• Background music?

    From Dacav Doe@dacav@tilde.institute to tilde.art.music on Wed Dec 9 09:31:02 2020
    While working, I find it incredibly useful to have some background music going. Since a good while I monitor the rss feed of some youtube channels and playlists, so that I can get fresh music as it is added.

    I like the lofi hip hop style, e.g. chilledcow.

    What do you like? :)
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  • From f6k@f6k@huld.re to tilde.art.music on Wed Dec 9 19:48:42 2020
    On 2020-12-09, Dacav Doe <dacav@tilde.institute> wrote:
    While working, I find it incredibly useful to have some background
    music going. Since a good while I monitor the rss feed of some
    youtube channels and playlists, so that I can get fresh music as it
    is added.

    I like the lofi hip hop style, e.g. chilledcow.

    What do you like? :)

    i like lofi too but this days i'm finding myself listening to the solo
    piano sets of Erik Satie.

    --
    ~{,_,"> insidious LabRat
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  • From freet@freet@aussies.space (The Free Thinker) to tilde.art.music on Wed Dec 9 22:07:40 2020
    Dacav Doe <dacav@tilde.institute> wrote:
    While working, I find it incredibly useful to have some background music going.

    Same here, it focuses me better than anything else when working on
    something relatively procedural. On the other hand when I'm being
    more creative then silence can be just as good. It's probably just
    that the rhythum muffles the endless side-tracking thoughts that I'm
    always thinking, particularly when I'm actually pretty tired of
    working on something.

    Since a good while I monitor the rss feed of some youtube channels and playlists, so that I can get fresh music as it is added.

    I like the lofi hip hop style, e.g. chilledcow.

    What do you like? :)

    The main requirement for me is just something without lyrics - any
    frequent occourance of words immediately distract me because I've
    never been able to _not_ listen to people talking/singing. So if there
    are lyrics, then I can't do any significant reading at the same time,
    or even really think about complex sets of words or figures, because
    that's like following two conversations at once. It's fine when doing
    purely physical tasks though.

    I discovered tracker modules in my early teens and they're still my
    main source of music. They're free, take up very little disk/download
    space, and I have fun searching through various scattered sites
    trying to complete a collection of every file released by my
    particular favourite artists who have often been otherwise forgotten
    since the mid-90s. It's fun when you do trace them all the way up to
    the present day via chains of archived personal websites and old
    email addresses, and see what they're up to now (often little if
    anything musical).

    Also the texts in the sample lists can be great fun to read - from
    the days when people shared their complete personal contact details
    on the internet.

    Also SID chiptunes, which are sort-of a secret weapon for really
    focusing against a pure desperation to do something else, good while programming when I'm way out of my depth/understanding of what I'm
    trying to work on, or just dead bored. I built a clone of the
    original ISA HardSID card earlier this year, but actually got
    distracted and haven't tested it out yet.

    Then there's classical music, which I mainly just listen to on FM
    radio (ABC Classic, an Australian state-owned station - no ads),
    though I sometimes put on one of my second-hand cassette tapes.
    That's mainly while doing electronics, driving, or around the house.
    Generally not while using a computer, my laptop is RF-leaky and
    messes up my weak radio reception for one thing. :)

    My tracker module and SID collection (as of 2019 - but I don't add
    very much these days anyway) is available here on two CD images: gopher://aussies.space:70/1/%7efreet/moddisc

    Joseph Jahn, Pseudolokian (MLP), Decibelter, are some of my
    particular (and somewhat lesser known) favourite artists that come
    to mind at the moment.

    --

    - The Free Thinker | gopher://aussies.space/1/%7efreet/
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  • From Dacav Doe@dacav@tilde.institute to tilde.art.music on Sun Dec 13 10:51:01 2020
    On 2020-12-09, The Free Thinker <freet@aussies.space> wrote:
    Dacav Doe <dacav@tilde.institute> wrote:
    While working, I find it incredibly useful to have some background music going.

    Same here, it focuses me better than anything else when working on
    something relatively procedural. On the other hand when I'm being
    more creative then silence can be just as good. It's probably just
    that the rhythum muffles the endless side-tracking thoughts that I'm
    always thinking, particularly when I'm actually pretty tired of
    working on something.

    Since a good while I monitor the rss feed of some youtube channels and
    playlists, so that I can get fresh music as it is added.

    I like the lofi hip hop style, e.g. chilledcow.

    What do you like? :)

    The main requirement for me is just something without lyrics - any
    frequent occourance of words immediately distract me because I've
    never been able to _not_ listen to people talking/singing. So if there
    are lyrics, then I can't do any significant reading at the same time,
    or even really think about complex sets of words or figures, because
    that's like following two conversations at once. It's fine when doing
    purely physical tasks though.


    Yes! I know what you mean!

    I've recognized it as a problem with input-output, similar to what
    happens with hardware peripherals, if you wish :)

    If I'm doing some "input" operation (such as reading documentation),
    it gets for me more difficult to focus with some music. The hindrance
    grows if the music comes with lyrics, and even more if it is in a
    language I know, or if it contains repeated chunks. It is a little
    better if I know the song by heart. I get benefit from white noise,
    instead.

    Let's talk about "output": I'm writing code, knowing what I'm doing,
    on a known code base… I can afford to listen to anything.

    My tracker module and SID collection (as of 2019 - but I don't add
    very much these days anyway) is available here on two CD images: gopher://aussies.space:70/1/%7efreet/moddisc

    Your gopherhole seems really rich! Thanks for sharing, and congrats
    for your great work!

    I gave a quick look, but I couldn't download anything: I got a 404...
    but it might be due to me using lynx, perhaps. I will try again in
    future (no much time for the moment)
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  • From freet@freet@aussies.space (The Free Thinker) to tilde.art.music on Sun Dec 13 22:03:03 2020
    Dacav Doe <dacav@tilde.institute> wrote:
    On 2020-12-09, The Free Thinker <freet@aussies.space> wrote:

    Since a good while I monitor the rss feed of some youtube channels and
    playlists, so that I can get fresh music as it is added.

    I like the lofi hip hop style, e.g. chilledcow.

    What do you like? :)

    The main requirement for me is just something without lyrics - any
    frequent occourance of words immediately distract me because I've
    never been able to _not_ listen to people talking/singing. So if there
    are lyrics, then I can't do any significant reading at the same time,
    or even really think about complex sets of words or figures, because
    that's like following two conversations at once. It's fine when doing
    purely physical tasks though.


    Yes! I know what you mean!

    I've recognized it as a problem with input-output, similar to what
    happens with hardware peripherals, if you wish :)

    If I'm doing some "input" operation (such as reading documentation),
    it gets for me more difficult to focus with some music. The hindrance
    grows if the music comes with lyrics, and even more if it is in a
    language I know, or if it contains repeated chunks. It is a little
    better if I know the song by heart. I get benefit from white noise,
    instead.

    Let's talk about "output": I'm writing code, knowing what I'm doing,
    on a known code base... I can afford to listen to anything.

    Ah well that's probably the difference with me that I'm never really
    working on a known code base. Even if I wrote all the code myself
    I've probably forgotten how it works, and usually I'm trying to key
    into some new library, file format, or communications standard. So
    even when I'm trying to output, there's probably still more input
    going on overall.

    Electronics is much the same - past coming up with an overall
    concept, you have to do all the design with one eye on various
    component datasheets. Maybe when doing circuit board layouts though,
    that might be something where music with lyrics would work. But it's
    usually the SID tunes for that as well actually - I need something
    sharp and slightly jarring to keep chogging along with it, though
    mainly because I tend to make them very, very hard for myself.

    My tracker module and SID collection (as of 2019 - but I don't add
    very much these days anyway) is available here on two CD images:
    gopher://aussies.space:70/1/%7efreet/moddisc

    Your gopherhole seems really rich! Thanks for sharing, and congrats
    for your great work!

    I gave a quick look, but I couldn't download anything: I got a 404...
    but it might be due to me using lynx, perhaps. I will try again in
    future (no much time for the moment)

    Oh boy, I must have copied those links off a piece of paper or
    smething - full of 0 instead of O, 1 instead of l, etc. Funny, you'd
    think I'd have checked it, but I was probably on some old computer
    without a modern web browser (the days before my "internet client"
    was set up) and forgot to check it later.

    And there was I all disappointed that nobody had ever downloaded
    them...

    It won't work in Lynx though, you need Javascript. I don't like it,
    but as I say there, it's just the result of me keeping anonymous on
    the cheap. At least the Russian ads are more subdued now.

    --

    - The Free Thinker | gopher://aussies.space/1/%7efreet/
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  • From Dacav Doe@dacav@tilde.institute to tilde.art.music on Mon Dec 14 07:37:08 2020
    On 2020-12-13, The Free Thinker <freet@aussies.space> wrote:
    Oh boy, I must have copied those links off a piece of paper or
    smething - full of 0 instead of O, 1 instead of l, etc. Funny, you'd
    think I'd have checked it, but I was probably on some old computer
    without a modern web browser (the days before my "internet client"
    was set up) and forgot to check it later.

    And there was I all disappointed that nobody had ever downloaded
    them...

    It won't work in Lynx though, you need Javascript. I don't like it,
    but as I say there, it's just the result of me keeping anonymous on
    the cheap. At least the Russian ads are more subdued now.

    Just out of couriosity: why not hosting them in the gopherspace
    instead, since you already have a lot there? :)

    (heh, self-answer: you might want to have them available as links from a http[s] website too, nvm :D)

    But please let me know when you fixed the links: I'm curious, and I'd like to try them.

    Cheers
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  • From Dario Niedermann@dnied@tilde.institute to tilde.art.music on Mon Dec 14 19:31:16 2020
    On 2020-12-09, Dacav Doe <dacav@tilde.institute> wrote:

    While working, I find it incredibly useful
    to have some background music going.
    [...]
    I like the lofi hip hop style, e.g. chilledcow.

    What do you like? :)

    Ambient/drone music. The "Drone Zone" channel at SomaFM <https://somafm.com/dronezone/> is one favorite of mine.

    --
    Dario Niedermann. Also on the Internet at:

    gopher://darioniedermann.it/ <> https://www.darioniedermann.it/
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  • From freet@freet@aussies.space (The Free Thinker) to tilde.art.music on Mon Dec 14 22:19:23 2020
    Dacav Doe <dacav@tilde.institute> wrote:
    On 2020-12-13, The Free Thinker <freet@aussies.space> wrote:
    Oh boy, I must have copied those links off a piece of paper or
    smething - full of 0 instead of O, 1 instead of l, etc. Funny, you'd
    think I'd have checked it, but I was probably on some old computer
    without a modern web browser (the days before my "internet client"
    was set up) and forgot to check it later.

    And there was I all disappointed that nobody had ever downloaded
    them...

    It won't work in Lynx though, you need Javascript. I don't like it,
    but as I say there, it's just the result of me keeping anonymous on
    the cheap. At least the Russian ads are more subdued now.

    Just out of couriosity: why not hosting them in the gopherspace
    instead, since you already have a lot there? :)

    Well I try to keep it from being too much of a burden on the
    aussies.space Tilde server. I don't know whether it has a bandwidth
    limit, but there is only 40GB storage available, including space for
    the OS, so you couldn't have very many users taking up ~1GB of space.
    At the moment I'm using 80MB - mostly the archive of 'Firetext'
    messages which I probably should clean out.

    (heh, self-answer: you might want to have them available as links from a http[s] website too, nvm :D)

    But please let me know when you fixed the links: I'm curious, and I'd like to try them.

    They should have been working as of my last post. Glad to hear
    someone's interested. I'll do an audio CD 'mix' of tracks that I like
    to listen to while driving one day as well - I've had my shortlist
    for over a year but haven't put it together yet. I really like the
    sweeping 'orchestual' techno tracks (I've got no idea about the
    teminology for these things) in the car, such as "Network" and
    "Beyond the Network" by Skaven.

    --

    - The Free Thinker | gopher://aussies.space/1/%7efreet/
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  • From James Tomasino@tomasino@cosmic.voyage to tilde.art.music on Wed Dec 16 14:40:57 2020
    On 2020-12-09, Dacav Doe <dacav@tilde.institute> wrote:
    While working, I find it incredibly useful to have some background
    music going. Since a good while I monitor the rss feed of some youtube channels and playlists, so that I can get fresh music as it is added.

    I have a few things I use:
    - Film & TV soundtracks
    - Video game soundtracks (Journey OST is amazing)
    - Classical music, especially boroque
    - Drone
    - Drone + classical at the same time (minimizes gaps between tracks)
    - Drone + ambient sound effects
    - All my full music albums on shuffle (best when doing art stuff, not
    coding. Like others, lyrics are distracting)
    - Drone + ambient sounds + classical / jazz in layers (usually 6 layers
    of sounds creates a nice discordant buzz in the background that sort
    of fills the soundscape so completely that it becomes nothing)
    - Pure silence (only good when nobody is home. brings me back to my days
    in religious life)

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  • From Dacav Doe@dacav@tilde.institute to tilde.art.music on Fri Dec 18 09:17:56 2020
    On 2020-12-14, Dario Niedermann <dnied@tilde.institute> wrote:
    On 2020-12-09, Dacav Doe <dacav@tilde.institute> wrote:

    While working, I find it incredibly useful
    to have some background music going.
    [...]
    I like the lofi hip hop style, e.g. chilledcow.

    What do you like? :)

    Ambient/drone music. The "Drone Zone" channel at SomaFM
    <https://somafm.com/dronezone/> is one favorite of mine.


    Thanks for sharing! I like this: it seems to boost my
    focus.

    It is easy to play without a browser in the way by
    streaming this URL directly (e.g. via mpv): https://ice6.somafm.com/dronezone-128-mp3
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  • From Dario Niedermann@dnied@tilde.institute to tilde.art.music on Fri Dec 18 15:35:05 2020
    On 2020-12-18, Dacav Doe <dacav@tilde.institute> wrote:

    On 2020-12-14, Dario Niedermann <dnied@tilde.institute> wrote:

    Ambient/drone music. The "Drone Zone" channel at SomaFM >><https://somafm.com/dronezone/> is one favorite of mine.


    Thanks for sharing! I like this: it seems to boost my
    focus.

    Absolutely. It's great for meditative activities in general.

    Another favorite is channel "Ambience" at electro-music.com.

    Try this URL in your player: http://electro-music.com:8506

    --
    Dario Niedermann. Also on the Internet at:

    gopher://darioniedermann.it/ <> https://www.darioniedermann.it/
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  • From Arch@archenoth@tilde.town to tilde.art.music on Fri Apr 23 17:14:04 2021
    On the other hand when I'm being more creative then silence can be
    just as good. It's probably just that the rhythum muffles the endless side-tracking thoughts that I'm always thinking, particularly when I'm actually pretty tired of working on something.

    Oh yeah! There's something to be said for the ability to just kinda zoom
    into something you're doing when you don't have things to break you out
    of flow--and a lot of music is extremely good at getting me into a flow
    state.

    But also, sometimes just pure silence, especially when I still have a
    little internal rhythm of something that I'm not currently listening to
    can also be really potent~

    The main requirement for me is just something without lyrics - any
    frequent occourance of words immediately distract me because I've
    never been able to _not_ listen to people talking/singing. So if there
    are lyrics, then I can't do any significant reading at the same time,
    or even really think about complex sets of words or figures, because
    that's like following two conversations at once. It's fine when doing
    purely physical tasks though.

    Oh yeah! Lyrics can derail my train of thought so fast if I need to
    forumlate thoughts of my own when doing something.

    This is actually the same reason why I can't listen to podcasts while
    working on anything, and instead just kinda limit them to when I'm doing
    chores or something that I can mostly-autopilot.

    I find the effect is lessened with music in different languages though.

    I discovered tracker modules in my early teens and they're still my
    main source of music. They're free, take up very little disk/download
    space, and I have fun searching through various scattered sites
    trying to complete a collection of every file released by my
    particular favourite artists who have often been otherwise forgotten
    since the mid-90s. It's fun when you do trace them all the way up to
    the present day via chains of archived personal websites and old
    email addresses, and see what they're up to now (often little if
    anything musical).

    Also the texts in the sample lists can be great fun to read - from
    the days when people shared their complete personal contact details
    on the internet.

    Modules are the best! Originally I would get a lot of mine from MegaZeux
    games, since people would often include their favorite modules in their games--so it was kinda like a little sampler of someone's taste every
    time I tried something new out!

    That might be unconventional, but gosh, was it ever an *aesthetic*

    I also developed an appreciation for C64 (And beyond) music that I never
    would have otherwise, which caused me to seek out modules on my own,
    which was its own infinitely-deep rabbit hole that I'm still traversing.

    I have mad respect for the people who compose these.

    Nowadays, I mostly just listen to them in VLC, but modplugplayer used to
    be one of my most well-used programs for just casually listening to
    things while I was working on my projects.

    Also SID chiptunes, which are sort-of a secret weapon for really
    focusing against a pure desperation to do something else, good while programming when I'm way out of my depth/understanding of what I'm
    trying to work on, or just dead bored.

    Chiptunes and bitpop are one of my favorite genres since so many melodically-interesting ideas are made because of the way musicians
    needed to express themselves with the original limitations.

    (I wonder how many musical ideas I love originally came from chiptunes?)
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  • From Arch@archenoth@tilde.town to tilde.art.music on Fri Apr 23 17:20:03 2021
    James Tomasino <tomasino@cosmic.voyage> writes:

    - Video game soundtracks (Journey OST is amazing)

    Nice!

    I feel like video game music is super-underrated for focusing on things,
    since it is intentionally designed to put you into a flow state.

    Maybe I should play Journey so I can enjoy its whole aesthetic passively
    as well~
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  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.art.music on Sat Apr 24 12:16:43 2021
    https://tube.cadence.moe/watch?v=KBHxx-Q2JVk


    --
    Take Back Control! — Mesh The Planet!
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  • From anthk@anthk@texto-plano.xyz to tilde.art.music on Fri May 14 09:41:54 2021
    On 2020-12-09, The Free Thinker <freet@aussies.space> wrote:
    Dacav Doe <dacav@tilde.institute> wrote:
    While working, I find it incredibly useful to have some background music going.

    Same here, it focuses me better than anything else when working on
    something relatively procedural. On the other hand when I'm being
    more creative then silence can be just as good. It's probably just
    that the rhythum muffles the endless side-tracking thoughts that I'm
    always thinking, particularly when I'm actually pretty tired of
    working on something.

    Since a good while I monitor the rss feed of some youtube channels and
    playlists, so that I can get fresh music as it is added.

    I like the lofi hip hop style, e.g. chilledcow.

    What do you like? :)

    The main requirement for me is just something without lyrics - any
    frequent occourance of words immediately distract me because I've
    never been able to _not_ listen to people talking/singing. So if there
    are lyrics, then I can't do any significant reading at the same time,
    or even really think about complex sets of words or figures, because
    that's like following two conversations at once. It's fine when doing
    purely physical tasks though.

    I discovered tracker modules in my early teens and they're still my
    main source of music. They're free, take up very little disk/download
    space, and I have fun searching through various scattered sites
    trying to complete a collection of every file released by my
    particular favourite artists who have often been otherwise forgotten
    since the mid-90s. It's fun when you do trace them all the way up to
    the present day via chains of archived personal websites and old
    email addresses, and see what they're up to now (often little if
    anything musical).

    Also the texts in the sample lists can be great fun to read - from
    the days when people shared their complete personal contact details
    on the internet.

    Also SID chiptunes, which are sort-of a secret weapon for really
    focusing against a pure desperation to do something else, good while programming when I'm way out of my depth/understanding of what I'm
    trying to work on, or just dead bored. I built a clone of the
    original ISA HardSID card earlier this year, but actually got
    distracted and haven't tested it out yet.

    Then there's classical music, which I mainly just listen to on FM
    radio (ABC Classic, an Australian state-owned station - no ads),
    though I sometimes put on one of my second-hand cassette tapes.
    That's mainly while doing electronics, driving, or around the house. Generally not while using a computer, my laptop is RF-leaky and
    messes up my weak radio reception for one thing. :)

    My tracker module and SID collection (as of 2019 - but I don't add
    very much these days anyway) is available here on two CD images: gopher://aussies.space:70/1/%7efreet/moddisc

    Joseph Jahn, Pseudolokian (MLP), Decibelter, are some of my
    particular (and somewhat lesser known) favourite artists that come
    to mind at the moment.


    Hello, could you upload the isos to https://transfer.sh?
    Plain curl could work:

    curl --upload-file /path/to/file.iso https://transfer.sh/file.iso ; echo

    After uploading it, it will return a URL, that will be valid for two weeks.

    This way the file could be downloaded without even using a browser.


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  • From freet@freet@aussies.space (The Free Thinker) to tilde.art.music on Sat May 15 00:43:34 2021
    anthk <anthk@texto-plano.xyz> wrote:
    On 2020-12-09, The Free Thinker <freet@aussies.space> wrote:
    My tracker module and SID collection (as of 2019 - but I don't add
    very much these days anyway) is available here on two CD images:
    gopher://aussies.space:70/1/%7efreet/moddisc


    Hello, could you upload the isos to https://transfer.sh?
    Plain curl could work:

    curl --upload-file /path/to/file.iso https://transfer.sh/file.iso ; echo

    After uploading it, it will return a URL, that will be valid for two weeks.

    I'll keep that site in mind, might be very handy.

    However I was really hoping that upload would be a one-off. My
    internet access is all via (cheap) mobile broadband and uploading
    1.4GB of data is a very slow, very frustrating ("NO NO NO, DON'T
    STOP NOW!!!"), experience. Currently I've got 3GB left to use before 2021-05-25, I've only used 2GB in the past 20 days so I probably
    could get away with it on paper. But then there's all the data that
    goes down the drain if a transfer fails (and if it can be resumed,
    I've had data corruption problems in the past, so then one is
    inclined to download it to test).

    There are other options, such as when I visit a relative who
    doesn't live in the middle of nowhere like me, in a week. But I'm
    inclined to suggest that if you think it should be uploaded there,
    it would probably be much easier to do it yourself (I'm happy for
    anyone to host it wherever they like).

    Sorry for the lecture, just trying to explain what might otherwise
    seem like an unjust "no". People don't seem to "get" that some
    people don't have an unlimited-data wired internet connection.

    This way the file could be downloaded without even using a browser.

    Checking now, it seems that at most one person has downloaded the
    Artists ISO and two people the Collections ISO (probably minus 1
    regarding whether it counted my early-aborted test downloads after
    uploading, which I think it did). So I don't think I should put
    much effort into allowing for a tiny two-week window for a slightly
    easier download method. Clearly nobody's all that interested.

    This is a strong affirmation of my "anti logging protest": gopher://aussies.space/0/%7efreet/phlog/2020-02-29An_Anti-Logging_Protest.txt (skip past the second "------------" for the relevant part)

    Not to sound like I actually did anything impressive just by
    lumping a bunch of files onto a couple of ISOs, and it was mainly
    for my own use anyway.
    --

    - The Free Thinker | gopher://aussies.space/1/%7efreet/
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  • From freet@freet@aussies.space (The Free Thinker) to tilde.art.music on Sat May 15 00:49:19 2021
    The Free Thinker <freet@aussies.space> wrote:
    1.4GB of data is a very slow, very frustrating

    Oh right, 960MB. I forgot about the ZIP compresson.
    --

    - The Free Thinker | gopher://aussies.space/1/%7efreet/
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  • From freet@freet@aussies.space (The Free Thinker) to tilde.art.music on Sat May 15 06:20:40 2021
    The Free Thinker <freet@aussies.space> wrote:

    I'll do an audio CD 'mix' of tracks that I like to listen to
    while driving one day as well - I've had my shortlist
    for over a year but haven't put it together yet. I really like the
    sweeping 'orchestual' techno tracks (I've got no idea about the
    teminology for these things) in the car, such as "Network" and
    "Beyond the Network" by Skaven.

    Actually given that nobody downloads the mod discs, I probably
    won't bother putting that online (nobody else would need it in
    audio CD format anyway). But here's my current shortlist, not
    yet finalised or arranged into a playlist (the Skaven ones are
    already on another CD in the car):

    Silencio - Euthanasie - Definate
    Silencio - XtaZ for mE - 5m 1s
    Silencio - Eclipse: Solar Walkabout -maybe
    Pulse - Fountain of Sighs - def.
    aurora - maybe
    Decibelter - Arizona Dreaming -5m 21s - def.
    Thor - Dissonance (anightnearthesea.xm) - 3m 08s
    Joseph Jhan -Look But Don't Touch (look.it) - 6 1s
    Joseph Jhan - moontrack.it - 4m 54s - def.
    Ranger Rick - A Spire, Aspire.it - 5m 7s
    Ranger Rick - Pap - 3m 51s
    Ranger Rick - Flashing Across the Heavens - 7m 55s
    Ekorren - Emofever - def.
    Ekorren - I'm Back (imback.it) - 4m 31s
    Necros - "Point of Departure" (pod.s3m) - 5m 13s - def.
    Buzzer - Lukkosula - 3m 43s
    Syphus - verzion.it - 3m, 1s
    Xemogasa - Swaggering Elements - 1m 1s
    Xemogasa - azure

    In general long tracks with a strong beat is probably the closest
    I can get to describing a theme. Maybe they're not for everyone.

    Ranger Rick is under Phaedrus on my Module Mania CD, Verzion isn't
    on there but you can find it on Modland here: ftp://modland.com/pub/modules/Impulsetracker/Syphus/verzion.it

    You can also find all these tracks at Modland here: https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Special:Modland
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