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Woke up at 7 PM, will probably go to sleep around noon tomorrow. I like being awake at night but I don't like waking up in the evening.
I feel OK though. Productive. Less anxious than usual.
Does make it difficult to interact with the normal world though. And my window into the fediverse is quiet at night.
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Tags:
1980s,
disco,
funk,
music,
video,
youtube.
Hit Man / Computer Game Blues
Thanks to DJ Popcorn.
Like most DJs I have a lot of music and a lot of that is files. CD rips, recordings of cassettes and vinyl, flac and mp3 purchases from online record stores, and so on. Articles and conversations about music library organization are always interesting to me, so I thought I'd take a minute here to document how I handle my own collection.
I manage and interact with my digital music library using a computer that runs FreeBSD. Everything is done from the command-line using the Bourne shell, the standard file utilities, some shell scripts, and a few specialized encoders and tagging programs that I'll list next. I don't use Picard or any of the other automated taggers.
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Tags:
music,
radio.
My friend Josh Walund's radio program Cortex Primer is live right now on KBVR Corvallis. Hugh Manoid just did the little spoken intro, music is just starting.
88.7 FM if you're in the Corvallis area, otherwise you can tune in at:
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Kind of a low-effort mix this week, a lot of the tracks run long. That's OK I guess. It felt right given the structure of these particular songs.
Midtempo synth-y (and even trance-y) breaks and electro. Features new tracks from Fundamental Bass Intelligence's 11:11 compilation, Scape One (new Metal Beat mixes), and Chaos Milieu on Warning Berlin.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
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Tags:
bluray,
freebsd,
software.
A few things I learned today:
It's fine to burn a great big ISO image to a blank bluray. (Works for the purpose of backup, mounts on my FreeBSD system, haven't tested with a bluray video player).
growisofs can burn BD-Rs.
It takes a really long time to burn a single layer BD-R at 0.3x.
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Tags:
2010s,
collection,
electro,
music.
Photodementia / D's Groove
Photodementia is an old group Dave Monolith was involved with. D's Groove was originally released in 2013 on an EP titled "Fig. 04" on the Photodementia label (which according to discogs was somehow related to Rephlex).
See also http://www.photodementia.net/ .
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Tags:
meta,
music.
Really happy with the Chrono to Tour De France '16 to Tomorrow to Wahawa to Drift Away sequence in the middle. Le Monde could've (should've) been louder, but that's OK.
Working through some fast (140) electro, old and new. Features a couple old tracks from Satamile NYC and some new(ish) ones from Brokntoys, CPU, and Lobster Theremin.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
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Tags:
2000s,
breaks,
electro,
ground kontrol.
I keep returning to old 2000s era electro records when building sets. Particularly old Satamile NYC releases. Most of Satamile never played well for the crowd at the arcade, but I really like 'em.
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Tags:
2020s,
collection,
electro,
idm,
music.
Oh dang there's a new Trichome album:
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Tags:
1980s,
anime,
bluray,
movies,
news.
A neat article about the rediscovery of Project A-Ko's film print over on Crunchyroll's website:
written by Paul Chapman (AKA Gooberzilla, who I know as the host of the GME Podcast).
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Tags:
hardware,
linux.
Received an M-Audio Conectiv audio interface today, one of the old ones made for M-Audio's Torq DVS system. It unfortunately has a broken Input A Phono/Mic/Line switch. After disassembling the unit I was able to force the switch into a usable position. The audio interface seems fine otherwise.
Next steps: buy a raspberry pi, install xwax, do DVS things.
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Kind of a disjointed set, my selection of DnB is pretty limited. I mixed myself into a corner around the 45 minute mark. Was a good time though.
An hourlong wander through some 160 BPM DnB and electro. Features some new(ish) tracks from Next Phase Recordings and Astrophonica, plus some old favorites from Militant Science.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
