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I'm tuning in a bit late to Death Guild live at the DNA Lounge tonight. Really glad that they're keeping up the practice of broadcasting these live from the club itself. #goth #industrial music played by expert DJs over at:

Unknown track by an unknown artist layered with the acapella of Perfect Stranger by Katy B & Magnetic man, from the Autonomic Podcast Layer 12:

Today I partially disassembled, cleaned, then reassembled an old Pioneer SX-650 receiver I have. It had developed an intermittent power problem; cleaning the power/speaker select switch seems to have fixed it.

Now I can use my old passive studio reference monitors again.

CW: MH+, '90s TV, Nostalgia

Still watching The X-Files, it's still keeping my mood up in this bad month. I'm in the middle of season 3 now. I had forgotten how good the episode "Pusher" is. I love Robert Wisden's performance as Modell/Pusher.

"Please explain to me the scientific nature of 'the whammy'".

New #djmix available for download from djcev.com and streaming at mixcloud.

MTT 190 "They Don't Need A Reason": https://djcev.com/2020/10/15/mtt-190-they-don-t-need-a-reason/

Another mostly #electro set, this time at 120, a similar selection to last week's mix. This show features music by Annechoic, Sigma Algebra, Versalife, Zyntax, a big closer by Haujobb, and more.

Absolutely rocking out to the Phantasm soundtrack this morning.

Synthesizers

CW: MH+, '90s TV, Nostalgia

I started rewatching The X-Files a few days ago, skipping the episodes I don't like. It's a nostalgic show for me. I can remember watching it week to week as it aired. It's been good for my mood, my mental health.

Just now starting season 2. Duane Barry loves season 2.

New mix, available for download and streaming at mixcloud.

MTT 189 "We Bypass Time": https://djcev.com/2020/10/08/mtt-189-we-bypass-time/

#electro around 128 BPM for October. Features tracks by Audioelectronic, Rude 66, Solvent (by way of Ectomorph), Trichome, Versalife, and more.

Up at 1:30 AM, tea at 4:00 AM... I don't like it.

I spent the afternoon disassembling, cleaning, and reassembling my DJ mixer. Cleaned the potentiometers with what was probably the wrong kind of deoxit. That fixed the scratchiness, but introduced some other problems.

My mixer - an Ecler Nuo 4 - was really not meant to be taken apart.

Oof. I really need to clean the EQ pots on my DJ mixer.

Will do that in the morning, once the household wakes up.

MTT 188 "You've Got Nothing". Spooky #electro for the first week of October.

https://www.mixcloud.com/djcev/mtt-188-youve-got-nothing/

Tracklist & show notes coming in a few days.

I wasn't paying attention and made black tea instead of green at 3:30 AM.

I guess that's OK, I have work to do anyway.

Here's the trailer for it, for Sogo Ishii's Burst City, over at youtube:

Woah, it looks like Arrow Video is going to release Burst City (1982, dir. Sogo Ishii) on bluray next month. The last english subtitled release of the movie that I'm aware of is Discotek Media's DVD from 2006. It's been hard to get for a decade now.

It's a really good, though challenging, Japanese #cyberpunk movie. More punk than cyber.

Hmm, bluray region code B, sadly.