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Electro & techno for this first set of June. Some long tracks in here including pieces by Alva Recek, DJ Life, Shanti Celeste, and The Martian.

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A grab bag show today. Downtempo, electro, IDM, etc., all at around 100. Recent(ish) tracks by Apologist (from the album Air Foundry on Frequency Domain) and JLo (from the Strandgata comp on Moatun 7).

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Woozy electro at around 120; playing an easy set this week. This mix features a few old tracks from Brokntoys, two tracks from Decima Circuits (Cottage Industries 10), and a bunch of old favorites.

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More electro & techno, this time around 130. New(ish) tracks by Vektorspace and Stratos Zero (both from last year), plus two more ~202x tracks by Sickboy and L'Automat. Otherwise this is mostly old stuff I wanted to hear today.

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An hour and change of 140 BPM electro & techno. Long tracks from Heath Brunner and Mr Velcro Fastener, plus a few from Semantica (including another long one from Plant43). Quick, precise, bright.

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A grab bag show to close out April. Beats, IDM, tracker music, etc. at around 100 BPM. This one features a new piece by SkyTwoHigh, a few bits from the Tokyo Dawn tracker catalog, and a bunch of old favorites.

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Dub & dub techno today featuring a bunch of tracks from the Heavy Dub compilations on Cold Tear Records and old favorites by Autechre and Deadbeat.

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Intro & Problem

For years I used a Stanton SCS.4DJ standalone player / mixer to play digital music in mixes. The SCS.4DJ comes with a program called QuickGrid that is used to generate metadata for music files you plan to play on the device. Notably QuickGrid takes care of calculating BPM, generating waveform displays, and so on.

Unfortunately QuickGrid is only publicly available for Windows and OS X, and I'm a BSD / Linux user. So, after a bit of investigation, I wrote a shell script wrapper around the djanalyze.exe program that comes with the QuickGrid software package. This script lets me do everything QuickGrid does from the comfort of my FreeBSD machine.

Here's a little about that shell script, scs4tool.sh:

Electro right around ~130 today. One new(ish) track by Vektorspace, a few old tracks from Brokntoys and CPU Records, and (of course) a bunch of old favorites.

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Electro up in the 140s this week. Quick. This mix features tracks by Aux 88, Ectomorph, Mat Carter, NTHR1, Plant43, Reptant, and more. (Mostly older selections this time).

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Some slower tunes today, 80 BPM ambient and IDM, sometimes smooth, sometimes crunchy. This one features new tracks by Barking and Skee Mask as well as a couple old ones from Portland label Buried In Time.

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Ambient, dub techno, and later on some electro this week all at a steady 110. This mix features new tracks by Cignol, Paradox, and Stratos Zero.

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Ambient & dubby techno today hovering around 120 BPM. This mix features recent (2022) tracks by Altone and Yagya as well as a few old Deepchord / Echospace related productions and two old pieces by Alteria Percepsyne.

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Techno & dub techno today, from regular to a little weird. Throwing a bunch of things at the wall to see what sticks. This mix features new tracks by Skee Mask and Serge Geyzel as well as classics by (for example) Monolake and T++.

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Breaks & electro for this first show of year 7. A couple tracks from Frustrated Funk, one from SCSI-AV, and a whole stack of Satamile NYC. A revisit or rework of an older mix from this series, MTT 048 Sonic Team.

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95-105 stuff - IDM, downtempo, etc. - for this last show of MTT Year 6. This mix features (relatively) recent tracks by Obergman and KEDA8 (by way of Cottage Industries 11) and, of course, a bunch of old favorites.

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