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Electro and techno up around 130, mostly in what I think of as the Donald / Stinson style. (But I'm probably wrong about that). Kicks on 16.

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Pensive electro up around 140. Features a few new tracks from Lloyd Stellar, Metamatics, and Nullptr, and (as always) some old favorites.

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Disco and synthpop for the last mix of 2020. Music for the New Years Eve party in my head.

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The fourth annual Movement Through Thought tracker music mix. Late '90s, mostly XMs and ITs; breakbeat, DnB, and IDM, all on the more ambient end of the scale.

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Ambient, electro, and IDM floating around 120. A bunch of old favorites and a couple long tracks by Carl Finlow and DJ R21.

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Electro and IDM this week, high 120s, the 16,20 sound. This one's a little short because I was mixing fast and not paying attention to the clock.

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Breaks and electro up around 133. Comfort food. Features a few old favorites by Gosub and Luke Eargoggle and a few recent purchases by Absolute Fiction, ERP, and Giraffi Dog. Good tunes, mushy mixing.

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Relatively mellow beats for this last Thursday of November. Disco, electro, IDM. Floating in space at a tempo of about 110 BPM.

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Dark Matter by Silicon Scally (AKA Carl Finlow). Released in March of 2005 on Satamile Records NYC. Vinyl, 2x12". Flac, 16bit/44.1khz, ~332M. Tracklist and track durations from the back cover artwork. File size, bit depth, and bitrate are of my own stored recordings of the vinyl. BPM is my own count (and is probably inaccurate).

Electro & techno around 120, featuring long tracks by Mikron and Silicon Scally.

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A ~128 BPM selection for a stressful November week. Electro new and old with one odd ambient piece and one old techno track thrown in.

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Electro up around 140 this week. You might have heard that we're having a little civic event here in the United States of America, so I reached for something comfortable and easy to play... then got carried away.

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~90 BPM ambient, electro, IDM, industrial. "Electronic Music", nonspecific. An end-of-October selection.

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Intro & Problem

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:

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.

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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).

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