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I slept through my usual mix publication time. Dangit. Got up at ~2 AM. Not a time I like waking up.
MTT 193 / Shell Game
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.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
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Tags:
hardware,
software.
I think I fixed a flac playback problem on my dj equipment by adding a resample routine to the script I use to copy files to USB mass storage. Resampling down to 16bit/44.1khz now, if necessary. Will try doing this week's mix with flac files to test the changes
I've been meaning to do that for five years.
mastodon.social/@cev/105145713157635252
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Tags:
2000s,
downtempo,
music,
video,
youtube.
And the old #triphop song is "The Feeling" by Endless Blue:
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Tags:
2010s,
q3df,
quake 3,
video,
video games,
youtube.
I woke up thinking about a ten-year-old #quake3 #defrag video that featured a song from the mid-2000s by an American midwest triphop band. Couldn't remember the name of the video, couldn't remember the name of the song, couldn't remember the name of the band.
It took an hour but I figured it out. The q3 defrag video is McCormic's "Celestia":
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Tags:
video games.
RPG Limit Break 2020 didn't happen this year and I very much missed it, really glad to see QfG is taking up the slack. And Gliitchwiitch is great.
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Tags:
twitch,
video,
video games.
The "Questing For Glory: Hope And Healing" RPG #speedrun marathon is starting now over on the RPG Limit Break twitch channel. Six days of comfy RPG speedruns...
Gliitchwiitch is opening the event running Ys III on the Turbografix CD right now.
mastodon.social/@cev/105134671570501393
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Tags:
2020s,
music,
tracker music,
video,
youtube.
Starting work on this year's demoscene / tracker mod mix. Going through the Assembly 2020 tracked music entries today. Some good tunes in here.
mastodon.social/@cev/105129177341339094
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Tags:
1990s,
horror,
movies.
I've become weirdly fascinated with Kiyoshi Kurosawa's movies over the last few months. I've seen bits and pieces of a bunch of his '90s movies recently, and have watched Cure a few times. I'm a big fan of Pulse (AKA Kairo, 2001) but haven't seen it in about a decade. I think I'll rewatch that one (Pulse) today.
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Tags:
radio.
Part 2 of my friend Hugh Manoid's Halloween radio program is airing on KBVR FM right now. Film soundtracks, library music, and weirdness. Listen at http://kbvr.com/ or 88.7 FM if you're in the Corvallis Oregon area.
MTT 192 / One Would Think
~90 BPM ambient, electro, IDM, industrial. "Electronic Music", nonspecific. An end-of-October selection.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
Stanton QuickGrid (Part 1)
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:
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Tags:
goth rock,
industrial,
video.
Death Guild is starting up now over at the DNA Lounge webcast for anyone who wants hours of #goth #industrial music played by skilled DJs:
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Tags:
2020s,
anime,
tv.
I'm tempted to watch (skip through) episodes of this so I can talk about it but the more I think about that idea the worse it is. The show is part of a whole multimedia package including character goods, music, a video game, probably more... none of which I like. So if I watched this it'd just be to hate on it. That's a bad use of time, IMO. Somebody out there likes this and I shouldn't be, you know, looking down on 'em.
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Tags:
2020s,
anime,
tv.
Spent a few minutes skipping through the first episode of D4DJ First Mix tonight and gosh does it make me feel incredibly old. An anime for a Bushiroad gacha (rhythm?) game about 24 DJs. I couldn't handle watching it straight through.
There's some accurately 3d rendered Pioneer gear, that was a nice surprise.
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Tags:
2010s,
collection,
digital release,
electro,
music,
synthpop.
I was thinking about Kill Memory Crash earlier today, wondering what happened to them. So I looked up the members on discogs and it turns out one of them, Adam Sieczka, has been busy with a project this last decade called "Circa Tapes".
Maybe this is a well known thing and I'm just out of the loop, but this 2017 album "Love And Venom" is terrific:
