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Day one of Quakecon went more or less as expected. Major technical problems. Not enough games shown.

Quake Champions doesn't look ready for a major tournament. It looked like there were a lot of connection problems (and on LAN, too). The whole thing looked much less reliable than what I expect from a Quake game.

It is exciting to see some of my favorite players compete again, though. Cooller performed very well. As did Fazz (which was a surprise).

Quakecon starts tomorrow.

http://www.esreality.com/post/2887914/quakecon-2017-quake-world-championship/

http://www.quakecon.org/blog/2017/08/22/quakecon-2017-official-schedule-of-events/

It looks like the stream coverage will be the new game, "Quake Champions". The duel competition seems more open than Quakelive. Round-based duel is pretty weird though.

Will be cheering for Cooller, and for any of the Australian players to place highly. Especially after Dandaking won an invitation to the event with ~250 ping...

Tracklist for tonight's show: https://djcev.com/2017/08/18/mtt-no-025-miami-s-vice

and at aNONradio: http://anonradio.net/2017/08/18/mtt-025-miamis-vice/

This is the fast & aggressive one.

Content warning: no swearing, I think, but like that mix last month there is some sampled moaning in the song "Nympho" by Hydraulix.

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Tonight bass month continues with a stack of post-2000 records and MP3s. This one will be fast and aggressive, I swear.

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Tracklist for tonight's show: https://djcev.com/2017/08/11/mtt-no-024-the-bass-it-makes-me-feel

and at aNONradio: http://anonradio.net/2017/08/11/mtt-024-the-bass-it-makes-me-feel/

Car audio bass CDs and 2000s bass-y electro. Played a bit less aggressive than I thought I would.

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Tonight I'll be playing more Miami Bass and Electro. Faster and more aggressive this time... probably too aggressive, but I feel like I need to get this out of my system.

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Ninja III: The Domination. VHS, bought for $1 at my local Goodwill. An ex-Hollywood Video tape.

Recorded/digitized with ffmpeg, an old BT848 card, and FreeBSD. 40G raw (QP 0) x264, compressed down to a CRF 21 1.7G x264 mkv.

A pretty good looking tape. Much better than some others I've done recently.

Tracklist for tonight's show: https://djcev.com/2017/08/04/mtt-no-023-our-bass-is-low

and at aNONradio: http://anonradio.net/2017/08/04/mtt-023-our-bass-is-low/

Miami Bass, some car audio bass CDs, and a new(ish) Soundchasers/Hydraulix remix.

Was a fun one to mix.

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Every August I pull my few Miami Bass records & files off the shelf. To let them enjoy the heat. So that's what I'm playing tonight: Miami Bass, and the music it has inspired.

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Tracklist for tonight's show: https://djcev.com/2017/07/28/mtt-no-022-in-the-garden/

and at aNONradio: http://anonradio.net/2017/07/28/mtt-022-in-the-garden/

Dub & reggae to space out to. I couldn't resist playing "One Step Forward" by Max Romeo at the end.

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I played my regular show at Ground Kontrol yesterday, so I'm super tired today. That means lazily mixed dub tonight.

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There's a Quake 3 CPMA Beginners Duel Cup going on today. Mixture of stock and kenya maps. Nekon is streaming it right now at http://twitch.tv/nekontv. Expect some swearing.

If I'd known the cup was open to american players I might've signed up. Will have to keep a look out for the next one.

Tracklist for tonight's show: https://djcev.com/2017/07/21/mtt-no-021-the-drummer-gets-wicked

and at aNONradio: http://anonradio.net/2017/07/21/mtt-021-the-drummer-gets-wicked/

This one's pretty similar to the music I used to listen to, buy and DJ back when I was in high school. Which is a little embarrasing to think about.

It was fun to revisit these songs and mix them again. I hope everybody who happens to listen enjoys them too. Even if they all sound a bit worn out.

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Going to mash together some old breakbeat and big beat stuff. I think I'm missing some important pieces of that style, so it might sound a bit scatterbrained. We'll see how it goes.

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MPV 0.26 has hit FreeBSD ports, just upgraded. A few observations:

dvdnav seems to be working much better.

Replaygain functionality has been restored (using the --replaygain-* set of options).

And... I get errors when using the OSS audio output driver under FreeBSD. "[ao/oss] Audio device returned broken buffer state" spammed continuously. The message can be suppressed with "--msg-level=ao/oss=fatal". I wonder what that's about...