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If you can survive watching a lousy English speaker, I did a little "first steps" tutorial for composing YM2149 music on Atari ST using maxYMiser, at Shadow Party.
It's here at approx 21:02:00: https://m.twitch.tv/videos/2502656948
#chiptune #AtariST #YM2149 #tutorial #music #composing
New blog post:
Black Sabbath played their final show and it was great!
http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/07/black-sabbath-played-their-final-show-and-it-was-great/
β¨ πππΉππ ππππ¦πΊππΌ πΆ πΈ Now playing Bob James - Three Full album ποΈ π π LP 96kHz Analog version πΉ π π π»π» πΌ πΆ β¨ πππΉππ ππππ¦
#NowPlaying #Music πΆ #Retro #BobJames π«#Jazz #LegacyMusic # LP #Hz96000
Whatever the business side of things, thereβs an inescapable fact about the #BlackSabbath show: the actual four people who in 1968/1969 literally created an entire musical thing worldwide just by existing, are all still here for this. Iβd call it unique. Itβs at once obvious and hiding in plain sight. #music
Are you still on #Spotify?
Spotifyβs CEO Daniel Ek has raised β¬600M for his new startup, which is developing AI TECH FOR WAR. Ek still owns 9% of Spotify, but has 37% voting control. His net worth went from $2.5B to $10B in the last two years alone, on the back of paying musicians a pittance in royalties.
And donβt forget:
β’ Spotify spent $250M of your subscription dollars to invite Joe Rogan to spew his disinformation on their platform.
β’ Theyβre still trying to embrace and extinguish Podcasts.
β’ Theyβre developing in-house, AI-generated βmusicβ so users will play them (royalty-free) instead of music created by humans (who demand royalty).
And now, heβs using his wealth, created by your subscriptions, to fund tech that will use AI to literally murder humans in war.
Stop funding him. Quit Spotify now.
#QuitSpotify #music #ai #militaryTech #techbro
βSpotifyβs CEO invests $1 billion into an AI military start-up β and musicians are fumingβ
I decided to check out Snow Patrol because I really like a couple of their hits, and OMG this band is super wholesome.
I'm four songs into the Wildness album and all of them have gone into playlists, three of them into Solarpunk Abundance. Some are wholesome AND revolutionary.
Join in the biweekly #AlternateFridayMusic by @MarkIngs
The word for July 04 is "Never"
Post with the tag and tell us about a #song with a title, lyric, theme or meaning related to the word.
Thanks to our awesome artist @romanalanwrites
The first Rick Astley post gets a permanent ban! πΌ
Bonus points to the first Prince drop, though!
Upcoming biweekly words are:
Jul 18 #Opportunity
Aug 01 #Pop
Also, Join us next week for #FortnightFridayMusic
Upcoming biweekly words are:
Jul 11 #Movement
Jul 25 #Lounge
Β‘Poke!:
@dgar @Bishopjoey @AqiDrago @alfvaen #music
Don't ask me what you know is true.
Don't have to tell you I love your precious heart.
Iβ¦
I was standing
You were there
Two worlds collided
And they could never tear us apart.
We could live for a thousand yearsβ¦
But if I hurt you I'd make wine from your tears.
I told you that we could fly 'cause we all have wings,
but some of us don't know why
Join us for the #Mastodon #Friday #Music #Event:
**Alternate Friday Music!!**
The word is #Never.
Use the hashtag: #AlternateFridayMusic
Follow the hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
My submission: Never Tear Us Apart
By: INXS
Song Link: https://youtu.be/AIBv2GEnXlc
Context: https://mindly.social/@bborn/114791961173179807
I bouced all my New Star album on a #RevoxB77 mk II reel to reel recorder at 15 ips and created a #YouTube video.
If you like this kind of things, have a look at it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYFKCRBrnVA #music #indiemusic #ReelToReel #MastoArt #MastoMusic #Synth #SM900
There is a whole army of hasbara trolls, paid propagandists and willing genocide supporters out there telling us how outraged they are about a musician shouting "Death to the IDF" in public.
The same people who don't want you to remember Hind Rajab and the other 20000+ children murdered by IDF and the millions being starved right now.
#DeathToTheIDF #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #BiBiC #Israel #HindRajab #starvation #NeverForgive #NeverForget #Music #Protest
Indie rock band The Velvet Sundown has amassed 474,341 monthly listeners on Spotify in under a month, and its top track has been played over 380,000 times since June. There's a catch though...they might not be real.
SiΓ΄n Geschwindt from @thenextweb finds out more:
https://flip.it/MbP.XA
Hello, Mastodon!
My background is in #astronomy through the Ph.D. level. Previously worked on high-mass #StarFormation, #galaxy evolution and #instrumentation development. Now a professional in the world of #DarkSkies. My lifeβs mission is to help people experience the wonder of the cosmos.
Outside of work, my interests include #law, #politics, #CurrentEvents, #history, #music and #art. Looking forward to discussing all of this and more with a new community here.
Stereo3D Mars
Sulfur Crystals from Curiosity and βDisturbedβ Rocks and Soils from Perseverance β Stereoscopic Corner #11
Contributed by Mary Friargiu, Brian May (Yes that's right: Queen lead guitarist πΈ and superstar!), and Claudia Manzoni
#Mars #Stereo3D #BrianMay #Queen #3D #Perseverance #Curiosity #planetaryscience #rocks #rock #rockmusic #music #celeb #celebrities #PerseveranceRover #CuriosityRover #crystals #stereoscopy #solarocks #geology #science #scicomm
Hello, my name is Christoff.
I live in Illinois, USA, outside the St. Louis area. Below I'll talk about my technology and creative interests, and a bit about me personally. I'm going to hashtag the heck out of this post.
the whole "deadbeef" thing is the magic number from #Solaris for freed memory. I simply chose .monster TLD because it seemed cool and I like "extended" TLDs.
I have been using a OpenBSD, #NetBSD, or #GNU/#Linux since the late 1990s as a primary workstation. I used macOS from 2020 to 2025, switching to the #KDE neon distro (KDE plasma is amazing and KDE isn't bloated anymore, yay!).
My current career is as a #pentester where I break into web applications, IP networks, mobile applications (especially #Android), and people to their face or over the phone; code #malware; write documentation; and enjoy helping clients in a third party contractor/consultant role. I started that job change in 2020, when I earned the #OSCP certification at the height of "#infosec twitter" when I did well there.
Previously I worked for about 20 years as a senior-level programmer, and systems, infrastructure, and database administrator. Burnout was very real and I was extremely bored/unfulfilled.
Now that programming and sysadmin stuff isn't my career, I find I enjoy programming and tinkering again.
I am a big fan of NetBSD and always have been. I am not a huge fan of GNU/Linux but I do appreciate things "just working", even if it is full of closed-source binary blobs and other garbage. It was fun in the 1990s.
I know many programming languages but have been paid professionally to code in #C, #Perl, #Python, #PHP, #Java, and #Groovy for big commercial entities like eBay, small companies, and the US government.
I've maintained 99.99% uptime for a 60MM+ platform for years, including failover and backups (that were regularly tested... you test your failover and backups, right?!).
I always wanted to be a cool C and low-level programmer, which I thought for the longest time was being a kernel programmer, but now I know that isn't the life for me.
Emacs is something I've enjoyed since the beginning and I still can't code a #Lisp well. I'd love to be a cool #lisper with #CommonLisp, but haven't gotten there yet. I'm on the #c64 and #embedded #retrocomputing train now.
For creative stuff, I aim to do a lot but tend to hop around as interests take me. I could use some discipline there (someday?).
For #music, I have an electric #bass (Fender Jazz) and electric #guitar. I love #jambands (#GratefulDead, #Phish, #Goose) and that's the type of music I like to play along to.
For #art, I like #acrylic and #watercolor painting. I rarely do it, but think about it a lot and love it when I do it. I don't have any skill or talent, but that's not the point. It's for me and no one else.
For #computing, I am venturing into #C64 #demoscene programming and exploration. Not only was I too poor to get one when I was little but I sorta forgot about it over time. The desire to do cool things in a restricted environment where folks are playing in the sandbox, too, is very exciting and attractive to me. I don't know how to code the #Commodore64 stuff yet, but will! Learning the assembly language (I have zero desire to code in BASIC again and I can just code assembly).
I live with my soulmate and our five amazing cats in a small town outside St. Louis living a quiet life. Just doing our jobs, taking care of daily life stuff, and enjoying each other and life as much as we can. Ups and downs of life chaos, like anyone else, but we're doing alright!
We enjoy exploring places within driving distance and there are a lot of places to go to.
Currently, we're really into playing two-player games together and just started collecting #boardgames. Right now, we're really digging #SkyTeam, #RoyalGameOfUr, #ForrestShuffle, #SentinelsOfTheMultiverse, and this magnet game I don't know the name of. We have #SpiritIsland and #ArcNova to unwrap and learn. We tried really really hard to get into #ArkhamHorrorTheCardGame but the rules are too complicated and confusing, where it felt like we were doing the wrong thing all the time.
I am 46. I grew up loving Star Wars, Star Trek, #SciFi, reading novels non-stop, horror, and watching movies. I collect classic SciFi books from 1960s and 1970s.
I would perhaps describe myself as an extremely curious person, that loves #puzzles and #mysteries, #exploration, figuring out #HumanBehavior like I'm an alien studying humans (I'm good at it, it turns out), that has a keen eye for detail, remembering random little things, and a good listener. I'm fairly adaptable and fluid in most things, which works well for me. My brain works differently than a lot of people, and while frustrating a lot of the time for things I don't understand fully, it is me and serves me well in niches.
Making people laugh makes me happy. I am a #hacker and #tinkerer.
β¨ πππΉππ ππππ¦πΊππΌ πΆ πΈ Now playing Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son' ποΈ π π CD 44kHzΒ Digital versionΒ πΉΒ Β π πΒ Β π»π» πΌ πΆ β¨ πππΉππ ππππ¦
#NowPlaying #Music πΆ Β #IronMaiden #Bass #Drums #Retro #LegacyMusic #LP #Hz44100
While preparing the 3-year-anniversary episode of "The Post Mortem Report" for its release on July 1, I can't help feeling a bit nostalgic. Hard to believe it's been over 3 years since Ronald McGillvray and I started work on it, and what it's become.
Official Site: http://postmortemreport.com
#author #video #podcast #podcasts #authorcast #books #reading #movies #games #TV #streaming #music #entertainment #talkshow #bookstodon #booktodon
β¨ πππΉππ ππππ¦πΊππΌ πΆ πΈ Now playing Passengers - The last romantic ποΈ π π CD Gay Disco & Hi NRG CD 2 44kHz Digital version πΉ π π π»π» πΌ πΆ β¨ πππΉππ ππππ¦
#NowPlaying #Music πΆ #passengers #Gay #Disco #GayDisco #Bass #Drums #Retro #LegacyMusic #CD #Hz44100
β¨ πππΉππ ππππ¦πΊππΌ πΆ πΈ Now playing Macho - I'm a man 17:36 min ποΈ π π CD Gay Disco & Hi NRG CD 1 44kHzΒ Digital versionΒ πΉΒ Β π πΒ Β π»π» πΌ πΆ β¨ πππΉππ ππππ¦
#NowPlaying #Music πΆ Β #Macho #Gay #Disco #GayDisco #Bass #Drums #Retro #LegacyMusic #CD #Hz44100
β¨ πππΉππ ππππ¦πΊππΌ πΆ πΈ Soon playing Bruce Dickinson - Balls to Picasso ποΈ π π CD 44kHzΒ Digital versionΒ πΉΒ Β π πΒ Β π»π» πΌ πΆ β¨ πππΉππ ππππ¦
#NowPlaying #Music πΆ Β #IronMaiden #BruceDickinson #Bass #Drums #Retro #LegacyMusic #CD #Hz44100
β¨ πππΉππ ππππ¦πΊππΌ πΆ πΈ Iron Maiden is my first ποΈ π₯ encounter with Heavy Metal π Β πΉΒ Β π in my teenage interval of this Lifecycle π πΒ Β π»π» πΌ πΆ β¨ πππΉππ ππππ¦
#NowPlaying #Music πΆ Β #IronMaiden #Bass #Drums #Retro #LegacyMusic #LP #Hz44100
β¨ πππΉππ ππππ¦πΊππΌ πΆ πΈ Now playing Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son' ποΈ π π CD 44kHzΒ Digital versionΒ πΉΒ Β π πΒ Β π»π» πΌ πΆ β¨ πππΉππ ππππ¦
#NowPlaying #Music πΆ Β #IronMaiden #Bass #Drums #Retro #LegacyMusic #LP #Hz44100
β¨ πππΉππ ππππ¦πΊππΌ πΆ πΈ Now playing Herbie Hancock - Driftin' ποΈ π π LP 96kHzΒ Analog versionΒ πΉΒ Β π πΒ Β π»π» πΌ πΆ β¨ πππΉππ ππππ¦
#NowPlaying #Music πΆ #PianoΒ Β #HerbieHancock #Trumpet #Sax #Tenor #Trombone #Bass #DoubleBass #Retro #LegacyMusic #LP #Hz96000
πΆ β¨ πππΉππ ππππ¦ββ° π£β€πΉππ ππππ¦πΊππΌ πΆ πΈ πΆNow playing on Radio Azureus {MCP Master Control} from my Jazz music collection * Nina Simone πΈ πΆΒ Β - Solitude Β Β π΅originalπΆ96kHz πΆ LP version β€πΆπ£β°βπ π πΉ π π π»π» πΌ πΆ β¨ πππΉππ ππππ¦
#NowPlaying #Music πΆ #NinaSimone #Jazz #Bass #Retro #LegacyMusic #LP #Hz96000
Today I did a brief training session on my short scale Bass using only the 19-inch rack mount effect.
I configured the effect with the Leslie FX, a system with a rotating speaker rotating drum and many other parameters which you can also overdrive to get nice crunchy sounds.
#FX #Effect #chords
#Music #Audio #Bass #ShortScale #Behringer #Guitar #SoundEngineering #Joyo #Pedal
Now recording on MasterTape Oscar Peterson - Give me the Simple Live
#MasterTape #OscarPeterson
#Music #Audio #Bass #ShortScale #Behringer #Guitar #SoundEngineering #Joyo #Pedal