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The Art of DJing: Jeff Mills

The latest in Resident Advisor's "Art Of DJing" series. These are always good, and I can't think of a better subject than Jeff Mills.

I finally got around to publishing the tracklist for 03/29's MTT: https://djcev.com/2019/03/29/mtt-109-dwelling-of-the-day/

and at #aNONradio : https://anonradio.net/mtt-109-dwelling-of-the-day/

More dubby stuff, more IDM. All tracks I've been listening to this month. And managed to play some Asylum Party, that was cool.

Movement Through Thought on #aNONradio is live in 30 minutes. The program airs every Friday 06:00 to 07:00 UTC.

Grab bag show tonight. Approximately 100 BPM, various electronic genres. Relaxing a bit from playing the arcade last night.

Listen at http://anonradio.net/ .

It's last Wednesday, which means DJ Megaphysics and I are playing music at Ground Kontrol #pdx tonight. Free play arcade, music from 9 PM until close, 21 and over, $7 at the door.

I've packed a bunch of downtempo, instrumental hip-hop, and big beat. I know Megaphysics is bringing Florida breaks and faster underground stuff.

"Spring breaks". Should be a fun time.

Late night tea.

I'm digging through old downtempo and breakbeat releases for a show tomorrow. I left it up to the last second, unfortunately. Won't have much time to practice.

The latest OpenMW (opensource Morrowind engine implementation) appeared in the FreeBSD ports tree yesterday. This new version (0.45) features major performance improvements.

It's a super sweet project. Here's their website, for anyone unfamiliar with it:

*sigh*. 2019-03-22, not 2018. I mistyped there. Not worth deleting and reposting.

Tracklist for Movement Through Thought on 2018-03-22: https://djcev.com/2019/03/22/mtt-108-progressive-echoes/

and at #aNONradio: https://anonradio.net/mtt-108-progressive-echoes/

the recording: https://archives.anonradio.net/201903220600_cev.mp3

Rainy, wandering, a little sleepy. Probably my last straight dub techno radio set this year.

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More dub techno tonight, on the slower sleepier end.

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Just finished reading "Babel-17" by Samuel R. Delany.

I'm a fan of Delany, but this is my first time through Babel-17. It's amazing. Sometimes a swashbuckling pulp sci-fi adventure, sometimes an exploration of language (esp. linguistic relativity, sapir-whorf). I really loved it.

I've got the Vintage trade paperback edition that includes "Empire Star", so I'll read that next.

I'm watching Bryonato's speedrun of Titanfall 2 at Calithon. I'm amazed at the game's movement. It's the first big budget FPS with complex movement I've seen in... 10 years? Since Mirror's Edge.

The game would be better with q2 doublejumps and q3 wall clipping, though. That'd smooth it out.

Tracklist for Movement Through Thought on 2019-03-15: https://djcev.com/2019/03/15/mtt-107-mixed-reflections/

and at #aNONradio : https://anonradio.net/mtt-107-mixed-reflections/

Dub techno, ~125 BPM. There's a neat snare-on-3 middle section in this with tracks by Dimomib, Rhythm & Sound, Deadbeat, and Fenin. I'm glad I finally played a track by Deadbeat.

Movement Through Thought on #aNONradio starts in 30 minutes. The program broadcasts every Friday 06:00 to 07:00 UTC.

Dub techno tonight. Tracks from Basic Channel, Deadbeat, Mark Broom, Zzzzra... a few stray vinyl pieces... etc.

Listen at http://anonradio.net/ .

Spring forward, fall back... still surprising me days later.

I managed to get an old rackmount spring reverb unit working. Plugged it into my DJ mixer's aux send / return; sounds great. The controls are too scratchy to use, though.

Dub techno tonight. But first it's tea time.

The band on my second pair of RP-HTX7 headphones broke a few days ago. The first pair had other problems, so tonight I got to swap parts between them to yield one working pair of headphones.

Frankenheadphones.

I'm sad that Panasonic discontinued the RP-HTX7s. They're great to work on.