Electro this week featuring new releases by KOZMIK FUNK, Obergman, Permutation, and Stratos Zero, as well as a couple old '80s pieces. (Some good vocoder this time).
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meta,
movement through thought.
I'm just now about to press the record button so today's mix might be a little late. Somewhere around midnight PST. Don't want to rush or stress over it.
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into The Future, 1985, dir. Annabel Jankel & Rocky Morton. VHS, NTSC standard, ~60 minutes long. x264 NTSC SD video + flac 16bit/44.1khz audio, ~1.2G, archived on DVD+R media. Purchased over 20 years ago at my local "Video USA" video rental store when they were closing that location.
The Max Headroom TV movie made for Channel 4. Strangely unavailable on DVD (or any other modern format). A pretty clean copy can be found on youtube thanks to user Kevin Galvayne (tipsy1973).
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ambient,
collection,
music,
review,
vaporwave.
This is really nice: //DLM / Caracas, 2408
Ambient. A little slushy. Rain sounds. Also available from No Problema Tapes.
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pdx.
I'm glad it's the right temperature now in the Pacific NW to leave a window cracked open all day.
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hardware.
Received the DT 770s today, been listening to them, getting my ears adjusted to the sound. It's strange to have headphones capable of sub-bass again. And I'm starting to notice the Beyerdynamic treble peak (particularly when listening to rock music for some reason).
Very happy with the build quality & comfort. Metal bows (curved Y looking pieces) attach strong plastic earcups to a (much more robust) metal headband. Really hope they last a long time; at least 10 years.
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hardware.
My Panasonic RP-HTX7 headphones, the only working set I own, broke about a week ago. One of the two metal wires in the headband snapped. I had another pair of this same model fail in the same way about five years ago. (Which is, to be fair, a good run for $50 headphones that are worn nearly all the time).
I borrowed some money and bought a pair of Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pros, the 80 ohm model, to replace them. I'll have to sell some stuff to cover it (I have no income right now) but that's OK, I can't really function without headphones.
Breaks & electro up in the 130s today. This one features new tracks by Qant and user404 as well as one of the Murther Remixes by Jackie's Army (a recent purchase from Voltage Music).
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Slow (and then not-so-slow) music for the last show of May. Downtempo, IDM, and later on a little drum & bass. This mix features a couple tracks by Paul Blackford, a couple from Cosmic Bridge Records, a newly-available-digitally piece by XY0815, and a long one by Chris Randall.
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meta,
website.
Spent yesterday playing with the CSS for my website, updating its look a little bit. I find design stuff fun when there's existing content ("content") to work with. The site is still readable in links & lynx too, which makes me happy.
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2020s,
horror,
movies,
review.
"The Perilous Internet Ring", 2020, a Chinese horror film directed by Japanese horror director Norio Tsuruta. Fanmade subs for it appeared on reddit recently, so I watched the movie today and got something I didn't expect.
From afar the movie looks like a ghost story in the style of say "The Ring", and for the first 20 minutes it plays out that way. Swap the student film on VHS for a "web novel" and you get the idea.
What I didn't know is that the movie is a kind of message film or social problem film about, as it says at the end, the dangers of "net addiction". The movie also references the "Blue Whale Challenge" (which I had to look up): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Whale_Challenge
There's a mystery / investigation plot that unfortunately falls apart (in a convoluted and kind of funny way) in order to reach the internet-is-dangerous conclusion.
There were some nice spooky ghosts though which I always like. But I definitely had more fun thinking about this movie than I did watching it.
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2020s,
collection,
downtempo,
electro,
idm,
music.
The new XY0815 seems really good. Some nice BoC-esque pieces on it. (Also a surprising sample that seems to make a political statement, though without more context I'm not sure what it's saying).
Not new exactly, but newly available digitally.
Moving through a few styles today from electro & IDM/electronica to a couple of synthwave-y pieces to some more restrained synth-y material. A few long tracks (by John Selway and Mikron among others) and recent purchases (John Selway again and Scape One).
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2000s,
horror,
movies,
review.
The movie Takashi Shimizu made between the US versions of "The Grudge" and "The Grudge 2". Watched it tonight (found a copy on archive.org).
Felt to me like a fine ghost story that mixes up a bunch of pretty standard elements (a creepy doll, a hotel, past lives, spooky kids). It's a bit meta - it's about actors in a horror film - but doesn't pursue that angle very far. Very well executed (aside from some dated looking CG). I liked how eerie and reality-bending it was. Kenji Kawai's soundtrack is good. Will have to watch it again & think on it some more.
![The player flying high above an abstract landscape, image from the hangtime3-df[mdf.cpm] video](/gfx/2022/05/hangtime3-1-640w.jpg)
![Image of the ending portal from the hangtime3-df[mdf.cpm] video](/gfx/2022/05/hangtime3-2-640w.jpg)
hangtime3-df[mdf.cpm] at youtube.com. Quake 3 Defrag map hangtime3-df completed with CPM physics in 08:18:296 by aNnh. Video by power_of_heavy_metal. Map by, of course, NaturalSpringWater. Music featured in the video is the track Archetype by Sciama.
The video includes flashing lights and first-person gameplay that might cause motion sickness. (The hangtime maps are particularly disorienting I find).
Saw this last night & had to link it. A new video from power_of_heavy_metal is reason enough to celebrate, but hangtime3? Done flawlessly by aNnh? Incredible.
Electro and a little techno in the high 120s today, featuring a couple tracks from the old Elektrolux label and one new one by MetaComplex from the Fifth Quarter compilation on Brokntoys.
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