Month: April 2010

Mixxx Session 100409

After a couple months off, I’m back with another mix. Most of the energy that would normally have gone into mixing went into hacking on the software Mixxx itself. Modern DJ software has a feature that lets a DJ use a special vinyl record to control the software. So instead of having hundreds of records, a DJ just needs two special timecode records, and a laptop loaded up with mp3s. This feature in Mixxx was incomplete and buggy, so I spent a lot of time rewriting it.

But now most of that hard work is done, so I got some new tracks and started mixing again:

Mixxx Session 100409 by ywwg

  1. Frozen Border – A1 – Original Mix
  2. Insideout – Artificially Sweetened.mp3
  3. Alexi Delano – Adjust the Frequency – Original Mix
  4. Glutamate – Deep blue
  5. hermetico – nueva formula
  6. damolh33 – follow me
  7. By By – Paul Bee
  8. mehmet umut soy – usul usul
  9. Akira Tanaka – Tuetano
  10. Cio D’or, Donato Dozzy – Limone – Original Mix
  11. Tommy Four Seven – Surma – Original Mix
  12. eavesdrop – caribe
  13. Akira Tanaka – Die Formel (R-Stark Rmx)
  14. project swirl – forehead
  15. damolh33 – of an hour
  16. sowing paranoia – anomalistic month

And that was exciting, too

I seem to be living on the edge these days! I was bicycling on the BU Bridge, which has been reduced down to one lane in each direction because of construction. Because of the close quarters the traffic was backed up, so I was in the stop-and-go with everyone else. Suddenly:

Derailleur snapped off, chain broken and holding wheel onto frame.

My chain slipped a couple times, and then rear wheel locked and the bike stopped. Things were under enough control that I was even able to make a “I am stopping” hand signal so the car behind me wouldn’t run me over. I got off the road and discovered the situation above. The rear dropout basically snapped off, so the derailleur jumped around and got caught. The chain broke, but didn’t actually come apart. The whole system was actually stable, so that the rear wheel didn’t just fall off.

Because the rear wheel was locked, I had to carry my bike to central square (1 mile), get on the T, and then carry the bike home (.6 miles). On the plus side, my arms are pumped now!

And on the double-plus side, I guess I simply must buy a new frame.