ByteMapper

I adore Hudson Hawk. The whole Candy Bar Crew are highlights, especially Almond Joy and Butterfinger. James Coburn is a delight as well.

Flitting through my spam filter, which receives dozens of random solicitations from fake authors weekly to talk shop and get featured in exchange for a nominal fee. I usually junk these, but I had a hearty chuckle at this one. I doubt Murakami would cold email some random Southerner out of the blue.

I know the feeling, I occasionally catch myself perusing Dave Brubeck and Glenn Miller recordings on Discogs

That's what I'm telling my wife for why I need a vintage tube-driven turntable. I gotta listen to Miles Davis in style, and that style is 60s thrift store finds.

I agree tho, noodly lo-fi music is the best. Been loving just combing through the 1080 to find whatever for Ridge Racer vibes.

I have no excuses of my own for that. I'm sure I'll find one, at some point. My only real score was finding a mint Sanyo cassette dubber on the cheap, but I legit just make noodly lo-fi music at this point that I haven't published in a year.

Low-key jealous, I've been on the hunt for a Sony or Akai stereo deck for the last year or so, and the prices are just a little too high for what I wanna spend. Even the grungy, nasty ones are going for a pretty penny.

Slowly but surely, I've been chipping away at a novel that I'm mostly proud of so far. Gotta fix continuity errors and shit, and big ups to @frogknightmusic.bsky.social for providing some delightful inspo music while I try to evoke the pastoral vibes.

CRUSH THE WORLD

I can just about guarantee that any art that has a passionate fanbase of a few hundred people is superior in most every way to any piece of art that is popular and successful but not particularly beloved (except by undiscerning "consumers")

I’m honestly shocked they’re revisiting Onimusha. Still no word on Darkstalkers, Tech Romancer, and Breath of Fire, sadly

I've never been on the SWE side of things, but FOSS and Linux are the foundation of modern computing. Gotta hope those bonus checks he's getting pushed his way are worth this extreme degree of hyperbole.

Hey, I’m starting up an anti-algorithm music site, if that sounds like something you’re into then check it out. Thanks!

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Just simmering in the pot at this point

Man, looking for extra work in this market is a bloodbath. If you or anyone you know is in the market for a contributing writer, don't hesitate to give me a look. I have flexible rates, an absurdly efficient work ethic, and I don't use LLMs to collate research or generate text. Somebody pay me, pls

Friendly reminder that I offer up affordable mastering services for all sorts of audio. Audiobook? Yes. Breakcore? Yes. And so forth. Trying to make up for some shortfalls going into March, and the more folks I can book, the better.

Shame this never got finished, seems like Fyodor was on one when he was drafting it.

If you're on the hunt for audio that sounds nice without having to pay a princely sum to get your stuff mixed or mastered, please hit me up. Currently trying to make up for a gap in my clients from my freelancing writing gig, and you're patronage is always appreciated.

But replicators from Star Trek sounds way cooler

The Muppet Christmas Carol remains the undisputed king of family Christmas movies

NEVER DID EXIST

New Music
NEVER DID EXIST
thanks @bytemapper.bsky.social for mastering again
#drumandbass #jungle #breakcore
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Is what it is, economy just seems to be trending that way

Additionally, I know begging is tacky, but I am a content strategist with five years of experience writing, editing, and so forth. If you know someone or you're after someone who needs real, human content for an affordable price, lemme know.

Woke up this morning to find out I am taking a substantial paycut. As such, if you are in need of mixing and mastering for affordable rates, please contact me. Currently, I'm like $1800 a month short of where I should be just to keep my kids fed and the lights on.

Incredible

Thinking back to my college bio teacher being presented with a packet of paper from a classmate refuting climate change, taking a single glance at the author, and telling my classmate to leave the lecture room. I only wish to channel that sort of energy in my 50s.

Might be one of those Apple only things. I legit subbed solely for lossless streaming so I could get snobby about old jazz recordings.

I switched services to Apple Music recently and ended up listening to Rumours like another 5 times because of the Atmos remaster on the service. Pretty slick work all done, the vocal harmonies in particular are insane on Dreams and The Chain.

Nope, but the spatialization nonsense on the Rumours remaster has me wanting to try it for the sake of it

God help me, I'm debating scrapping work on my current EP's stereo masters to pursue Atmos

Ah man, I haven’t thought about Stigmata in years. But I feel you there, certainly cast a pall across the Christmas season too