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RPG Limit Break is two games into its "Silly Games" block. Gyre is speedrunning Virtual Hydlide right now and it's hilarious. Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden is up next...

#rpglb2018

RPG Limit Break 2018 just started.

It's an annual RPG speedrunning marathon benefiting NAMI. It's my favorite of these speedrunning marathons. It's where most of my time will be going this week...

#RPGLB2018

Music research (AKA shopping) part two.

I was reminded earlier today of Umek's #electro alias Zeta Reticula, and that led me to discover Umeks' label 1605 Music Therapy.

http://www.sixteenofive.com/

According to the website, all releases are CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Downloads from the website are free after registering.

I picked up three of the Zeta Reticula EPs, and then it started serving me empty files, so I must have hit a download limit. Will check it again tomorrow.

It's going to be a music research day. I'm feeling it.

Starting with "This Tool Has No Options" by XY0815

XY0815's previous release, on Brokntoys, is sick. "This Tool" is also excellent, but quite a bit more IDM-y. Really good album.

Making a note to dig through the rest of the Yuyay Records catalog.

Tracklist for Movement Through Thought on 2018-05-11: https://djcev.com/2018/05/11/mtt-no-063-delta-vision

and at #aNONradio : https://anonradio.net/2018/05/11/mtt-063-delta-vision/

Direct link to a recording of the show: http://anonradio.net/archive/201805110630_cev.mp3

Electro & breaks, as promised. Slightly uneven levels. More dancing like an idiot. It's getting warm outside.

Movement Through Thought on #aNONradio starts in 30 minutes.

I'll be playing some electro and breaks tonight. Faster and a bit more aggressive than my usual selection. I feel like rocking out tonight. Will probably play a bunch of Fundamental Bass Intelligence and Dominance Electricity.

Listen at http://anonradio.net/listen .

Finished "Spook Country" by Gibson today. This time, it was as good as I remembered. Which is pretty good. I noticed it had very short chapters, and read a bit like a thriller. I suppose that's what it is, thinking back on the plot.

Not sure what I'll start next.

Finished a re-read of "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick yesterday. Very good, much better than I remember. ("Better than I remember" seems to be a trend in my reading.)

Starting "Spook Country" by William Gibson today.

Tracklist for Movement Through Thought on 2018-05-04: https://djcev.com/2018/05/04/mtt-no-062-hear-everything

and at #aNONradio : https://anonradio.net/2018/05/04/mtt-062-hear-everything/

Direct link to the recording: http://anonradio.net/archive/201805040630_cev.mp3

Electro, some new, some old. Very little planning and some iffy choices. The tracks are good, though, and it mostly works. I danced around like an idiot.

Movement Through Thought on #aNONradio starts in 30 minutes.

Electro tonight. More from Bass Agenda's Various Objekts compilations, more Brokntoys, some Satamile, odds and ends. I'm in the mood to be lazy and let tracks run long tonight.

Listen at http://anonradio.net/listen .

Another good book haul today.

Picked up "Zero History" by William Gibson and "Runtime" by S.B. Divya.

"Runtime" is short - a novella - so I read it on the way home. It's simply excellent. Smartly written, succinct, and full of cool near-future ideas. Really glad I purchased and read it. I'll be following Divya's work for sure.

I recently finished reading the novel "Infomocracy" by Malka Older.

It's full of pretty neat near-future ideas, big and small. The big one being world spanning micro-democracy.

There's a lot of plot and dialog, not a lot of description of the setting or development of the characters. Especially for the first half of the novel.

I liked it, particularly the second half, but I didn't love it. I've learned that I prefer highly descriptive (flowery, maybe even purple) prose.

Movement Through Thought on #aNONradio starts in 30 minutes.

I'm wiped out from playing the arcade last night, so tonight's music selection will be relatively chill. A grab bag of glitchy IDM, '90s IDM, downtempo, dub techno, etc. all played at 80 BPM.

Listen at http://anonradio.net/listen .

Megaphysics and I are playing music at Ground Kontrol again tonight.

Grab bag night, I think. I'll play bits of what I've been doing on aNONradio. Megaphysics has said he'll play a bunch of electro he's been listening to.

CEV & Megaphysics @ Ground Kontrol Arcade in Portland, Oregon 2018/04/25 9:00 PM PST until close. Free play party (no quarters required), $5 cover.

Tracklist for Movement Through Thought on 2018-04-20: https://djcev.com/2018/04/20/mtt-no-060-hotel-saturn

and at #aNONradio : http://anonradio.net/2018/04/20/mtt-060-hotel-saturn/

Direct link to the recording: http://anonradio.net/archive/201804200630_cev.mp3

Spacey #techno . A whole bunch of https://motorlab.su/ . Levels are a bit uneven, and the sequence doesn't make sense, but that's OK. It was fun to mix.

I'll be playing music on #aNONradio in 30 minutes. Movement Through Thought, 6:30 to 7:30 UTC every Friday.

I'm playing techno tonight. A whole bunch of Motorlab, a few old detroit tracks. I'm not a good techno dj, so I doubt the selection will make sense. But I've been listening to a lot of techno lately, so it's fresh in my mind.

Listen at http://anonradio.net/listen .