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Sorting through a directory of over a hundred Nagz mods today. Some duplicates, some I've already rendered to .wav.

It's a lot of music.

Ah nice there's some Quake on today.

GetQuad #quakeworld Nations Cup 2020 Semifinals, Sweden vs. Russia, streamed by Suddendeath TV:
https://www.twitch.tv/suddendeathtv

MTT 198 / Small Pieces https://djcev.com/2020/12/mtt-198-small-pieces/

#electro and #idm #mix up around 128. This one's short by a few minutes, I ended up mixing fast and ignoring the clock. Features tracks by Brothomstates, Dark Matrix, Metamatics, Mrs Jynx, Pathic, Stratowerx, and more.

Oh wow, Losonofono put the old Dark Matrix Techelectro LP up on bandcamp:

Techelectro is a really good, weirdly slept-on #techno #electro (what else?) LP from the early 2000s. I'll play a track from it in tonight's mix.

I really do not like Beatport. I think their interface is terrible (nearly unusable) and their prices are too high. I could complain about them for hours. So a correct "electro" genre there won't get me to use their service.

Woke up to the news that Beatport finally added an "electro" genre that sort-of represents what the word means. "Electro: Classic / Detroit / Modern".

They have never had a browseable "electro" genre tag as far as I'm aware. Wikipedia says Beatport went up in 2004; that means it took them 16 years to recognize a fundamental genre of electronic club music.

I really love those fake LED candles. I know they're hokey little things, plastic and wax and a simple circuit driving an LED. But they make me happy.

I can remember when I first saw one in a bar around 2006 or 2007, it seemed like magic.

I feel like I'm spinning my wheels right now, like I'm not getting much done. That's OK I guess, December is usually a less productive time for me. Just have to be patient, keep plugging away.

Goal for today: organize, render, and catalog all the old Noldus Rabiatus mods I've got.

There's a #quake3 CPMA 2v2 TDM cup going into the grand finals now over at:

Been watching off and on this morning, games have been good so far.

It's Thursday, that means a new mix:

MTT 197 / After A Fashion https://djcev.com/2020/12/mtt-197-after-a-fashion/

#breaks and #electro up around 133; good tunes, a little mushy mixing. Features tracks by Absolute Fiction, Bushwaka!, Eon, ERP, Scape One, some old favorites by Gosub and Luke Eargoggle, and more.

I went through about half the old Kyoto Republik netlabel today. From what I've heard so far Jean Nine's "Shina Melanti" is my favorite:

.xm file available at scene.org: https://files.scene.org/view/music/groups/kyoto/kyoto005.zip

My poor old Razer Deathadder RZ01-0015 mouse has developed an intermittent connection issue. I suspect a break in the cable. No more Quake until I can fix it.

Haven't felt like talking here much this past month.

I'm currently digging into late '90s early 2000s tracker mod netlabels. Doing "Kyoto Republik" (which appears to be Jean Nine's label) right now.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010517003145/http://kyoto.scene.org/

A bonus track:

Lyrics of the second verse:

What is necessary to understand
Is how they think they've got our lives pre-programmed
To break their mold you must remember this key
Don't ever lose your sense of individuality

When they try to tell me how I should live
How much I can take and how much to give
Whatever tricks they use or catches they try
They can't stop me from living - my life is mine

New #djmix for this the last Thursday of November 2020:

MTT 196 / How Much To Take, How Much To Give https://djcev.com/2020/11/mtt-196-how-much-to-take-how-much-to-give/

A relatively mellow set of #electro #idm and a little #disco in the mid-2000s style. Floating in space at a speed of roughly 110 BPM. Features tracks by Aardvarck, DJ R21, Dune, Jega, The Parallax Corporation, Trisomie 21, XY0815, and more.

I've come to realize over the last few years that talking about music and writing about music are two very different things.

I've spent a lot of time talking about music, mostly in bars and/or at shows, and I think I can do that fairly well. Writing about music on the other hand is terrifying and difficult. It feels so easy to express why I enjoy a song in person and so hard to do the same in writing.