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It's last Wednesday again, which means Megaphysics and I are playing music at Ground Kontrol tonight.

I'm still on an IDM kick, so that's what I'm playing. I think Megaphysics is going to play disco (in the CBS / Intergalactic FM sense).

CEV & Megaphysics @ Ground Kontrol Arcade in Portland, Oregon 2018/05/30 9:00 PM PST until close. Free play night, $5 cover.

Success. #renoise x86 running under FreeBSD 11.1-Release. JACK for audio, no MIDI. Possible with FreeBSD's Linux ABI support.

Renoise x86_64 should be possible; I'll need to compile a copy of JACK1 in a CentOS 7 64-bit environment and try it.

I'd done this previously in a jail, but it runs much better without having to remote X.

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 ...

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?

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.

Done with my radio show, back to watching RPG Limit Break / #rpglb2018 / https://www.twitch.tv/rpglimitbreak .

I'll post the tracklist tomorrow, after I sleep.

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

Found on reddit's r/electro. Covers 1980s #electro . 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.

RPG Limit Break is two games into its "Silly Games" block. Gyre is speedrunning Virtual Hydlide right now and it's hilarious. Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden is up next...

#rpglb2018

RPG Limit Break 2018 just started.

It's an annual RPG speedrunning marathon benefiting NAMI. It's my favorite of these speedrunning marathons. It's where most of my time will be going this week...

#RPGLB2018

Music research (AKA shopping) part two.

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

http://www.sixteenofive.com/

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.

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

Starting with "This Tool Has No Options" by XY0815

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.

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.