The Signal: EP175

The Signal: EP175 – Exactly 45 minutes of year-ending music, custom designed to propel you through time… to destination 45-minutes-from-NOW! Wow! This time out we’ve got international funk, beats and new wave dub, Spanish vocal magic and more!

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags.

Or if you don’t want any files sullying up your computer, most of the music I used was on Spotify.

note to self: stop buying mansions sight unseen

Angrily berating my real estate agent because the mansion they sold me (on the strength of its secret passages behind bookshelves and under stairs) is actually alive and all those passages are either lined with teeth or dripping with acid. RIDICULOUS!

DO NOT TOUCH

It’s Wednesday and we all know what that means! Time to hustle down to the train station, black the station windows and hide the station name so the Train of Souls won’t stop here, disgorging the stale milk-smelling spirits of ancient tourists to stroll our Floral District, warping the petals with their spectral hands despite all the DO NOT TOUCH signs hammered into the soil.

The Signal: EP174

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The Signal: EP174 – Exactly 45 minutes of music to soothe the savage feet. You like music, right? Maybe you like the same music as me. We’ve got old school dubstep, chicha (psychedelic cumbia), drum & bass, dreamy pop, and funk!

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags.

I couldn’t find every track on Spotify, but here’s what I could dig up:

Darkness Below the Ice

A Darkness Beneath the Ice is a terrible RPG I improvised as I wrote while drinking beer in the Ocean View brewery in Albany, CA. It was inspired by Dan Simmons’ THE TERROR as well as the front of the postcard I was scribbling on.

What I didn’t expect was that a stranger on Twitter would take the time to program this game into being using Python, but when @mypantsaretorn pinged me to let me know the “meta is broken” I found that my terrible game idea was now something that could be compiled and played… whether it warranted the effort or not.

Didn’t expect that at all.

The Signal: EP173

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The Signal: EP173 – The exact 45 minutes of music you need to steer you through this year of solitary activity! This time out we’ve got Australian punk, gloom pop, a remix of a harp-playing pixie, some dub sounds, hip hop, ska, UK grime and some German electronic sounds.

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags.

We couldn’t find everything on Spotify, but we found most of it:

The Signal: EP172

The Signal: EP172 – Exactly 45 minutes of music for cloud heads, mist faces, vapor tops… and YOU! This time out we’ve got Australian jam goodness, lots of polyrhythms, Turkish funk from the Netherlands, a steel drum hip hop cover, a dub jazz standard cover, blistering rockabilly and much more!

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags.

The Signal: EP171

The Signal: EP171 - The dog Laiki's head, visible in the nose cone of a rocket.

The Signal: EP171 – Exactly 45 minutes of music suitable for cosmonaut activities or, uh, whatever you’re up to right now. This time out, we’ve got a lot of Russian synth pop and rock for you as well as some electronic sounds. A bit less eclectic than the usual Signal mix, but say what you will, it’s still definitely 45 minutes long.

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags.

Moon’s Shot

I wrote an adventure for Troika! It’s fun! It’s about a group of adventurers who think they’re going to the Moon, but it turns out it’s hard to get to the moon so the techs who were supposed to manage the project decided instead to send the expedition to an underground cave they disguised as the Moon.

Much easier to lower a rocket via rope and pulley than blast it up into the sky.