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Lunch Trance – 2024-09-10 – Newsflash

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A show on a Tuesday? Yes! As I was on a recovery trip last week I could not play last week, but I can play twice this week, and that is what I am going to do!

So, today’s show if basically full of last week’s tracks but as you have not heard them before (at least not from me), I can present them to you as if they had been exported fresh from the DAW!

And we had a decent amount of good tracks among them, e.g. by Amber Revival and Hel:sløwed (“Wildfire”), BT and Matt Fax (“Vertical”), David Forbes (“All On You”), Robert Nickson (“Cicero”), and XiJaro & Pitch (“Bittersweet”).

This week’s Favourite of the Week™ is called “Collision,” and it’s by Collide1, which is Frank Waanders and Ralphie B in a trenchcoat. 😄

I did the thing where I take the thing and do the thing with the thing, just so you do the thing.

The next show will be tomorrow, Wednesday, September 11, at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.

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Lunch Trance – 2024-08-28 – Newsflash

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Today’s show started 10 minutes late, because my wife and I were out, looking at a couple of houses because we are (once again) thinking about buying one. Today we looked at one that has high-ish values for satisfaction, and now my wife is rearranging furniture in her head all the time. We are probably going to look at least at a couple more, and maybe there’s something that we’ll love, and maybe not. We’ll see.

However, one thing that we absolutely do know, is that we had a huge bunch of new tracks in tonight’s show! New stuff by Daniel Skyver, Simon Patterson, Metta & Glyde, Artena & Inversed, Christina Novelli and Ciaran McAuley, as well as many others, and I was also able to pick a Favourite of the Week: Bryan Kearney’s “You Will Never Be Forgotten,” remixed by Lostly.

But as usual, you should give the whole show a bit of your attention. Do so right here:

There is not going to be a show next, as I will be unavailable. For reasons. However, the week after that you will get two shows, one on Tuesday (September 10), and one on Wednesday (September 11), both at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.

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Lunch Trance – 2024-08-21 – Newsflash

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Well, the flash drive experiments are pretty much over by now. It Just Works™, which I am very happy with. 🥰

Also, no time to waste. You need to listen to this week’s Favourite of the Week™: “High Wire” by Roman Messer, ThoBa, and Veronica Bravo! No delaying!

Don’t believe me? You shouldn’t! Trust your own taste in music!

The next show will be on Wednesday, August 28, at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.

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Lunch Trance – 2024-08-14 – Newsflash

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The experiments are still not done! Today’s experiment: can I play from and record to the same flash drive at the same time? Preliminary results say: yes, I can!

That is pretty great because it changes my after-show workflow in a way that allows to move the DJ table out of the way before uploading the show; previously everything would stay where it was until I finished encoding the show from the USB drive the player exposes. Now I can simply rip out the flash drive and put the player away!

Yes, that’s very good, indeed.

But that is not all that is awesome, we also had a bunch of great tracks tonight! “Orion” by Driftmoon & Hel:sløwed was great, “Syndicate” by Renegade System was great, Alan Morris’s remix of Robert Nickon’s “Delyo’s Voyage” was great, and the Novakaine remix of “Never End” by Yoji Biomehanika was — you guessed it — great!

However, greatest of all (today) was this track: “Love Again Like That” by Miyuki and Tara Louise, remixed by Sam Laxton! ❤️

Just do me a favour, listen to the show, and if you find a track that you think is pretty great, tell me about it in the comments. 🙂

The next show will be on Wednesday, August 21, at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.

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Lunch Trance – 2024-08-07 – Newsflash

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More experimenting: not only did I play today’s show from a flash drive, I also recorded the show to a flash drive; to a second flash drive, nonetheless! And from what I can tell so far, everything has worked absolutely flawlessly, which actually saves me a good deal of work of every week, because connecting the player to the MacBook is almost infinitely more trouble than just putting stuff on a flash drive, which takes mere seconds and doesn’t even require a USB cable. Technology! ❤️

And again, the Stream Deck worked great. Really glad I finally got that, really mad that it took me so long. 😄

Anyway, we had a bunch of cool tracks, like “Venezia” by Alessandra Roncone, “Emotion FM” by Craig Connelly, and The Favourite of the Week™: “Timelapse” by John O’Callaghan (disguised as Joint Operations Centre), remixed by Sean Tyas (disguised as abstrkt). 🔥

But once again, there’s so much more music to listen to, don’t let my picks keep you from listening to all the tracks, right here.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Tanzwart/lunch-trance-2024-08-07

The next show will be on Wednesday, August 14, at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.

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Lunch Trance – 2024-07-31 – Newsflash

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I did another experiment today: I played the show from a flash drive. Even though syncing is blazingly fast, now that I installed an SSD in the player, it is still easier to move a flash drive from the USB hub to the player than it is to get out a cable, attach it, way for the player to boot into USB host mode, transfer files, then basically reboot the player. Next week I’m going to try and record the show on the flash drive as well; a backup recording with REAPER will be available.

The Stream Deck was also fantastic again. That investment really paid off fast!

Short nod to this week’s Favourite of the Week™, the Bogdan Vix remix of “If You Only Knew” by Amber Revival and Hel:sløwed!

There’s more tracks you could listen to, whenever you want!

The next show will be on Wednesday, August 7, at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.

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Lunch Trance – 2024-07-24 – Newsflash

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So, first show with the Stream Deck! Did you notice all four light effects I kept triggering throughout the show? (Did you even spot the Stream Deck in its inconspicuous location, right next to the player’s screen, with the same angle, even, so it could blend in perfectly? 😄)

I really liked having it there, especially for switching scenes, like when the cat shows up, or when it leaves, or when it’s time to end the stream. For all those things I had to turn around and use the PC behind me which totally destroyed my flow.

I still need to integrate it with my overlay, I’m still planning to build in a playlist feature and then trigger the next track from the Stream Deck, so I don’t have to mess around with the browser for that anymore, either.

Alright, so, let’s talk music! What did we have tonight? New tracks by Alex M.O.R.P.H. and Luminn, John Askew, David Forbes and Mark Sherry, Signum and Superstrings, Cold Blue, Alan Morris and Macro Cera, and Ashley Wallbridge and C-Systems. And the Favourite of the Week™ is the 2024 Rework for “Don’t Give a Fuck” by Stoneface & Terminal.

But I’m sure you can find more tracks that you like if you listen to the show again, so: do it!

The next show will be on Wednesday, July 31, at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.

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Lunch Trance – 2024-07-17 – Newsflash

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Things will be getting exciting in the next couple of weeks! On Friday I will be picking up a Stream Deck from some random person, and I want to use it to have more direct control over my stream and don’t have to turn around towards the PC screen all the time. I am also already thinking about what else I may be able to do with it… if you have any suggestions, I’m all ear!

I already programmed a couple of buttons in the Companion app but that work is still far from finished; it is amazing, how quickly you can get results with it. If you need to automate stuff in your home and have control surfaces (such as the Stream Deck, or a MIDI keyboard/controller, or random other USB input devices, or a browser), take a look at it.

Okay, I have to get back to programming buttons, have a Favourite of the Week™:

There’s more good tracks in this show, just listen for yourself!

The next show will be on Wednesday, July 24, at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.

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Lunch Trance – 2024-07-10 – Newsflash

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Preparation for today’s show was less eventful than last week, the playlist was synced to the player on the first try! I mean, that is something that should be expected and it’s kind of sad that this is so unusual that I have to mention it, but what can you do? 🤷

Well, I know what I am doing: I am changing things in the background. This site is not what it was last week! It is now running in a Docker container, downloads are handled by my Nextcloud instance, and on top of that I am currently writing a bit of JavaScript that may eventually replace that (rather useless) Mixcloud widget.

Okay, enough of that. This has already been more information than has been exchanged in the chat during the show. 😄 I still ❤️ all my lurkers!

Really, enough of that now. What did we have? A couple nice openers, taken from the “other” trance charts, and then we got a couple of nice tracks from our regular trance charts, such as “The Pursuit of Perfection” by Inoblivion, “Nebula” by Aly & Fila and Richard Durand (which is actually from last week already but apparently it managed to slip by unnoticed), and then we have the track that I have picked as this week’s Favourite of the Week™: “Never Felt This Good” by DT8 Project, The Space Brothers, and Andrea Britton.

And maybe some other tracks managed to slip by without getting noticed today as well? If you hear something, say something, or leave me a comment, or whatever. You know.

The next show will be on Wednesday, July 17, at 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.

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Sets from Demoparties

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Hey there! If you are part of the demoscene and you are reading this page, you might want to check out the sets that I have played at demoparties! I spent a bit of time and added everything that I could find on a disk somewhere, and if you want to take a listen to those sets, in the navigation on this page (or right here in the text) there is a clickable category named “Demoparty.”

Enjoy!