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There's some live Quake on right for anybody interested. #quakechampions EU/CIS Challenger League winner bracket semifinals Spart1e vs Bukster map 1, over at Zoot's twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/thisiszoot

Spart1e party.

I finished reading "Agency", Gibson's new book, this morning. Really enjoyed it.

It feels like the middle book of one of his trilogies. There's at least one major question left unanswered in both "The Peripheral" and "Agency".

It's a 400 page book with 109 chapters, which was noticeable. I wonder when he started doing that... "Pattern Recognition", I think.

Movement Through Thought on #aNONradio starts in 30 minutes at its regularly scheduled time of Friday 06:00 UTC. (That's 10 PM Thursday pacific time).

~140 BPM fast #electro tonight. I'll be featuring tracks by Adam Jay, Luke Eargoggle, MANASYt, MAS 2008, and Scape One.

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Tracklist for last week's Movement Through Thought: https://djcev.com/2020/01/31/mtt-153-dispersed-being/

and at #aNONradio : https://anonradio.net/mtt-153-dispersed-being/

~100 BPM techno, IDM, and hip-hop-y beats. Features tracks by Boards Of Canada, Lionrock, Mikron, Takeshi Muto, Tipper, T.Power, and more. Even got some MF Doom in there.

I'm very happy that my sleep schedule is aligned in such a way that I slept through the superbowl.

Now I'd like to go back to daylight hours. Waking up at 10 PM is not great. Not very useful.

I'm doing a little music shopping today. Picked up Adam Jay's "Inoperable Data" and Galcid's "Ambient Works" both on Detroit Underground.

The Adam Jay album is terrific new (nu-nu-nu-)electro, very bright sounding, futuristic stuff. Reminds me a bit of The Advent's electro output.

Galcid's Ambient Works is also good, three chill beatless pieces and one with fast clattering synth percussion. Has some nice sharp-edged sounds.

I just finished reading the 2015 short story collection "Cyberpunk: Malaysia". 14 near-future scifi stories by Malaysian authors.

I really enjoyed it! I appreciated the variety of stories in the book. It could've been 14 derivative angry-man-in-rainy-neon-city stories, but wasn't.

Zen Cho, the editor, has a webpage for the book: https://zencho.org/books/cyberpunk-malaysia/

Movement Through Thought on #aNONradio is live in 30 minutes. My show airs every Friday from 06:00 to 07:00 UTC (That's 10 PM Thursday pacific time).

~100 bpm beats tonight. Downtempo, dub techno, IDM, etc. Will feature tracks by Aaron Spectre, Boards Of Canada, Lionrock, Mikron, and T.Power.

One track I plan to play has some profanity: a single F-bomb. Please consider your environment before tuning in.

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Back from the arcade.

Megaphysics and I played well, we both had good sets. I spent a few hours hanging out with my friend DJ Popcorn, haven't done that in about a year. And (!) had dinner at The Roxy. Was a good night.

But now I can't sleep. I guess that's OK.

I'm headed to the arcade tonight to DJ with my friend Megaphysics. CEV & Megaphysics @ Ground Kontrol Arcade #pdx 9:00 PM until close, $7 cover, games are set to free play, 21 & over.

I'll be playing the usual selection of electro, techno, and downtempo from 11:30 PM on.

CW: Alcohol, Sobriety

I abstained from drinking alcohol for a year back in 2016, and am doing the same this year.

Both four years ago and now, after about two weeks I started craving sugar. From what I read online that's common. It's some kind of physical or psychological replacement effect. It's a weird feeling.

Feels like time for a late-night PB & J.

Tracklist for this week's Movement Through Thought: https://djcev.com/2020/01/24/mtt-152-unstable-alignment/

and at #aNONradio : https://anonradio.net/mtt-152-unstable-alignment/

Drum & Bass. dBridge, Sully, a little '90s, a few tracks from the third Subtle Audio comp, and a whole lot of Cosmic Bridge. Was a good set.

Movement Through Thought on #aNONradio starts in 30 minutes. The show is live every Friday at 06:00 UTC (that's 10 PM Thursday west coast USA time).

Some drum & bass tonight. Half-time, minimal, and some old '90s tunes at the end. I'm going to play five or six awesome tracks from Om Unit's label Cosmic Bridge.

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I saw William Gibson read from his new book "Agency" at Powells tonight. He's as nice and witty as ever.

I'm really glad I caught him this tour, I missed the last couple. I love hearing him swear.

T.Power / Bionic Chronic

From his 1996 album "Waveform".

I was mixing some drum & bass tonight, playing around, and came up against the weird time signature in this track. I count the first phrase as 6 and the second as 7; I guess that makes it 13 over 4? Something like that. #nowplaying

Tracklist for last week's Movement Through Thought: https://djcev.com/2020/01/17/mtt-151-lateral-shift/

and at #aNONradio : https://anonradio.net/mtt-151-lateral-shift/

Selections from CPU Records, Binalog Productions, and some old '90s electronica. I snuck the excellent "Double Density" by Bitstream in there too, to show off.