// / 109503165420735156
Tags:
collection,
tracker music.
Love having miscellaneous .com and .exe files hanging out in my music archive.
(They're sometimes part of demoscene and tracker music releases. I keep 'em because I doubt they'll hurt anything.)
// / 109491175770418450
Tags:
freebsd,
software,
tracker music.
I'm pretty dissatisfied with OpenMPT's playback and rendering of .mod files so I went looking for an alternative today and found this:
A ProTracker 2 clone listed for use on Windows/Mac/Linux. It compiled and runs fine for me on FreeBSD. Sounds better than OpenMPT (IMO).
An easy selection of breaks & electro in the mid 120s. Good tracks - three from CPU, two from Graded, and a couple recent pieces from Magic Box Engine and Móatún 7.
Right-click save-as here or on the spectrogram above to download this mix.
// / 109463244361680209
Tags:
collection,
meta,
music,
tracker music.
starting on the tracker group/label iLLoGiK today. 92 .zip files in this directory I got from scene.org. Renaming today, rendering tomorrow.
A lot of this looks like it's going to be techno or trance but there's a few '96 / '97 drum & bass tunes in here that I want in my library.
// / 109457452489634546
Tags:
meta,
website.
I've spent the weekend avoiding rendering tracker mods to .flac.
Instead I wrote a little python script to convert the public non-reply toots from my old mastodon accounts into a format my static site generator can read. Fun and not too complicated but time consuming.
// / 109427894728141249
Tags:
collection,
meta,
music,
tracker music.
After about five hours that's Tokyo Dawn rendered to .flac & tagged. Did about 90 releases today, tdr-090 thru tdr-180.
My hands are tired. No more typing for the rest of the day.
// / 109426751183431198
Tags:
meta,
music,
tracker music.
I'm back to rendering old tracker mods to .flac .
Picking up where I left off months ago with Tokyo Dawn Records release number 90.
// / 109423010195972920
Tags:
2000s,
music,
techno,
video,
youtube.
It's been a weird old #techno kind of day.
// / 109409227992684636
Tags:
meta,
website.
Tonight I'm fooling around with reading the archived posts from my previous two mastodon accounts. Surprisingly easy to do (at least with python). Making sense of the format is a little tricky though.
Downtempo & IDM tunes at ~98. I didn't have any special plans for #300 & I felt like hanging out with some comfortable head-nodding music. This mix features a few tracks by Push Button Objects and Takeshi Muto as well as long ones by Drøn, Metamatics, RS3, and more.
Right-click save-as here or on the spectrogram above to download this mix. This mix is also available at mixcloud.
// / 109402554433668597
Tags:
meta,
movement through thought,
photo.
Mix is going to be late tonight, my day started at 6 PM (and I'm taking it easy anyway, taking my time).
I'm about to start recording now & thought to take a few quick photos of my dusty old DJ equipment:
Earlier this month Mixcloud announced a major change to its platform. I can't afford a "Pro" subscription so, if I'm reading that linked post right, I'm faced with a choice: continue to upload after November 2022 and choose a maximum of 10 mixes that will be available or stop uploading after that same deadline and all my mixes currently on Mixcloud will remain accessible. I choose the latter. The shows there now will remain streamable for as long as Mixcloud will host them and I will no longer be publishing new sets to the service after this month.
I've been using Mixcloud because 1. it was free and unlimited and 2. they are licensed to play copyrighted music. I think DJing on the internet is often in a kind of grey area between advocacy and piracy, a problem Mixcloud solved by paying the appropriate fees and royalties. I'm much more interested in advocacy than piracy so I'm grateful for and will miss using Mixcloud. I bear them no ill will, I wish them well, and I hope to see them succeed.
// / 109375154119823752
Tags:
2020s,
review,
scifi,
tv.
I've been watching #ThePeripheral with my dad and I'm... pleasantly surprised. We've finished up through episode four and have enjoyed it so far.
It looks nice and sounds nice (most of the time) & I'm particularly liking the more relaxed moments, the dialog. A lot of things seem punched-up or exaggerated from what I remember of the book, sometimes in a disappointing way.
I'd kind of like to go through the book and the episodes side-by-side to see & think about what changed in the adaptation.
// / 109364220092960414
Tags:
meta.
I've fallen into a habit of using fedi mostly as a way to promote stuff I've done elsewhere and that's kind of not great, or at least not what I want to be doing. Need more weird digressions, fewer links.
// / 109364160673283746
Tags:
meta.
I really like the fediverse but I've noticed I don't contribute much in the way of posts.
When I do talk comfortably I tend to say a lot at once and go on tangents. Often I talk to myself to figure things out. That doesn't work well with these microblogging services.
