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MTT 259 / Glide (2) https://djcev.com/2022/02/mtt-259-glide-2/

130 BPM IDM and techno, maybe even a little house. Friendly stuff. Mostly old tracks. This mix features music by B12, John Shima, Legowelt, Permutation, Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia, Trackman, and more.

CW: MH-

Having a bad day. On take 3 of this week's mix. Really fighting myself. Anxious, can't relax.

Expect delays.

Talking drumfunk with Megaphysics tonight, was reminded of this classic:

Big tune.

Watched the second Eko Eko Azarak movie tonight. Something about this, the first one, and Shimako Sato's previous movie Tale Of A Vampire feel weirdly burdened, heavy, and sad to me. Melodramatic too.

Will probably watch the next one, #3 Misa The Dark Angel, but I think I'm done after that. (#4 doesn't look good).

I just spent like a week thinking about Lil Jon and I'm not completely sure why.

I have a weirdly difficult time handwriting hyphens and dashes, and so years ago I stopped using them as separators. I find it much easier to write forward slashes; I prefer "Artist / Title" instead of "Artist - Title" for example.

That's why you see slashes all over my website, my notes, etc. . It sometimes gets me into trouble with automated systems expecting dashes.

MTT 258 / Appropriate Steps https://djcev.com/2022/02/mtt-258-appropriate-steps/

140 BPM electro & techno. This mix features a couple new tracks (2021) by MachineFunk and My Boyfriend as well as a new (2020) track by CYWU. Plus a bunch of old favorites, of course, including tracks by Aux 88, Drexciya, Ectomorph, Silicon Scally, and more.

Cleaning up my bookmarks and moving them over to my website. Lotta old stuff to remove, lotta questionable stuff to remove too. :shrug:

I had hoped to do more writing this month but that didn't happen. Didn't quite work out.

Got some fun web stuff done though. That was nice.

The volume levels in this one are all over the place, sadly. That's what I get for A. not touching the gain and B. trying to mix together some wildly different stuff. Different decades, mastering techniques, production methods...

MTT 257 / A Peculiar Strategy https://djcev.com/2022/01/mtt-257-a-peculiar-strategy/

IDM, a couple of tracker mods, and some twitchy drum & bass to close. This #djmix features long tracks by Brothomstates, Metamatics, Plaid, and Scape One.

Took the train into Portland today for the first time in six months or more.

Downtown felt quiet. That could've been due to the time of day, and I was only there for a few minutes, but still felt a little odd.

Saw a lot of changes. Shops closed, buildings that were in progress are now finished. World keeps moving I guess.

The python cryptography module requires rust to build. This makes me sad.

Upgraded to FreeBSD 12.3 yesterday & spent some time wrestling with third-party software.

I got tired enough of waiting for ports to compile that I switched back to using binary packages.

Posting this mix a bit early in the day so I can go to sleep.

MTT 256 / Slow Particles https://djcev.com/2022/01/mtt-256-slow-particles/

#techno , house (maybe?), a tiny bit of #electro . Kind of relaxed up until the point where I woke up while recording. This #djmix features tracks by Fanu, Marco Bernardi, Mikron, Patrick Wacher, Supreems, Underworld, and more.