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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.
~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 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:
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Tags:
music,
radio.
My friend Josh Walund (Hugh Manoid) is airing part 1 of his Halloween radio program on KBVR FM right now. Listen at http://kbvr.com or 88.7 FM if you're in the Corvallis, OR area.
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Tags:
1990s,
collection,
digital release,
electro,
music.
Oh wow, Bitstream have put Monolith up on their bandcamp.
This is a legendary #electro tune and up until recently was pretty hard to get.
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My ears are unhappy with me. I think I heard too much noisy stuff tonight. Distorted drums, screechy synths. I should've taken more hearing breaks.
Electro and a little industrial rising from 110 to 120. A chance to get crunchy and noisy. This mix features one track with some profanity (thanks to Skinny Puppy) so consider your surroundings when listening.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is however available at mixcloud.
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Tags:
goth rock,
industrial,
video.
I'm tuning in a bit late to Death Guild live at the DNA Lounge tonight. Really glad that they're keeping up the practice of broadcasting these live from the club itself. #goth #industrial music played by expert DJs over at:
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Tags:
2010s,
drum & bass,
music,
video,
youtube.
Unknown track by an unknown artist layered with the acapella of Perfect Stranger by Katy B & Magnetic man, from the Autonomic Podcast Layer 12:
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Tags:
hardware.
Today I partially disassembled, cleaned, then reassembled an old Pioneer SX-650 receiver I have. It had developed an intermittent power problem; cleaning the power/speaker select switch seems to have fixed it.
Now I can use my old passive studio reference monitors again.
