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MTT 233 / Movement Through Thought (2) https://djcev.com/2021/08/mtt-233-movement-through-thought-2/

Bass month continues, this time with a selection of mid-2000s and 2010s Florida #breaks and #electro . New(ish) tracks by Code Rising, Exzakt, and Gucci Bass. Old favorites by Brice Kelly, Resident Alien, Sound Chasers, Xerodefx, and more.

I love mixing mid-2000s Florida breaks and electro so, so much. Old Exceleration and Frajile in particular. A lot of good memories with those records.

That was how I spent my evening, a few cups of tea and mixing practice.

I didn't post this to the fediverse at the time because I thought it was kind of beneath anyone's notice. It's not a complete program and won't work outside of a particular set of circumstances. But maybe it could be useful to someone as an example, or as a seed to plant in another environment (Pelican or some other Python-based site compiler).

A few weeks ago I reimplemented stagit (the static git page generator) in Python as a plugin for my static site compiler / blog engine.

Brief writeup here: https://djcev.com/2021/08/blogofile-gitview/

and the program itself can be found here: https://djcev.com/git/blogofile_gitview/

I keep forgetting to use hashtags when doing these posts. Ah well, I'll remember eventually I guess.

MTT 232 / Under A Boom https://djcev.com/2021/08/mtt-232-under-a-boom/

It's August and that means it's bass month. Electro bass, Miami bass, techno bass. This first mix of bass month features tracks by Bass Junkie, Dynamix II, Eggfooyoung, Exzakt, Gucci Bass, Supreme.ja, T.E.S.T., and more.

I've spent the last few days digging around for old car audio bass CDs on digital vendors like beatport and juno.

Some of the old DM Records (Bass 305) catalog is on Junodownload, and Traxsource has a bunch of old Pandisc CDs (Beat Dominator, DJ Laz, etc.). I think a lot of this has been up for a while and I just didn't know where to look.

Oh wow the Jack Audio Connection Kit has been updated in the FreeBSD ports tree from a five-year-old version of jack1 to jack2. That's a big deal for me.

https://www.freshports.org/audio/jack/

MTT 231 / Deep Pools https://djcev.com/2021/07/mtt-231-deep-pools/

Another pretty weird selection, this time it's some ambient, downtempo, drum & bass, and more old tracker mods. This mix features music by Andrea Parker, Legowelt, LTJ Bukem, Noldus Rabiatus, Secret Frequency Crew, and Underworld.

Walked into town today and picked up some tea at the grocery store and a few movies (on DVD) at the local thrift store. Found the first season of The Expanse, a copy of The Witch (2015), and - the best find - a copy of Doctor X (1932), the two-color version. It was a nice day out, too. Good weather.

Catching up on podcasts this morning and I'm just now getting to Anime World Order #200. Which is over three hours long and mostly comprised of an interview with Helen McCarthy. Been looking forward to this one, glad I have time today to listen to it.

MTT 230 / Gone Under https://djcev.com/2021/07/mtt-230-gone-under/

Pretty weird selection this week. Ambient, downtempo, dub techno, IDM, a few old tracker mods. This mix features music by Brothomstates, dbacon, Dublicator, Ian o'Brien, Paul Blackford, and more. Head-nodding stuff.

Brothomstates remastered and re-released Kobn-Tich-Ey!

I might have to play Dekc again tomorrow.

A fun performance of Ennio Morricone's "Bambole" from the Spasmo soundtrack:

I recently switched from keeping a to-do list to taking short notes on what I've done each day. It's not a lot, four or five lines in a composition notebook per day, but it's nice. Makes me feel more "productive".

A couple of behind-the-scenes screenshots, different parts of the mix planning and publishing process.

I should take a new photo of the equipment I'm using.