Slow (and then not-so-slow) music for the last show of May. Downtempo, IDM, and later on a little drum & bass. This mix features a couple tracks by Paul Blackford, a couple from Cosmic Bridge Records, a newly-available-digitally piece by XY0815, and a long one by Chris Randall.
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Moving through a few styles today from electro & IDM/electronica to a couple of synthwave-y pieces to some more restrained synth-y material. A few long tracks (by John Selway and Mikron among others) and recent purchases (John Selway again and Scape One).
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Electro and a little techno in the high 120s today, featuring a couple tracks from the old Elektrolux label and one new one by MetaComplex from the Fifth Quarter compilation on Brokntoys.
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Electro in the 130s this week (plus some old British electronic listening music magic to close). This mix features new tracks by Alva Recek (from the recent Soma EP), Shawescape Renegade (from the (forthcoming?) Reconstruct Your Mind EP), and Versalife (from the Shape Shifter 2 EP).
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Ambient, chunky beats, and IDM in the 90 and 80 BPM range today. This one features long tracks by Calimex Mental Implant Corp., Lindsheaven Virtual Plaza & SkyTwoHigh, San.dra, and Secret Frequency Crew. Winding down at the end of the month.
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Many Worlds by Permutation. Written and produced by Permutation (Dmitry Bogdanov & Edgar D-Mode). Released on Permutation Records in 2019. Digital release, flac, 16bit/44.1khz, ~145M.
Tracklist and credits from the album artwork. Bit depth, bitrate, filesize, and track durations from my downloaded copy. BPM I tap-tempoed myself.
Breaks and electro this week, mid 120s and down. Ends on an old bit of psybreaks by Digitalis (aka Seb Taylor) and some fun west coast tracks by Central Fire and Ambient Temple Of Imagination.
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Old Tracker Stuff by Fanu. Compilation of old .xm modules mostly from the Most Valuable Playaz catalog, released March 2022 by Fanu on his bandcamp page. Digital release, flac, 16bit/44.1khz, ~242M.
Tracklist below is from the bandcamp release page. Bit depth, bitrate, filesize, and track durations from my downloaded copy. BPM I tap-tempoed myself (and is probably inaccurate).
~128 BPM electro, techno, and Weird Stuff today. I don't think there's anything new here, but there are a couple long tracks by As Far As I Know, J Shaw, and Seiji.
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Electro up in the 130s this week featuring new tracks by Alva Recek and Skee Mask. (Well, new by my standards, anyway). Bunch of tracks from around 2018-2020 too, a more recent selection in general.
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Drum & bass vinyl & digital this week. Used bin finds, netlabel releases, some old tracker mods, and a couple more recent pieces. This mix features tracks by Boymerang, Funky Technicians, Seba, two by Fanu (including one from his recent Old Tracker Stuff compilation), and more.
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A weird mish-mash of styles this week - ambient, dub techno, electro, IDM, etc. This mix features two tracks from the Heavy Dub compilations on Cold Tear Records and three tracks from Recycled Plastics. Also featured at the end of the mix is a new track by Vertical67 on Brokntoys (though unfortunately I talked over most of it).
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I've written a number of shell scripts, mostly frontends or shims to other programs, to help manage the tags & content of my music library. In this article I will briefly go over some of those scripts and then give a simple demonstration of how I process & prepare new music files.
The scripts discussed in this article are all available in my read-only dotfiles git repo. (I'll hook up a way to directly download them eventually).
This is part 2 of a series on how I handle my digital music collection. Part 1 covered Formats, Names, and Tags, part 3 will cover playback (and tag editing) with cmus.
An hour of mostly Dub Techno. A couple new (2021 and later) tracks by Blurred Hologram and Dublicator, a few from old tunes from Deepindub, a few from Rohs Records. Taking it easy, letting tracks run long.
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Footwear Repairs By Craftsmen At Competitive Prices, the collected music videos of Underworld 1993-1997. Released 1998 on Wax Trax! & TVT Records. Music by Underworld, videos credited to various directors (see table below), art by tomato, packaged by biobox. VHS, NTSC standard, ~90 minutes long. x264 NTSC SD video + flac 16bit/44.1khz audio, 1.8G, archived on DVD+R media.
Youtube videos linked in this article feature rapidly flashing images and strobing lights. Please avoid the links if that bothers you.
Techno & dub techno for a change. I don't think there's anything new this time, but there are a few classics and recent reissues including tracks by Maurizio, Robert Hood, and Convextion.
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