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Software upgrades complete. My guess was right, it took approximately five hours.

Now I think I'll move Renoise out of its jail environment and into my main system. That means installing emulators/linux-c7 ...


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Software upgrade day. I just started portmaster -a.

qt5-webkit and llvm need to be upgraded, so I figure it'll be done in... four hours? five?


MTT No. 065 / Faint Odour

MTT065 Spectrogram

More IDM this week. It's been a very IDM-y month.
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This show (like most of MTT Year 2) 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.


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Radio show done. I'll post the tracklist after I sleep. (And after I figure out what to say).

Really weird show tonight. Good tracks, mediocre-to-bad mixing. I think I'll rework the set and play it at the arcade next week.




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"A Not So Brief History of Electro, Part One" by Steve Mizek

A Not So Brief History of Electro, Part One | Reverb LP

Electro has returned to dancefloors and new-release bins. Learn where the genre began.

lp.reverb.com

Found on reddit's r/electro. Covers 1980s . Posting so I'll remember to look for part 2. '80s electro is well covered in the music press (I think). '90s and '00s receives much less attention, so hopefully part 2 will be good.




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Music research (AKA shopping) part two.

I was reminded earlier today of Umek's alias Zeta Reticula, and that led me to discover Umeks' label 1605 Music Therapy.

sixteenofive.com/

1605 Music Therapy

Slovenian techno music Label based in Ljubljana, founded by Umek.

Discogs

According to the website, all releases are CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Downloads from the website are free after registering.

I picked up three of the Zeta Reticula EPs, and then it started serving me empty files, so I must have hit a download limit. Will check it again tomorrow.


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It's going to be a music research day. I'm feeling it.

Starting with "This Tool Has No Options" by XY0815

This Tool Has No Options [YUY010], by XY0815

15 track album

YUYAY Records

XY0815's previous release, on Brokntoys, is sick. "This Tool" is also excellent, but quite a bit more IDM-y. Really good album.

Making a note to dig through the rest of the Yuyay Records catalog.


MTT No. 063 / Delta Vision

MTT063 Spectrogram

Electro and a bit of breaks. Mostly 2000s-era, ~135. I wanted to dance around a bit.
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Finished "Spook Country" by Gibson today. This time, it was as good as I remembered. Which is pretty good. I noticed it had very short chapters, and read a bit like a thriller. I suppose that's what it is, thinking back on the plot.

Not sure what I'll start next.


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Finished a re-read of "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick yesterday. Very good, much better than I remember. ("Better than I remember" seems to be a trend in my reading.)

Starting "Spook Country" by William Gibson today.


MTT No. 062 / Hear Everything

MTT062 Spectrogram

Electro this week. More space-y stuff and a bit of Scary Techno Vocals™.
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This show (like most of MTT Year 2) 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.


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Another good book haul today.

Picked up "Zero History" by William Gibson and "Runtime" by S.B. Divya.

"Runtime" is short - a novella - so I read it on the way home. It's simply excellent. Smartly written, succinct, and full of cool near-future ideas. Really glad I purchased and read it. I'll be following Divya's work for sure.