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D-Pression – Deep End (single) feat. Chronology and Klein

Reminds me of the first Unreal Tournament.

last.fm:

D-Pression consists of producers Jay B and Solley.

Jay B has been into Jungle/Drum & Bass since 1994 after hearing mix tapes from the legendary club “Sterns”.
He started collecting vinyl in 1996, bought his first decks in 1997 and has been DJing ever since.

He’s been involved in running his own events in his hometown of Worthing, always striving to play less conventional Drum & Bass, and hopefully this shows in his mixes today. He held a residency at Volks in Brighton and has played across England with DJs like Andy C, Fabio, Friction, SS, Hive and Evol Intent.

Highlights so far for Jay B have included winning the Knowledge Magazine Mixtape competition and playing in the final at One Nation in Brixton Academy, plus he also played in Miami at the WMC.

Solley has more of a musical background playing the guitar from a young age. He got into music production about 10 years ago but has focused on making Drum & Bass since 2006, after being inspired by the early Pendulum work, Klute, John B and the Metalheadz sound.

He didn’t have to wait too long for his first release, which was a collaboration with Mace on Planet Funk – “Light Up The Darkness”.

Solley and Jay B began making tunes together in 2007 and formed D-Pression in 2010. Their monthly Podcast has been going since October 2010 and is still going strong. Their ethos is to play the entire spectrum of Drum & Bass as well as showcasing their own productions.

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Mixtape No. 25: The Seventh Layer of WoW

I got seven days of free World of Warcraft time for the pre-release of Mists of Pandaria. I decided to check out the state of the game. It wasn’t as exciting as I remember it. But, I made a field recording of my experience (points) to share.

Dr. B

When I uninstalled the bloated client, I did not think to save the screenshots. Ooops!

Here's a different screenshot of Potamus playing on a netbook. At least it runs on just about anything.
Here’s a different screenshot of Potamus playing on a netbook. At least it runs on just about anything.

It should probably be noted that these sounds are recorded from me playing World of Warcraft, and so probably also remain the property of Blizzard. But it’s just for fun anyway, so why should anyone care about the legality? First thing I’ll do when I rule the world: kill all the lawyers. How do you even “own” a “sound,” man? Whoa.

No. 25: The Seventh Layer of WoW [ 1:06:06 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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ONGELEGEN — Rain, Thunder and Airplanes Ambience (Binaural)

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ONGELEGEN — Rain, Thunder and Airplanes Ambience (Binaural)

posted in Ogg Vorbis format in order to preserve the sample rate

MP3 tops out at a sample rate of 48000Hz. I’m a little disappointed.
Ogg’s downfall is poor hardware support — which always puzzled me since it is open source and would take literally a single workday to implement in popular hardware such as the one made by that fruit company. Even then, the likelihood of this one working on hardware is almost zero. My Sansa supports Ogg Vorbis, but not apparently at 96kHz.

The WAV version of this track is available from SoundCloud.

ONGELEGEN -- Rain, Thunder and Airplanes Ambience (Binaural) [ 5:00 ] Download
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Mixtape No. 22: Vidyagaymes Episode 2

EIGHT INCH FLOPPER
EIGHT INCH FLOPPER

When I was in fourth or fifth grade, the powers that be were bringing our school into the 20th century (20th) using computers. As such, every student had the added responsibility of showing up with a 3.5inch floppy disk in addition to the requisite colored pencils and spiral notebooks and such. I showed up with an 8 inch floppy disk.

YouTube user MrSolidSnake745 has rigged up eight floppy drives to make beautiful music. It makes a great subject for this, the second video game music episode. I know the Ghostbuster’s theme isn’t exactly a videogame tune but this version reminds me of the Sega Master System version.

Tracklist

MrSolidSnake745
YouTube playlist

  1. Ghostbuster’s Theme on eight floppy drives
  2. Doom – E1M1 on eight floppy drives
  3. Sons of Skyrim Remake on eight floppy drives
  4. Zelda Collection on eight floppy drives
  5. Zelda – Dragon Roost Island on eight floppy drives
  6. Yoshi’s Island – Athletic Theme on eight floppy drives
  7. Коробейники on eight floppy drives

Runtime 21:36
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Mixtape No. 21: Doom (ZX Spectrum)

There is an unofficial Russian port of Doom for the ZX Spectrum that was never finished. Actually, since none of the code is based on the original Doom game, its not really a port. But it had awesome music. Here it is.

Tracklist

  1. Sauron — DOOM HARD TECHNO
  2. Sauron — DOOM_2
  3. Sauron — DOOM-1
  4. Joe — DOO-O-O-O-OOOM!!!

Runtime 6:40
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Mixtape No. 10: Remember Enzo and Bob?

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Part A of 8bitpeoples, a chiptune label featuring some chiptune greats. The next installment in Chiptune Dixember.

From 8bitpeoples’ mission statement:

The 8bitpeoples first came together in 1999 as a collective of artists sharing a common love for classic videogames and an approach to music which reflected this obsession. Our primary interests were to provide quality music for free and most importantly to have fun. In the years since, we have grown in rank and expanded our goals.

Tracklist

Various Artists

  1. Bit Shifter — Information Chase – Chase Init_
  2. IAYD — Like A Phoenix – Like A Phoenix
  3. starPause — AKID EP – mother bones
  4. x|k — Nestek – Way of The Highway
  5. Coova and little-scale — Two Warriors – Standing Alone
  6. Binärpilot — Defrag – Goof
  7. Binärpilot — Defrag – Fuayfsilfm
  8. Skruvmejsel — Filesystems – Fiskmat
  9. Mr. Spastic — Lucid – Lucid
  10. IAYD — Like A Phoenix – Into Ashes
  11. Kplecraft — L 012 – 169
  12. Snoopdroop — Artificial Flavor – The Cherry Club
  13. Saskrotch — I’ll Have You Naked by the End of This ROM – Mustard
  14. Role Model — A New Fragrance – Boy Afraid

Reboot Cover A

Relevant Links:

8bitpeoples
Enzo Matrix
Bob

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