play Timeblind's Time Dilated By Matter and Cascade Failure by Vaccine so I'm v. happy.
Posting a bit early so I can go to sleep.
MTT 235 / Reset By Peer https://djcev.com/2021/08/mtt-235-reset-by-peer/
70 BPM ambient, dub, IDM, and steppy stuff to close bass month. Features a couple new tracks by Distance, Pugilist, and Substance. The rest of the selection is old (as usual).
I'm 14 episodes into Critical Role campaign 2. I watched thru about episode 50 last year so this is a rewatch. Really enjoying it, I love the hijinks the CR players get themselves into.
I wanted a fantasy to escape into, something dramatic but also reassuring, and this works for me.
MTT 234 / No Carrier https://djcev.com/2021/08/mtt-234-no-carrier/
Fast breaks, electro, and IDM. Features tracks by Aaron Spectre, Bombdogs, Kronos Device, Paradox, Parand, and more.
Finally got around to posting this one after a prolonged internet outage. Not my best work but passable.
I missed most of Quakecon due to an internet outage.
Fast and noisy breaks, electro, and IDM this week. North of 140. Features
a couple new tracks from Paradox and Parand. This
one is coming in a few days late due to some technical difficulties.
This mix features some profanity so please consider your surroundings
when listening. (One F-bomb is dropped by Parand near the
end of the mix).
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is
however available at mixcloud.
I'm back online after an extended multi-day internet outage. It stinks that my mix release schedule was interrupted but this was honestly a good time for it to happen.
I'll have MTT 234 from 2021/08/19 up tomorrow morning.
Spent my day doing a bunch of webpage stuff. Didn't really mean to use my time that way but that's OK, it was fun.
Will have to change gears back to music tomorrow.
Electrokid's Robot Within. Released in 2002 (I think,
that's the date on the file I have anyway). 62:52 in the truncated 256kbps
version, 77:27 in the full-length 128kbps version. Nonstop propulsive
breaks, electro, and IDM. 21 tracks all perfectly arranged.
This mix is a big part of why I'm here, why I'm a DJ. I found it in the
early 2000s through a review Ishkur wrote on his old website.
The mix completely floored me then; it still does now. Looking back I think
I must have internalized a lot of the selection and decisions in Robot
Within because I have - consciously or not - been trying to sound like it
for a long time. I know it's the first place I heard
Movement Through Thought, for one.
Robot Within holds up very well today and is still one of my favorite DJ
mixes. I strongly recommend giving it a listen over at
Electrokid's website. (And Ishkur's review has the
tracklist).
I might write an article about just the B-side of this record some day, break down the construction of the song in finer detail. Some day when I feel like I have the skill and confidence to do that.
I wrote a couple paragraphs about the two-track "Florida Electro Artists Volume Two" compilation on Frajile Recordings (2001, FRJ1-006).
https://djcev.com/2021/08/florida-electro-artists-volume-two
The Florida Electro Artists Volume Two compilation released on
Frajile Recordings in 2001. Catalog number FRJ1-006. Side A by
Factor E (remixed by Jackal & Hyde), side B by
Resident Alien (Exzakt and James Wolfe). Design by
Clutch. Mastered by Steve Smodish at Echo Beach Studios.
Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM. Flac, 16bit/44.1khz, 86M. Tracklist and credits are
from the sleeve artwork and discogs. Track durations, file size, bit
depth, and bitrate are of my stored recordings of the vinyl.
Trying to write a couple paragraphs about a record I like. Writing is really difficult.
MTT 233 / Movement Through Thought (2) https://djcev.com/2021/08/mtt-233-movement-through-thought-2/
Bass month continues, this time with a selection of mid-2000s and 2010s Florida #breaks and #electro . New(ish) tracks by Code Rising, Exzakt, and Gucci Bass. Old favorites by Brice Kelly, Resident Alien, Sound Chasers, Xerodefx, and more.
Mid 2000s Florida breaks, electro, and some more recent electro-bass. There
are a few new(ish) tracks in this hour from Code Rising, Exzakt,
and Gucci Bass, but most of this is old, Exceleration and
Frajile records, some of my absolute favorites.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is
however available at mixcloud.
I love mixing mid-2000s Florida breaks and electro so, so much. Old Exceleration and Frajile in particular. A lot of good memories with those records.
That was how I spent my evening, a few cups of tea and mixing practice.
I didn't post this to the fediverse at the time because I thought it was kind of beneath anyone's notice. It's not a complete program and won't work outside of a particular set of circumstances. But maybe it could be useful to someone as an example, or as a seed to plant in another environment (Pelican or some other Python-based site compiler).
A few weeks ago I reimplemented stagit (the static git page generator) in Python as a plugin for my static site compiler / blog engine.
Brief writeup here: https://djcev.com/2021/08/blogofile-gitview/
and the program itself can be found here: https://djcev.com/git/blogofile_gitview/
Discord & Rhyme Episode 50 covering two albums by Steely Dan.
Taking a moment today to link to the Discord & Rhyme album review
podcast's two-and-a-half hour episode 50 which covers
Countdown To Ecstasy and Aja by Steely Dan. Discord
& Rhyme is always good, but this episode on Steely Dan in particular helped
me understand a difficult band. (And it's been cheering me up a lot over
the last year). Warning for profanity; maybe don't listen to this at work
or around kids.
Important questions are answered during this podcast. Questions like:
Is Steely Dan for dads? Is Aja "slick" or "smooth"? Did Steely Dan enjoy
2006 in film? And many more.
I keep forgetting to use hashtags when doing these posts. Ah well, I'll remember eventually I guess.
MTT 232 / Under A Boom https://djcev.com/2021/08/mtt-232-under-a-boom/
It's August and that means it's bass month. Electro bass, Miami bass, techno bass. This first mix of bass month features tracks by Bass Junkie, Dynamix II, Eggfooyoung, Exzakt, Gucci Bass, Supreme.ja, T.E.S.T., and more.
It's August again and that means time for bass. This week's selection is
a mixture of electro bass, miami bass, and techno bass. This hour features
new(ish) music from Bassbin Twins, Gucci Bass,
JimiTheGenius & Merlyn, and Techmaster P.E.B. .
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is
however available at mixcloud.
I've spent the last few days digging around for old car audio bass CDs on digital vendors like beatport and juno.
Some of the old DM Records (Bass 305) catalog is on Junodownload, and Traxsource has a bunch of old Pandisc CDs (Beat Dominator, DJ Laz, etc.). I think a lot of this has been up for a while and I just didn't know where to look.
Oh wow the Jack Audio Connection Kit has been updated in the FreeBSD ports tree from a five-year-old version of jack1 to jack2. That's a big deal for me.
https://www.freshports.org/audio/jack/
I'm a person who often stops (or never starts) work on projects
because another related project hasn't been completed. I often think
to myself "I can't work on X because I haven't finished Y yet". One
such project that's been holding me back, a pretty basic requirement
for some things I'd like to do, is that I don't have a satisfactory
place to publish source code.
I recently solved that problem. I figured out how to serve Git
repositories over so-called "dumb HTTP" and then I wrote
a clone of Hiltjo Posthuma's stagit as a plugin for my static
site compiler Blogofile. I'm calling that plugin
blogofile_gitview. Read on to see why I'd do such a foolish
thing.
