Old Tracker Stuff by Fanu. Compilation of old .xm modules mostly from the Most Valuable Playaz catalog, released March 2022 by Fanu on his bandcamp page. Digital release, flac, 16bit/44.1khz, ~242M.
Tracklist below is from the bandcamp release page. Bit depth, bitrate, filesize, and track durations from my downloaded copy. BPM I tap-tempoed myself (and is probably inaccurate).
~128 BPM electro, techno, and Weird Stuff today. I don't think there's anything new here, but there are a couple long tracks by As Far As I Know, J Shaw, and Seiji.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
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I woke up at 4 PM so tonight's mix may be a little late.
Oof. Having breakfast & a cup of tea now, hoping that'll get me going.
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hardware,
meta.
Selling stuff on craigslist (or thru any similar classifieds listing) makes me very nervous.
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twitch,
video games.
Been watching a streamer I like play through the game "Disco Elysium", the recent "Final Cut" edition. I had thought it was an action game, one that would annoy me. Turns out it's a smart, provocative, and very funny throwback to Planescape: Torment. No combat at all.
It's pretty impressive. One day I'll play through it myself, I think. When Wine catches up to it.
Electro up in the 130s this week featuring new tracks by Alva Recek and Skee Mask. (Well, new by my standards, anyway). Bunch of tracks from around 2018-2020 too, a more recent selection in general.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
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I took a train a few miles down the road to the nearest thrift store today. Picked up a movie, walked around a shopping center.
First time I've really been out of the house in I think months.
Posting today to recommend The Ear & Drum, DJ and drum & bass historian Wozowski's excellent mix blog. I'm a fan of his atmospheric, deep, and intelligent DnB mixes, but there's a lot more on his site, and it's all top quality. I've picked up quite a few releases over the years after hearing them in a Woz mix.
A couple of my favorites from their back catalog:
As I write this the latest mix on the site is Ear & Drum Session 229 Killah Deep, which features a bunch of releases from Omni Music, who re-released a couple tracks I played on my own show this week.
In short: great drum & bass mixes, give 'em a listen.
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twitch,
video,
video games.
There's some #quakeworld TDM on over at andeh's (suddendeathTV) twitch channel if anybody is interested.
Grand Finals of QLAN War #1, Firing Squad v. Commando, in the first map now:
Drum & bass vinyl & digital this week. Used bin finds, netlabel releases, some old tracker mods, and a couple more recent pieces. This mix features tracks by Boymerang, Funky Technicians, Seba, two by Fanu (including one from his recent Old Tracker Stuff compilation), and more.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
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Loaded Renoise onto my raspberry pi 400 last night, then spent a bit of time today digging out, connecting, and testing an old USB MIDI adapter.
For the second time in my life I have a tracker hooked up to a real audio interface and my MIDI gear.
Battle Girl: The Living Dead In Tokyo Bay, 1991, directed by Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu. Low budget direct-to-video sci-fi zombie movie starring pro wrestler Cutie Suzuki. Nightmare logic and slow, hazy vibes. Cosmo Amphetamine. Punk arms dealers in their tricked out bus. A dirigible broadcasts a message.
I watched what I assume is an unauthorized upload on youtube (with ENG subs) on a warm afternoon. Was a good (and sleepy) time. Would love to find a DVD copy some day.
Good Luck Battle Girl.
Edit: Synapse Films released the movie on DVD in North America; it appears there are still copies for sale, so this goes on my list of things to buy.
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Got out some old equipment and built a small LAN yesterday so I could network my rpi 400 and my main computer. Now I can access my music library with xwax (and mixxx) on the pi.
For years now I've had to copy music onto a flash drive in order to play it with my DJ gear. Not having to do that is a pretty big deal.
A weird mish-mash of styles this week - ambient, dub techno, electro, IDM, etc. This mix features two tracks from the Heavy Dub compilations on Cold Tear Records and three tracks from Recycled Plastics. Also featured at the end of the mix is a new track by Vertical67 on Brokntoys (though unfortunately I talked over most of it).
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
I've written a number of shell scripts, mostly frontends or shims to other programs, to help manage the tags & content of my music library. In this article I will briefly go over some of those scripts and then give a simple demonstration of how I process & prepare new music files.
The scripts discussed in this article are all available in my read-only dotfiles git repo. (I'll hook up a way to directly download them eventually).
This is part 2 of a series on how I handle my digital music collection. Part 1 covered Formats, Names, and Tags, part 3 will cover playback (and tag editing) with cmus.
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renoise,
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Oh nice there's a new Renoise release, version 3.4. There are Linux ARM builds now, both 32 & 64 bit. I'll have to try it on the Pi 400.
The recent (last few years) Renoise updates have really improved the program. I guess I'm going to have to start tracking again.
