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CW: Moderna (2nd dose) Trip Report

I don't want to say too much, I don't want to discourage people from getting vaccinated

but

That was brutal. Had a great big fever and a headache that lasted days. I feel like my brain has been cooked a little and is now cooling.

Posting early so I can go sleep zZzZzZz.

MTT 222 / Neither Nor https://djcev.com/2021/05/mtt-222-neither-nor/

This week's mix. Beats, half-time drum & bass, dubby stuff. Features tracks by Apologist, Ben Businovski, DJ Taye, Kuedo, Massive Attack, Mad Professor, The Chemical Brothers, and more.

CW: Covid, Vaccine, Personal

Just got my second dose of Moderna. The first one left my arm really sore; not looking forward to that again.

I'm really, really, really scared of needles.

Posting this early because I'm very tired and need to sleep.

MTT 221 / Free Routine https://djcev.com/2021/05/mtt-221-free-routine/

A messy selection of electro, IDM, and techno. Features tracks by Apologist, Biepang, dbacon, Delta Funktionen, Drexciya, ΠΕΡΑ ΣΤΑ ΟΡΗ, T.Power, and more.

CW: MH, Sleep

Woke up at 7 PM, will probably go to sleep around noon tomorrow. I like being awake at night but I don't like waking up in the evening.

I feel OK though. Productive. Less anxious than usual.

Does make it difficult to interact with the normal world though. And my window into the fediverse is quiet at night.

Hit Man / Computer Game Blues

Thanks to DJ Popcorn.

My friend Josh Walund's radio program Cortex Primer is live right now on KBVR Corvallis. Hugh Manoid just did the little spoken intro, music is just starting.

88.7 FM if you're in the Corvallis area, otherwise you can tune in at:

Kind of a low-effort mix this week, a lot of the tracks run long. That's OK I guess. It felt right given the structure of these particular songs.

MTT 220 / Reaching For https://djcev.com/2021/05/mtt-220-reaching-for/

Midtempo breaks and electro. Synth-y, even trance-y. This mix features new tracks from Dark Vektor and Deemphasis (from the 11:11 Fundamental Compilation), Scape One (a new Metal Beat mix), and Chaos Milieu (from the Warning Berlin label).

A few things I learned today:

It's fine to burn a great big ISO image to a blank bluray. (Works for the purpose of backup, mounts on my FreeBSD system, haven't tested with a bluray video player).

growisofs can burn BD-Rs.

It takes a really long time to burn a single layer BD-R at 0.3x.

Photodementia / D's Groove

Photodementia is an old group Dave Monolith was involved with. D's Groove was originally released in 2013 on an EP titled "Fig. 04" on the Photodementia label (which according to discogs was somehow related to Rephlex).

See also http://www.photodementia.net/ .

Really happy with the Chrono to Tour De France '16 to Tomorrow to Wahawa to Drift Away sequence in the middle. Le Monde could've (should've) been louder, but that's OK.

MTT 219 / Tomorrow & Yesterday https://djcev.com/2021/05/mtt-219-tomorrow-yesterday/

Fast #electro this week. This mix features music by 96 Back, Blotnik Brothers, Cyborg 95, DJ Overdose, Interviews, Lowfish, Scape One, and more.

I keep returning to old 2000s era electro records when building sets. Particularly old Satamile NYC releases. Most of Satamile never played well for the crowd at the arcade, but I really like 'em.