MTT 159 / Brain Dive
Techno, dub techno, and a little 2000s minimal for a rainy week.
This mix is no longer available for download here. Get in touch with me at the email address listed at the top of this page if you want a copy of it.
MTT 158 / To All Patrolling Air Units
Selections from the Megatech Body CD (AKA the Ghost In The Shell PSX soundtrack) and the two Ghost In The Shell Tribute albums from 2004. Fast techno, 130 to 140 BPM.
This mix is no longer available for download here. Get in touch with me at the email address listed at the top of this page if you want a copy of it. (This particular selection is important to me and so it may become available again soon, if/when I re-visit and possibly re-record it).
mastodon.sdf.org/@cev/103774868548868336
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Tags:
1990s,
2000s,
anime,
cds,
music,
techno,
video games.
And while I'm rambling about this, here are a few discogs links for the releases in question:
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Tags:
anime,
cds,
music,
techno,
video games.
Those CDs - Megatech Body and the two tribute albums - are such a neat piece of techno history. I know some of those artists contributed music specifically because they were fans of Ghost In The Shell.
mastodon.sdf.org/@cev/103774855064704345
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Tags:
anime,
cds,
music,
techno,
video games.
I've been meaning to record that Ghost In The Shell PSX mix (or a version of it) since like 2007. It doesn't work as well as I'd like, and I let some things slip during that session, but I'm happy.
mastodon.sdf.org/@cev/103770083917759479
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Tags:
anime,
dvd,
tv.
Ooh, I was mistaken, that DVD set isn't the first three episodes of "Witch Hunter Robin", it's the entire show on three discs. In very bad video quality. Exciting.
mastodon.sdf.org/@cev/103770002607132319
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Tags:
1990s,
anime,
books,
dvd,
hardcover,
scifi,
tv.
Back from the city. Picked up a first US hardcover of "Random Acts Of Senseless Violence" by Jack Womack and a bootleg DVD set of the first three episodes of "Witch Hunter Robin".
Was a good day.
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Tags:
quake 3,
tabletop games,
video games.
I'm having a weird week. I seem to be living on a combination of cheap black tea, Quake 3 Defrag, and back episodes of Vampire The Masquerade: L.A. By Night.
This will have to end soon.
mastodon.sdf.org/@cev/103752433390647295
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Black tea after midnight.
MTT 157 / Brief Rest
Ambient and dub techno to sleepily close the third year of this radio program.
This mix (like most of MTT Year 3) is no longer available for download here. Get in touch with me at the email address listed at the top of this page if you want a copy of it.
Logical Aggression @ Ground Kontrol / February 2020
Logical Aggression at Ground Kontrol Arcade has come and gone again. This month DJ Megaphysics and I played a wide variety of tunes, with a few special nods to the great Andrew Weatherall.
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Tags:
ground kontrol,
logical aggression,
pdx.
Megaphysics and I are playing music down at Ground Kontrol Arcade #pdx for their free play party tonight. Logical Aggression @ GK, 9:00 PM until close, 21 and over, $7 cover.
I'll be on at 9:00 PM, playing a selection of recent (2010s) electro and some '90s Detroit tunes later on. Megaphysics will take the back half, starting at 11:30 PM. I'm looking forward to hearing the new Whities releases he's picked up this month.
mastodon.sdf.org/@cev/103723562976029990
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Tags:
music,
synthpop,
video,
youtube.
I'm selecting tracks right now for tomorrow's show at the arcade. Thinking about Andrew Weatherall. #nowplaying
Two Lone Swordsmen / Faux
MTT 156 / Castle In The Air
Some slower, light, pensive electro. Features a few new tracks from スムー, Adam Jay, Scape One, and Silicon Scally.
This mix (like most of MTT Year 3) is no longer available for download here. Get in touch with me at the email address listed at the top of this page if you want a copy of it.
mastodon.sdf.org/@cev/103683745568549306
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Tags:
music.
The pitch change of a 45 RPM record being played at 33 RPM is -25.92% (according to the Audacity change speed plugin). That seems to be just past -5 semitones.
In case you wanted to, you know, use a DAW (like Renoise) to recreate that effect.
mastodon.sdf.org/@cev/103673063255605804
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Tags:
2010s,
books,
cyberpunk,
paperback,
scifi.
Finished Madeline Ashby's first novel vN yesterday. I picked it up after reading (and enjoying) her book Company Town. There's a lot going on in the book, and I'm not sure it all works, but I liked it well enough. It was a fun read, nerdy, also fairly dark. The prologue was particularly cutting.
It has two sequels - iD, and the forthcoming ReV. I'll read those too, when I find them.
