The Signal: EP118
The Signal: EP118 – Exactly 45 minutes of of synchronized brain-bopping for your listening pleasure. Don’t worry. Brains are more resilient than we tend to give them credit for.
This time out, we’ve got bass-heavy grime and indie rock from the UK, some beats from California, a track that combines Ethiopian jazz with reggae production, cumbia from Colombia, and lots of other good stuff. The file is only available for a limited time, so grab it while you can. The track-list can be found in the id3 tags of the mp3 and I’ve added a few notes below.
Rural Decay
IM with work colleague who was asking about my upcoming vacation plans
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Work Colleague: goin somewhere exotic?
M Van Vleet: The exact opposite. Indiana.
Work Colleague: hey watch it…i was born there
M Van Vleet: And you got out.
Work Colleague: there are exotic parts
M Van Vleet: If you say so.
M Van Vleet: Does “rural decay” count as exotic?
Work Colleague: nah, i don’t really know. i was 1 yr old when we left
M Van Vleet: A photo from downtown Princeton where my wife is from.
M Van Vleet: Taken during a visit 2 years back.
Work Colleague: lovely
M Van Vleet: Closed 2-screen theater just 1 block from the downtown square, which is usually 1/4 to 1/3 empty storefronts.
Work Colleague: i see the decay now
M Van Vleet: There’s abandoned gas stations. Briefly, it looked like one of them was being used for a guy to sell meat out of, once a week. Had posted hours.
M Van Vleet: Didn’t work out, though.
Work Colleague: yeah, i hear meat coming out of a pump tastes really bad….worse than the canned cheese
M Van Vleet: Thin line between “entrepreneur” and “maniac with underground meat storage tanks”
Hold Music
Was on a call with a work colleague, waiting for our clients to join, listening to the smooth jazz/pop wait music, IMing to pass the time, free-associating about what the music evoked.
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Work Colleague: music?
Me: sun chips commercial music
Me: boring white people white water rafting music
Work Colleague: no it’s not. is it!
Work Colleague: haha
Work Colleague: perfect
Me: retirement community montage music
Work Colleague: slow motion smiling at each other
Me: old couple sharing a bath and wine at sunset music
Work Colleague: hahaha
Work Colleague: “we’ve still got it” <–tagline
Me: “ask your doctor if XXXX is right for you” music
Work Colleague: you’re killing me haha
Me: car on a winding highway, some lady’s bare foot out the passenger window music
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And then the clients started the meeting.
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The Signal: EP117
The Signal: EP117 – Summer jamz now that summer is leaving. We present to you, humbly and with malice aforethought, 45 minutes of musical sounds and a couple moments of non-musical sounds.
As ever, the file can be gained by a click on the image above for a limited time only. If this is your first Signal mix, welcome aboard. There’s no cost to try and no cost to buy, so don’t worry about the fact that I don’t tell you what’s in the thing, forcing you to look in the id3 tags of the file to figure out which name goes with which track like some sort of techno-detective.
There are some notes below where numbers correspond to tracks for those looking for insight into the process, such as it is.
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