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MTT 309 / In Different Directions https://djcev.com/2023/01/mtt-309-in-different-directions/

An hour of #electro up around 135 (so a little faster than last week). This #djmix features music by Hadamard, Kan3da, Komarken Electronics, Scape One, Solitary Dancer, Userwave, and more.

Today I learned that the Quake mod Arcane Dimensions has a nice clean implementation of a grappling hook. It works a bit like the old hook that came with the QW CTF mod.

Which is good because I definitely couldn't figure out the math for a grappling hook on my own.

MTT 308 / Half As Much Again https://djcev.com/2023/01/mtt-308-half-as-much-again/

~130 BPM #electro and IDM. Playing some recent purchases, NULLPTR and Vektorspace. This #djmix also features tracks by Cignol, E.R.P., Morphology, Silicon Scally, and more.

Music shopping today. Picked up Submolecular by Scape One (there's a deal on it right now), two EPs by Vektorspace, NULLPTR's most recent EP (from July of last year), an EP by Docta Gee, and preordered Breakbeater / Detronic by Paradox.

A little over 20 USD. Good haul. Excited to play the Vektorspace & NULLPTR soon, and the Detronic when it releases.

MTT 307 / More Than It Looks https://djcev.com/2023/01/mtt-307-more-than-it-looks/

~120 BPM IDM & electro. Letting a few tracks run long this time. This mix features music by Andrea Parker, Ambidextrous, Bola, Drøn, Link & E621, Metamatics, and more.

I am happy to report that the MSI PRO B550M-VC WIFI motherboard works nicely with #FreeBSD 13.1.

All the board functions I've tested so far have worked. Both SATA controllers (chipset and additional ASMedia ASM116x), ethernet (RealTek 8168/8111), sound (RealTek ALC897). I believe the WIFI is supported by iwlwifi(4) though I haven't tried it. Bluetooth appears to be unsupported.

Finished "Rum Punch" by Elmore Leonard today. My second Leonard after Get Shorty. His books really fly by, they read like they've been skillfully reduced to the bare essentials. Great dialog of course. I enjoyed it but I don't think I'd want to read his books quickly, one after another.

Upgrading to FreeBSD 13 in preparation for hardware upgrades in the near future. Been putting it off for months.

This means I have to say goodbye to the bktr driver (and my old PCI Hauppage WinTV), it was removed from 13. I'm sad to see it go.

MTT 306 / Wedged Against https://djcev.com/2023/01/mtt-306-wedged-against/

Slow stuff this week, 85-95 downtempo & IDM & tracker mods. This #djmix features music by DJ Wally, Dune, Eliot Lipp, Legowelt, Mad-E, Aphex twin (by way of Phorte), and more.

MTT 305 / At The Root https://djcev.com/2022/12/mtt-305-at-the-root/

Tracker drum & bass (mostly) to bring 2022 to a close. This #djmix features music by Darkhalo, Fanu, ICR, Krii, Nightwatch, Tyree, T.Power, and more. Around half the set is from the old Tokyo Dawn catalog.

MTT 304 / Break Position https://djcev.com/2022/12/mtt-304-break-position/

The sixth annual Movement Through Thought tracker music show. ITs, MODs, S3Ms, and XMs at various tempos.

This #djmix features a few recent tracks from the Assembly and Revision 2022 tracked music competitions as well as five pieces from the old Tokyo Dawn Records '97-'00 mod catalog.

Afternoon sounds

Legowelt & Mystica Tribe in dub

I didn't realize this was episode 303 until a few days ago; up until that point I had something way more mellow planned.

And pardon the loose mixing in this one, I've got no idea how to work with acid (or house or most anything four-on-the-floor).

MTT 303 / In Silver Boxes https://djcev.com/2022/12/mtt-303-in-silver-boxes

#acid in the low 120s. Energetic buzzy stuff. This #djmix features music by Chris Moss Acid, Legowelt, Mantra, Metro LA, Psychic TV, UR, and more.

Love having miscellaneous .com and .exe files hanging out in my music archive.

(They're sometimes part of demoscene and tracker music releases. I keep 'em because I doubt they'll hurt anything.)

I'm pretty dissatisfied with OpenMPT's playback and rendering of .mod files so I went looking for an alternative today and found this:

A ProTracker 2 clone listed for use on Windows/Mac/Linux. It compiled and runs fine for me on FreeBSD. Sounds better than OpenMPT (IMO).